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Our Times 3: Readings from Recent Periodicals
ISBN: 9780312065485
定价: 260.00
内容简介
Preface for Instructors
Like its predecessor, Our Times~3 is a collection of contemporary non-
fiction and short fiction intended for use in composition courses. This wealth
of very recent writing -- most of it published since 1991 and drawn from
virtually every important American periodical -- provides an intriguing and
distinctive view of life in America today.
This third edition contains sixty-seven selections, fifty-seven of which
are new. The readings are grouped into twenty-two units that treat many of
the dominant themes, issues, and ideas of our time. A number of these topics
pertain directly to the everyday lives of today s students: the difficulties of
parent-teenager communication, the problems of conflicting identities, the
obsession with physical appearance, and the significance of personal names.
Represented, too, are a variety of perspectives on some of our country s most
compelling social and political issues- AIDS, the homeless, gun control,
animal rights, immigration.
Articles on new and important issues have been added to this edition,
many of them revolving around gender and education. Though gender issues
surface throughout the book, several units are devoted exclusively to such
issues. New units cover the significance of gender differences, the debate
over sexual harassment, concern over a feminist backlash, and the fledgling.
men s movement. On education, Our Times~3 expands its previous coverage,
of three topics that have continued to command enormous media attention:
the canon controversy, free speech in the classroom, and multiculturalism.
This edition also features new thematic units on virtual reality, New Age
religion, and paranormal experiences.
A word about the length of these chapters. In contrast to most themat-
ically arranged readers, which contain a small number of broad categories,
Our Times/3 features a large number of tightly focused units, most with
only two or three selections that directly address each other. For example,
instead of one large chapter on education, Our Times~3 presents smaller
units on the canon, free speech, and multiculturalism. The advantages of
using these smaller bite-size units in a composition course should be imme-
diately apparent to "instructors: they permit a wider range and variety of
topics to be covered in a syllabus; they allow for more focused discussion
and writing; and they can be adequately handled in one or two class periods.
New to this edition are two expanded chapters designed to be used for
