The Contemporary Reader - Softcover

Goshgarian, Gary

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0321002059 ISBN 13: 9780321002051

Publisher: Pearson, 1999

Synopsis

* NEW! WEB SITE: A dedicated web site, conceived by Kathryn Goodfellow of Northeastern University, features chapter guides that summarize the thematic focus of each chapter of the text and provide five to seven activities. Links to additional chapter-related online readings, including pieces from the online magazine Salon, are also featured. A guide to researching popular culture online analyzes various electronic resources - newsgroups, listservs, and online services - and their applicability to popular culture research. A "talking" model student research paper provides comments and suggestions for writing up research, and another section of popular culture links explores Web resources in television, film, music, advertising, gender issues, race and ethnicity, and censorship and free speech. Web site URL - http://longman.awl.com/goshgarian * NEW! Over 90% of the selections are new to this edition - almost all written since 1996 - on timely topics like body piercing, Xena Warrior Princess, the X-Files, gay marriage, and the approaching millenium. * NEW! Multi-genre focus includes more short stories, poetry, letters to the editor, memoirs, journal entries, movie reviews, newspaper columns, interviews, and humorous pieces. * NEW! Controversial topics are examined in paired readings from opposing points of view in the "Pro/Con" feature which closes most chapters to stimulate students to consider their own opinions on various issues. * NEW! Introduction to critical reading offers a step-by-step analysis of a sample essay to show students how to read the sections critically. * NEW! "Group Projects" encourage working collaboratively inside and outside of the classroom with a special emphasis on writing that is community oriented. * NEW! "Sequencing Assignments" ask students to make connections among the texts readings for a more critical evaluation of a subject. * Contemporary essay collection features a wide variety of provocative and engaging themes such as "Democracy, Community, and Cyberspace," "Pop Icons," "Gender Battles on the Big Screen," "Young and Criminal" and "Work: Whats In It For Me?" * Essays reflect a wide assortment of writing styles by todays best writers including numerous women and minority authors. * A gallery of advertisements calls for critical thinking about images and values in contemporary society; this edition features all new ads.

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The Contemporary Reader

From the Back Cover

The Contemporary Reader, Ninth Edition
Gary Goshgarian

Success starts here.

With a wide-ranging collection of over 90 contemporary readings–50 of them new to this edition, and 90 percent of them written within the last five years–this best-selling anthology is an unbeatable resource for learning how to understand today’s issues and arguments and how to write effectively in the college classroom and beyond. You won’t want to miss Emilio Dabul on why the terrorists on the T.V. show 24 are generally Arabs, or Al Gore on global warming (or a blogger on why he’s just really tired of hearing about the whole subject), or essays about topics such as the corporate hours (and dollars) that go into designing lunchboxes and princess paraphernalia for America’s children, and how violent video games affect our lives. The Contemporary Reader brings you all this and more!

Critical new material available only in this edition

· Three new chapters–on climate change (Does it exist? Can we survive it?), the American university system (Who gets in, and who doesn’t? Who should get in?), and immigration (Does the United States have a special relationship to immigrants? What does that mean?)–bring you face to face with major scientific, ethical, and political arguments.
· Reading the Blog posts throughout the book bring online debates–the reality of our contemporary communication–into the genre mix.
· Culture Shock features offer ads, cartoons, maps, and other images and, by asking pointed questions, help you discover the meanings hidden in the “visual assault” that we cope with every day.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0321002059
• ISBN 13: 9780321002051
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 6
• Number of pages: 576