The Riverside Reader

This comprehensive top-selling text provides an integrated, flexible program that allows teachers the freedom to pursue their individual course goals and teaching styles while giving them the security of knowing their students will be well prepared for the Advanced Placement English Language and Composition exam. Retaining an extraordinary collection of rhetorically arranged essays by some of the worlds most esteemed writers, the Alternate Edition also incorporates a wealth of new features: Updated selections featuring dozens of authors from the AP representative author list; Increased focus on writing and key rhetorical skills such as argument and synthesis; Writing assignments that prepare students to succeed on the AP exam; Carefully developed apparatus that helps students better understand and apply the craft of good writing. - Publisher.