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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.
1 delete 2011-03-30 10:49:21 am ambivalent
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2 delete 2011-03-30 11:14:41 recommend it
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I have used Reading our Histories: Understanding Our Cultures and like it, but it is very expensive, and we use so little of it. Much of the explanatory material is replicated in A Writer's Reference, so I don't think we need that part of the book. Couldn't we just use a cheaper book of essays on various subjects? All we need is readings to refer to in the essays.
4 delete 2011-03-30 12:05:41 am ambivalent
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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."
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For 105: Ourselves Among Others, Seeing and Writing (both from Bedford St. Martin's) Just a general observation on 106 texts--most of them are extremely large (and expensive)and while the variety is nice, I'd really love to see more small, manageable readers for 106.
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10 delete 2011-03-30 21:23:48 don't recommend it
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I would like to see Changing Society remain a choice for 105. For reasons, see below. Changing Society is a great text for 105 because readings are current, short, and representative of various points of view. They cover topics students are interested in: cars and energy, tv, digital life, et. al. I did not like From Inquiry to academic Writing because readings were too long and challenging for students. Acting Out Culture pieces are out of date - especially on digital age. I like A Writer's Reference, especially the custom version, as it standardizes rubric, essay jargon, etc. BUT I don't think students like using it - I think it's time for an online tool, where students live.
11 delete 2011-03-31 10:23:02 am ambivalent
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13 delete 2011-04-01 18:04:44 recommend it
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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.
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Acting Out Culture is structured wonderfully, but some of the articles are odd. I must pick and choose carefully to create complimentary readings.
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21 delete 2011-04-11 09:33:16 don't recommend it
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22 delete 2011-04-11 13:26:39 am ambivalent
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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
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25 delete 2011-04-13 19:07:07 recommend it
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