50 Essays: A Portable Anthology directly addresses students' and instructors' concerns that composition readers are too expensive and too large. With a net price of $19.50, less than half the size and price of comparable readers, 50 Essays meets the needs of a wide variety of classrooms. The carefully chosen table of contents presents enough familiarity to reassure instructors, enough novelty to keep things interesting, and enough variety to accommodate many different teaching needs. The editorial apparatus has been designed to support that variety of needs without being intrusive. In its second edition, 50 Essays continues to offer selections that instructors love to teach, with even more flexibility and more support for academic writing.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0
50 Essarys: A Portable Anthology:
I enjoyed the book. It was a terrific way to gain insight on the writing styles of some of America's most noted writers. I would recommend it to any student or person who wants to gain literary knowledge and become familiar with 20th century American authors.
50 Essays pages out of order:
Right in the middle of a Sarah Vowell story "Shooting Daddy" is part of a story by Amy Tran (at page 436). Pages 421 - 436 are repeated causing confusion when one of those stores is required reading. This book (50 Essays: A portable Anthology (2nd edition) by Samuel Cohen and published by Bedford/St. Martin should have not left the publisher in this state and customers should not have had to pay full price for this book. It is just too much trouble to try and get my money back or get some sort of... more info
Wonderful book:
Although I bought it for school it has alot of very interesting and mind opening essays. Overall its a great book and I enjoyed reading it.
English Teacher's Paradise:
Unfortunately, the textbook that I use in my high school English classes does not offer an interesting, age apporpriate selection of nonfiction pieces. I purchased this book to help compensate for the lack of interesting essays in our textbook and was delighted to find that this anthology is organized with teachers in mind. Essays are organized by themes, a list of essays to compare/contrast is provided for convenience, and critical thinking and essay questions are provided at the end of each essay.
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