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    I have used EMERGING: CONTEMPORARY READINGS FOR WRITERS (Barrios) and I I have used ACTING OUT CULTURE: READING AND WRITING (Miller) and I I have used READING OUR WORLD (Yagelski) and I I have used FROM INQUIRY TO ACADEMIC WRITING (Greene and Lidinsky) and I I have used CHANGING SOCIETY (Schwab and Love) and I I have used MAKING LITERATURE MATTER (Schilb and Clifford) and I: I have used MAKING ARGUMENTS ABOUT LITERATURE (Schilb and Clifford) and I I have used LITERATURE: THE HUMAN EXPERIENCE(Abcarian, Klotz, and Cohen) and I: I have used THE NORTON INTRODUCTION TO LITERATURE, SHORTER 9TH EDITION (Booth, Hunter, and Mays) and I: I have used A WRITER'S REFERENCE (Hacker) and I: Do you think the custom A Writer's Reference is a useful text to require of all First Year Writing students (ENWR 100, 105, and 106)? Please offer text recommendations for any of the courses. Just make sure the recommendations fit our program. Thank you. Please add details for any text about which you feel strongly, listing its strengths and weaknesses. We are particularly interested to hear why you do not recommend a text or are ambivalent. Please mention the text by name in your response as your answer here is not linked to your answers on the rest of the survey.
5 delete 2011-03-30 14:47:51 recommend it
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I was surprised at how positive my students were about Barrios, Emerging. I had thought it might be a little too challenging, but the response on end of term evaluations was overwhelmingly positive. Students told me they found it refreshing to talk about "real things."
15 delete 2011-04-02 15:38:44 don't recommend it
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Reading Our World by Yagelski was an excellent selection with well thought out topics and readings. This text has a great philosophy that was maintained throughout and which enabled me to discuss not only a reading’s topic, but also the art of writing and the decisions that writers make while creating and revising their work. Chapters 1 and 3 were invaluable because they laid the groundwork of good writing by introducing students to the Rhetorical Situation, which was well represented throughout the text by the consistently used color-coded glosses and grouped questions which allowed students to review material, challenge their ideas, and engage in critical thinking/research. Finally, since some of my students were struggling financially throughout the semester, being able to find all of the readings online and supplementing those versions with reserve texts and their friends’ books enabled them to only purchase the Hacker Handbook.

This has been my second favorite text at MSU -- Kathleen McCormick's being my favorite.
18 delete 2011-04-10 18:41:25 recommend it
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