Two new short stories are provided at the beginning of the book--"The First Day" by Edward P. Jones and "The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin
Online Learning Centers: Scattered throughout the text are boxes containing critical thinking exercises and exercises for online research called OLCs, Online Learning Centers
Practical Applications in Evaluating Arguments chapter includes discussion about evaluating websites, instruction in evaluating advertisements and public service announcements, political cartoons, and political speeches
Multiple Opinions on a Single Theme now includes two editorials on the theme of the war on drugs and four editorials and a political cartoon representing a variety of perspectives on the immigration debate and spectrum of political opinion includes various opinions--liberal, conservative, and libertarian and includes a revised section on bias
Approximately 50 percent of the readings are new some of the writers include: Elizabeth Kolbert, Jon Lee Anderson, Sam Harris, James Sullivan, Ruth Reichl, J.D. Salinger, Lynne Cox, Richard Selzer, Luis Alberto, Rebecca Mead, Alexander McCall Smith, Malcolm Gladwell, Ernest Hemingway, H.G. Bissinger, Khaled Hussein, Jon Stewart, Judith Ortiz Cofer, and Barack Obama
Making Accurate Inferences now includes a discussion of how to make inferences in literature using the first paragraphs of the classic novel Catcher in the Rye
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