Reviews for 75 Readings Across the Curriculum

The average rating for 75 Readings Across the Curriculum based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2008-07-04 00:00:00 Sean Ross I've used this one in a pinch, like when a reader was required for a class, but I was much more into getting my student's to read some non-standard fare that's exciting and challenging. Or at least got them out of the standard literature loop, so to speak.

Review # 2 was written on 2019-01-20 00:00:00 Mitchell Conahan The authors write that this book is a rather traditional approach to looking at modes of discourse in writing. I see nothing wrong with such an approach. With that in mind, I still can only give the book an average review. First of all, there is not much substance. The authors spend about two or three pages touching on some very superficial basics for modes of discourse such as narration, argumentation, comparison/contrast and others. If the writers had given more analysis, more suggestions, and more details to this segment of each chapter, I would have rated the book with more stars. What I did like, however, is that for each mode of discourse the authors provide several short examples. Each of them is no more than a page or two thus making it very easy to look at several examples in a short period of thime. This makes the book useful in a classroom. In short,the book may be more useful in a high school composition course, or as a supplement in a community college or in a four-year college "English 100" course