Humor

<strong>Read. Write. Oxford. </strong> <p/>From Jerry Seinfeld's legendary standup to Kristen Wiig's sidesplitting impersonations <em>Humor: A Reader for Writers</em> explores the key patterns and features within numerous comedic sources in order to show how jokes work. This survey looks at comedy in a variety of genres including popular media academic essays personal narratives fiction and poetry. <p/>Developed for the freshman composition course <em>Humor: A Reader for Writers</em> includes an interdisciplinary mix of public academic and cultural reading selections providing students with the rhetorical knowledge and compositional skills required to participate effectively in discussions about humor. <p/><em>Humor: A Reader for Writers</em> is part of a series of brief single-topic readers from Oxford University Press designed for today's college writing courses. Each reader in this series approaches a topic of contemporary conversation from multiple perspectives.<br>