Writing and Reading across the Curriculum: MLA Update - Softcover

BEHRENS

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0321049616 ISBN 13: 9780321049612

Publisher: Longman, 1999

Synopsis

Each chapter of the reader is structured around a single topic, with articles that reflect different disciplines, viewpoints, and ways of writing. This approach exposes students to a range of models chosen to broaden their disciplinary horizons and sustain their interest. Along with updated classic chapters on Cinderella, Obedience to Authority, Biotechnology, and Business Ethics, the sixth edition includes four new chapters: The Wal-Mart Wars; Left, Right, Center: The American Political Spectrum; Privacy and Technology; and From Fiction to Film: Exploring the Film Adaptation. In addition to the interesting readings in Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum is the unique rhetoric, which provides step-by-step instruction on the skills of summary, critique, and synthesis, as well as to the elements and writing process of the research paper. New to this edition are readings, intended to develop writing skills, are now related to topics in the reader, and an expanded and updated treatment of electronic sources.

About this title

From the Back Cover

WRITING AND READING ACROSS THE CURRICULUM
BRIEF EDITION
Third Edition
Laurence Behrens and Leonard J. Rosen

This brief version of the best-selling cross-curricular classic retains its hallmark coverage of source-based writing skills, accompanied by five popular readings chapters. An essential text for student writers in any academic discipline, Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum, Brief Edition, teaches students of all majors and interests to communicate more effectively.

In this third edition, you will find compelling new units, including:

• A new chapter on marriage and family in America that explores the changing roles (and expectations) of women as “wives,” gay marriage, and “the radical idea” of marrying for love.
• A new chapter on sleep that focuses on the science of sleep and why adolescents and college students are chronically shortchanged.
• A new appendix from Longman, Avoiding Plagiarism, that helps you understand how to use source material appropriately in your college writing.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Longman
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0321049616
• ISBN 13: 9780321049612
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 6
• Number of pages: 850