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Identities Readings from Contemporary Culture

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ISBN-10: 0395701074

ISBN-13: 9780395701072

Edition: 1996

Authors: Ann Raimes

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This thematic reader explores the interplay of two compelling themes: identity and culture. The eight units are based on the categories of information one encounters on a standard information form: name, age, appearance, etc. Students explore these areas by making connections and finding greater meaning as they progress.
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Book details

List price: $143.95
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: CENGAGE Learning
Publication date: 1/19/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 544
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English

Nancy Summers is a professor at Harrisburg Area Community College, where she has served as department chair. Summers was the director of public education for a mental health system and has worked with numerous agencies to provide training, improve services, and assist with an internal reorganization. She remains actively in touch with numerous professionals in a wide variety of programs and recently published work on the supervision of the less experienced human services worker.Ann Raimes, a respected authority on writing, research, grammar, and ESL, created the KEYS FOR WRITERS family of handbooks (Cengage Learning) to be the most accessible, user-friendly handbooks available.

Note: Selections are essays unless otherwise marked (almost every unit includes at least one poem and short story)
Each unit opens with "Introduction to the Theme" and "Starting Points: Questions for Journals, Freewriting, and Discussion."
Every selection is preceded by a headnote (information about the author and selection) and followed by questions for discussion, writing, and research
Introduction: Robert Ornstein, "Knowing Oneself and Others"
Name Sandra Cisneros, "My Name" [fiction] Ke