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Arlington Reader Contexts and Connections

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ISBN-10: 031260565X

ISBN-13: 9780312605650

Edition: 3rd 2011

Authors: Lynn Z. Bloom, Louise Z. Smith

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What do you look for in a thematic composition reader? Certainly a combination of classic essays that you think every student should read as well as fresh contemporary selections that showcase some of the best contemporary writing and writers. Probably an array of relevant themes that appeal to students even as they point toward the disciplinary thinking and writing students will have to perform as undergraduates. Likely the kind of writing apparatus that moves students from critical reading to thoughtful writing and revising. The Arlington Readeroffers all this -- and more. It is the only thematic reader to pay attention to the contexts and connections that give rise to great writing, with…    
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Book details

List price: $40.99
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Bedford/Saint Martin's
Publication date: 1/6/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 704
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.628
Language: English

Preface for Instructors
Introduction: Reading and Writing in Context
Reading in Context
Writing in Context
Speaking, Reading, Writing
How does language make us human?
Better Signs of Trouble [icons]
Listening
Mother Tongue
Language and Literature from a Pueblo Indian Perspective
The Joy of Reading and Writing: Superman and Me
From Fighting Words
Reading the Comics
On Keeping a Notebook
Contexts for On Keeping a Notebook
Why I Write
The New Journalism
Last Words o Interview (1999)
Revision is a Recursive Process
You Do Not Create a Style. You Work����Â