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A Reader for College Writers

Eighth Edition   Buscemi, © 2020, 453 pages

A Reader for College Writers is a brief yet comprehensive guide for students in first-year collegiate composition courses. The text is designed to help students read carefully, respond thoughtfully, and use those responses as creative springboards for writing.

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About the Author

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Santi Buscemi is a professor at Middlesex County College in Edison, New Jersey, where served as chair of the English Department for 27 years. He has published seven textbooks and several online learning tools for freshman and developmental writing.

Prof. Buscemi has been the keynote speaker at three international conferences on language and literature, including one in which he was made an honorary citizen of the city of Mineo, Sicily. He has also presented at several workshops and conferences sponsored by the National Association for Developmental Education, the New Jersey Association for Developmental Education, and the New Jersey College English Association, serving as president for the last two. He has published several articles both in print and online on Antonin Scalia, the late US Supreme Court Associate Justice, as well as on several other noteworthy subjects. Prof. Buscemi is also a translator of Italian literature, having published four translations of the novels, short stories, and plays of Luigi Capuana. He has written online presentations on the History of Sicily and the Literature of Sicily, sponsored by Dante University of America Press.

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A Reader for College Writers is a brief yet comprehensive guide for students in first-year collegiate composition courses. The text, now in its eighth edition, retains its original purpose: to help students read carefully, respond thoughtfully, and use those responses as creative springboards for writing. As in the past, research continues to affirm the close relationship between analytical reading and effective writing. This textbook makes emphatic use of that connection.

Each chapter contains four reading selections from former students as well as famous authors and politicians, such as Sam Pickering, Gail Sheehy, Senator Bernie Sanders, Aldous Huxley, former Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Walter Williams, Robert Reich, James Jeans, and Lawrence Read.

New to the Eighth Edition

Though the purpose of the text remains the introduction of rhetorical and linguistic principles to help students organize and develop college-level courses, there is also additional material in appendix 1 to help students learn grammar, sentence structure, and other skills important to the editing process.

A second appendix includes a discussion of important skills and principles related to the writing of collegiate research papers using MLA (Modern Language Association) style. Coverage of the research paper ends with a full-length annotated student paper that illustrates all the basic principles and formats in the latest MLA style.

As such, A Reader for College Writers has now become an introduction to collegiate writing that includes a rhetoric, a reader, a grammar and editing manual, and a research guide.

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