Perspectives on Contemporary Issues: Reading Across the Disciplines

Perspectives on Contemporary Issues, Sixth Edition, presents a range of thought-provoking current readings while covering the kinds of writing that you will create in your composition course, throughout your academic career, and beyond. With selections that prompt spirited classroom discussions as well as practical guidance for improving your critical reading and composition skills, this text will broaden your perspective, energize your thinking, and, as a result, inspire your writing.

Inside, you'll find

A step-by-step guide to the writing process that takes you from prewriting, discovery, and planning to composing multiple drafts, editing, and proofreading

Guidance for writing in a range of formats, from summaries and arguments to critiques and researched writingùincluding recent MLA guidelines on citing and documenting sources (particularly Internet and electronic sources)

Readings on popular culture, terrorism, digital technology, gender and sex roles, foreign policy, bioethics, and business and economics, which expose you to new ideas while illustrating the principles of good writing

Twenty-six readings new to this edition, including D Sady Doyle's "Girls Just Wanna Have Fangs," Barbara Ehrenreich's "Too Poor to Make the News," and John J. Savant's "Imagining the Immigrant: Why Legality Must Give Way to Humanity"