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xx, 567 pages : 23 cm "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 students with a variety of perspectives on current issues across the curriculum. Contemporary issues engage students, while the thematically grouped readings provide thought-provoking material for in-class discussion and writing topics. This edition features more than 30 new readings, almost all of them published recently and including a number of longer selections; an expanded chapter on the writing process, with a stress on the distinction between writing and editing; an increased number of paired readings that express differing views on the same subject; new full-color visuals in the "Responding to Visuals" sections; and more." -- Publisher's website Includes bibliographical references and index Part I: Writing critically and conducting research. 1. Reading critically -- 2. The writing process -- 3. Writing a summary -- 4. Writing a critique -- 5. Writing an argument -- 6. Writing a synthesis and documenting sources -- 7. Writing

Who reads Perspectives on Contemporary Issues: Reading Across the Disciplines, 7th Edition?

Author

Katherine Anne Ackley, Professor Emerita, University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point

Publisher

CENGAGE Learning Custom Publishing

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9781285425849

Category

reference

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Education, Humanities

Rating

4.3 / 5 (103 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14