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PublisherOxford University Press, Incorporated

ISBN-100199947465

ISBN-139780199947461

eBay Product ID (ePID)171771654

Product Key Features

Number of Pages432 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameIdentity : a Reader for Writers

SubjectGeneral, Composition & Creative Writing

Publication Year2013

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaLanguage Arts & Disciplines, Psychology

AuthorJohn Scenters-Zapico

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight89.2 Oz

Item Length5.5 in

Item Width8.1 in

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Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN2013-037246

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal808/.0427

Table Of Content1. What's in a Name? The Role of Language and Identity"Getting Called Fag." Digital Archive of Literacy Narratives"Hispanics, Latinos, or Americanos: The Evolution of Identity." Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology"We Are Palestinians." NY Times"The Names: A Memoir.""Why should married women change their names? Let men change theirs." The Guardian"Mother Tongue." The Threepenny Review"Who Owns Global English." Baron's blog "The Web of Language."2. Where Are You From? Notions of Identity and Place"How to Be Black" NPR"America." Poem from Howl"Deconstructing America.""Why Americans Hate this "Immigration" Debate." American Thinker"Home at Last." Edited collection from Brooklyn Was Mine"Unravelling the Social Network: Theory and Research.""Rhode Island." State by State3. Where Did You Go to School? Education in America"Could Have Done Better." Digital Archive of Literacy Narratives"I Just Want to Be Average.""Living With Myths: Undergraduate Education in America." Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning"Education Pays: Education Pays in Higher Earnings and Lower Unemployment."Bureau of Labor Statistics, Current Population Survey (Chart) Brown v. Board of Education"Learning to Read.""Spic in English!" Bootstraps"Achievement of Desire.""Project Classroom Makeover." Now You See It4. What Do You Do? Work in America"Work, In Six Words." NPR"The Most Praised Generation Goes to Work." Wall Street Journal"Digital Natives Invade the Workplace." Pew Internet and American Life Project"Fifteen Years on the Bottom Rung." NY TimesStuds Terkel"We Are Not All Created Equal: The Truth About the American Class System." Esquire"The Happiest And Unhappiest Jobs In America." Forbes"Working Identity." Acting White: Rethinking Race in "Post-Racial" America5. Whom Do You Love? Romance and Relationships in America"Finding The 'Liar' In All Of Us." NPR"Internet Cheating: In the Clicks of a Mouse, a Betrayal." NY Times"Sex, Lies, and Conversation." Washington Post"Phaedrus" (Selected excerpts)"Is Sex Interesting?" Harper's Magazine"Farewell, June Cleaver: "Non-Traditional Families" and Economic Opportunity." In These Times"Sibling Rivalry Grows Up." Wall Street Journal"Anthem." AGNI Online6. Where Do You Draw the Line? Privacy, Socializing, and Life Without Boundaries"Don't Trip Over Your Digital Footprint." NPR"How Computers Change the Way We Think." Chronicle of Higher Education"The Way We Live Now: I Tweet Therefore I am." NY Times"East Meets Tweet." Vanity Fair"When Will our Email Betray Us? An Email Privacy Primer in Light of the Petraeus Saga." Electronic Frontier Foundation"How Facebook is Redefining Privacy" Time"10 Reasons Why I Avoid Social Networking Services." TechRepublic

SynopsisRead. Write. Oxford.Identity: A Reader for Writers focuses on the essential topic of identity as it relates to culture, rhetoric, and the multiple modes of expression that are increasingly common in today's multilingual society. Each chapter in this reader asks students foundational questions about identity. These questions include: Where are you from? Where did you go to school? What do you do for work? And whom do you love? While these questions appear easy to answer, students will learn as they work through the readings that their answers are linked to meaningful themes including language, nationality, labor, education, personal relationships, and privacy. Developed for the freshman composition course, Identity: 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 discussions about critical literacy, cultural studies, and the writing process.Identity: 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., Read. Write. Oxford. Identity: A Reader for Writers focuses on the essential topic of identity as it relates to culture, rhetoric, and the multiple modes of expression that are increasingly common in today's multilingual society. Each chapter in this reader asks students foundational questions about identity. These questions include: Where are you from? Where did you go to school? What do you do for work? And whom do you love? While these questions appear easy to answer, students will learn as they work through the readings that their answers are linked to meaningful themes including language, nationality, labor, education, personal relationships, and privacy. Developed for the freshman composition course, Identity: 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 discussions about critical literacy, cultural studies, and the writing process. Identity: 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., Identity: A Reader for Writers focuses on the essential topic of identity as it relates to culture, rhetoric, and the multiple modes of expression that are increasingly common in today's multilingual society. Each chapter in this reader asks students foundational questions about identity. These questions include: Where are you from? Where did you go to school? What do you do for work? And whom do you love? While these questions appear easy to answer, students will learn as they work through the readings that their answers are linked to meaningful themes including language, nationality, labor, education, personal relationships, and privacy.

LC Classification NumberPE1417.S357 2014