Current Issues and Enduring Questions

Key differences between 11th and 10th editions

• Time lapse between current and previous publications: 3 years (2016 vs 2013).
• New co-author John O'Hara.
• Fresh and timely new readings, debates, and casebooks, including:
• "Let Them Eat Dog A modest proposal for tossing Fido in the oven" essay by Jonathan Safran Foer, a vegetarian novelist. The author argues that food is culture, habit, and identity rather than rational.
• "Fitbits for Bosses" essay by Lynn Stuart Parramore. The author warns against a recent trend toward using biosurveillance technologies to monitor workers by employers.
• "Why I Changed My Mind on Weed" by Dr. Sanjay Gupta, an American neurosurgeon and chief medical correspondent for CNN. He supports the legalization of medical marijuana.
• The Eleventh Ed. provides helpful tips and techniques for generating ideas for an essay, guide to writing a critical review, expanded vocabulary for critical thinking.
• Chapter 4 explains how to apply rhetorical analysis to visual images.