Customer Reviews

The Allyn & Bacon Guide to Writing, Brief Edition (MyCompLab Series)

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The university where I teach allows us to choose our own composition text. After much research and personal experience with several composition texts, I use this guide. While I agree that the selected essays do have a liberal slant I do not agree that the writing is too difficult for a freshman to understand.

There is no way that I would assign the entire textbook, cover to cover, for one semester. Even the authors do not suggest this. I use the chapters on reading and writing rhetoric, research, critical data analysis, and writer conferencing with all of my composition classes. Then I pick and choose which specific writing projects/chapters I will use for different levels.

I highly recommend this textbook. It has a lot of acurate and useful information and is a great source for a composition course.

To counterbalance the liberal essays, I add in several others from many different perspectives and fields to allow students to have a wider understanding of the world.

I have been required to use this text at one school where I teach, and it is a dismal experience. Most of the other instructors feel the same way, but we are overruled by a minority opinion.

The authors do not have a clue that they are writing this book for a freshman college audience. You need advanced reading skills in order to be able to understand some of the chapters in this book. For example, they overly complicate the chapter on writing evaluations.

The readings are also dry and have a noticeably liberal slant. Although, there are a couple of interesting ones, such as the essay about Sesame Street being sexist. However, there are not enough readings to provide good examples for students to use as models.

If I was not forced to use the book, I would not. This is too much money to spend on a book that is not especially useful.

Really takes you through each essay and asks you various questions about it. It's covering pretty much everything about writing. I recommend it.

The book contains good up to date information and it has helped me with my College writing class.

The book was in very good condition and arrived within two days, to my great delight. Especially after ordering the same book from another company - which I never received and have never been given a refund for.

Thank you for the excellent service!

It's very good. High quality book that almost seems like new, and it got here within a week. Woo.

Has all of the pages. The cover is worn out and could be in a better state. The book overall is still in a good condition.

The book was in very good condition, but it took longer than the time it said it would take for expedited shipping. So it was a little slow, but otherwise it was great service.

* came on time

* in great condition

* helpful for english majors in writing