The contemporary reader gary goshgarian pdf
The Contemporary Reader by Gary Goshgarian
A best-selling book now in its Seventh Edition, The Contemporary Reader offers highly engaging readings about current cultural issues. This accessible, wide-ranging, and current essay collection is designed to stimulating and thought provoking. The Contemporary Reader has more contemporary selections than any other popular culture reader on the market. Over 90% of the readings have been written in the last five years. The texts ten tightly focused thematic chapters cover a range of writing on interesting issues familiar to students and relevant to our times. Readings are organized around a variety of provocative and engaging themes such as Fashion and Flesh: The Images We Project; Gender Battles on the Big Screen ; Young and Criminal; Advertising: Wanting It, Selling It.; and these new focused themes: Humans Inc.: Rethinking and Retailing Reproduction; Its a Wide Web World; Sports: Not Just a Game; Generation Gaps: Boomers, X-ers, and Y. These thematic chapters are tightly focused and offer a range of perspectives on issues. To expand on the well-regarded section on critical reading, a review of the writing process has been added to the introduction. This includes coverage of pre-writing, audience-awareness, developing a thesis, documenting sources, drafting, editing, revising, and proofreading. MARKET For those interested in gaining an understanding of important contemporary issues and the ability to discuss those issues critically.
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Gary Goshgarian
Gary Goshgarian
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Gary Goshgarian, a professor of English, teaches fiction writing, science fiction, horror fiction, and modern bestsellers. Under his pen name Gary Braver, he is the author of eight novels including medical thriller, Flashback , winner of a Massachusetts Honor Book Award. His novels have been translated into seven languages, and three have been optioned for movies, including Elixir by Ridley Scott. He has taught fiction-writing workshops throughout the United States as well as in Europe. In addition to his novels, he is the author of five popular college writing textbooks. Goddard Award for Outstanding Professional Achievement.
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Skip to main content. The Contemporary Reader by Gary J. Goshgarian Paperback, About this product. About this product Product Information A best-selling popular culture reader, The Contemporary Reader offers more than 70 readings taken from today's headlines to inspire students to write on topics that really matter to them. This collection offers over 70 current, well-written, provocative readings that students can relate to-readings that stimulate class discussion, critical thinking, and writing.
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