Visions Across the Americas

By Judith Hilliard, J. Sterling Warner, Vincent Piro

Book Overview

Offering a collection of diverse readings reinforced with discussions of the rhetorical modes, the fifth edition now provides new essays, writing prompts, and an expanded glossary. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0155068059
• ISBN13: 9780155068056
• Release Date: July 2000
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
• Length: 488 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.8" x 5.3" x 0.8"

Customer Reviews

Great for students/aficionados of sociology and rhetoric

This book provides much insight for students and aficionados of sociology and rhetorical essays. It is a penetrating entrance into the process of reading and writing; it is a foray into diversity and humanness. In this compilation of essays, Warner, Hilliard and Piro have brilliantly combined, organized and analyzed a diverse selection, which raises the bar to a new standard by which future books will be measured.The essay authors are appropriate for the study of rhetoric (Bradbury, E.B. White, Dorothy Parker, Gore Vidal, Walker, Tan, et al), and the topics (language, culture, family, communication, lifestyle, immigrants, ritual, prejudices) are well suited to the study of cross-cultural issues and themes.The organization is multi-dimensional, allowing for a variety of approaches to learning with this book. The "rhetorical table-of-contents" contains the standard groupings, such as narration, description, cause and effect, persuasion, etc., but also includes new categories such as communication and process analysis. The secondary view, however, is what grabbed my attention. There is a "thematic table-of-contents" section which groups the essays in another manner more suited to a sociological view (stereotypes, racism, sexism, places, etc.)The accompanying activities and exercises are thought provoking, inspirational and rewarding, whether for classroom use, or individual or group assignments.Overall, a fine book for students of rhetoric, culture and beyond. I highly recommend it.