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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 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 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.
11 delete	2011-03-31 10:23:02	am ambivalent	am ambivalent	recommend it	am ambivalent	am ambivalent	recommend it			recommend it	Yes
15 delete	2011-04-02 15:38:44		don't recommend it	recommend it	am ambivalent	am ambivalent	recommend it		recommend it	recommend it	Yes	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.
22 delete	2011-04-11 13:26:39				am ambivalent			am ambivalent	am ambivalent	recommend it	Yes	Many good readings in Making Arguments About Literature. The companion reference book offers compact interpretations and commentary. I like that the book is under 1000 pages. Would be nice if the book had a more logical sequence to its arrangement. As is, I find myself doing work that the editors could have done.
23 delete	2011-04-11 18:07:37		don't recommend it	recommend it	am ambivalent		recommend it			recommend it
27 delete	2011-04-20 14:05:42				am ambivalent					am ambivalent	Ambivalent	I am ambivalent about Greene. Its strengths are its relatively low price,the very appropriate and useful supplementary material on the texts, and the questions, which are also good at getting into important aspects of a text in concrete ways. There is a large selection of poetry and fiction. The section on fairy tales is popular with students and with some supplementation can produce a good unit. On the other hand, the drama selection is very limited, many of the readings from all genres are old warhorses, and it is enormous. I hate carrying it around. I am ambivalent about A Writer's Reference because I find the Montclair section very useful. Much of the material about writing argument, however, seems geared to information type writing rather than the analytical arguments we try to teach.