Our Times: Readings from Recent Periodicals - Softcover

Robert-atwan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312101996 ISBN 13: 9780312101992

Publisher: Bedford/St Martins, 1995

Synopsis

Like its best-selling predecessors, the fifth edition of Our Times is built entirely around very contemporary selections from a wide variety of very recent periodicals on intriguing topics of very current interest -- more than ninety percent published since 1996 . With a new profile of the Class of 2000 based on UCLA's national survey of college freshmen, the fifth edition of Our Times does even more to get students talking about where they stand in relation to their peers as well as to professional writers. And with plenty of selections that can be used as models and an even stronger focus on writing in the unique apparatus, Our Times shows students how to turn lively discussion about personal and public issues into effective writing.

About this title

About the Author:

ROBERT ATWAN founded the Best American Essays series, for which he serves as series editor. His essays and reviews have appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Atlantic Monthly, and Kenyon Review. For Bedford Books, he has edited Ten on Ten: Major Essayists on Recurring Themes and America Now: Short Readings from Recent Periodicals, now in its second edition, and he has coedited, with Donald McQuade, The Writer's Presence: A Pool of Essays, also in its second edition, and, with Jon Roberts, Left, Right, and Center: Voices from across the Political Spectrum.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bedford/St Martins
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0312101996
• ISBN 13: 9780312101992
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 544