More variety of selections, with eleven rich new readings—several of them brief—by leading writers and intellectuals. New pieces include:
- Allison Bechdel,
"Ordinary Devoted Mother": In an excerpt from her graphic memoir, Bechdel considers the forces that distance and the ties that bind mother and daughter.- Jonathan Lethem,
"The Ecstasy of Influence: A Plagiarism": This witty essay explores the nature of originality, creativity, and appropriation.- In e-Pages: Errol Morris,
"We've Forgotten that Photographs are Connected to the Physical World": In a video interview available online, Morris comments on photographic artifice and truth, elaborating on his essay included in the print book.
Now with e-Pages. Your students are spending more and more of their time online. They are becoming more tech-savvy and are used to the interactivity of the Web.
Ways of Reading now includes essays and videos available only online, accompanied by the same apparatus as the other readings.
Innovative pedagogy includes new assignment sequences. The unique pedagogy that makes Ways of Reading so powerful and successful has been updated. There are three new sequences, "Challenging Assumptions and Conventions," "The Politics of Gender and Sexuality," and "Thinking with Sentences."