Patterns of Reflection: A Reader (4th Edition)

This new edition provides engaging selections on personal, social, and political concerns and issues. The book asks readers to think about the challenges and rewards of reading and writing, both in an honest and helpful introduction and in six essays on issues such as writing anxiety and on the value of keeping a journal. Each of the subsequent chapters illustrates one specific pattern or purpose, progressing from basic skills to the more demanding ones: narration, description, comparison and contrast, explaining and illustrating, process analysis, and argument and persuasion. For anyone interested in writing.