50 Essays

by Samuel Cohen

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Available September 2013
50 Essays

A Portable Anthology

ISBN-10: 1-4576-3899-1
ISBN-13: 978-1-4576-3899-2
Paper Text, 528 pages

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Samuel Cohen
University of Missouri, Columbia

16 new selections include:

Argument essays that model strategies of persuasive writing, including Peter Singer’s "The Singer Solution to World Poverty," Nora Ephron’s "The Boston Photographs," and Michael Pollan’s "Why Bother?"
Essays on contemporary topics that invite students to confront timely issues, including how social media has affected activism in Malcolm Gladwell’s "Small Change: Why the Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted" and how technology has affected the way we think in Nicholas Carr’s "Is Google Making Us Stupid?"
Essays on critical thinking, reading, and writing that help students reflect on their reading and become more thoughtful writers, such as Stephen King’s "Reading to Write" and Charles Simic’s "A Reunion with Boredom"

New "Looking Further" questions guide students toward academic writing. Each selection is accompanied by questions that help students respond to their reading, then push them one step further by showing them how to develop their responses into academic essays.

A new student model of annotating and note-taking shows how a student’s initial reflections on a reading can be developed into an academic essay that develops and supports a thesis and synthesizes multiple sources.