Background
Ackley, Katherine Anne was born on October 1, 1943 in Columbia City, Indiana, United States. Daughter of Walter Eugene and Phyllis Elizabeth (Phend) Mitchell.
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Praised for it's ability to engage students in active and critical reading, the fourth edition continues to provide a wide range of essays addressing contemporary responses to enduring social and personal issues.
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This cross-disciplinary reader encourages critical thinking and academic writing by presenting students with a variety of perspectives on current issues from across the curriculum. Contemporary issues engage the student, while the thematically grouped readings provide rich material for both in-class discussion and writing topics.
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(OVERVIEW Meeting a need for teaching critical reading, wr...)
OVERVIEW Meeting a need for teaching critical reading, writing, and the techniques for research, Perspectives on Contemporary Issues: Readings Across the Disciplines, demonstrates to students the interconnectedness of ideas and the relationship of different areas of curriculum studies to one another. The goals of the book are to sharpen students' thinking skills by presenting them with a variety of perspectives on current individual, national, and global issues. The variety of issues and opinions are aimed to provoke lively classroom discussions and provide writing topics, giving students practice in both oral and written communication.
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(Meeting a need for teaching critical reading, writing, an...)
Meeting a need for teaching critical reading, writing, and the techniques for research, Perspectives on Contemporary Issues: Readings Across the Disciplines, demonstrates to students the interconnectedness of ideas and the relationship of different areas of curriculum studies to one another. The goals of the book are to sharpen students' thinking skills by presenting them with a variety of perspectives on current individual, national, and global issues. The variety of issues and opinions are aimed to provoke lively classroom discussions and provide writing topics, giving students practice in both oral and written communication.
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Praised for its collection of essays on contemporary issues, the fifth edition offers more coverage of critical reading and writing and visual rhetoric.
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PERSPECTIVES on CONTEMPORARY ISSUES, 7th Edition, approaches learning as the interconnectedness of ideas and disciplinary perspectives. This cross-disciplinary reader encourages critical thinking and academic writing by presenting a variety of perspectives on current issues across the curriculum.
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(Katherine Ackley assumes that students respond most deepl...)
Katherine Ackley assumes that students respond most deeply to readings on topics relevant to their own lives. The selections included in the fifth edition of PERSPECTIVES ON CONTEMPORARY ISSUES will prompt good discussions, and the sections on reading and writing critically will lead to writing that you truly care about.
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Ackley, Katherine Anne was born on October 1, 1943 in Columbia City, Indiana, United States. Daughter of Walter Eugene and Phyllis Elizabeth (Phend) Mitchell.
Bachelor, Ball State University, 1965. Doctor of Philosophy, Ball State University, 1978. Master of Arts, Purdue University, 1969.
Lecturer in English, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana, 1974-1978; lecturer in English, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater, 1978-1979; assistant Professor of English, University of Wisconsin, Steven Point, 1979-1986; associate professor, University of Wisconsin, Steven Point, 1986-1990; Professor of English, University of Wisconsin, Steven Point, since 1990; coordinator women's studies, University of Wisconsin, Steven Point, 1982-1992; assistant dean graduate studies, University of Wisconsin, Steven Point, 1990-1995. Leader semester abroad program University of Wisconsin -Stevens Point, London, spring 1992, 96. Presenter and lecturer in field.
(OVERVIEW Meeting a need for teaching critical reading, wr...)
(Meeting a need for teaching critical reading, writing, an...)
(A reader for introductory composition courses, this text ...)
(Praised for it's ability to engage students in active and...)
(This cross-disciplinary reader encourages critical thinki...)
(Praised for its collection of essays on contemporary issu...)
(PERSPECTIVES on CONTEMPORARY ISSUES, 7th Edition, approac...)
(Katherine Ackley assumes that students respond most deepl...)
(First Published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylo...)
(First Published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylo...)
Delaware United States/China Joint Conference on Women's Issues, People to People, Beijing, 1995. Member Midwest Modern Language Association, National Council Teachers English, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 18th and 19th-Century British Women Writers Association, Conference on College Composition and Comm., The Barbara Pym Society (life), Dorothy L. Sayers Society, International Dickens Fellowship, Business and Professional Women (president Stevens Point chapter 1985-1987, Woman of the Year 1990), Phi EtaSigma.
Married Allan David White, June 14, 1965 (divorced 1978). Children: Heather Anne, Laurel Leigh, Jeremy Aaron. Married Richard Cameron Ackley, January 9, 1988.
Stepchildren: Robin Louise, Jonathan Hugh.