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This reader contains twelve thematic sections, each featuring a "Main Event" reading and a companion assignment for critical thinking and writing. Each writing assignment covers a differenttypeof writingboth academic and practical. The book discusses various preparation strategies so that its users can more effectively and efficiently put their thoughts into wordsand their words onto paper.KEY TOPICSA variety of themesFilm and Television, Democracy in the Classroom, Dreams, Marriage and Divorce, American Cities, Technology, Your Body, Youth Culture, Biographies, Fairy Tales; The Justice System: and Jobs in the 21st Centurywill appeal to a wide and diverse audience.For readers and writers who want to learn how to respond critically to a text, and generate responses of their own.

Introduction: Reading Critically
The Basics of Reading Critically
Determining Main Ideas and Supporting Ideas
Summarizing the Reading
Analyzing the Evidence
Establishing the Credibility of the Author
Reading Yourself into an Expert
Film and Television
Main Event Reading: ldquo;The Stoned Screenrdquo;
Main Event Writing Assignment
Preparation Punch List
Main Event Writing Lesson: Basic Essay Form
Thesis
The Essay
Structure of the Essay: The Funnel System
Body Paragraph Development
The Main Event Writing Sample: ldquo;Disturbing Filmsrdquo;
Additional Readings: ldquo;Go Ahead, Make Her Dayrdquo;
ldquo;Yoursquo;ve Come Which Way, Baby?rdquo;
ldquo;Working Womenrdquo;
ldquo;Fade to Blackrdquo;
ldquo;Call It lsquo;Kid-Fluencersquo;rdquo;
ldquo;The Market for Television Violencerdquo;
ldquo;We are Training Our Kids to Killrdquo;
Democracy in the Classroom
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In today's classroom, students are looking for relevance in the curriculum. They want to know that what they are learning has practical applications, both in their future studies and in the world beyond schooling. Facing this is the composition instructor. One tool for the instructor is a reading text that provides articles and essays that are interesting, challenging, and relevant. A composition instructor needs a text that provides practical advice and solid examples of composition. Of course, instruction on critical thinking skills is an important facet of many composition courses, so the selected text must help students learn this vital skill, too. In short, teaching composition involves the teaching of reading, writing, and critical thinking. An instructor needs a text designed for that task.The Main Event: Readings for Writing and Critical Thinkingis a thematic reader that meets the needs of freshman English and composition courses in which reading, writing, and critical thinking form the core of the instruction. The reader allows instructors to explore a particular subject of relevance to today's students. In each chapter, there is a featured essay, called the Main Event Reading. The Main Event Reading is the work on which that chapter's instruction on reading, writing, and critical thinking is based, giving all lessons a common ground. The Main Event Reading is followed by the writing assignment. The writing assignment in each chapter covers a different.type of writing, both academic and practical. In this way, instructors can build a course with confidence, knowing their students will gain experience writing for a variety of situations.Building a course withThe Main Eventis easy. An advantage of the Main Event format is that instructors can choose which types of writing assignments they wish to cover and feel comfortable that the pedagogy in each chapter is tailored to suit the needs of each writing situation. The writing lessons are practical, and each chapter presents a sample essay written for each particular type of writing situation. The themes in this text meet both the academic requirements of freshman English and composition courses and the interests of many college students.Instructors have a choice of twelve thematic chapters, with twelve different types of writing assignments. The chapters are essentially self-contained, so instructors can teach any selection of the chapters. To design a course, instructors can choose the themes they want to teach, confident that the writing lessons, assignments, and readings will provide good opportunities for learning. Because the instruction is based on the Main Event Reading, instructors and students are provided with a context for each writing lesson. Beyond each Main Event Reading, there are six to eight additional readings in each chapter. The text provides many opportunities to provide students with good reading, writing, and critical thinking instruction.Critical thinking skills are an increasingly vital aspect of all college classrooms, and in college writing classes, these skills may be used to analyze readings and to produce written materials, such as essays and term papers. Consequently,The Main Eventhelps with this process by not only providing critical thinking questions for each reading in the text, but also by integrating critical thinking skills into the writing lessons. Critical thinking is not separate from but an essential element of good writing. FEATURES OFTHE MAIN EVENTThe Main Eventbegins with an Introduction to Reading that covers the basics of reading college-level material. Included in the introduction is instruction on reading for meaning, highlighting, separating facts and inferences, and analyzing the credibility of an author. The Introduction to Reading provides students with the thinking tools needed to succeed in critically analyzing the readings. We highly rec

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The Main Event Readings for Writing and Critical Thinking

The Main Event Readings for Writing and Critical Thinking

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