MyLab Reading & Writing Skills with Pearson eText Access Code for Reading and Writing About Contemporary Issues

About our author Kathleen T. McWhorter is the author of more than a dozen textbooks designed to help students succeed in college. Born in a rural farm community in Upstate New York, she went on to receive her EdD from SUNY Buffalo. For 34 years, she taught at Niagara County Community College in Sanborn, NY, where she is a professor emerita of humanities. Through her textbooks, Dr. McWhorter has helped an estimated 500,000 students improve their reading, writing and critical-thinking skills. For more information on Kathleen's Reading and Writing Series, visit the McWhorter Way series page. She also encourages interaction and discourse in the education community on her LinkedIn page.

PART 1: A HANDBOOK FOR READING AND WRITING IN COLLEGE

The Reading Process
The Writing Process
Vocabulary for Readers and Writers
Main Ideas and Topic Sentences
Supporting Details, Transitions, and Implied Main Ideas
Revising and Proofreading Paragraphs
Reading and Writing Organizational Patterns
Writing Essays and Documented Papers
Critical Thinking: Reading and Writing
Analyzing Issues and Arguments

PART 2: READING AND WRITING ABOUT CONTEMPORARY ISSUES

Defining Ourselves: Our Multiple Identities
Our Environment: Problems and Solutions
Relationships: Our Friends, Families, and Communities
Medical Ethics: Where Do We Draw the Line?
Personal Safety and Security
Conformity and Nonconformity: Following and Breaking the Rules
Personal Freedoms and Limitations: Lifestyle Choices

PART 3: A MULTI-DISCIPLINARY CASEBOOK ON GLOBALIZATION

Examining One Issue in Depth
Reading 1: Geography, "The Impact of Globalization"
Reading 2: Biology, "World Overpopulation and Resource Management"
Reading 3: Business and Marketing, "Marketing on the Global Stage"
Reading 4: Cultural Anthropology, "Globalization and Health"
Reading 5: Communication, "Globalization and Intercultural Communication"
Reading 6: Economics, "The Global Economy"
Synthesis and Integration Questions and Activities
Writing About the Readings

PART 4: GRAMMAR AND CORRECTNESS SKILL REFRESHERS

Skill Refresher 1: Sentence Fragments
Skill Refresher 2: Run-On Sentences
Skill Refresher 3: Subject-Verb Agreement
Skill Refresher 4: Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement
Skill Refresher 5: Pronoun Reference
Skill Refresher 6: Dangling Modifiers
Skill Refresher 7: Misplaced Modifiers
Skill Refresher 8 Parallelism
Skill Refresher 9: Comma Usage
Skill Refresher 10: Colons and Semicolons