This innovative text/anthology/CD package offers a seamless integration of new media with a literature for composition text that emphasizes critical thinking, argument, research, and the writing process.

Teaching students how to read literature closely, think critically, and write convincingly, this text outlines skills for developing a focused thesis and providing evidence to support it. Based on the belief that ways of knowing are often related, the text and CD instill transferable critical thinking skills about analyzing literature that can be applied across a range of media and situations—to fine art, film, music, advertising, and cultural events and issues.