Readings for Writers is an ideal rhetorical reader for the Advanced Placement Language and Composition Course. This bestseller provides instruction in persuasive writing and the rhetorical modes, the writing process, and research. With more than 70 selections from a broad range of topics and genres, Readings for Writers prepares students for success on the AP® Language and Composition exam and beyond.
Students will discover more than 60 readings from multiple genres, including poems, newspaper columns, diary entries, formal arguments, student essays, biographies, speeches and excerpts from books, paragraphs, emails and short stories.

The authors' unique labeling system--which categorizes selections as offering advice, a topic for discussion, an example or an issue for critical thinking and debate--gives students a road map for using each reading effectively.

To illustrate the planning and forethought required of successful writers, each selection is introduced by a rhetorical thumbnail, a biographical note about the author and a contextual note about the subject being discussed.

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