Writing and Reading Across the Disciplines, First Canadian Edition

Writing and Reading Across the Disciplines is targeted at the composition and developmental writing market at the college or university level.



This text prepares university and college students to write essays and to become familiar with reading academic and popular readings across a variety of disciplines.

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[This text's] strengths include the rhetoric section, with its focus on critiquing and synthesis, and the selection of

readings. The authors have done an excellent job explaining the process of writing and demonstrating source-based

papers. These explanations can be applied quite effectively to the readings.



Concordia University



I have used this text with great success; it covers the exact writing modes that I think are most important for first year

students to achieve in English. These skills will help make them better critical thinkers, and arm them with the skills

needed in further English classes and even other Humanities courses. I really like the selection of readings in this

textbook; I've been able to create engaging assignments for the students from these readings and the skills developed

in Part One.

Gillian Gausboel, Kwantlen University College



The detailed discussions of fundamental critical reading skills such as summarizing, critiquing and synthesizing also

make this a very useful text in a first year class where many of the students are often encountering these reading

strategies for the first time.

Paul Tyndall, Kwantlen University College



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This text covers the exact writing modes that I think are most important for students.



Gillian Gausboel, Kwantlen University College



This portable writing text presents readings from across five key disciplines (Biology, Psychology, Education, Political Science and Cultural Studies) and a brief writing guide that covers the key skills of summary, critique, analysis, and synthesis.

The anthology section of this text offers a wide range of topical readings including a feature on Canadian identity with essays by Lloyd Axworthy, John Ralston Saul and Douglas Coupland, among others.

Discover the writing process and develop the skills you need with this highly engaging text.

Laurence Behrens is a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Leonard J. Rosen is a adjunct assistant Professor at Bentley College.



Jaqueline McLeod Rogers is a professor at the University of Winnipeg.

Catherine Taylor is a professor at the University of Winnipeg.





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ISBN: 0-321-32826-4





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