actually I have the 9th edition (1998) on my shelf and am finding it very useful in coaching students to write better term papers ( )

This is the book that I'm using for my first go-round with teaching Freshman English I. It's very accessible and the reading selections correspond wonderfully with discussions about the various styles of rhetoric available to the writer. ( )

This is a didactic on rhetoric -- "what is a thesis", "how do I organize".... With Index, and uses examples from a wonderful variety of literary, scholastic, historical and political sources:

JFK's inaugural address, Mark Twain, Chief Joseph (Nez Perce), Vanzetti, Hughes, Waskow, Komarovsky, Szasz, Huxley, Boswell, Forster, Cousins, Shakespeare (Sonnet 73), Leacock, Tibbetts, Hamilton, White, Durant, Emerson, Maugham, Briegel, Tolde, Dickens, Mencken, Joyce, Welty, Bettelheim, Steffens, Chute, Dickinson, Newman, Nader, MacLeish, Catton, Arnold, Pirsig, Eiseley, Bukowski, Lerner, Golding, Holt, Ross, Bacon, Plath, Dadwallader, Bibb, Porter, Burdke, Redfern, Orwell, Swift, Hayakawa, Bohannan, Sandburg, Chekhov, Altick, Sherwood, De Bois, Darrow,FRankline Beauvoir, Michie, Lucas, Greenburg, Auden, Miller, MacEachen, Lewis, Butler, Mannes, Herbert, Shaw, Canby, Freedman, Cowley, Arnold, etc.