The Borzoi College ReaderThis highly regarded, thematic reader for freshman composition offers students an introduction to issues in the arts and sciences. It includes a good balance of classic and contemporary selections from mixed genres and provides a wide range of viewpoints and voices. The readings are supported by introductions to each theme and individual headnotes. |
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... experience is only a flow of impressions , as subjective as our feelings ; words make it objective , and carve it up into things and facts that we can note , remember , and think about . Language gives outward experience its form , and ...
... experience is only a flow of impressions , as subjective as our feelings ; words make it objective , and carve it up into things and facts that we can note , remember , and think about . Language gives outward experience its form , and ...
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... experience - accidental impressions , observations , and even " inner experience " not induced by stimuli received from the environment — may initi- ate cognitive processes leading to changes in a person's knowledge . Thus , new ...
... experience - accidental impressions , observations , and even " inner experience " not induced by stimuli received from the environment — may initi- ate cognitive processes leading to changes in a person's knowledge . Thus , new ...
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... experience . Understanding an idea means understanding the lives of those who created and champi- oned it . It means knowing their peculiar sources of inspiration , their limits , their vulnerabilities and blind spots . What our schools ...
... experience . Understanding an idea means understanding the lives of those who created and champi- oned it . It means knowing their peculiar sources of inspiration , their limits , their vulnerabilities and blind spots . What our schools ...
Contents
On Writing | 1 |
Anaïs Nin from The Personal Life Deeply Lived | 12 |
Thinking about Thinking | 19 |
Copyright | |
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