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 Fountainhead Press V Series
Series Editors: Brooke Rollins and Lee Bauknight
The Fountainhead Press V Series is a new collection of single-topic readers that offer a unique look at some of today’s most pressing issues. Designed to give writing students a more nuanced introduction to public discourse—on the environment, on food, and on digital life, to name a few of the topics—the books feature invention, research, and writing prompts that can be adapted to nearly any kind of college writing class. Each V Series textbook focuses on a single issue and includes multi-genre and multimodal readings and assignments that move the discourse beyond the most familiar patterns of debate—patterns usually fettered by entrenched positions and often obsessed with “winning.” The V in the series title stands for “Voices” and is meant to remind students that just about every issue comes with its own complicated cacophony of perspectives.
The ultimate goal of the series is to help writing students—who tend to hover on the periphery of public discourse—think, explore, find their voices, and skillfully compose texts in a variety of media and genres. Not only do the books help students think about the issues and how they might address them, they also give students the practice they need to develop their research, rhetorical, and writing skills. Together, the readings, prompts, and longer assignments show students how to add their voices to the conversations about these issues in meaningful and productive ways.
The Fountainhead Press V Series provides instructors with the tools to build the writing courses they want and need to teach. With carefully chosen readings, built-in flexibility, and sound rhetorical grounding, the V Series is designed to sustain an entire semester or quarter. The texts are priced inexpensively enough to be paired with other rhetorics and readers, making them a dynamic and user-friendly addition to any writing class. |
Books in the Series
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| GREEN |
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Green is the first release in the V Series. Selections include lyrics and poetry, memoirs and other personal writing; an excerpt from a graphic novel and other visual texts; researched arguments, guides, magazine and newspaper pieces, and book chapters. Each of these selections stands on its own as a significant contribution to the public discourse about the environment, and taken together they create a narrative—a complicated story about America’s relationship to, appropriation of, and identification with nature.
978-1-59871-415-9
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Food is the second release in the V Series. Food opens with a recipe for “steamed Maryland blue crabs.” This single recipe connects the author to a lifetime of memories, binds her to a locale, and represents a narrative of family ties and traditions. Yet it is merely a gesture toward the singularly important place that food holds in our lives. Far more than providing sustenance, food defines us. It connects us with people and places. It sets us in relation to others. It calls up important questions of sustainability and production, of ethics and responsibility.
For all these reasons, food gives us a rich variety of opportunities for writing and research, and this text is designed so that students will read, think, and compose with all of these considerations and questions in mind.
978-1-59871-431-9
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Features
The books are inexpensive, costing about $19 each, and flexible—they can be used by themselves or bundled together in Fountainhead Press packages. In addition, each reader includes:
- Timely issues that students encounter on a daily basis.
- Multi-genre & multimodal readings.
- Assignments and projects that go beyond the page, including web site design, poster lay-outs, and video presentations.
- Thorough research assignments that require students to collect and synthesize primary and secondary material.
- Community involvement projects.
For more information about the V Series, download one of the following:
 V-Series Flyer
Green Flyer
Food Flyer
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