Overview

This brief edition of a groundbreaking textbook addresses the need for college students to develop critical reading, writing, and thinking skills for self-defense in the contentious arena of American civic rhetoric. Designed for first-year or more advanced composition and critical thinking courses, it is one-third shorter than the original edition, more affordable for students, and easier for teachers to cover in a semester or quarter. It incorporates up-to-date new readings and analysis of controversies like the growing inequality of wealth in America and the debates in the 2008 presidential campaign, expressed in opposing viewpoints from the political left and right. Exercises help students understand the ideological positions and rhetorical patterns that underlie such opposing views. Widely debated issues of whether objectivity is possible and whether there is a liberal or conservative bias in news and entertainment media, as well as in education itself, are foregrounded as topics for rhetorical analysis.

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Author:   Donald Lazere ,  Anne-Marie Womack
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Inc
Imprint:   Routledge
Edition:   2nd edition
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   0.725kg
ISBN:  

9781594517105

ISBN 10:   159451710
Pages:   398
Publication Date:   30 January 2009
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Replaced By:   9780415793667
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Lazere has given us a thoughtful, beautifully organized, and eminently user-friendly book that enables teachers to [give] their students a way in to some of the most important and contentious public controversies of our time.

The new edition of Donald Lazere s Reading and Writing for Civic Literacy improves an already excellent book. It is now of manageable size without sacrifice of the parts that make it an essential addition to the field of texts aimed at the improvement of critical thinking. In my current work of revising a course on the culture wars for inclusion in Hunter College s General Education Requirement, Lazere s book greatly appeals because it addresses the theme of civic literacy from a critical analysis perspective two main themes of the course. The book is suitable for Philosophy courses as well as an English curriculum. I recommend it to anyone who wants to raise the level of critical thinking of our students by immersing them in our current forms of life.

Author Information

Donald Lazere is Professor Emeritus at California Polytechnic State University and is the editor of American Media and Mass Culture: Left Perspectives.

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