Review
"Students at this level have many challenges including narrowing and focusing a topic, adequate development, sentence structure and grammar. Grassroots does a good job with this level of student which is why we have stayed with this text for about 15 years."
"This book is a staple among developmental writing texts."
--This text refers to an alternate
Paperback
edition.
About the Author
Susan Fawcett is a former professor of English and director of the writing lab at Bronx Community College, CUNY. She is the author of two leading writing textbooks, Evergreen and Grassroots,as well as a text for business majors called Business English: Skills for Success, 2/e. In 2000, Evergreen won the McGuffey Prize for sustained excellence in a language and literature text, awarded by the Text and Academic Authors Association. Ms. Fawcett's poetry and nonfiction articles on education, health, and the environment have appeared in such magazines as The Nation, Poetry, Ms., Woman's Day, and Ploughshares. Her formal education took place at Ohio University, the University of London, and Columbia University, with the support of Fulbright and Woodrow Wilson fellowships. Through presentations in the U.S. and South Africa, she has worked to improve college writing instruction, and recently, to promote textbook authorship of minority faculty.
Alvin Sandberg is one of the authors of Grassroots, Seventh Edition, Evergreen, Sixth Edition, and Business English: Skills for Success. Before retiring, he taught developmental writing for many years at Bronx Community College.
