Published by Pearson (February 19, 2018) © 2019
For courses in writing across the curriculum.
Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum guides readers through essential college-level writing skills such as summary, critique, synthesis, analysis, and research. It provides step-by-step instruction in writing papers based on source materials and includes exercises bridging the gap between reading and writing. An anthology provides cross-disciplinary readings on topics that overlap with content from the humanities, sciences and social sciences.
The 14th Edition is a major revision, providing new topics, readings and content on writing and argumentation that address the issues and interests of readers today.
Laurence Behrens has focused for more than 35 years on interdisciplinary approaches to the teaching of undergraduate writing. His Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum, coauthored with Leonard J. Rosen, originally published in 1982 and now in its 14th Edition, was the first widely used cross-curricular textbook in freshman composition.
Dr. Behrens earned an AB in Theatre Arts from Brandeis University, an MFA in Film, Radio and Television from Columbia University, and a PhD in literature from UCLA. He has taught at UCLA, the University of California at Irvine, The American University in Washington, D.C., and most recently, at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He was one of the original members of the interdisciplinary Writing Program at UCSB, where he originated the lower division course in writing about classical music. He has also taught lower-division courses in writing about sociology and psychology. At the upper division level, he has taught business writing, legal writing and writing about history and film studies, as well as graduate seminars in writing for teaching assistants.
His articles have appeared in College English, College Composition and Communication, The English Journal, The Maryland Composition Review, Freshman English News, The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Notes and Queries, Literature/Film Quarterly and The Journal of the University Film Association. In addition to Sequence for Academic Writing and Writing Across the Curriculum, Dr. Behrens' other books with Leonard J. Rosen include Writing Papers in College, Reading for College Writers, Theme and Variations: The Impact of Great Ideas, and The Allyn & Bacon Handbook. He has also authored the historically oriented The American Experience: A Writer's Sourcebook and the legal casebook for undergraduate writers, Making the Case: An Argument Reader.
Leonard Rosen earned a BA in English and Education at Trinity College (Hartford). He then taught high school English in Baltimore City before earning his PhD in Literary Studies, with a focus on composition, at The American University. He went on to teach at Bentley University and in the Expository Writing Program at Harvard University.
In addition to best-selling textbooks coauthored with Laurence Behrens, most notably Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum and Sequence for Academic Writing, he has written (and read) commentaries for Boston's NPR station and written numerous op-eds published in The Boston Globe, Chronicle of Higher Education and elsewhere. He is also an award-winning novelist, the author of All Cry Chaos (translated into 10 languages) and The Tenth Witness.
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