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The McGraw-Hill reader : issues across the disciplines / [edited by] Gilbert H. Muller.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Boston : McGraw-Hill, [2006]Copyright date: ©2006Edition: ninth editionDescription: xxxv, 827, [25] pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 007296295X (student ed. : pbk. : acidfree paper)
  • 0073217476 (instructor's examination copy : pbk. : acidfree paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 808.0427 22 M.
Contents:
Overview of college writing: Critical thinking, reading, and writing; Reading and writing effective arguments; Writing a research paper -- Issues across the discipline: Education and society, how, what, and why do we learn?; Family life and gender roles, how do we become who we are?; History, culture, and civilization, are we citizens of the world?; Government, politics, and social justice, how do we decide what is fair?; Business and economics, how do we earn our keep?; Media and popular culture, what is the message?; Literature and the arts, why do they matter?; Philosophy, ethics, and religion, what do we believe?; Health and medicine, what are the challenges?; Nature and the environment, how do we relate to the natural world?; Science and technology, what can science teach us? -- Glossary of terms.
Summary: [This book] present[s] classic and contemporary essays, works that span various ages, cultures, and disciplines, providing students with a range of quality prose works ... This anthology alerts students to the vast and varied pleasures of reading and writing, while offering them opportunities to experience numerous perspectives on academic discourse. Addressing the abiding national interest in core liberal arts programs, inter-disciplinary issues, and multicultural perspectives, this [book] offer[s] students and instructors a full range of quality prose models important to writing courses, reading sequences, and key undergraduate disciplines.-Pref.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Overview of college writing: Critical thinking, reading, and writing; Reading and writing effective arguments; Writing a research paper --
Issues across the discipline: Education and society, how, what, and why do we learn?; Family life and gender roles, how do we become who we are?; History, culture, and civilization, are we citizens of the world?; Government, politics, and social justice, how do we decide what is fair?; Business and economics, how do we earn our keep?; Media and popular culture, what is the message?; Literature and the arts, why do they matter?; Philosophy, ethics, and religion, what do we believe?; Health and medicine, what are the challenges?; Nature and the environment, how do we relate to the natural world?; Science and technology, what can science teach us? --
Glossary of terms.

[This book] present[s] classic and contemporary essays, works that span various ages, cultures, and disciplines, providing students with a range of quality prose works ... This anthology alerts students to the vast and varied pleasures of reading and writing, while offering them opportunities to experience numerous perspectives on academic discourse. Addressing the abiding national interest in core liberal arts programs, inter-disciplinary issues, and multicultural perspectives, this [book] offer[s] students and instructors a full range of quality prose models important to writing courses, reading sequences, and key undergraduate disciplines.-Pref.

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