Product Description: Part of the Longman Topics reader series, Writing Places encourages students to examine the locations that define their past, present and future. As students begin to think critically and to write about these places, they realize that location is an enormous part of identity – both personally and academically...read more

Product Description: Institutions of higher learning seem traditionally isolated from the realities of the neighborhoods around them. But increasingly, colleges and universities have thrown open their gates and made a public turn toward school-community partnerships, bringing literacy activities to the streets and service-learning opportunities to faculty, staff, and student volunteers...read more

Product Description: This book intervenes dramatically in current debates about the future of English studies as business interests reach deeper into the domains of higher education. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)