"This textbook is all-encompassing, approachable, and even exciting for the first-year composition student. The organization is unique, offering an effective launching pad to writing. It offers readings with wide appeal. It is interdisciplinary and interactive. Fields of Reading is a truly motivational companion to the first-year college writer."
— Jenny Grosvenor, University of Vermont
"It’s an extremely valuable text because it offers strong models of professional writing in the major disciplines and rhetorical strategies."
— Cynthia Bates, University of California, Davis
"The discussions that result from some of these readings are really amazing because students are able to connect to the readings on a personal level."
— Bonnie Colemire, St. Charles Community College
"A rich anthology of authentic readings. A keeper in my personal library. A textbook that students will want to keep rather than turn in for petty cash."
— Jennifer Vallely, California State University at San Bernardino