More guidance for critical thinking and reading. A new section in Chapter 4 helps students approach texts of all kinds with a critical eye, providing advice for evaluating information, understanding connotation and euphemism, analyzing tone, and looking for omissions that affect meaning. In each assignment chapter, the critical-thinking sections have been expanded and new apparatus after the readings focuses on critical-thinking issues both in general and in relation to the chapter’s rhetorical pattern.
New coverage of analyzing visuals. A new section in Chapter 4 offers guidance in responding to visual texts such as ads, photographs, and graphics, and it provides exercises to give students practice in this increasingly important skill. One reading in each assignment chapter now includes a visual that students are asked to analyze.
25 new readings, featuring 6 by students. Among the new readings by students is an essay modeling APA documentation style. Many of the new reading selections are on topics of Particular interest to a college audience:
• the simultaneous rise and decline of civility in American life
• addiction to the Internet and to “distracted driving”
• how to interview for a job
• a defense of multitasking paired with advice on how and why to stop it
New coverage of online presentations and business writing. New chapter 26 offers guidance for creating PowerPoint and Web-based presentations along with guidelines and models for writing résumés, job applications, memos, and business emails.
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