Back to the Lake

Thomas Cooley

Back to the Lake is the perfect reader and guide for AP Language and Composition students. It contains 77 readings -- from classic favorites to contemporary pieces -- all demonstrating basic, fundamental strategies of thinking and writing. With the help of Back to the Lake's perfect balance of readings and writing instructions, students will recognize and understand rhetorical situations, develop strongly supported claims, guide their arguments with clear organization, and make strategic stylistic choices. The fourth edition contains a balanced collection of 77 readings, consisting of speeches, literary essays, popular culture texts, imaginative literature, and images as texts. Readings and writing instruction are explicitly linked with notes in the margins that make this book work well in classes taking an integrated reading-writing approach. Back to the Lake provides in-depth coverage and instruction on all of the Big Ideas in the new AP Language and Composition curriculum framework. -- Preface.