"Emerging , 5e, focuses on the skills necessary for academic writing in any discipline-and offers concrete strategies for improving those skills. Author Barclay Barrios uses an inquiry-based approach and innovative assignment sequences to help students explore, understand, and write about a variety of thought-provoking, contemporary readings on the important but unsettled issues that shape our lives, such as How is technology changing us?, How can you make a difference in the world?, and a central question of our time, How can we get along?"--