Against the Current: Readings for Writers

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This thematically arranged anthology offers a wide-ranging and diverse collection of nonfiction readings — to introduce readers to an exciting array of social issues relevant to their lives. It then Provides Suggestions for Writing that include both analytical and creative exercises. Includes 86 readings about eleven socially relevant themes: Growing Up and Growing Older, Education, Mass Culture, Gender, Race and Ethnicity, Money, Work, and Social Class, Science and Technology, Nature/The Environment, War, Protest and Change, Art and the Artist. Offers detailed Study and Discussion Questions that take readers through each reading from start to finish — asking them to notice formal as well as thematic features. For those simply seeking a collection of non-fiction readings or for those looking to improve their writing and those involved in writing workshops.

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  Against the Current: As I Remember F. Scott Fitzgerald

  • 1987-03
  • 160 pages
  • Paperback
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  Against the Current: Paddling Upstream on the Tennessee River

  • 2021-02-15
  • - pages
  • Paperback
  • Univ Tennessee Press
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  Against the Current: Au revoir to corporate life and bonjour...

  • 2016-01-28
  • - pages
  • Paperback
  • Troubador Publishing Ltd
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  Against The Current

  • 2015-07-13
  • 331 pages
  • Paperback
  • GoodDog Publishing, LLC

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