America Now: Short Readings from Recent Periodicals
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| Rating | : | 4.59 (798 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1457615932 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 400 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-10-25 |
| Language | : | English |
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Robert Atwan is director of The Blue Hills Writing Institute at Curry College and the series editor of the annual Best American Essays, which he founded in 1985. He has coedited (with Jon Roberts) Left, Right, and Center: Voices from Across the Political Spectrum (1996), and is coeditor with Donald McQuade of The Writer’s Presence (2009).. Martin’s, he has also edited Ten on Ten:
Five Stars Very good. Amazon Customer said Good freshman reader with useful questions. Short, fairly recent articles with a student-newspaper article in each section. The set up is clear and the selections are arranged around topics, providing students a chance to see there is a public conversation they can join. I especially like the way At wan frames his end-of reading questions, with attention to content, craft and critical thinking.. Didn't like that. It should have been mentioned Letty Martinez The book was decent on the outside besides a few stickers I took off but the inside had writing and lines in it. Didn't like that. It should have been mentioned.
America Now has always been characterized by its brief and very current readings that reflect what students are talking and writing about right now. The print text is now integrated with e-Pages for America Now, designed to take advantage of what the Web can do, with carefully curated, multimodal selections. As series editor for The Best American Essays, Robert Atwan constantly scours a wide range of print and online periodicals, bringing to America Now an unrivaled awareness of the best writing on today's issues — and the top-notch editorial support students need to approach it and to create solid acade
He has coedited (with Jon Roberts) Left, Right, and Center: Voices from Across the Political Spectrum (1996), and is coeditor with Donald McQuade of The Writer’s Presence (2009).. His essays, reviews, and critical articles have appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Atlantic Monthly, Iowa Review, Denver Quarterly, Kenyon Review, River Teeth, and many other publications. About the AuthorRobert Atwan is director of The Blue Hills Writing Institute at Curry College and the series editor of the annual Best American Essays, which he founded in 1985. For Bedford/St. Martin’s, he has also edited Ten on Ten: Major Essayists on Recurrin