Visions Across the Americas: Short Essays for Composition

Warner, J. Sterling

Hilliard, Judith

Piro, Vincent

Literature & Fiction

Harcourt Brace College Publishers

THRESHOLDS, a combination rhetoric, reader, and research guide, ideally suits the needs of today's composition student. Featuring a wide selection of authors from many cultural viewpoints, THRESHOLDS targets many pressing issues: writing skills (reader-response), critical thinking skills, the research process, and cultural literacy. Topics and issues relevant to our lives and the world in which we live appear in various literary genres in THRESHOLDS and serve as stimulus for rhetorical discussions, formal and informal evaluation, analysis, and argumentation. The diverse genres of literature in THRESHOLDS also function as a forum for word study. Some of thematic readings fit in more than one chapter and induce student response. Overall, the goal of THRESHOLDS has been to couple innovative with traditional methods of writing intstruction to provide flexibility for different approaches to learning and teaching.

Thresholds: Literature-Based Composition

Education & Teaching

Higher & Continuing Education

Wadsworth Publishing

PROJECTIONS is a thematic reader designed to make maximum use of the cultural knowledge students bring with them into the classroom.

Projections: Brief Readings on American Culture

Reference

Swanson, Bill

Words, Language & Grammar

Projections is designed to make maximum use of the cultural knowledge students bring with them into the classroom. This Developmental English text allows instructors to teach writing in a culturally diverse manner. The readings explore cyberspace, music, movies, media and other facets of popular culture. As a result, Projections enlarges the meaning of literacy by focusing on the context provided by students' own lives, and it directs them in ways to make use of their knowledge and to develop their writing skills. The diverse selection of generative readings, visual texts, and assignments offer innovative directions for the learning process in a composition classroom.

Offering a collection of diverse readings reinforced with discussions of the rhetorical modes, the fifth edition now provides new essays, writing prompts, and an expanded glossary.

Louise Erdrich, Amy Tan, John Steinbeck, Pat Mora, and Andrew Lam are among the authors represented in Visions Across the Americas: Short Essays for Composition, 8th Edition. The book's 72 cross-cultural essays (12 of them new) cover a variety of themes--from cyberspace, humor, and popular culture to ecology, politics, and work. Writing guidance includes an overview of the writing process, writing tips, pre- and post-reading questions that reinforce understanding of the rhetorical modes, and optional activities on conducting research online and documenting sources.

Visions across the Americas

Essays & Correspondence

Cengage Learning'

VISIONS ACROSS THE AMERICAS presents 70 cross-cultural essays on diverse topics such as: Language and Culture; the Family; Americans and Immigrants; Education and Intelligence; Lifestyles; Racism, Sexism, and Ageism; American Society, Prejudices and Stereotypes; and Technology, Cyberspace, and the Cosmos. Each chapter provides students with a blueprint for a specific essay type, with pre- and post-reading questions and activities that reinforce an understanding of the rhetorical modes, and encourage them to think and write clearly and critically.

Visions across the Americas: Short Essays for Composition

What do John Steinbeck and Maya Angelou have in common? They're both among the great authors you'll encounter in VISIONS ACROSS THE AMERICAS: SHORT ESSAYS FOR COMPOSITION. This book presents 72 cross-cultural essays on such diverse themes as: Language and Culture; The Family; Americans and Immigrants; Racism, Sexism, and Ageism; and Technology, Cyberspace, and the Cosmos. An Irony and Humor theme has been added to this newest edition. Each chapter provides students with a blueprint for a specific type of essay, with pre- and post-reading questions and activities that reinforce an understanding of the rhetorical modes addressed in that chapter.

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Visions Across the Americas: Short Essays for Composition

Thresholds: Literature-Based Composition

Projections: Brief Readings on American Culture

Projections: Brief Readings on American Culture

Visions Across the Americas: Short Essays for Composition

Visions across the Americas

Visions across the Americas: Short Essays for Composition

Visions across the Americas: Short Essays for Composition (Available Titles CengageNOW)