Controversy: Issues for Reading and Writing - Softcover

Pula, Judith J.; Edwards, Audrey T.; Dermott Professor Emeritus, R. Allan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0130903558 ISBN 13: 9780130903556

Publisher: Pearson, 2001

Synopsis

For courses in Developmental Writing and Freshman Composition.

This innovative reader helps students develop a strong cognitive approach to critical reading and writing by challenging them to express their own ideas on controversial issues and to respond to those of others on the same issues. It features opposing, accessible readings on sixteen current topics―with questions to stimulate application of prior knowledge, critical response, and persuasive writing―and with a focus on developing an active, questioning, skeptical approach toward ideas in print.

About this title

From the Back Cover

LITERATURE: AN INTRODUCTION TO CRITICAL READING, COMPACT EDITION, is designed for the introductory literature course and focuses on developing skills associated with close reading. At the same time, it permits a range of critical approaches to short fiction, poetry, and drama. The selections engage the interest of the modern student while offering a remarkable range of nationalities, historical periods, and authors: canonical, marginalized, and contemporary. The collection includes 40 short stories, 318 poems, and 11 plays.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0130903558
• ISBN 13: 9780130903556
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 330