Writing across the Constitution: A Multi-theme Reader for Citizens and Writers is a unique composition reader that organizes its topics for discussion and writing around the Constitution of the United States of America. It presents a variety of timely controversial issuessuch as free speech, gun control, capital punishment, illegal drugs, same-sex marriage, and many other issues that spring directly from the Bill of Rights and the other amendments to the Constitution. Students have the opportunity to research, discuss, and write about these topics while learning about themselves and the world in which they live.
While other composition readers similarly contain Chapters on controversial issues, their topics are largely chosen at the whim of the authors. There seems to be no integrating concept for the books as a whole. While Writing across the Constitution also contains a variety of topics, it is at the same time thematically integrated, making it unlike any other reader on the market.
With its unique method of organization and compelling topics, Writing across the Constitution, as its name suggests, is truly a ""writing across the curriculum"" textbook. We hope it will be a very flexible tool for instructors of composition, political science, history, sociology, and many other disciplines in which writing is a component and critical thinking is a requirement.
- ISBN13 9781524939113
- Publish Date 30 August 2017 (first published 24 August 2017)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S.
- Pages 277
- Language English