America Now: Short Readings from Recent Periodicals - Softcover

Atwan, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1457687429 ISBN 13: 9781457687426

Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2015

Synopsis

America Now makes it easy for you to get brief, accessible, and thought-provoking essays into your classroom, with trustworthy, reliable pedagogy and an expert reader's knowledge of what works in the classroom.

As series editor for Best American Essays, Robert Atwan constantly scours a wide range of periodicals, bringing to America Now an unrivaled focus on the best writing of today. Instructors tell us that their students want to respond to the essays in the book, and they praise the high-quality reading and writing instruction, critical thinking and reading questions, and model student essays that help them do so.

 Every reading in America Now is new to this edition, making it truly a book for today's composition course. And now with the new edition, you can meet students where they are: online. To package LaunchPad Solo for Readers and Writers free with America Now, use 978-1-319-01552-7.

About this title

About the Author:

Robert Atwan is director of The Blue Hills Writing Institute at Curry College and the series editor of the annual Best American Essays, which he founded in 1985. His essays, reviews, and critical articles have appeared in theNew York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Atlantic Monthly, Iowa Review, Denver Quarterly, Kenyon Review, River Teeth, and many other publications. For Bedford/St. Martin’s, he has also editedTen on Ten: Major Essayists on Recurring Themes (1992); Our Times (1998); andConvergences (2009). He has coedited (with Jon Roberts) Left, Right, and Center: Voices from Across the Political Spectrum (1996), and is coeditor with Donald McQuade ofThe Writer’s Presence (2009).

About this edition

• Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1457687429
• ISBN 13: 9781457687426
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416