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The reader and writing guide that helps developing writers succeed using engaging essays and practical writing instruction. Back to the Lake presents reading and writing strategies together using marginal annotations to show the connections. Readings-arranged by strategy and written by classic, contemporary and student writers-are balanced with writing advice. Now with new readings-including ones debating the value of grit -new advice on reading critically and a new chapter on editing sentences.

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Thomas Cooley is Emeritus Professor of English at The Ohio State University. He is the author of articles and books on American literature, including The Ivory Leg in the Ebony Cabinet: Madness, Race, and Gender in Victorian America and Educated Lives: The Rise of Modern Autobiography in America. He is also the editor of Back to the Lake, The Norton Sampler, and other textbooks in rhetoric and composition.

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