Encounters: Essays for Exploration and Inquiry

by Pat C. Hoy II (Editor), Robert DiYanni (Editor)

Other authors: Lee K. Abbott (Contributor), Gloria Anzaldua (Contributor), James Baldwin (Contributor), Roland Barthes (Contributor), John Berger (Contributor) — 31 more, Sven Birkerts (Contributor), John Canaday (Contributor), Judith Ortiz Cofer (Contributor), Michael Cohen (Contributor), Arthur Danto (Contributor), Joan Didion (Contributor), Annie Dillard (Contributor), Andre Dubus (Contributor), Gerald Early (Contributor), Gretel Ehrlich (Contributor), Loren Eiseley (Contributor), E. M. Forster (Contributor), Diane Hume George (Contributor), Nadine Gordimer (Contributor), Mary Gordon (Contributor), Bernd Heinrich (Contributor), Langston Hughes (Contributor), Zora Neale Hurston (Contributor), Martin Luther King Jr. (Contributor), Robynn Stacy Maines (Contributor), Nancy Mairs (Contributor), Gian Neffinger (Contributor), Anna Norris (Contributor), George Orwell (Contributor), David Reich (Contributor), Susan Sontag (Contributor), Amy Tan (Contributor), Jessica Underwood (Contributor), Alice Walker (Contributor), Jeanette Winterson (Contributor), Virginia Woolf (Contributor)

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Aimed at first-year undergraduates, this collection of essays explores possibilities in writing, and the choices open to students as writers. Examples of good essay writing are provided from both students and professionals. Instruction is provided by showing alternate student drafts, one in response to class activities and one in response to the professional essays in the book. Questions and writing assignments accompany each chapter, grouped under three headings: Thinking, Connecting, and Writing.… (more)

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Hoy II, Pat C.	Editor	primary author	all editions	confirmed
DiYanni, Robert	Editor	main author	all editions	confirmed
Abbott, Lee K.	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Anzaldua, Gloria	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
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Birkerts, Sven	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
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Cofer, Judith Ortiz	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Cohen, Michael	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
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Aimed at first-year undergraduates, this collection of essays explores possibilities in writing, and the choices open to students as writers. Examples of good essay writing are provided from both students and professionals. Instruction is provided by showing alternate student drafts, one in response to class activities and one in response to the professional essays in the book. Questions and writing assignments accompany each chapter, grouped under three headings: Thinking, Connecting, and Writing.

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