The Emergence of Pidgin and Creole Languages Book

I just wrote a review on this and it got lost in the ether somewhere. The gist of it was: not bad for a textbook.

Three things I liked: organization, including placement and use of its essays; the essays themselves, which were widely varied, generally interesting, and good discussion starters; and the way the book encourages students to develop a single topic to use for multiple essays over the course of the class. I think it would be neat to see how the same topic lends itself to different styles of written argument. Although the flip side of this could be that the same topic might get boring after the first essay or two. I may have to give it a try to see which way it goes.