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Popular Writing in America

Popular Writing in America

The Interaction of Style and Audience

by Robert Atwan and Donald Mcquade
Paperback
Publication Date: 15/04/1993

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Used for nearly two decades in schools nation-wide, this unique anthology offers provocative examples of successful, influential American writing drawn from advertising, the press, popular magazines, bestsellers, classics, film and television, suiting a variety of classroom purposes--topics for lively class discussions, practical models for student composition, and imaginative texts for literary study. The fifth edition places a new emphasis on multicultural
perspectives on the media, and offers an infusion of new selections by a diversity of authors, both within and outside the established literary canon. As always, every selection is
connected either stylistically or thematically with one or more of the other selections, and an expanded "Table of Linked Selections" follows the "Rhetorical Table of Contents". This feature encourages readers to discover the different ways the same subject can be treated by different writers or by different media--for example, how staff writers for Time and Newsweek each handled the space shuttle disaster in January 1986, how a major author like Stephen Crane used his
personal experience of a disaster at sea to write both a newspaper report and a classic American short story, or how Ernest Hemingway's famous short story, "Soldier's Home," was transformed into a film
script.Current and comprehensive, Popular Writing in America offers a unique method of teaching composition, one that appeals to students and teachers alike.
ISBN:
9780195073089
9780195073089
Category:
Writing & editing guides
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
15-04-1993
Language:
English
Publisher:
Oxford University Press Inc
Country of origin:
United States
Edition:
5th Edition
Pages:
784
Dimensions (mm):
272x182x30mm
Weight:
1.32kg

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