CONTROVERSY: ISSUES FOR READING AND WRITING (INSTRUCTOR'S EDITION) - Softcover

Pula, Judith J.; Edwards, Audrey T.; Dermott, R. Allan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0131891456 ISBN 13: 9780131891456

Publisher: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2004

Synopsis

This innovative reader helps readers develop a strong cognitive approach to critical reading and writing by challenging them to express their own ideas on controversial issues and to respond to those of others on the same issues. It features opposing, accessible readings on sixteen current topics—with questions to stimulate application of prior knowledge, critical response, and persuasive writing—and with a focus on developing an active, questioning, skeptical approach toward ideas in print. The volume introduces the process of critical reading and writing, and provides issues for writing including the juvenile justice system, should witnesses become involved?, should adoption records be confidential?, aggression in sports, affirmative action in college admissions, obedience, controlling our own fates, rap as a cultural force, welfare vs. workfare, human cloning and human rights, the right to bear arms, sex education, should high school be required?, the effects of technology on society, pornography, and is freedom worth dying for? For those interested in improving their critical reading and writing skills.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson Prentice Hall
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0131891456
• ISBN 13: 9780131891456
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3