Perspectives on Contemporary Issues
ISBN: 9780495912927 | 0495912921
Edition: 6thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Pub. Date: 1/1/2011
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PERSPECTIVES on CONTEMPORARY ISSUES, 6th 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.
| Writing Critically and Conducting Research | |
| Reading Critically | |
| Reading Critically in Preparation for Writing Critically | |
| Illustration: Reading Critically | |
| What's in a Name? | |
| More than You Think | |
| Discussion of "What's in a Name? | |
| More than You Think" Rhetorical Analysis of Visuals | |
| Rhetorical Analysis of Websites | |
| The Writing Process | |
| Prewriting | |
| Writing the First Draft | |
| Revising and Editing Your Paper | |
| Proofreading | |
| Student Essay | |
| Writing a Summary | |
| Writing a Summary | |
| Illustration: Making Marginal Notes and Summarizing | |
| "The Moon We Left Behind," | |
| Writing a Critique | |
| The Connection between Reading Critically and Writing a Critique | |
| Writing a Critique | |
| The Hollow Curriculum | |
| Student Essay | |
| Writing an Arguement | |
| Narrowing Your Focus and Discovering Your Position | |
| Structuring an Argument | |
| Strategies for Arguing Effectively | |
| Student Essay | |
| Synthesizing Material and Documenting Sources | |
| Using MLA Style Writing a Synthesis | |
| In-text Citations Using MLA Style | |
| Paraphrasing | |
| Quoting | |
| Integrating Source Material into Your Paper | |
| Using Ellipsis Points, Brackets, Single Quotation Marks and "Qtd. in." Documenting Sources in a Collection of Essays | |
| Writing a Research Paper | |
| Defining Your Purpose | |
| Discovering a Topic | |
| Forming a Preliminary Thesis and a Working Bibliography | |
| Using the Library | |
| Using Electronic Sources | |
| Using Other Sources | |
| Creating a Preliminary Bibliography | |
| Evaluating Print Sources | |
| Evaluating Internet Sources | |
| Illustration: Seeking Promising Websites Taking Notes | |
| Avoiding Plagiarism | |
| Illustration: Plagiarism, Inaccurate Documentation, and Correct Handling of Source Material | |
| Documenting Sources | |
| Parenthetical Documentation: Citing Sources in the Text | |
| Creating a Works Cited Page Using MLA Style | |
| Assembling the Parts of a Research Paper | |
| Student Research Paper Using MLA Style | |
| Writing a Research Paper Using APA Style | |
| Parenthetical Citations Using APA Style | |
| APA Style References List Sample Pages from Student Research Paper Using APA Style | |
| A Student Paper Using PA Style | |
| Media Studies, Popular Culture, and the Arts | |
| Music and Video Games | |
| Art Form for the Digital Age | |
| Do Video Games Kill? | |
| In Defense of Hip-Hop | |
| Hip-Hop's Betrayal of Black Women | |
| Media Studies | |
| Aggression: The Impact of Media Violence | |
| Violent Media is Good for Kids | |
| The End of Admiration: The Media and the Loss of Heroes | |
| The Wrong Lesson: Teaching College Reporters to be Meek | |
| Film and Television | |
| Stop Blaming Kids and TV | |
| Getting Real with Reality TV | |
| Creating Reel Change | |
| Girls Just Wanna Have Fangs | |
| The Arts | |
| Solitude and the Fortresses of Youth | |
| Comix Poetics | |
| Dance, Dance Revolution | |
| How Song, Dance and Movies Bailed Us Out of the Depression | |
| Social and Behavioral Sciences | |
| Education | |
| Censorship: A Personal View | |
| Critical Thinking? | |
| You Need Knowledge | |
| Except from "Why School?: A Student in a Community College Basic Skills Program," | |
| No Time to Read? | |
| Poverty and Homelessness | |
| Our Tired, Our Poor, Our Kids | |
| Homeless, Mike Dick was 51, Looked 66 | |
| Too Poor to Make the News | |
| The Singer Solution to World Poverty | |
| Gender and Sex Roles | |
| The Puzzle of Boys | |
| Who Does the Talking Here? | |
| A Sporting Chance: Title IX and the Seismic Shift in Women's Sports | |
| Sacred Rite or Civil Right? | |
| Race and Ethnicity in America | |
| One Nation, Indivisible: Is It History? | |
| Imagining the Immigrant: Why Legality Must Give Way to Humanity | |
| Play the Race Card | |
| Race in America: We Would Like to Believe We Are Over the Problem+cMaryann Cusimano Love | |
| American Foreign Policy | |
| American Idealism and Realpolitik | |
| Still Not Tired | |
| Lessons from World War II | |
| Now Showing: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Americans | |
| Science and Technology | |
| Digital Technology and the Internet | |
| I Need My Space! | |
| The Most Important Moment of All Time? | |
| Grant Calder | |
| Social Connection | |
| Chips: High Tech Aids or Tracking Tools? | |
| Todd Lewan | |
| Bioethics | |
| About That New Jersey Organ Scandal | |
| Women Sell Their Eggs, So Why Not a Kidney? | |
| Deborah Kotz | |
| Patenting Life | |
| Bioethics and Stem Cell Research Debate | |
| Public Health | |
| HPV Vaccine Texas Tyranny | |
| The HPV Debate Needs an Injection of Reality | |
| Global Public Goods and Health | |
| What the Rest of Africa Could Learn about AIDS | |
| Environmental Studies | |
| Humboldt's Legacy and the Restoration of Science | |
| Get Up! Stand Up! | |
| The Sixth Extinction | |
| Accounting 101 for the 21st Century: A Liberal Arts Education in Carbon | |
| Business and Economics | |
| Marketing and the American Consumer | |
| Every Nook and Cranny: The Dangerous Spread of Commercialized Culture | |
| Marketing in the Millennials | |
| Stuff is Not Salvation | |
| Shopping and Other Spiritual Adventures in Americdan Today | |
| The Workplace | |
| You've Been Mommified | |
| The Full-Time Blues | |
| Temporary Workers and the 21st Century Economy | |
| Oh, Brother | |
| American Business in the Global Marketplace | |
| In Defense of Sweatshops | |
| The Wal-Mart You Don't Know | |
| 30 Little Turtles | |
| Dominant Elsewhere, Google Struggles in China | |
| Glossary of Terms | |
| Formatting Guidelines for Course Papers | |
| Credits | |
| Index | |
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