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Signs of Life in the USA

Readings on Popular Culture for Writers

By: Sonia Maasik

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Signs of Life in the USA

Readings on Popular Culture for Writers

By: Sonia Maasik

Signs of Life in the USA teaches students to read and write critically about popular culture by giving them a conceptual framework to do it: semiotics, a field of critical theory developed specifically for the interpretation of culture and its signs. Written by a prominent semiotician and an experienced writing instructor, the text’s high-interest themes feature provocative and current reading selections that ask students to think analytically about America’s impressive popular culture: How is TV’s Mad Men a lightning rod for America’s polarized political climate? Has the nature of personal identity changed in an era when we spend so much of our lives online? Signs of Life bridges the transition to college writing by providing students with academic language to talk about our common, everyday cultural experience. Read the preface. Order Multimodal Readings for Signs of Life in the USA packaged with Signs of Life in the USA, Seventh Edition using ISBN-13: 978-1-4576-1989-2.

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Signs of Life in the USA

Readings on Popular Culture for Writers

By: Sonia Maasik,Jack Solomon

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Readings on Popular Culture for Writers

By: Sonia Maasik,Jack Solomon

Instructors who have used Signs of Life in the USA know that students love to talk and write about popular culture. They can attest that it teaches students to read and write critically about pop culture by providing them with a conceptual framework: semiotics, a field of study developed specifically for the interpretation of culture and its signs. Signs of Life is written by a prominent semiotician and an experienced writing instructor, and it has been extensively updated to account for the rapid evolution of contemporary trends and student interests. It features insightful themes with provocative and current reading selections that ask students to think analytically about America’s popular culture: How has niche advertising been used to develop a highly detailed profile of your consumer habits? Why are Americans so transfixed by "bad guys"? Signs of Life bridges the transition to college writing by providing students with academic language to talk about the significance of our shared cultural experiences.

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Macmillan Higher Education

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1457670852

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Signs of Life in the USA

Readings on Pop Culture for Writers

By: Sonia Maasik,Jack Solomon

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Signs of Life in the USA helps you learn the practice of writing critically about pop culture--from tv and movies to music and social media--and have a bit of fun in the process. The authors provide both the framework and the language necessary to analyze our shared cultural experiences.

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1319322824

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Signs of Life in the USA

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California Dreams and Realities

Readings for Critical Thinkers and Writers

By: Sonia Maasik,Jack Solomon

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California Dreams and Realities

Readings for Critical Thinkers and Writers

By: Sonia Maasik,Jack Solomon

California has long been a bellwether state -- a place where crucial trends that eventually spread throughout the U.S. first take root. Its national and international influence is driven by one of the largest economies in the world, by its extraordinary technological and cultural innovations, and by a disproportionately affluent and activist population larger than that of entire countries. In short, the issues of California are the issues that are likely to have an impact on the rest of America, and college students in California are well served by studying, thinking, and writing about their home state in their composition courses. California Dreams and Realities is the one composition reader that allows students to do just that.

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Bedford/St. Martin's

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