The Riverside Reader Joseph F. Trimmer , Maxine Hairston

This rhetorically arranged reader contains 69 selections (45 essays, 8 stories, 16 paragraphs) representing diverse voices and views from student and professional writers. The extensive apparatus in?The Riverside Reader?encourages students to view organizational forms not just as techniques for writing, but also as a means of thinking and a way to discover a purpose for writing. Throughout the text, readings progress from simpler to more complex. Thirty-three readings are new, chosen with an eye toward contemporary topics and cultural and gender balance A thematic unit on the Internet offers eight selections, one for each rhetorical method plus a short story, with cross-references to other essays in book. A chapter on documenting resources appears at the end of the book and includes a student sample.