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Across Cultures : A Reader for Writers by Sheena Gillespie and Robert Becker (2010, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherPearson Education
ISBN-100205780377
ISBN-139780205780372
eBay Product ID (ePID)4551983
Product Key Features
Number of Pages480 Pages
Publication NameAcross Cultures : a Reader for Writers
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2010
SubjectRhetoric, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Composition & Creative Writing, Readers
FeaturesNew Edition
TypeTextbook
AuthorSheena Gillespie, Robert Becker
Subject AreaLanguage Arts & Disciplines, Social Science
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1.3 in
Item Weight22.4 Oz
Item Length8.9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Edition Number8
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
LCCN2010-000734
Dewey Edition22
Dewey Decimal808/.0427
Table Of ContentContents Rhetorical Contents Preface for the Teacher Preface for the Student Chapter 1: Writing, the "Writing Process," and You Literacy Narratives Composing Your Own Literacy Narrative Chapter 2: Family and Community How the Wicked Sons Were Duped, Indian Folklore People Like Us, David Brooks Changing My Name after Sixty Years, Tom Rosenberg Where the Land is Stepped on, the Sky..., Trikartikaningsih Byas We Kissed the Tomato and Then the Sky, Dana Wehle Focusing on Friends, Steve Tesich Treasures, Mahwash Shoaib Two Lives, Shirley Geok-lin Lim For My Indian Daughter, Lewis (Johnson) Sawaquat The Night I was Nobody, John Edgar Wideman The Joy of Reading and Writing: Superman and Me, Sherman Alexie One Voice, Susan G. Madera Solidarity, Charles Neuman Chapter 3: Gender Issues The Wise Daughter, Swahili Folktale Apollo and Daphne, Greek Legend Shrouded in Contradiction, Gelareh Asayesh To Be a Man, Gary Soto Man-Made Misery, Thomas M. Colicino Why Are Gay Men So Feared? Dennis Altman Gay, Anna Quindlen Why Do We Hate Our Bodies? Gillianne N. Duncan The Gravity of Mark Beuhrle, Jason Barone He and I, Natalia Ginzburg The Storm, Kate Chopin Chapter 4: Education The Bar of Gold A View from the Bridge Cherokee Paul McDonald Mute in an English-Only World, Chang-Rae Lee A Letter to a Child Like Me, José Torres Always Living in Spanish, Marjorie Agosin The Mistress of Make Believe, Doris Viloria Dropout to Graduate, Laura Kuehn The Fender-Bender, Ramón "Tianguis" Pérez When the Simulated Patient Is For Real, Taneisha Grant Multiple Dimensions of Love: From the Artist's Eyes, Giovanni J. Gelardi from Poets in the Kitchen, Paule Marshall My Pen Writes in Blue and White, Vincent Cremona Chapter 5: Work My Young Men Shall Never Work, Chief Smohalla (as told by Herbert J. Spinden) Life Stories, Michael Dorris Why We Work, Andrew Curry Essential Work by John Patterson Black Hair, Gary Soto Work Hard-Quit Right! Thomas M. Colicino Working Like a Dog, Charles Neuman Forty-Five a Month, R.K. Narayan Free and Equal, Lalita Gandbhir
Edition DescriptionNew Edition
SynopsisDesigned to offer an appealing anthology where there is an increased interest in connections between and among cultures, Across Cultures, strives to promote understanding of diverse cultures. The book advocates acceptance of a diversity of voices, while suggesting ways to probe the correspondences, interrelationships, and mutual benefits of that diversity. The selections cover a great variety of cultural facets both in the readings and selected visuals that appear at the end of each chapter. Throughout the text, readers are encouraged to draw connections between and among readings through "Correspondence" questions that accompany each selection, thus developing their critical thinking skills., Designed to offer an appealing anthology where there is an increased interest in connections between and among cultures, Across Cultures, strives to promote understanding of diverse cultures among students. The book advocates acceptance of the diversity of voices, while suggesting ways to probe the correspondences, interrelationships, and mutual benefits of that diversity. The selections cover a great variety of cultural facets. For example, the readings in "Work," the subject of Chapter 5, lead students to consider related subjects such as affirmative action, immigration, cultural displacement, family narratives, and definitions of success. Throughout the text, students are encouraged to draw connections between and among readings through "Correspondence" questions that accompany each selection, thus developing their critical thinking skills., Designed to offer an appealing anthology where there is an increased interest in connections between and among cultures, Across Cultures, strives to promote understanding of diverse cultures among students. The book advocates acceptance of a diversity of voices, while suggesting ways to probe the correspondences, interrelationships, and mutual benefits of that diversity. The selections cover a great variety of cultural facets both in the readings and selected visuals that appear at the end of each chapter. Throughout the text, students are encouraged to draw connections between and among readings through "Correspondence" questions that accompany each selection, thus developing their critical thinking skills.
LC Classification NumberPE1417.A27 2010
