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NEW--Contains 45 new reading selections.
NEW--Begins each chapter with Two
Perspectives on... -- a set of paired readings with a single
headnote and a single set of Responding to Reading questions.
- These paired readings, which introduce complementary
perspectives on an issue, are designed to introduce students to a
chapter's theme and to help them improve their critical thinking skills.
NEW--Ends each chapter with a Focus question
that is followed by a group of essays that take a variety of different
positions on a single debatable issue.
- The essays in these sections not only encourage students
to add their voices to an ongoing debate, but also illustrate that
complex issues often elicit more than two points of view.
NEW--Features a Widening the Focus section
that identifies essays in other chapters that offer insight
into the issues raised by the Focus question.
Features 121 diverse, high-interest readings including
112 essays, 1 short story, and 8 poems arranged in 10 thematic
chapters.
- The reading selections combine time-tested favorites
with provocative new pieces and represent a balance of genders,
races, cultures, and viewpoints.
- Themes include: Family and Memory, Issues in Education,
The Politics of Language, The Media's Message, Women and Men, The
American Dream, The Way We Live Now, Medical Practice and Responsibility,
Earth in the Balance, and Making Choices.
Offers an Introduction to Critical Reading that explains
and illustrates the process of reading and reacting critically to
texts -- applying the most current reader-response theory to students'
reading, thinking, and writing activities.
Each chapter includes helpful pedagogical features:
- Student Voices -- a collection of brief,
informal responses (from students' writing journals) to the chapter's
theme.
- Preparing to Read and Write -- a concise introduction
that places the chapter's broad theme in a narrower social or political
context, and a series of questions designed to help students focus
their intellectual and emotional reactions to individual selections
in the context of the chapter's larger issues.
- Headnotes for each selection -- with biographical
information and insight into the writer's motivation or purpose.
- Responding to Reading questions after each selection
-- focusing on thematic and rhetorical considerations.
- Writing Suggestions -- give students a wide
range of options for writing about the chapter's theme and readings
and for connecting the readings to selections in other chapters.
Provides a Rhetorical Table of Contents that groups
readings in categories that reflect the way they arrange material
-- narrative, description, process, comparison and contrast, etc.
Includes a List of Topical Clusters -- suggestions
for grouping individual readings -- and perspectives from which
to view the text's issues and themes.
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