Bloom, Lynn.
The Essay
Connection: Reading for Writers. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2001.
6th ed. 783 pp.
The
Essay Connection, 6/e, offers 82 high-quality, lively, varied, and
provocative readings. The text opens with four reader-friendly chapters
on the writing process, informed by contemporary scholarship in composition,
literary and rhetorical theory, autobiography, and the teaching of
writing. While arranged rhetorically, underlying thematic connections
in most chapters motivate discussion, debate, and writing.
In addition to presenting such professionals as physicians, U.S. presidents,
classic authors, lawyers, a psychologist, and an economist, the text
includes 16 student essays from around the world and 14 motivating
excerpts from student notebooks.
The
Essay Connection, 6/e, offers 82 high-quality, lively, varied, and
provocative readings. The text opens with four reader-friendly chapters
on the writing process, informed by contemporary scholarship in composition,
literary and rhetorical theory, autobiography, and the teaching of
writing. While arranged rhetorically, underlying thematic connections
in most chapters motivate discussion, debate, and writing.