Reading and Writing Essays

[This book] is a rhetoric/reader that opens with several chapters on reading and writing essays, followed by a collection of essays organized by rhetorical mode. Each chapter contains an introduction (explaining the mode, showing how it is used, and exploring how to organize an essay using that mode), three selections from a professional writer, and one from a student illustrating the mode. Students are encouraged in each chapter to think critically about the selection and to write essays on related topics.-Back cover.