Global Issues, Local Arguments: Readings for Writing

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GLOBAL ISSUES, LOCAL ARGUMENTS Readings for Writing By June Johnson Seattle University 582 Pages with index Paperback Copyright 2007 by Pearson Educations, Inc. Pearson / Longman ISBN 0-321-24423-0 Global Issues, Local Arguments features high-interest arguments on significant global issues and emphasizes their connection to students' lives while developing critical thinking, analysis, synthesis, argumentation, and research skills. What Your Colleagues Are Saying About This New Text! "Shelley Aley, James Madison University "What I find appealing about the book is how it proposes to awaken us to unfamiliar topics that have a tremendous impact on our lives, and it aims to show us how our own choices impact others. It takes a great deal of mystery out of the issues and illustrates just how they matter to us. [...] What I'm seeing here will connect with my students at a time in their lives when they may be most willing/needing to connect. Johnson's writing is fresh and readable. The book is simply a good read." "Farrah Cato University of Central Florida "I currently use a global reader in my Comp I course and found it lacking in the topics covered (most deal with the idea of globalization, with few specifics); Global Issues, Local Arguments is precisely what I have hoped to find in a global reader." "James D'Agostino Southeast Missouri State University "I'm immediately impressed with how the text guides students through the readings, prompting students to focus their analysis on both how an essay's constructed as an argument, and how it influences a reader's views; implicit in this line of questioning is the expectation that each argument a student reads deepens and reshapes his or her understanding of an issue. The discussion questions do that so well throughout." "Collin Hutchison San Jacinto College South "The overall, interdiscuplinary approach to teaching rhetoric and composition will offer students a chance to see arguments in the context of current issues and gives them the opportunity to sense how intimately language shapes thought, public policy and personal lives, a form of education that will resonate with them long after the last assignment has been submitted." [from the book of backcover] "Why should writing instructors bring global issues into the writing classroom? Global issues belong in writing courses because we are bumping into these issues more frequently and because global issues spark students' interest in learning and lead them to produce good writing. Daily, the media bombard us with stories and images that remind us that our states, regions, and country are part of the larger world. Controversies over free trade, outsourcing, immigration, climate change, and bird flu increasingly demand our attention. In my writing classes, I have found that students welcome the opportunity to study these controversies, to discuss and write about them. Some of these issues are new and intriguing to students: How does our