Reviews for Phase blue

The average rating for Phase blue based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2013-05-14 00:00:00 Robert Allgood Very dusty, very useful

Review # 2 was written on 2012-02-22 00:00:00 Dana Burge This was a mixed bag of a text. On one hand, some of the more complex concepts of argument were explained pretty well, and the focus on Rogerian argument and common ground was different from the usual. On the other, occasionally the book was less a text on argument and more a text on how to compromise successfully, which, while admirable, isn't necessarily how argument is handled. The weak point, though, was the selection of articles in the reader. There was almost nothing that I would consider college-level appropriate. It was a mix of articles from popular magazines like Time and the like, and oddly, several blogger pieces and personal experience situations, usually very brief. Articles included a child asking about And Tango Makes Three (1/2 a page), an article discussing online dating that was predominantly written by someone who owned a website devoted to it (1 page), and a woman reflecting on her custody situation with her ex-husband. These were more pop pieces than scholarly articles written for college use, and frankly most of them wouldn't usually have passed muster with me as sources for argumentative essays.