-
New to the 5th Edition:
- Fresh writing exercises
- Research tips reflecting technological and media advances (Chapter 2 and 15)
- Quotations on writing from renowned writers relating to topics
- New poetry, fiction, non-fiction and plays. See below for a detailed list.
- Chapter and part opening images relevant to chapter topics
- Revised journal keeping chapter incorporating Internet research
- Information on receiving feedback (Chapter 15)
- Using the internet to sell your writing
- Updated illustrations of techniques (tricks of the trade)
- Increased demonstration of skills useful for writing all genres
New Selections
JOURNAL AND RESEARCH EXAMPLES
Allison Klein “A Gate-Crasher's Change of Heart”
Lee Lawrence Journal Excerpts
SHORT STORIES
Kate Blackwell, “You Won’t Remember This”
Robert Coover “Grandmother’s Nose”
Dorothy Canfield Fisher “Sex Education”
POETRY
Krista Benjamin “Letter from my Ancestors”
Christian Bok, “Vowels”
Geoffrey Brock “Flesh of John Brown’s Flesh: Dec. 2, 1859”
Sterling Brown, selection from “Old Lem”
Billy Collins “The Brooklyn Museum of Art”
Albert Goldbarth “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”
Jessica Goodheart “Advice for a Stegosaurus”
Bob Hicok, “So I know”
Vicki Hudspith “Ants”
Joanie Mackowski “When I was a Dinosaur”
Richard Newman “Briefcase of Sorrow”
Linda Pastan “Death Is Intended”
John Godfrey Saxe “The Blind Men and the Elephant”
William Stafford, “What’s in My Journal”
Kevin Young “Black Cat Blues”
NOVEL SELECTION
Alice McDermott, selection from Charming Billy.
CREATIVE NON-FICTION
Philip Gerard, “The Fact Behind the Facts”
E. Ethelbert Miller, sections from Fathering Words: The Making of an African American Writer
Naomi Shihab Nye “Mint Snowball”
Marjorie Schwarzer, Riches Rival Radical
PLAY
Michel Wallerstein “Off Hand”
