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A portable anthology seventh edition | ©2023 samuel cohen.

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50 Essays: A Portable Anthology is a bestselling value-priced reader because its virtues dont stop at the price. The book’s carefully chosen selections engage students and include both classic essays and high-interest, contemporary readings. The editorial apparatus is flexible and unobtrusive enough to support a variety of approaches to teaching composition. The seventh edition features new voices on culturally relevant topics as well as an enhanced documentation guide establishing the importance of conducting research and evaluating sources, and new pre-reading questions to guide students as they develop their skills as critical readers.

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Samuel Cohen (PhD, City University of New York) is Associate Professor of English at the University of Missouri. He is the author of After the End of History: American Fiction in the 1990s , co-editor (with James Peacock) of The Clash Takes on the World: Transnational Perspectives on The Only Band that Matters , co-editor (with Lee Konstantinou) of The Legacy of David Foster Wallace , Series Editor of The New American Canon: The Iowa Series in Contemporary Literature and Culture , and has published in such journals as Novel , Clio , Twentieth-Century Literature , The Journal of Basic Writing, and Dialogue: A Journal for Writing Specialists. For Bedford/St. Martins, he is author of 50 Essays: A Portable Anthology and coauthor of Literature: The Human Experience .

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• ISBN-10 0312609655
• ISBN-13 978-0312609658
• Edition 3rd
• Publisher Bedford/St. Martin's
• Publication date September 17, 2010
• Language English
• Dimensions 6.3 x 0.7 x 8.18 inches
• Print length 503 pages
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• Publisher ‏ : ‎ Bedford/St. Martin's; 3rd edition (September 17, 2010)
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• Paperback ‏ : ‎ 503 pages
• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0312609655
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0312609658
• Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.07 pounds
• Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.3 x 0.7 x 8.18 inches
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Samuel cohen.

Samuel Cohen (Associate Professor of English, University of Missouri) is the author of After the End of History: American Fiction in the 1990s (University of Iowa Press, 2009), co-editor (with Lee Konstantinou) of The Legacy of David Foster Wallace (University of Iowa Press, 2012), co-editor (with James Peacock) of The Clash Takes on the World: Transnational Perspectives on the Only Band That Matters (Bloomsbury Academic, 2017), and Series Editor of The New American Canon: The Iowa Series in Contemporary Literature and Culture. He is also author of 50 Essays: A Portable Anthology, 5th edition (Bedford/St. Martin's, 2016), and coauthor of Literature: The Human Experience, 13th edition (Bedford/St. Martin's, 2018).

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