Unique in approach, this book explores the similarities and differences in various discipline-specific epistemologic and rhetorical conventions--and how the two are related. Each chapter is organized around a shared content topic, then divided into Science, Social Science and Humanities sections, and then two specific disciplinary units--each of which addresses the chapter's topic from the discipline's perspective. Features essays that span a range of genres, audiences, and levels of difficulty, and that explore timely and engaging topics--within such broad areas as identity and consciousness, gender and sexuality, capital economics, and the environment--from the perspectives of the more traditional fields, such as sociology, literary studies, biochemistry, and others, as well as relatively new and exciting fields, such as evolutionary psychology, computer science, genetics, ethnic studies, lesbian and gay studies, social ecology, and cultural studies. Articles range from those written in a "popular" and reader-friendly journalistic tone, to more difficult, scholarly pieces. Includes the scientific report format as well as the academic essay typically produced by humanists. Rhetorical modes and skills are discussed as they arise within writing assignments so that their specificity in different contexts is clear. For anyone interested in the similarities and differences of the techniques and conventions of academic writing in the different disciplines.

Academic Communities/Disciplinary Conventions

Reference

Petracca, Michael F.

Beedles, Bonnie

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Pearson

From Barbie to the Internet, the Simpsons to the malls, this engaging book on pop culture can help readers develop writing skills while reading and thinking about subjects they find inherently interesting. It contains essays addressing pop culture topics along with suggestions for further reading. Topics covered in the essays include advertising, television, popular music, cyberculture, sports, and movies. Because of its several comprehensive indices, this book is an excellent reference work for writers and analysts of popular culture.

Common Culture: Reading and Writing About American Popular Culture, Fourth Edition

Politics & Social Sciences

Sorapure, Madeleine

Social Sciences

PRENTICE/HALL

From Barbie to the Internet, the Simpsons to the malls, this engaging book on pop culture can help readers develop writing skills while reading and thinking about subjects they find inherently interesting. It contains essays addressing pop culture topics along with suggestions for further reading.  Topics covered in the essays include advertising, television, popular music, cyberculture, sports, and movies.  Because of its several comprehensive indexes, this book is an excellent reference work for writers and analysts of popular culture.

Common Culture: Reading and Writing About American Popular Culture (5th Edition)

History

Historical Study & Educational Resources

The Graceful Lie actively involves writers in a process that is at once personally relevant and grounded in scholarship. Through explanations, exercises and readings, it articulates the innovative ideas and practices of today's fiction writing while exposing readers to fictional subgenres that other texts mention sporadically, but don't explore in a systematic way.

The Graceful Lie: A Method for Making Fiction

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

From Barbie to the internet, this inherently interesting book spans a full range of pop culture topics from a variety of theoretical perspectives, and helps users develop their critical and analytical skills and write clear and effective prose while reading, thinking, and writing about television, pop music, movies, and other media-generated artifacts.
Provides Key reading and writing strategies, and detailed instruction in thinking critically and writing persuasively about pop-cultural issues. Features 'casebooks' on certain pop-cultural phenomena, such as the Barbie Doll, rap and hip-hop music, horror movies and virtual communities. Explores cyberculture, the internet, and the information revolution, and includes new essays on the 'pro-advertising' perspective, the pop/hip group Rage Against the Machine, the popular sitcom 'Seinfeld', and more.

Common Culture: Reading and Writing About American Popular Culture

Prentice Hall College Div.

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This popular culture reader helps students develop critical and analytical skills and write clear prose while immersing themselves in subjects they find interesting: advertising, television, popular music, technology, sports, and movies.

Common Culture (7th Edition)

World

From Barbie to the Internet, the Simpsons to the malls, Common Culture, an engaging pop culture reader, can help readers develop writing skills while reading and thinking about subjects they find inherently interesting. It contains essays addressing pop culture topics along with suggestions for further reading. Topics covered in the essays include advertising, television, popular music, cyberculture, sports, and movies.

Common Culture (6th Edition)

Reading Popular Culture is an economical Penguin Academics thematic reader exploring a full range of topics in the field of contemporary popular culture from a variety of theoretical perspectives. This book takes up the most important general questions that arise from our immersion in the culture of everyday life: why do the artifacts of popular culture, such as certain movies or websites, appeal to us, and what effect does our engagement with each of these phenomena have on us? Chosen for both their theoretical and rhetorical approaches, the selections in Reading Popular Culture will challenge and engage instructors and students alike.

Reading Popular Culture

Words, Language & Grammar

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