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Models for Writers: Short Essays for Composition Twelfth Edition

• ISBN-10 1457667843
• ISBN-13 978-1457667848
• Edition Twelfth
• Publisher Bedford/St. Martin's
• Publication date January 9, 2015
• Language English
• Dimensions 5.75 x 1 x 8.5 inches
• Print length 679 pages
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• Publisher ‏ : ‎ Bedford/St. Martin's; Twelfth edition (January 9, 2015)
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• Paperback ‏ : ‎ 679 pages
• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1457667843
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1457667848
• Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 3.1 pounds
• Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.75 x 1 x 8.5 inches
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Paul Eschholz and Alfred Rosa are professors emeriti of English at the University of Vermont. They have directed statewide writing programs and conducted numerous workshops throughout the country on writing and the teaching of writing. Eschholz and Rosa have collaborated on a number of best-selling texts for Bedford/St. Martins, including Subject & Strategy; Outlooks and Insights: A Reader for College Writers; Models for Writers; with Virginia Clark, Language Awareness; and, with Virginia Clark and Beth Simon, Language: Readings in Language.

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Models for Writers 14th Edition Short Essays for Composition

• Author(s) Alfred Rosa; Paul Eschholz
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