The Presence of Others Voices and Images That Call for Response
ISBN: 9780312464394 | 0312464398
Edition: 5thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
Pub. Date: 1/2/2008
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Presenting widely varying opinions on provocative topics,The Presence of Othersinvites every student to enter a dialogue with the readings and with accompanying commentaries from the editors, student writers, and experts in other disciplines and fields. Noted scholars Andrea A. Lunsford and John J. Ruszkiewicz whose takes on political and academic culture differ markedly have selected a range of visual and written texts that cover issues of importance in academic and public life, from education to ethics, science and technology to American cult... MORE
1. On Reading and Thinking Critically
2. From Reading to Writing
Jennifer E. Smith, Questioning the Promises of Science [student essay]
]Rudy Rubio, The Gender Gap [student essay]
3. Education
John Henry Newman, The Idea of a University
Mission Statements from The University of Minnesota; Morehouse College; The Evergreen State College; California State University, Monterey Bay; ]Berea College; and Thomas Aquinas College
Jon Spayde, ... MORE
2. From Reading to Writing
Jennifer E. Smith, Questioning the Promises of Science [student essay]
]Rudy Rubio, The Gender Gap [student essay]
3. Education
John Henry Newman, The Idea of a University
Mission Statements from The University of Minnesota; Morehouse College; The Evergreen State College; California State University, Monterey Bay; ]Berea College; and Thomas Aquinas College
Jon Spayde, ... MORE
ANDREA A. LUNSFORD is Louise Hewlett Nixon Professor of English and Director of the Program in Writing and Rhetoric at Stanford University and also teaches at the Bread Loaf School of English. A past chair of CCCC, she has won the major publication awards in both the CCCC and MLA. For Bedford/St. Martin’s she is the author of The St. Martin’s Handbook, Sixth Edition (2007), Easy Writer, Third Edition (2006), and The Everyday Writer, Third Edition (2004); Everything’s an Argument, Fourth Edition (2007) with John J. Ruszkiewicz; and Everything’s an Argument (with Readings), Fourth Edition (2007) with John J. Ruszkiewicz and Keith Walters.
JOHN J. RUSZKIEWICZ is professor of rhetoric and composition and director of the division of rhetoric and composition at the University of Texas at Austin. For Bedford/St. Martin’s, he is the author of Everything’s an Argument and Everything’s an Argument with Readings (2007), with Andrea Lunsford and Keith Walters.
JOHN J. RUSZKIEWICZ is professor of rhetoric and composition and director of the division of rhetoric and composition at the University of Texas at Austin. For Bedford/St. Martin’s, he is the author of Everything’s an Argument and Everything’s an Argument with Readings (2007), with Andrea Lunsford and Keith Walters.
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