title: Writing Today, Brief Edition, Books a la Carte Edition Plus MyWritingLab with Pearson eText -- Access Card Package (2nd Edition)
author: Richard Johnson-Sheehan
description: Paine is Assistant Professor of English at the University of New Mexico.
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