Patterns Across Cultures - Softcover

Hirschberg, Stuart; Hirschberg, Terry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1133311075 ISBN 13: 9781133311072

Publisher: Cengage Learning, 2013

Synopsis

PATTERNS ACROSS CULTURES is a rhetorically organized reader driven by the principle that as the world gets smaller, students should be exposed to a wide variety of cultural perspectives--both from within the United States and from other countries. Many of the reading selections in the text are by writers who have never been anthologized, providing an invigorating alternative to traditional readers. Post-reading features for each selection, including questions on author's "Meaning," "Technique," and "Language," help students examine how the selection utilizes both the primary mode and other modes as well; calls out key vocabulary terms; highlights thematic connections between selections; and provides prompts for both personal and critical writing. To assist those instructors who prefer a thematic framework for discussing the selections, a thematic Table of Contents and Thematic Links questions connecting each essay with one or more others on similar themes will provide inspiration for theme-based discussions and writing assignments. Available with InfoTrac Student Collections http://gocengage.com/infotrac.

About this title

About the Author:

Stuart Hirschberg is an Associate Professor in the Department of Engish at Rutgers: The State University of New Jersey, Newark. He has written scholarly works on Yeats and on Ted Hughes, and with co-author Terry Hirschberg, has authored eleven college textbooks. His research interests include cross-cultural and multicultural studies, visual rhetoric, and popular culture.

Terry Hirschberg has written eleven college textbooks with Stuart Hirschberg in the field of rhetoric and composition.

Review:

"If you are looking for a composition text that not only talks about critical thinking, critical reading, and critical writing but that also shows students how to do through practice, then this is the text for you."

"PATTERNS is an excellent text for teaching about diversity: diversity within and between cultures and diversity of viewpoints."

About this edition

• Publisher: Cengage Learning
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1133311075
• ISBN 13: 9781133311072
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 592