Between Worlds: A Reader, Rhetoric, and Handbook, 7th edition

This immediately engaging composition resource features a thematically-organized collection of readings, a process-based rhetoric, and a concise handbook.

• A new section on writing in-class essays offers a six-step strategy for managing timed assignments and a chart of key words in writing prompts to help students focus and stay on task.
• New learning objectives in all the rhetoric chapters (Part II) help students anticipate and master the key material in each chapter.
• New readings in Ch. 5, Between Points of View, offer provocative paired essays on current topics including iPods, multitasking, and going green.
• New content—and a new Checklist—on avoiding plagiarism offers expanded guidance and resources for integrating material from other sources into student writing.
• New treatment of film adds film content to each of the five chapters in Part I, including intriguing essays on The King’s Speech, Crash, An Inconvenient Truth, and contemporary romantic comedy, and offers exciting guidance for “reading” film actively.
• Illustrated source “maps” for MLA citations, including a Website and a database, help students find essential information as they cite sources.
• New readings on more varied topics revitalize each of the existing chapters to reflect the conflicting realms—the “between worlds”—in which most of us live.  New readings show divergent views about technology and its impact (including cellphone use, how our brain works on computers, and whether Twitter is a boon or a bane0, as well as offering a sociological study of romantic comedies, and readings on the nature of family relationships,  gender and culture identification, and how we spend our time.
• New content in Ch. 12, on research, not only includes the most current versions of both the MLA and the APA style guides, but also offers expanded guidance for using, evaluating—and abusing—online sources as well as for documenting electronic sources.