Models for writers Book

I chose this book for a freshman composition course I taught this summer.

It's one of the best I've seen, out of the five or six other similar textbooks out there. It had short, engaging essays and plenty of them. That's why I bought it.

Rosa does a decent job covering the material students need to know, such as different rhetorical styles, the parts of an essay, and major skills like transitioning and incorporating sources. But I would have liked more discussion on logic and argumentation, including fallacies.

The one example of an MLA research essay is terrible. I could barely read it. The essays by professionals are much better and there are myriad to choose from.