A World of Ideas: Essential Readings for College Writers
The most successful reader of its kind, A World of Ideas introduces first-year writing students to the thinkers and writers whose ideas have shaped civilization: for example, Niccolò Machiavelli on government, Elizabeth Cady Stanton on justice, and Sigmund Freud on the mind. Because students...
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The most successful reader of its kind, A World of Ideas introduces first-year writing students to the thinkers and writers whose ideas have shaped civilization: for example, Niccolò Machiavelli on government, Elizabeth Cady Stanton on justice, and Sigmund Freud on the mind. Because students perceive these writers as important, they take the writing course seriously: they learn to read more attentively, think more critically, and write more effectively. No other composition reader offers a comparable collection of important readings along with the supportive apparatus students need to understand, analyze, and respond to them.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780312385330 (0312385331)
Publish date: March 3rd 2009
Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
Pages no: 880
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Writing,
Academic,
School,
Reference,
Language,
Literature,
Anthologies,
Politics,
Philosophy,
Sociology,
Textbooks