Readers

Signs of Life in the USA: Readings on Popular Culture for Writers/ 3rd Edition
Sonia Maasik and Jack Solomon
A compilation of essays and readings relating to popular culture.
© 2000

Breaking Boundaries
Carol Comfort
Designed to help students become stronger, more active readers. Demonstrates the connections among reading, writing, and thinking.
© 2000

Dialogue and Discovery: Writing and Reading across Disciplines
Barbara Jo Krieger, Paul G. Saint-Amand and Robert W. Emery
Teaches students basic rules for reading and writing effectively across various disciplines.
© 1996

Perspectives on Contemporary Issues: Readings Across the Disciplines
Katherine Anne Ackley
An across-the-curriculum reader that focuses on contemporary issues.
© 1997

Writing from Sources
Brenda Spatt
Suggests guidelines for selecting, processing, and using sources effectively.
© 1983

Writing in the Disciplines: A Reader for Writers/ 4th Edition
Mary Lynch Kennedy, William J. Kennedy and Hadley M. Smith
An anthology of readings for writers in various academic disciplines.
© 2000

Guidelines for Writers: Rhetoric, Reader, Handbook
Judith Stanford
Discusses four purposes for reading and writing--to respond, to evaluate, to compare, and to argue--and includes readings to illustrate these purposes.
© 1993

Signs of Life in the USA: Readings on Popular Culture for Writers
Sonia Maasik and Jack Solomon
Provides a critical thinking method--semiotics--to help college writers analyze essays abour popular culture.
© 2000

Good Reasons with Contemporary Arguments
Lester Faigley and Jack Selzer
A guide to persuasive writing that includes written arguments of many types.
© 2001

Fields of Reading: Motives for Writing / 6th Edition
Nancy R. Comley, David Hamilton, Carl H. Klaus, Robert Scholes and Nancy Sommers.
A collection of essays and poems that introduces students to some of the leading voices in modern intellectual life.
© 2001

The Simon and Schuster Short Prose Reader / 2nd Edition
Robert Funk, Susan X. Day and Elizabeth McMahan
Using an array of short prose pieces, the authors offer strategies for active reading, clear argumentation, and meaningful revision.
© 2000

Strategies For College Writing: A Rhetorical Reader
Robert Funk, Susan X. Day, Elizabeth McMahan, Linda Coleman
Teaches students to gear their reading towards their writing, by asking the right questions as they read.
© 2000

The New Millenium Reader / 2nd Edition
Stuart Hirschberg and Terry Hirschberg.
Collects insights, discoveries, and reflections about past millennia by noteworthy writers in fiction and nonfiction.
© 2000

Cultural Attractions/Cultural Distractions: Critical Literacy In Contemporary Contexts
Libby Allison and Kristine L. Blair
A cultural rhetoric/reader that focuses on pop, intellectual, and social culture through a variety of readings.
© 2000

Ourselves Among Others: Readings from Home and Abroad / 4th Edition
Carol J. Verburg
Exposes students to writings from the U.S. and from 25 other nations, giving them a critical, cross-cultural perspective.
© 2000