The only reader designed expressly for California composition courses, California Dreams and Realities prompts students to think and write critically about issues specific to their state. Fifty-three diverse readings grouped in six thematic chapters explore California dreams, immigration, education, the environment, politics, and industry.

California Dreams and Realities: Readings for Critical Thinkers and Writers

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Maasik, Sonia

Solomon, Jack

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Signs of Life in the U.S.A. : Readings on Popular Culture for Writers

Bedford/St.Martins

Signs of Life in the USA teaches students to read and write critically about popular culture by giving them a conceptual framework to do it: semiotics, a field of critical theory developed specifically for the interpretation of culture and its signs. Written by a prominent semiotician and an experienced writing instructor, the text’s high-interest themes feature provocative and current reading selections that ask students to think analytically about America’s impressive popular culture: How is TV’s Mad Men a lightning rod for America’s polarized political climate? Has the nature of personal identity changed in an era when we spend so much of our lives online? Signs of Life bridges the transition to college writing by providing students with academic language to talk about our common, everyday cultural experience. Read the preface. Order Multimodal Readings for Signs of Life in the USA packaged with Signs of Life in the USA, Seventh Edition using ISBN-13: 978-1-4576-1989-2.

Signs of Life in the USA: Readings on Popular Culture for Writers

Signs of Life in the USA 4e and Critical Thinking, Reading, and Writing 4e and: Everyday Writer 2e comb bound with 2001 APA Update

Bedau, Hugo

Barnet, Sylvan

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California has long been a bellwether state -- a place where crucial trends that eventually spread throughout the U.S. first take root. Its national and international influence is driven by one of the largest economies in the world, by its extraordinary technological and cultural innovations, and by a disproportionately affluent and activist population larger than that of entire countries. In short, the issues of California are the issues that are likely to have an impact on the rest of America, and college students in California are well served by studying, thinking, and writing about their home state in their composition courses. California Dreams and Realities is the one composition reader that allows students to do just that.

California Dreams + Realities: Readings for Critical Thinkers And Writers

Signs of Life in the USA 4e and Writer's Reference 5e with 2003 MLA Update and: paperback thesaurus

Hacker, Diana

Signs of Life in the USA 4e and Writer's Reference 5e with 2003 MLA Update and: CD-Rom Electronic Exercises for Writer's Reference 5e

The best-selling composition reader on popular culture, Signs of Life in the USA has been adopted at more than 700 colleges and universities since its first edition. Unlike other popular culture readers, Signs of Life presumes that this topic merits rigorous analysis and so provides a conceptual framework for understanding it: semiotics, a field of critical theory developed specifically for the interpretation of culture and its signs. The selections in Signs of Life are arranged in provocative chapters (on such themes as gender codes, television and music, film, and advertising) that tap into students' own experiences with and interest in popular culture. The uniquely qualified editorial team of a prominent semiotician and an experienced writing instructor have prepared extensive apparatus to prompt the rigorous analysis that help students become better thinkers and writers.

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