"I love the selections. I have always found something that I could use for any given assignment. The selections are varied, engaging, and accessible."
—Esther Godfrey, University of South Carolina Upstate
"I most appreciate how it is organized around the different modes of writing. I use those four rhetorical modes to structure my assignments around — and I find it useful to look at how they each ask for different "moves" from a writer but also complement each other. I also think the readings themselves strike a good balance between accessible and challenging."
—Karl Hendricks, University of Pittsburgh
"I appreciate the variety of readings across the curriculum. Because I am teaching an introductory composition course that is supposed to prepare my students for writing across the curriculum, it is extremely important that I have a wide variety of topics and disciplines into which we can delve."
—John Walser, Marian University
"Like the earlier editions, it offers a large selection of intelligent, thought-provoking essays that students can build on to write essays of their own."
— Shirley Frank, York College-CUNY