TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cassebaum,Anne
AU  - Haskell,Rosemary
TI  - American culture and the media: reading, writing, thinking 
SN  - 0395727693
AV  - P94.65.U6 C37 1997
U1  - 302.23/0973 21
PY  - 1997///
CY  - Boston
PB  - Houghton Mifflin
KW  - Mass media and culture
KW  - United States
KW  - College readers
KW  - English language
KW  - Rhetoric
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Reading and writing about American culture and the media: Shaping forces, culture and mass media; Work; Diversity; Gender roles; Sports; Poverty and wealth; Violence; Environment -- Working on your paper, a guide to writing: Coming up with ideas; Keeping a journal; Making the most of your reading; Analysis, going deeper to come up with ideas; Interviewing, using other people's brains; Working the library; Organizing, getting your ideas together; Writing the first draft; Revising; Getting and giving good criticism; Editing, the final polish; Writing on the spot; Making gains for the next paper
N2  - [The book] is based on [the author's] belief that reading and writing skills are best taught together and in the context of high-interest subject matter. In section I, the mass media ... form a familiar and reassuring, yet rich and complex, subject for exploration and analysis. Section II, the rhetoric and brief handbook, gives advice and information for students to use as they work on their papers.... Fifty thematically unified high-interest readings in section I. -Pref
ER  -