Diverse reading selections to engage students on current issues and provide rhetorical models.

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• Marina Keegan amuses and touches readers as she reflects on finding "Stability in Motion."
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• Josh Barro explains "Why Stealing Cars Went Out of Fashion."
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• Isabel Wilkerson charts the histories of "Emmett Till and Tamir Rice, Sons of the Great Migration."
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An argument chapter updated with the issues that matter to students. The most thorough argument chapter in any brief rhetorical reader has been updated with lively, current selections. A new debate asks, "Should Public Colleges Be Free?" while a new casebook raises the question, "Do College Students Need Trigger Warnings?"

LaunchPad, the all-in-one solution. LaunchPad engages students in the work of the course with curated, multimodal content. The full e-book provides an engaging reading experience that adapts to computers, tablets, or phones so that students can read on-the-go. Interactive editing worksheets allow students to submit their peer-critiques to the instructor. LearningCurve adaptive quizzing focuses students on important writing and grammar topics. LaunchPad can be adopted as a standalone product or packaged with Patterns for College Writing Brief, using ISBN 978-1-319-13640-6.