COMING FROM HOME is an innovative reader arranged around the theme of families and the importance of community. Containing 71 selections--essays (including student essays), poems, stories, and memoirs--it provides a variety of ethnic, cultural, economic, sociological, psychological, and literary perspectives. Journal writing and intertextual questions (asking students to work with common threads within a number of works) characterize the extensive, integrated pedagogical support that contributes to making COMING FROM HOME the basis for an exciting and unusually effective focus for writing courses.

Coming from Home: Readings for Writers

Watters, Ann

Ford, Marjorie

Ford, Jon

Literature & Fiction

Mcgraw-Hill College

WRITING FOR CHANGE: A COMMUNITY READER is a thematic reader designed for the first or second course in Freshmen Composition. It provides a rich selection of readings that address issues concerning family, community, work, education, health, diversity, and the environment. The innovative approach of WRITING FOR CHANGE is to enable students to move from private reflection to public statement and to an active role in changing their community on issues of public concern that bind us together as a community. This strong contemporary reader can be used in any composition course and can also be used with the companion handbook, A GUIDE FOR CHANGE, to develop a writing course that focuses on community based writing.

Writing for Change: A Community Reader

McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

A GUIDE FOR CHANGE is designed for instructors and students who would like to integrate "real world" writing projects into their courses. The wide range of writing options presented include, a letter to the editor, an article for a community newsletter, a research paper geared toward a topic of community interest for submission to local government or community agency, and an informational brochure or a grant proposal. While different from academic writing, these writing activities directly reinforce for students the need to follow a form that is appropriate to a particular situation and to take the audience's expectations into account. The opportunity for students to pursue "real writing" for their class or community challenges them to engage the attention of their audience, to inform them honestly, and to convince them to listen to their point of view. A GUIDE FOR CHANGE provides a complete guide for incorporating "real world" writing projects into the classroom with a variety of practical worksheets, two casebooks, and models of community service writing projects. It can be used alone or with the companion reader, WRITING FOR CHANGE.

A Guide For Change: Resources for Implementing Community Service Writing

Reference

Words, Language & Grammar

Integrating text, images, and internet resources, this book is designed to help its users learn to read and write in a global context, and to understand that both specific environments and universal principles contribute to communication. It also demonstrates that increasing intercultural and international connections require efforts to understand each other. Readers will benefit from acknowledging their perspective and from attempting to step back and view America and other cultures from different ones. KEY TOPICS Specific chapters discuss popular culture topics and present relevant, serious selections on intercultural conflict, health and environment, and more. For a comprehensive understanding and view of the many issues and perspectives of global communication.

Global Exchange: Reading and Writing in a World Context

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

PRENTICE/HALL

"..a reader-rhetoric focusing on argument and persuasion in American cultures. Spanning centuries, traditions, and genres, the selections demonstrate the core debates and discussions that have always interested and engaged Americans."

Creating America: Reading and Writing Arguments (2nd Edition)

Moser, Joyce

This reader/rhetoric emphasizes the argumentative strategies readers need to analyze and write arguments. At the same time, it helps users see that Americans have always defined themselves and maintained a sense of unity—despite great diversity—through ongoing public debate about what America means. Selections reflect colonial times to the present, and include posters, photographs, advertisements, and court cases in addition to essays, poems, and stories that represent arguments in American culture, the art and craft of persuasion, writing essays, integrating research into writing, American dreams, justice and civil liberties, frontiers, war and violence, work and play, and family, identities. For those interested in argumentative and persuasive writing.

Creating America: Reading and Writing Arguments (3rd Edition)

Pearson College Div

Thematic argument reader with rhetoric (writing guide) on arguments presents selections and images that depict the political and social changes in America from the Revolutionary War to the twenty-first century. Its argumentative focus will teach readers how to persuade others through written words and visual ideas. High Interest topics including 27 new essays, 4 films, and 10 advertisements/pieces of art; information on visual arguments and online research; an in-depth examination of one country's culture within a range of cultures over time. For persuasive writers.

Creating America: Reading and Writing Arguments (4th Edition)

Moser, Joyce P.

Pearson

This package contains:   0130487627 Global Exchange: Reading and Writing in a World Context  0451219058 New American Webster Handy College Dictionary

Global Exchange: Reading and Writing in a World Context with New American Webster Handy College Dictionary

Dictionaries & Thesauruses

Longman

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