Download or read book Reading Popular Culture written by Michael F. Petracca and published by Longman Publishing Group. This book was released on 2010-12 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Engagingly written by a well-known author team, Reading Popular Culture is a clear, graceful, authoritative, brief rhetoric focused on academic writing. Students can turn to this book for guidance about matters large and smallùchoosing a topic, writing an analysis, constructing a paragraph, using and documenting sources, punctuating a quotation, and much more. Reading Popular Culture covers the writing process from beginning to end, including drafting, revising, editing, and preparing final copy. Students will learn essential skills for effective college writingùskills they will need not only for first-year writing courses but for responding to any college-level writing assignment.