New Humanities Reader

by Richard E. Miller (Editor)

The New Humanities Reader is the cross-disciplinary anthology for first-year composition that has revolutionized the esteemed writing program at Rutgers University. This text requires students to make connections for themselves as they think, read, and write. Thousands of students who have class tested the "new humanities" approach and many of the readings in this volume, have responded with more reflective and interesting papers. Designed to help students attain the analytical skills and big-picture overview necessary to become informed citizens, the collection contains challenging and important readings from diverse fields that address critical issues in contemporary society. Ideas and research from wide-ranging sources provide opportunities for students to synthesize materials and come up with their own ideas and solutions. Students will be engaged by reading and rereading, analyzing, and working with these selections because they present powerful ideas, not simply because they are models of good writing style.

Genres: Read For School, Reference, Nonfiction, Academic

721 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2001

Reviews

[Raina Tellado · Rating 3 out of 5]

The articles were interesting, but I just hated writing 1000000 essays on them.

[Kate · Rating 4 out of 5]

A well-chosen collection of essays from 10-15 years ago. I read it for its historical interest and expected it to be outdated at this point, but found that it was mostly relevant to today's issues as well. Things really didn't change that much in the past decade...

[Hazel Gonzalez · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good stories, wish I had time to process them.

[Naomi · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book sparked great conversation in my class. I enjoyed it a lot!

[Tntbkhn · Rating 5 out of 5]

i want to read it