Perspectives on Contemporary Issues: Reading Across the Disciplines

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Ackley, Katherine Anne

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Harcourt College Publishing

This cross-disciplinary reader encourages critical thinking and academic writing by presenting students with a variety of perspectives on current issues from across the curriculum.

Perspectives on Contemporary Issues

Words, Language & Grammar

Wadsworth Publishing

Praised for it's ability to engage students in active and critical reading, the fourth edition continues to provide a wide range of essays addressing contemporary responses to enduring social and personal issues.

Essays from Contemporary Culture Text

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Meeting a need for teaching critical reading, writing, and the techniques for research, Perspectives on Contemporary Issues: Readings Across the Disciplines, demonstrates to students the interconnectedness of ideas and the relationship of different areas of curriculum studies to one another. The goals of the book are to sharpen students' thinking skills by presenting them with a variety of perspectives on current individual, national, and global issues. The variety of issues and opinions are aimed to provoke lively classroom discussions and provide writing topics, giving students practice in both oral and written communication.

Perspectives on Contemporary Issues: Readings Across the Disciplines

Packed with readings on current -- and often controversial -- topics from across the disciplines, PERSPECTIVES ON CONTEMPORARY ISSUES, 8e, equips you to think, read, and write critically. Part I emphasizes writing and research, with separate chapters on reading critically, the writing process, writing a summary, the critique, argumentation, synthesis requiring documentation, and the research paper. The sometimes provocative -- always intriguing -- readings include questions at the end that help you make a personal connection by applying the topic to your life. Unique "Responding to Visuals" sections prompt you to analyze images. In addition, the reader explains the latest MLA guidelines.

Perspectives on Contemporary Issues (w/ APA7E Updates & MLA9E Updated Card)

Education & Teaching

Higher & Continuing Education

Cengage Learning'

Perspectives on Contemporary Issues, Loose-leaf Version

PERSPECTIVES on CONTEMPORARY ISSUES, 6th Edition, approaches learning as the interconnectedness of ideas and disciplinary perspectives. This cross-disciplinary reader encourages critical thinking and academic writing by presenting students with a variety of perspectives on current issues across the curriculum. Contemporary issues engage students, while the thematically grouped readings provide thought-provoking material for in-class discussion and writing topics.

Praised for its collection of essays on contemporary issues, the fifth edition offers more coverage of critical reading and writing and visual rhetoric.

Essays from Contemporary Culture, 5th Edition

Essays & Correspondence

Perspectives on Contemporary Issues (with InfoTrac)

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Essays from Contemporary Culture (Series in Sociolinguistics)

Heinle & Heinle Pub

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