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PublisherOxford University Press, Incorporated

ISBN-100199947228

ISBN-139780199947225

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Number of Pages512 Pages

Publication NameCulture : a Reader for Writers

LanguageEnglish

SubjectComposition & Creative Writing

Publication Year2013

TypeTextbook

AuthorJohn Mauk

Subject AreaLanguage Arts & Disciplines

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.8 in

Item Weight89.2 Oz

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Intended AudienceCollege Audience

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Table Of Content1. Work: What We Do"Why Being a Jerk at Work Pays" Daily Beast"Why Americans Won't Do Dirty Jobs" Bloomberg Businessweek"White Collared: When Did Our Jobs Turn Into a Joke?" Utne Reader"I Go On Running""In the Valley of the Shadow of Debt""Of Apprentices and Interns" Lapham's Quarterly"This, That, and the American Dream" Utne Reader"Blue-Collar Brilliance" American Scholar2. Consumerism: How We Spend"Freshly Minted" The Smart Set"The Rural Grocery Crisis" Daily Yonder"How to Pick the Perfect Brand Name" Fast Company"Haiti Doesn't Need Your Old T-Shirt" Foreign Policy"Honey Buns Sweeten Life for Florida Prisoners" St. Petersburg Times"The New Science Behind Your Spending Addiction" The Daily Beast"Sorting Out Santa""The Resentment Machine" The New Inquiry"Sparks Will Fly" Aeon3. Language: What We Mean"The Church of Please and Thank You" This"The Science of Sarcasm? Yeah, Right" Smithsonian"Revolution in a Can" Foreign Policy"Thoughts on a Word: Fine" The New Inquiry"Never Say, "Never Again" Foreign Policy"OMG, ETC" More Intelligent Life"Art and Buddhism: Looking for What's True"4. Social Media: How We Communicate"What It Means Today To Be 'Connected'" Harvard Business Review"Living Within Social Networks""Lying, Cheating, and Virtual Relationships" Global Virtue Ethics Review"What I Didn't Write About When I Wrote About Quitting Facebook" The Morning News"How Twitter Saved the Octothorpe" National Post"Hiding Behind The Screen" The New Atlantis"What Defines a Meme?" Smithsonian5. Identity: Who We Are"The Picture for Men: Superhero or Slacker" Pacific Standard"Bathing Suit Shopping With Annette Kellerman, the Australian Mermaid" The Hairpin"Illegal Aliens""Despite the Controversy, We're Glad We Asked" Chronicle of Higher Education"Is Your Campus Diverse?" Chronicle of Higher Education"Reinventing the Veil" FT Magazine6. Entertainment: What We Watch, How We Listen"Fallon and Letterman and the Invisible Late Show Audience" The New Republic"Lies Hollywood Told Us: Love and Romance Edition" The Atlantic Wire"The Fall of the Female Protagonist in Kids' Movies" Persephone"The Shocking Radicalism of 'Brave'" American Prospect"The Sound of Capitalism" Prospect7. Nature: How We Share the Planet"Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" Excerpt from From a Wooden Canoe"Some Words for the Wild" from Tough Little Beauties"Bug-Affairs" London Review of Books"Mother Nature's Sons" N+1"Fly On Wall Sees Things It Wishes It Hadn't" Scientific American"Two Cheers for Nature" Chronicle of Higher Education"Evolve" Orion8. Politics: How We Govern"The 99 Percent Organize Themselves" The Nation"When Bankers Rule the World" Yes Magazine"The Transnational Economy" The Chicago Reader"A Pagan's Response to the Affordable Healthcare Act" Dirt Worship"We Stop the Next Aurora Not With Gun Control But With Better Mental Health Treatment" Daily Beast"Letter from Governor Janice Brewer to President Barack Obama""The Illogical World of US Immigration"9. War: How We Fight"What the Water Dragged In" New York Times"U.S. Soldier Afghan Rampage Tears at Our National Soul" Daily Beast"Occupy Wounded Knee" The Atlantic"A Six-Point Plan for Global War" TomDispatch"'Kinetic' Connections" Visual Thesaurus"War Is Betrayal" Boston Review"Post-Conflict Potter" Foreign PolicyAppendix: Researching and Writing About Culture

SynopsisRead. Write. Oxford.Culture: A Reader for Writers presents work from a broad spectrum of writers who are adapting to cultural trends. It takes on key issues including work, consumerism, language, social media, identity, entertainment, nature, politics, technology, and war. Ranging from defending the status quo to embracing uncertainty, the writers give voice to the discomfort and hope that accompanies change. The articles embody a range of responses demonstrated by various writing styles, political leanings, and grammatical conventions from publications outside of the U.S. By showing the various ways in which people express themselves about shared issues, the reader encourages students to understand how similar we are despite cultural differences. The photo galleries nestled between chapters give shape and imagery to the subjects discussed in the readings. Developed for the freshman composition course, Culture: A Reader for Writers includes an interdisciplinary mix of public, academic, and scientific reading selections, providing students with the rhetorical knowledge and compositional skills required to participate effectively in academic and public conversations about culture and change.Culture: A Reader for Writers is part of a series of brief single-topic readers from Oxford University Press designed for today's college writing courses. Each reader in this series approaches a topic of contemporary conversation from multiple perspectives., Culture: A Reader for Writers presents work from a broad spectrum of writers who are grappling with the cultural trends around them. Some defend the status quo, some wonder what to make of new gadgets, some embrace uncertainty, and others celebrate inevitable shifts that will resonate for years to come. Whether the topic is working conditions, student loans, movie protagonists, or soldiers returning from war, the writers give voice to the discomfort and hope that accompanies change. And more importantly, they show the writhing and wonder that makes culture itself readable. Each chapter takes on a particularly urgent subject of contemporary conversation: work, consumerism, language, social media, identity, entertainment, nature, politics, and war. The photo galleries give shape and imagery to the subjects discussed in the readings., Read. Write. Oxford. Culture: A Reader for Writers presents work from a broad spectrum of writers who are grappling with the cultural trends around them. Some defend the status quo, some wonder what to make of new gadgets, some embrace uncertainty, and others celebrate inevitable shifts that will resonate for years to come. Whether the topic is working conditions, student loans, movie protagonists, or soldiers returning from war, the writers give voice to the discomfort and hope that accompanies change. And more importantly, they show the writhing and wonder that makes culture itself readable. Each chapter takes on a particularly urgent subject of contemporary conversation: work, consumerism, language, social media, identity, entertainment, nature, politics, and war. The photo galleries give shape and imagery to the subjects discussed in the readings. Developed for the freshman composition course, Culture: A Reader for Writers includes an interdisciplinary mix of public, academic, and scientific reading selections, providing students with the rhetorical knowledge and compositional skills required to participate effectively in academic and public conversations about culture and change. Culture: A Reader for Writers is part of a series of brief single-topic readers from Oxford University Press designed for today's college writing courses. Each reader in this series approaches a topic of contemporary conversation from multiple perspectives.

LC Classification NumberPE1417.M45655 2014