Composition and Literature: Exploring Human Experience

A collection of fiction, poetry, drama, and essays suitable for the one- or two-term composition sequence with a strong focus on literature. The selections and writing assignments for Chapters 2 to 6 relate to the stage of life (childhood, adolescence, adulthood, old age, and death) that each chapter focuses on. Student writing samples are frequent and treated as literature. Writing, reading, and thinking are treated as related processes with exercises found in each chapter.