Overview
Goshgarian, Readings for Today BCC.
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Author Gary Goshgarian’s new reader, Readings for Today, provides an affordable collection of contemporary, provocative readings designed to engage today’s students–and get them talking and writing. Essays reflect a wide range of writing styles and genres, including academic essays and dialogues by today's best writers.
Synopsis
This affordable new reader from best-selling author Gary Goshgarian provides a wide-ranging collection of contemporary readings—almost 80% written in the 21st century—designed to get today’s students talking—and writing.
With chapters focusing on complex, current issues like global warming, media influence, and immigration, Readings for Today offers a wide range of contemporary opinion by journalists, academics, and public figures like Peggy Orenstein, David Brooks, Charles Murray, and Al Gore.