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A revised and expanded chapter on visual rhetoric and new visuals throughout the text provide students with even more opportunities to analyze visual arguments and to consider appropriate ways of incorporating visual sources in their work.

Increased coverage of stases of argument can be found throughout the text and in a newly revised and expanded instructor's manual.

Two newly revised casebooks, one entirely new on consumer society, the other, heavily revised, on modern relationships.

Three new chapters in the reader cover the subjects of global warming, "twenty-something" culture, and immigration, with new perspectives on how these issues are playing out in the 21st century.

A new chapter on avoiding plagiarism helps students better understand how to draw on and synthesize sources in their work. Detailed coverage and examples of summarizing, paraphrasing and quoting from sources clearly illustrate appropriate techniques for incorporating sources into an argument without accidentally plagiarizing the original work.

A revised and expanded chapter on research, incorporates more detailed discussion of searching for and evaluating electronic resources, especially sources drawn from electronic databases, blogs, and other web sources.