This resource contains all of the pedagogy for the text-a wealth of materials for use in class discussions, writing instruction, and professional development. The Instructor's Manual also contains an essay on teaching students to read textbook chapters, a detailed discussion on critical thinking, and transparency masters with examples of outlining.
Critical Reading and Writing is a fully introductory, interactive textbook that explores the power relations at work in and behind the texts we encounter in our everyday lives.
At the heart of the book is first-hand classroom research by the author as both teacher and researcher, demonstrating an innovative research methodology and empirical evidence to support a critical reading pedagogy.
Appropriate for courses in college reading, this text is a four-genre anthology - poetry, short stories, essays, and textbook chapters. New pieces from ethnically diverse authors have been added throughout the book.
Highlights The text goes beyond the standard "reading comprehension plus vocabulary" approach.
The essential guide to looking at literature with your own two eyes.
Critical Reading and Thinking Skills: Introduction
Adapting the methods of the much admired and extremely successful composition anthology Ways of Reading, this brief reader offers eight substantial essays about visual culture (illustrated with evocative photographs) along with demanding ...
[1] Based on your reading of Anton Chekhov's “Gooseberries,” write an essay in which you defend, challenge, or qualify the following observations by Virginia Woolf. As evidence, use specific references to the text of the story.
Each chapter includes a guide to reading and a guide to writing each type of prose.
Appropriate for Introduction to Literature courses, second-semester Freshman Composition courses. This new text takes an interpretations approach to literature and its elements. Covering the genres of short fiction, poetry, and...