75 Readings Plus

A collection of cross-cultural, classic and contemporary essays. This edition features 17 new essays and includes more ethnic and women writers. The work also contains author biographies, sets of discussion questions on content and strategy and suggestions for writing for each selection. It also includes brief chapter introductions, focusing on rhetorical mode and the selections used to illustrate the strategy. This should help students draw connections among selections regarding purpose, strategy and voice. The second edition features more issue-oriented readings, including Anna Quindlen's "Homeless", Jonathan Kozol's "Distancing the Homeless", Stephen Jay Gould's "Sex, Drugs, Disasters and the Extinction of Dinosaurs" and Meg Greenfields's "Why nothing is wrong anymore".