Text Selection Guidelines

Robinson et al. Writing Guide. Open Stax.

Writing Guide breaks down barriers in the field of composition by offering an inviting and inclusive approach to students of all intersectional identities. To meet this goal, the text creates a reciprocal relationship between everyday rhetoric and the evolving world of academia. Writing Guide builds on students’ life experiences and their participation in rhetorical communities within the familiar contexts of personal interaction and social media. The text seeks to extend these existing skills by showing students how to construct a variety of compelling compositions in a variety of formats, situations, and contexts. –Open Stax.

The MSU Department of Writing Studies. The Redhawk Writing Collection. Open Source.

This text is a compilation of first year MSU student essays from the 2021-2022 academic year, written in WRIT 105 classes. With these essays, faculty can show their current students different approaches to various programmatic assignments (analysis essays, literacy narratives, argument/research essays). Using this text, students and faculty can work with the essays as concrete ways of talking about style, storytelling devices, organizational methods, sentence-level concerns and other issues of interest to a writing class.

ISBN: Open source

Graff, Gerald, Cathy Birkenstein, and Russel Durst. They Say / I Say with Readings. W. W. Norton & Co.

The book that has taught millions of students to present their arguments as a response to what “they say” has been expanded to define as broadly as possible who’s included in “they.” Readings demonstrate the moves that matter in academic writing and represent a multitude of perspectives. The Fourth Edition includes an anthology of 40 readings—half of which are NEW—that will prompt students to listen, think, and write about five important issues, including NEW “How Can We Bridge the Differences That Divide Us?”–W.W. Norton & Co.

E-book (6 months) ISBN: 978-0-393-664006-5   $30.00.

Paperback (purchase only) ISBN: 978-0-393-63168-5 $51.25 from Norton site, free shipping

Direct student purchase: They Say/I Say

Schilb, John and John Clifford, eds. A Brief Guide to Arguing about Literature. 3rd ed. Bedford St. Martins, 2020

More and more, first-year writing courses foreground skills of critical analysis and argumentation. In response, A Brief Guide to Arguing about Literature first hones students’ analytical skills through instruction in close critical reading of texts; then, it shows them how to turn their reading into well-supported and rhetorically effective argumentative writing. For instructors who prefer to aggregate their own anthology of readings and literary works for their literature-based composition courses, A Brief Guide to Arguing about Literature comprises only the writing-guide chapters of John Schilb and John Clifford’s admired Arguing about Literature: Guide and Reader. –Bedford

E-book (6 months) ISBN: 978-1319293857 $32.99

Paperback rental (4 months). ISBN: 978-1319215934 $29.99 / Purchase: $45.99

Direct student purchase: Arguing

Graff, Gerald, Cathy Birkenstein, and Russel Durst. They Say / I Say with Readings. W. W. Norton & Co.

The book that has taught millions of students to present their arguments as a response to what “they say” has been expanded to define as broadly as possible who’s included in “they.” Readings demonstrate the moves that matter in academic writing and represent a multitude of perspectives. The Fourth Edition includes an anthology of 40 readings—half of which are NEW—that will prompt students to listen, think, and write about five important issues, including NEW “How Can We Bridge the Differences That Divide Us?”–W.W. Norton & Co.

E-book (6 months) ISBN: 978-0-393-664006-5   $30.00.

Paperback (purchase only) ISBN: 978-0-393-63168-5 $51.25 from Norton site, free shipping

Direct student purchase: They Say/I Say

Abcarian, Richard, Marvin Klotz, and Samuel Cohen, eds. Literature: The Human Experience. Shorter 12th ed. Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2018

Literature: The Human Experience provides a broad range of compelling fiction, poetry, drama, and nonfiction that explores the intersections and contradictions of human nature. Timeless themes such as innocence and experience, conformity and rebellion, culture and identity, love and hate, and life and death are presented through the context of experiences that are enduringly human. Diverse selections from contemporary and classic authors across time and cultures offer students opportunities to discover literature with which they can connect.

A flexible arrangement of literature within each theme allows instructors to teach the text however best suits their classrooms, and the expert instruction and exciting selections will help to guide and entice even the most reluctant readers. Enhancements to the shorter twelfth edition include two new casebooks that help students to see how literature can make arguments as well as new reading questions that ask students to make arguments about the selections. To top it off, Literature: The Human Experience is value-priced, providing a wealth of material for an affordable price. –Bedford 

E-book (6 months) ISBN: 978-127305 $29.99

Paperback rental (4 months) ISBN: 978-054717 $25.99

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Meyer, Michael, and D.Quentin Miller, eds. Literature To Go. 4th ed. Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2020

Drawn from our best-selling anthology, The Bedford Introduction to Literature, Literature to Go is a brief and inexpensive collection of stories, poems, and plays supported by the superior instruction you expect from a Michael Meyer anthology. With literature from many periods, cultures, and diverse voices, the book is also a complete guide to close reading, critical thinking, and thoughtful writing about literature. The second edition features a new thematic chapter on our working lives and a new in-depth chapter on the fiction of Dagoberto Gilb, created in collaboration with the author himself—continuing the anthology’s mission to present literature as a living, changing art form. -Macmillan Higher Ed

E-book (6 months) ISBN: 978-1319261320 $32.99

Paperback rental (4 months)ISBN: 978-1319195922 $38.99

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Kelly, Joseph, ed. The Seagull Book of Literature. 4th ed. W. W. Norton & Co., 2017

The best-priced alternative to full-length anthologies, this collection offers a compelling blend of classroom favorites and contemporary literary works. Contained in a portable, flexible volume, you’ll find it fits perfectly into a variety of introductory courses. –W.W. Norton

Available in paperback only (3-vol. set: short fiction, poems, drama)

$50.00 from the Norton site with free shipping

https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393631692#

ISBN: 978-0-393-63169-2

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