Convergences Themes, Texts, and Images for Composition
ISBN: 9780312467340 | 0312467346
Edition: 3rdFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
Pub. Date: 12/24/2008
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By pairing essays with other kinds of compositions a TV show, a news report, a photo, an ad, a cast-off grocery list Convergencesasks students to respond to all kinds of visual and verbal texts. Its organization into six broad thematic chapters each of which is broken out into six clusters presents the materials in a way that is compelling and teachable.Convergencesurges students to ask: Why did that author write that essay? Where was it published, and for what audience? What is the message of that poem? Why is that image on that Web site? Who ... MORE
Introduction
Message
Method
Medium
*Understanding Message, Method, Medium
Understanding Texts: Audience, Purpose, and Context
Reading and Writing about Texts Annotated essay: Stephen Jay Gould, A Time of Gifts Annotated photograph: Lauren Greenfield, Sara, 19 Annotated advertisement: Negative Population Growth, Remember when this was heavy
traffic?
*Annotated comic strip: Art Spiegelman, A Father’s Guiding Hand, "Portrait of the Artist as a
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Message
Method
Medium
*Understanding Message, Method, Medium
Understanding Texts: Audience, Purpose, and Context
Reading and Writing about Texts Annotated essay: Stephen Jay Gould, A Time of Gifts Annotated photograph: Lauren Greenfield, Sara, 19 Annotated advertisement: Negative Population Growth, Remember when this was heavy
traffic?
*Annotated comic strip: Art Spiegelman, A Father’s Guiding Hand, "Portrait of the Artist as a
... MORE
Robert Atwan is director of The Blue Hills Writing Institute at Curry College and the series editor of the annual Best American Essays, which he founded in 1985. His essays, reviews, and critical articles have appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Atlantic Monthly, Iowa Review, Denver Quarterly, Kenyon Review, River Teeth, and many other publications. For Bedford/St. Martin's, he has also edited Ten on Ten: Major Essayists on Recurring Themes (1992), Our Times (1998), and America Now (2007). He has coedited (with Jon Roberts) Left, Right, and Center: Voices from Across the Political Spectrum (1996), and is coeditor with Donald McQuade of The Writer's Presence (2006).
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