Perspectives on Contemporary Issues - Softcover

Ackley, Katherine Anne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0495912921 ISBN 13: 9780495912927

Publisher: Cengage Learning, 1980

Synopsis

Perspectives on Contemporary Issues, Sixth Edition, presents a range of thought-provoking current readings while covering the kinds of writing that you will create in your composition course, throughout your academic career, and beyond. With selections that prompt spirited classroom discussions as well as practical guidance for improving your critical reading and composition skills, this text will broaden your perspective, energize your thinking, and, as a result, inspire your writing.

Inside, you'll find

A step-by-step guide to the writing process that takes you from prewriting, discovery, and planning to composing multiple drafts, editing, and proofreading

Guidance for writing in a range of formats, from summaries and arguments to critiques and researched writingłincluding recent MLA guidelines on citing and documenting sources (particularly Internet and electronic sources)

Readings on popular culture, terrorism, digital technology, gender and sex roles, foreign policy, bioethics, and business and economics, which expose you to new ideas while illustrating the principles of good writing

Twenty-six readings new to this edition, including D Sady Doyle's "Girls Just Wanna Have Fangs," Barbara Ehrenreich's "Too Poor to Make the News," and John J. Savant's "Imagining the Immigrant: Why Legality Must Give Way to Humanity"

About this title

Review

"In general, I continue to use this text because of the variety of topics it covers in the readings. The readings seem appropriate for the students at our college, and I teach the main essays in the book: summary, critique, synthesis, and persuasive research essay. I use the "Responding to Visuals" sections also, because I have discovered that students are very interested in analyzing images, and I've had some good results from using them." "It is a good fit because it encourages critical thinking; provides context for lots of writing; and encourages application to real world experiences."

About the Author

Katherine Ackley taught in the English Department at the University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point from 1979 to 2002 and also served as coordinator of the Women's Studies Program for 10 years and assistant dean of Graduate Studies for five years. Her research interests center on women in literature, with emphasis on literary representations of women's issues and, more recently, British crime writers. Her books include THE NOVELS OF BARBARA PYM (1989), WOMEN AND VIOLENCE IN LITERATURE: AN ESSAY COLLECTION (1990), MISOGYNY IN LITERATURE: AN ESSAY COLLECTION (1992), and ESSAYS FROM CONTEMPORARY CULTURE (2004, 5th Edition). The author of dozens of published articles, she received more than 20 grants for research and development and was the first woman to receive the UWSP University Scholar Award. Dr. Ackley earned a master's degree in English from Purdue University and a Ph.D. in English from Ball State University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cengage Learning
• Publication date: 1980
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0495912921
• ISBN 13: 9780495912927
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 6
• Number of pages: 568