Approaching great ideas
Subtitle: critical readings for college writers
By: Lee A. Jacobus
Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's  Macmillan Learning
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 459
ISBN-13: 9781319008239
Subjects: College readers; English language; Problems, exercises; Rhetoric; Report writing
Other titles: Critical readings for college writers
Description: "Approaching Great Ideas: Critical Readings for College Writers shows students how to approach, understand, and engage with the "big ideas" that have shaped the world.  Important essays from classic authors such as Aristotle, Plato, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Charles Darwin, Andrew Carnegie, and Friedrich Nietzsche are presented alongside shorter, contemporary readings on the same themes from authors such as Cornel West, Elizabeth Warren, bell hooks, Fareed Zakaria, Jennifer Ackerman, and Kwame Anthony Appiah, showing students how the ideas of the world's greatest minds are still alive and relevant today.  The text also includes two chapters on critical reading and writing and ample support for analyzing the readings, giving students the tools they need to dig into the world's greatest ideas." -- from back cover.
Notes: Evaluation copy -- Includes section titled "Resources for Teaching Approaching Great Ideas".

Includes bibliographical references (pages 455-456) and index.
Table of contents: title: Examining ideas --; title: Writing about ideas --; title: How democracy relates to human rights --; title: How freedom depends on justice --; title: How science reads the book of nature --; title: How society regards wealth and poverty --; title: How ethics and morality interact.