Issues Across the Curriculum: Reading, Writing, Research - Softcover

LaGuardia, Dolores; Guth, Hans P.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1559345705 ISBN 13: 9781559345705

Publisher: Mayfield Publishing Co ,U.S., 1996

Synopsis

Issues Across the Curriculum is designed to prepare students for effective participation in the academic community. Its sixty-seven reading selections, together with its chapters on strategies for reading, writing, and research, provide students with important intellectual resources and communication skills that will help them profit from coursework in both general education courses and their major areas of study.

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From the Publisher

The eighty-two reading selections and the 'Perspective' essays that open each chapter in Part I introduce students to key issues'and ways of approaching these issues'in the areas of science, social science, business, humanities, communication, career education, and interdisciplinary perspectives.
Each chapter in Part I concludes with several readings that offer different perspectives on a similar issue. These forums include topics such as 'Scientists and Science Ethics,' 'How Smart Are Intelligence Tests?' 'Government and the Arts,' and 'Voyaging in Cyberspace.'
Part II offers separate chapters on reading strategies, writing as a process, thinking/writing strategies, report writing and proposal writing, as well as research strategies'including coverage of the current MLA and APA documentation styles and samples of student writing using each.
Integrated pedagogy includes, for each selection, an introductory headnote, questions that help students interact with the text and see connections among the disciplines ('The Responsive Reader'), 'For Discussion and Writing' suggestions, and 'Collaborative Projects' ideas.

Edition details

• Publisher: Mayfield Publishing Co ,U.S.
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1559345705
• ISBN 13: 9781559345705
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 672