Writing the World: Reading and Writing About Issues of the Day

Writing the World is a new reader and writing guide that will prepare students to join the conversations about important issues of the day. It offers provocative readings that will engage student interest along with extensive writing guidance to help them add their voices to the conversations about key social and cultural issues -- to write the world, if you will.

CHARLES R. COOPER is an emeritus professor in the department of literature at the University of California, San Diego, where he served as the coordinator of the Campus Writing Programs and the Dimensions of Culture Program. He has also been codirector of the San Diego Writing Project, one of the National Writing Project Centers. Before coming to UCSD, he taught at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He is coauthor with Rise Axelrod of The St. Martin's Guide to Writing (Bedford/St. Martin's, 2001) and Reading Critically, Writing Well, Fifth Edition (Bedford/St. Martin's, 1999); he is coeditor with Lee Odell of Evaluating Writing, Second Edition (1999).

SUSAN PECK MacDONALD is an assistant professor at the California State University at Long Beach. Before coming to Long Beach, she directed the writing program of the Humanities Core Course at the University of California, Irvine, codirected, with Charles Cooper, the Dimensions of Culture Program at the University of California, San Diego, and taught at Eastern Connecticut State University. She is the author of Professional Academic Writing in the Humanities and Social Sciences, winner of the CCCC Best Book Award in 1996.