Publisher's Synopsis
"Those of us in the classroom realize that teaching reading and writing together requires more than just combining our old, separate reading and writing pedagogies. We have embraced a more rhetorical pedagogy, one that helps students read from a writer's point of view and write with an imagined reader ever present. We wrote the first edition of Common Places to provide that pedagogy. Throughout the book, we accelerate learning by consistently integrating skills. Students are challenged to develop their literacy skills by engaging in real-world, college-level integrated reading and writing projects. By developing their skills in this context, students acquire the literacy skills they need to pass challenging college-level courses. In addition to integrating and accelerating instruction, the pedagogy of Common Places is unique among reading and writing texts because it embeds content designed to foster the emotional intelligence developme
