Reading and Analyzing Non-Fiction: Slant, Spin, and Bias

by Douglas Grudzina

Nonfiction can be a challenge, but with Reading and Analyzing Slant, Spin, and Bias students will learn to examine the interplay of fact, opinion, and emotion in an editorial, memoir, or feature article. With this refreshingly unique collection of nonfiction selections, students will cover everything from the Declaration of Independence to Pulitzer Prize-winning editorials and blog entries from New York Times bestselling authors. Each selection is accompanied by exercises that follow the effective model-guided-practice-independent work teaching process, and are enhanced with annotations to help guide students to an independent analysis of what they have read.
This is a student classroom edition. Teacher's editions are available from the publisher but are only sold to teachers and schools.

249 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2010

About the author

Douglas Edward Grudzina is a Merchandiser/New Product Development Specialist for Prestwick House, where he writes and edits Advanced Placement Teaching Units and Multiple Perspectives Lesson Guides.

Reviews

[Karen · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a highly useful book that will support instruction in mass communication writing. Grudzina's choices of texts are varied and high-interest, ranging from the Declaration of Independence and its logical comparison text, the women's rights declaration from Seneca Falls, to editorials, op-ed pieces and reviews. Questions that accompany the texts can be adapted into assignments or used as presented.