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 | Cultural Attractions/Cultural Distractions: Critical Literacy in Contemporary Contexts Product# 460679690 Selling for $50 "This Popular Culture and Mass Media reader provides a range of readings and images from contemporary periodicals and more scholarly pieces about the role of mass media and technology in society. This text encourages readers to examine varying perspectives about attractions and distractions of today's popular culture, technology, and mass-mediated messages in their personal and social lives and come to their own conclusions. Readings and activities organized around classroom, media, and community. Allows readers to see more than an “expert opinion”, prompting them to form their own views. Readings and images revolve around mass media, popular arts, and technology. Sparks and holds readers' interest, and allows for reader “expertise” in discussions and assignments. Chapter on virtual community revolves around the newest technology of writing and literacy. Helps readers develop computer literacy skills in both the production and consumption of on-line materials. Offers readers opportunities to practice their cultural literacy within their own communities. Offers readers online, web, and Internet writing assignments. Varied topics, writers, and issues represent a cross-section of current cultural readings. Appropriate for readers interested in the humanities, American cultural studies, and journalism." |
 | Plain English Please: A Rhetoric Product# 460683890 Selling for $69.63 "Striking a friendly, informal tone, this popular rhetoric illustrates that good writing comes from good ideas carefully controlled and communicated. Exercises take students step-by-step from finding a topic and gathering material through drafting, revising, and editing. This fifth edition includes an appendix on writing a research paper in the MLA style." |
 | The Blair Handbook Product# 460684538 Selling for $44 "FOR STUDENTS: Diagnostic Modules contain a variety of exercises and features designed to help students with self-study. These modules include: essay questions that help strengthen critical thinking skills quizzes that supply instant scoring and feedback on student mastery of grammar concepts built-in e-mail routing option that gives students the ability to forward essay responses and graded quizzes to their instructors. Web Destinations and Net Search options provide the opportunity to expand upon the information presented in the text. Communication Modules include tools such as Live Chat and Message Boards to facilitate online collaboration and communication. Online Text References link students directly to the handbook content via the exercises. Students can also search the core handbook topics online for immediate help while writing on the computer. FOR INSTRUCTORS: Syllabus Manager ™ tool provides an easy-to-follow process for creating, posting, and revising a syllabus online that is accessible from any point within the Companion Website ™. This resource allows instructors and students to communicate both inside and outside the classroom at the click of a button." |
 | Writing about the Humanities Product# 460765585 Selling for $22.2 "This brief, practical guide explores the many aspects involved in writing about works of art, literature, and music. It details the multiple approaches to artworks (responding, interpreting, evaluating); the steps of interpretation (observing, connecting, inferring, and concluding); the writing process (drafting, organizing, revising, editing, proofreading, comparing); and the research process, including interaction with today's electronic media tools. Includes reproductions of works of literature and art. Writing samples are included. The first half of the book covers general issues in writing about the humanities disciplines, including how to respond to, interpret, and evaluate different types of artworks. The second half focuses more specifically on writing in literature and the arts as well as the particulars of writing with, and documenting, sources. For anyone interested in writing about art, music, and literature." |