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Community Matters is a unique book which features writing instruction that emphasizes process, audience, and purpose, while presenting a wide range of readings that focus on vital community issues. Community Matters encourages its readers to think critically about the social, political, and philosophical meanings and importance of community while offering helpful advice on how to build a writer's community. Community Matters provides its readers an opportunity to work with community leaders, educators, and social critics, encouraging them to respond through writing to local, national, and global community issues. Writing is connected with the community through thematic inquiry, reflection, and structured writing activities. Extensive writing samples are included. For all of those interested in community issues and writing.

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When Melissa loses her advertising job and calls off her wedding, she courageously changes her life by moving away from San Francisco and enduring culture shock after becoming an au pair in England.

When Melissa loses her advertising job and calls off her wedding, she courageously changes her life by moving away from San Francisco and enduring culture shock after becoming an au pair in England.

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Product Description: The Streamlines series of brief, inexpensive single-theme readers is designed to help students write increasingly thoughtful, analytic essays as their understanding of a subject grows. Mass Culture and Electronic Media offers extended exploration of media issues and includes an introduction to the topic, headnotes, questions, and writing assignments...read more

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Product Description: WRITING FOR CHANGE: A COMMUNITY READER is a thematic reader designed for the first or second course in Freshmen Composition. It provides a rich selection of readings that address issues concerning family, community, work, education, health, diversity, and the environment...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This exciting anthology presents a fresh perspective on the role that literature plays in our lives, shaping our feelings, thoughts and cultures. IMAGINING WORLDS encourages a variety of personal and analytic responses to literature and literary non-fiction with its thematic focus and its wide range of genres, cultures, disciplines, and assignments...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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