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Perspectives on Contemporary Issues with APA 7e Updates, 8th Edition

ISBN-13: 978-1305969377
ISBN-10: 1305969375

Author: Katherine Anne Ackley (Author)

Packed with readings on current — and often controversial — topics from across the disciplines, PERSPECTIVES ON CONTEMPORARY ISSUES, 8e, equips you to think, read, and write critically. Part I emphasizes writing and research, with separate chapters on reading critically, the writing process, writing a summary, the critique, argumentation, synthesis requiring documentation, and the research paper. The sometimes provocative — always intriguing — readings include questions at the end that help you make a personal connection by applying the topic to your life. Unique “”Responding to Visuals”” sections prompt you to analyze images. In addition, the reader explains the latest MLA guidelines.

Preface
Perspectives on Contemporary Issues: Reading across the Disciplines, Eighth Edition, presents an approach to thinking, reading, and writing that views learning as the interconnectedness of ideas and disciplinary perspectives. Contemporary issues engage the students, while the readings provide rich material for class discussion and writing topics. The essays by authors from a variety of disciplines and professions focus on individual, national, and global issues. Regardless of their majors, students will enhance their skills through the writing assignments.
The goals of Perspectives on Contemporary Issues: Reading across the Disciplines are as follows:
• To sharpen students’ thinking skills by presenting them with a variety of perspectives on current issues
• To give students practice in both oral and verbal expression by providing questions for discussion and writing after each selection
• To provide students with a variety of writing assignments representing the kinds of writing they will be asked to do in courses across the curriculum
• To encourage students to view issues and ideas in terms of connections with other people, other disciplines, or other contexts
The questions for discussion and writing encourage critical thinking by asking students to go well beyond simple recall of the readings and to use higher-order skills such as integration, synthesis, or analysis of what they have read. Most of the questions are suitable for work in small groups, as well as for class discussion.
NEW TO THIS EDITION
Learning Objectives. Each chapter in Part One is preceded by several learning objectives highlighting the concepts in the chapter.
MindTap. Each chapter in Part Two begins not only with an overview of the chapter but also with a question to prompt students to think about the subject of that chapter. At the end of each chapter, students are asked to reflect on the issues/ideas presented by the readings in that chapter. Eighteen articles are available online through the Questia website and include additional questions for discussion.
New Readings. There are eighteen new readings in print in this edition, all of them published recently. Together with the Questia articles, thirty-six of the fifty titles in the book are new. These new readings cover topics of contemporary interest, and their writers sometimes take controversial positions on the issues under discussion.
Sleeker, Slimmer Text. This book has fewer pages than previous editions, making it more manageable to cover in a one-semester class. Parts Two to Five in previous editions are now clustered together, with individual chapter titles noting the subject of each chapter.
MLA Updates. This edition has been updated to reflect guidelines from the 2016.
MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, Eighth Edition.
READING SELECTIONS
The book has two parts, and the reading selections are organized by broad disciplinary areas:
• Chapters 8 and 9 cover the broad areas of popular culture, the arts, and media studies. Readings cover such subjects as music and video games, media violence, advertising, Hollywood films, television, and the visual arts.
• Chapters 10 to 14 address such matters as education, poverty and homelessness, gender and sex roles, race and ethnicity, and psychology and human behavior.
• Chapter 15 focuses on bioethical and environmental issues, with writers giving opinions on the sale of organs, environmental issues, and the crisis of rapid species extinction.
• Chapter 16 addresses marketing, the American consumer, and the workplace, with readings on the spread of commercialization, the difficulties employers face in finding workers, and the problem of a worker has when seeking a job. The selections in each chapter encourage students to consider issues from different perspectives because their authors come from a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds and training. Sometimes the writers’ cross disciplinary lines in their essays. The individual perspectives of the writers may differ markedly from students’ own perspectives, thus generating discussion and writing topics.