The International Story is an anthology with guidelines for reading and writing about fiction. The Instructor's Manual provides teaching suggestions, detailed notes, and summaries of the readings in the Student's Book.

A textbook in English reading comprehension for college students.

This book uses readings from newspapers, works of non-fiction, and college textbooks to illustrate the use of target structures. The Student's Book provides clear presentations of the basic principles of 27 important areas of English grammar, through a wide variety of exercises and tasks for writing and editing. It engages students with topics that range from artificial intelligence and laptop computers to the environment and economics. This important grammar text provides a real-world context that allows students to see how the English language really "works."

Presents an overview of the development of the English language and examines the formation of words especially from Greek and Latin roots. Also discusses definitions and usage.

First edition published in 1980.

This helpful, all-in-one instructor s resource contains a brief introduction for each chapter in the book. These introductions examine the literature examples, images, and film references to further explain how the featured pieces work within the element, as well as what other pieces in the book exemplify that element. It provides an expansion of the questions that are currently in the book, and how the piece would work with the Experiencing Literature through Writing Questions. A sample syllabi created by authors Bruce Beiderwell and Jeffrey Wheeler is also included. Finally, The Guide to Film, located in the Instructor s Manual, is an excellent resource for expanding the film coverage in THE LITERARY EXPERIENCE, ESSENTIAL EDITION.