Today's students encounter a vast amount of information from a variety of media. Navigating America gives students the tools they need to sort through this information and evaluate it critically -- skills they'll use throughout their lives.

Features of Navigating America include:

• Focus on Information Competency: The book is built around the concepts of information competency and literacy, encouraging students to examine information from academic sources as well as contemporary sources such as film, television, and the internet.

• Convenient All-in-One Approach: Navigating America includes guides to MLA and APA documentation; material on making and evaluating arguments; a handbook chapter; and an anthology of readings, all contained within a single book.

• Model Paper Integration: The model MLA student research paper is integrated throughout the entire text, allowing students to see the entire writing process unfold before them, from prewriting to a final draft.

• Engaging, Relevant Readings: The essays here explore cultural themes and touchstones including YouTube, 24, media ownership, Wikipedia, the future of advertising, Wal-Mart, The Simpsons, zombie movies, fast food, The Godfather, and others.

• Writing and Researching Online: The Navigating America website includes additional readings, questions, and related links, supplementing the printed text, as well as access to McGraw-Hill's Catalyst 2.0, the premier online tool for writing and research.