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A primary text for a first-year composition class that employs a series of assignments guiding students to research and write about issues confronting their communities. Students begin by identifying a community to which they belong, focus on a problem in it, analyze possible solutions, construct ar...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Collins, Paul S (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Mahwah, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2001.
Series:Language, culture, and teaching.
Subjects:
Readers > Social sciences.
Social sciences > Problems, exercises, etc.
Community life > Problems, exercises, etc.
English language > Rhetoric.
Readers > Community life.
College readers.
Sciences sociales > Problèmes et exercices.
Communauté > Problèmes et exercices.
Anglais (Langue) > Rhétorique.
Anglais (Langue) > Lectures et morceaux choisis (Enseignement supérieur)
Community life.
Social sciences.
Problems and exercises.
Online Access:Publisher description
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Your community and an issue it faces
  • 2. Media views of an issue
  • 3. Examining solutions
  • 4. Working toward solutions
  • 5. The term paper
  • Appendices 1-3
  • Index.