Speculations: Readings in Culture, Identity and Values

Appropriate for courses in Freshman, Intermediate, and Advanced Composition.

This composition reader, through a cultural studies approach, engages students in reading and writing about issues that are centered in their lives. In the second edition, those issues are explored in six thematic chapters, each offering an array of accessible, exciting, and provocative contemporary selections. Extended sequences of writing assignments encourage students to analyze the issues from a variety of perspectives.