Perspectives on Contemporary Issues: Reading Across the Disciplines - Softcover

Ackley, Katherine Anne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1285425847 ISBN 13: 9781285425849

Publisher: Wadsworth Pub Co, 2014

Synopsis

PERSPECTIVES on CONTEMPORARY ISSUES, 7th Edition, approaches learning as the interconnectedness of ideas and disciplinary perspectives. This cross-disciplinary reader encourages critical thinking and academic writing by presenting a variety of perspectives on current issues across the curriculum.

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Review

"PERSPECTIVES is unique in its writing discussion quality and accessibility, which keeps me coming back."

"I think it is a very effective reader for my freshman level courses that I teach. It is thorough and written in a style and manner that is engaging to the students."

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: Wadsworth Pub Co
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1285425847
• ISBN 13: 9781285425849
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 567