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Understand the art of the argument by building skills that help to approach, develop, and defend this persuasive content with Elements of Argument. With a focus on the primary components of an argument, claims, support, assumptions, logic, this text takes a deep dive into explaining various approaches to argumentation, critical reading, and argument analysis.

News Reporting & Writing teaches the essential reporting and writing skills within the context of today's digital media landscape. The Missouri Group, including new author, Beverly Horvit, have extensively revised this edition with diverse examples and a focus on the role of technology to give students a strong foundation in the craft and raise awareness of current issues like fake news and censorship. The team focuses on developing the skills journalists actually use and the many careers in which they, and students, could use them--from working in news, to advertising, to public relations. Much of the text has been rewritten and reorganized to introduce a stronger flow of content paired with the most current coverage of today's news industry. And now, Achieve for News Reporting and Writing sets the standard for developing student media writing skills through an all-in-one learning platform that combines the e-book, diagnostics, and powerful media writing tools. A diagnostic grammar and AP style quizzing tool and individualized study plans address the basics, while Achieve Writing Tools guides students through drafting their stories, rubric assessment, peer review, reflection, and revision. Fully editable pre-built writing assignments with rubrics keep students' media writing skills sharp, allowing space for drafting, peer review, reflection and revision: all in one easy-to-use platform.

More than ever, Writing That Works is the right choice for the most up-to-date coverage of business writing. Real-world model documents are grounded in their rhetorical contexts to guide students in navigating the increasingly complex world of business writing. Now in full-color, the thirteenth edition continues to reflect the central role of technology in the office and the classroom, showcasing the most current types of business documents online and in print, providing succinct guidelines on selecting the appropriate medium for your document, communication, or presentation, and featuring new advice on creating a personal brand as part of a successful job search. Also available as an e-book and in loose-leaf, Writing that Works offers robust but accessible coverage at an affordable price.

Ways of the World is a world history textbook with a built-in reader that offers a truly global approach that explores broad patterns and nurtures students' skill development.

Ways of the World is a world history textbook with a built-in reader that offers a truly global approach that explores broad patterns and nurtures students' skill development.

A History of World Societies provides a comprehensive overview of world history by sharing the cultural stories of global people -- all through a regional lens.

Includes access to e-pages that accompany the text.

Practical Strategies is the best way to keep up with all types of writing required in today's constantly changing workplace. It covers everything you need to know about audience and purpose, document design, research, style, and more.

Examine the assumptions of American culture with a critical lensWith Rereading America's focus on revisiting, defending, and challenging assumptions about American culture (such as "U.S. laws provide equal protection and justice for all"), you'll grow as a critical thinker and writer.

"Food Matters explores questions about the seemingly simple concept of food: What is the purpose of food: sustenance, pleasure, health? What political, social, and cultural forces affect our food choices? What does it mean to eat ethically? How does our food system contribute to the climate crisis, and how can we make changes in our eating habits and in food production to protect the planet? What problems and possibilities will influence what the future of food? Readings by a range of essayists, scientists, journalists, farmers, activists, and ordinary citizens take up these questions and more. Questions and assignments for each selection provide a range of activities for students."--Amazon.com

Everything's an Argument helps students analyze arguments and create their own, while emphasizing skills like rhetorical listening and critical reading. The text is available for the first time in Achieve, with downloadable e-book, grammar support, interactive tutorials, and more.

"Everything you need to analyze--and challenge--the arguments that affect you. Argument is all around us--in school hallways and on social media, from capitol buildings to television newsrooms. With more than thirty current arguments and lively, real-world examples on topics that matter, Everything's an Argument with Readings helps you listen--really listen--to the arguments that affect you and provides the tools to respond, challenge, and explore your own."--Publisher's description.

Explains academic writing as a clear, step-by-step process that one can use in any college course.

Worlds of History offers a flexible comparative and thematic organization that accommodates a variety of teaching approaches and helps students to make cross-cultural comparisons. Thoughtfully compiled by a distinguished world historian and community college instructor, each chapter presents a wide array of primary and secondary sources arranged around a major theme -- such as universal religions, the environment and technology, or gender and family -- across two or more cultures, along with pedagogy that builds students' capacity to analyze and interpret sources, and think critically and independently

Worlds of History offers a flexible comparative and thematic organization that accommodates a variety of teaching approaches and helps students to make cross-cultural comparisons. Thoughtfully compiled by a distinguished world historian and community college instructor, each chapter presents a wide array of primary and secondary sources arranged around a major theme -- such as universal religions, the environment and technology, or gender and family -- across two or more cultures, along with pedagogy that builds students' capacity to analyze and interpret sources, and think critically and independently.

"When it comes to writing, The Practice of Creative Writing has a simple message: you can do this, and it's worthwhile to try. Designed for students in the introductory course, The Practice of Creative Writing teaches writers how to trust their own voice, experiment with form, and develop a writing process that allows them to spend more productive time at the desk. Rather than locking into one genre early, writers are encouraged to work among and in between genres and to focus on creating a writing practice that privileges close observation, patience, and techniques of pattern, energy, and shape. Each chapter begins with objectives for that module. Prompts and writing practices are carefully sequenced. Every chapter ends with both genre-specific writing projects alongside hybrid and experimental prompts. The readings included in this new edition invite students to experience an even wider range of innovative and new literatures. A new chapter on creative ways to approach revision as a shaping practice engaged throughout the writing process helps students work harder on their writing."--

"40 Short Stories continues to offer a diverse selection of classic and contemporary short fiction" Provided by publisher.

Reading and writing about literature "is designed to help students in literature classes master the sometimes-daunting task of writing effective critical papers"--

Supplement: Documenting sources in MLA style 2021 update, a Bedford/St. Martin's supplement, Bedford/St. Martin's, Boston, 2022.

A concise and affordable resource for the mass communication course, Media Essentials provides a flexible, informative, and relevant breakdown of what the media is, how it works, and how it impacts today's most talked-about subjects. From #metoo to content streaming to social media and politics, students learn how a wide variety of recent developments have impacted the mass-media landscape--and how past innovation and change have informed our current media world. Media Essentials is available with LaunchPad, a robust online platform designed to help students fully engage with course content--and with the world of mass media. From our acclaimed LearningCurve adaptive quizzing, which helps students learn and retain concepts, to compelling features like an interactive e-book and a variety of entertaining and thought-provoking video clips, LaunchPad gets students connected with--and interested in--the information they need to succeed in class.

The first and bestselling reader of its kind, A World of Ideas engages students with the big ideas that have shaped society and are reshaping it today. Readings by essential authors - from Aristotle and Mary Wollstonecraft to bell hooks and Marilynne Robinson - help students trace the origins of central cultural concepts and respond to them. A World of Ideas asks such crucial questions as, What defines good government? What forces shape our society? What does it mean to be educated? A World of Ideas helps students respond to these questions by providing the guidance they need to understand, analyze, and write. Substantial, supportive apparatus helps students focus on both the content of the readings as well as the rhetorical moves that writers use to achieve their purposes, providing instruction and models as students join in the important conversations continuing today. New chapters on Education and Gender, and new readings throughout, speak to today's urgent concerns. Improved writing instruction includes more scaffolding and examples that provide greater support for students.