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This reader provides a firm grounding in academic writing, showing students how to read academic texts and use them as sources for college papers. Offering a broad and comprehensive selection of readings to help students develop their abilities to think critically and reason cogently, it shows them how to work individually and collaboratively as they move through the entire process of writing from sources—from reading the original source to planning, drafting and revising essays.
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Writing in the Disciplines: A Reader for Writers, Fifth Edition, provides an anthology of readings that represents various rhetorical approaches across academic disciplines such as humanities, the natural sciences and technology, and the social sciences.
New to the Fifth Edition:- New selections, featuring exciting and often controversial articles on topics ranging from cloning to saving endangered species to security in the wake of September 11th to the changing American family.
- All new suites of articles dedicated to current topics such as "Rethinking School" and "Religion and Identity."
- Many collaborative activities are offered to facilitate group work and strategies for learning through interaction.
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Writing in the disciplines: A reader for writers
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Prentice-Hall (edition ), 1987
ISBN 10: 0139704507
ISBN 13: 9780139704505
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Writing in the Disciplines: A Reader for Writers
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Prentice-Hall, Inc., U.S.A., 1987
ISBN 10: 0139704507
ISBN 13: 9780139704505
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Soft cover. Condition: Good. Gd. conditon - Provides a dynamic collection of readings on interesting and important topics in the humanities, science and technology, and social sciences . (TI68412z). Book. Seller Inventory # 8412z