Addressing the continuing interest in liberal arts issues, interdisciplinary themes, multicultural perspectives, and critical thinking, The McGraw-Hill Reader provides students with a full range of quality prose works spanning various ages, cultures, and subjects.
99 Essays, 32 New.The McGraw-Hill Reader includes quality prose works by the best writers from the past and present. New authors for this edition include Peter Elbow, Molly Ivins, David Gelernter, Natalie Angier, Ishmael Reed, Ronald Takaki, Esther Dyson, Amy Tan, and Alice Walker.
A Full Chapter on Argument. Chapter 2, Reading and Writing Effective Arguments, offers students guidelines for reading arguments critically and writing strong arguments of their own. It provides five professional readings, including classic and contemporary essays on the death penalty and two additional essays for analysis.
Classic and Contemporary Visuals. Each chapter offers paired images related to the chapter subject, including photographs, paintings, and political cartoons, along with a critical thinking activity that prompts students to compare and evaluate visuals.
Paired "Classic & Contemporary” Essays. Now appearing at the beginning of the chapters, each pair presents an older essay with a more recent one so that students can compare the ideas, follow the history of contemporary debates, and gain new perspectives on issues and the ways in which they develop over time.
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