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If you have any questions regarding price or ISBNs, please contact the appropriate publisher representative listed at the bottom of this page.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Robinson et al. Writing Guide<\/a>.<\/em> Open Stax.<\/strong><\/p>\n Writing Guide<\/em> 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<\/em> builds on students\u2019 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. \u2013Open Stax.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n <\/p>\n The MSU Department of Writing Studies.\u00a0The Redhawk Writing Collection<\/a>.<\/em>\u00a0Open Source.<\/strong><\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n ISBN: Open source<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n <\/p>\n Graff, Gerald, Cathy Birkenstein, and Russel Durst.\u00a0They Say \/ I Say with Readings<\/a>.<\/em>\u00a0W. W. Norton & Co.<\/strong><\/p>\n The book that has taught millions of students to present their arguments as a response to what \u201cthey say\u201d has been expanded to define as broadly as possible who\u2019s included in \u201cthey.\u201d Readings demonstrate the moves that matter in academic writing and represent a multitude of perspectives. The Fourth Edition includes an anthology of 40 readings\u2014half of which are NEW\u2014that will prompt students to listen, think, and write about five important issues, including NEW \u201cHow Can We Bridge the Differences That Divide Us?\u201d\u2013W.W. Norton & Co.<\/em><\/p>\n E-book (6 months) ISBN: 978-0-393-664006-5\u00a0\u00a0 $30.00.<\/p>\n Paperback (purchase only) ISBN: 978-0-393-63168-5 $51.25 from Norton site, free shipping<\/p>\n Direct student purchase: They Say\/I Say<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Schilb, John and John Clifford, eds.\u00a0A Brief Guide to Arguing about Literature.<\/em>\u00a03rd ed. Bedford St. Martins, 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n More and more, first-year writing courses foreground skills of critical analysis and argumentation. In response,\u00a0A Brief Guide to Arguing about Literature<\/em>\u00a0first hones students\u2019 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,\u00a0A Brief Guide to Arguing about Literature<\/em>\u00a0comprises only the writing-guide chapters of John Schilb and John Clifford\u2019s admired\u00a0Arguing about Literature: Guide and Reader<\/em>. –Bedford<\/em><\/p>\n E-book (6 months) ISBN: 978-1319293857 $32.99<\/p>\n Paperback rental (4 months). ISBN: 978-1319215934 $29.99 \/ Purchase: $45.99<\/p>\n Direct student purchase: Arguing<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n <\/p>\n Graff, Gerald, Cathy Birkenstein, and Russel Durst.\u00a0They Say \/ I Say with Readings<\/a>.<\/em>\u00a0W. W. Norton & Co.<\/strong><\/p>\n The book that has taught millions of students to present their arguments as a response to what \u201cthey say\u201d has been expanded to define as broadly as possible who\u2019s included in \u201cthey.\u201d Readings demonstrate the moves that matter in academic writing and represent a multitude of perspectives. The Fourth Edition includes an anthology of 40 readings\u2014half of which are NEW\u2014that will prompt students to listen, think, and write about five important issues, including NEW \u201cHow Can We Bridge the Differences That Divide Us?\u201d\u2013W.W. Norton & Co.<\/em><\/p>\n E-book (6 months) ISBN: 978-0-393-664006-5\u00a0\u00a0 $30.00.<\/p>\n Paperback (purchase only) ISBN: 978-0-393-63168-5 $51.25 from Norton site, free shipping<\/p>\n Direct student purchase: They Say\/I Say<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n <\/p>\n Abcarian, Richard, Marvin Klotz, and Samuel Cohen, eds.\u00a0Literature: The Human Experience<\/em><\/a>. Shorter 12th\u00a0ed. Bedford\/St. Martin’s, 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n Literature: The Human Experience<\/em>\u00a0provides 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.<\/p>\n 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,\u00a0Literature: The Human Experience<\/em>\u00a0is value-priced, providing a wealth of material for an affordable price. –Bedford<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n E-book (6 months) ISBN: 978-127305 $29.99<\/p>\n Paperback rental (4 months) ISBN: 978-054717 $25.99<\/p>\n Direct student purchase Literature: The Human Experience<\/em><\/a> Meyer, Michael, and D.Quentin Miller, eds.\u00a0Literature To Go<\/a>. 4th<\/em>\u00a0ed. Bedford\/St. Martin\u2019s, 2020 Paperback rental (4 months)ISBN: 978-1319195922 $38.99<\/p>\n Direct student purchase Literature To Go<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n Kelly, Joseph, ed.\u00a0The Seagull Book of Literature<\/a>.<\/em>\u00a04th ed. W. W. Norton & Co., 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n 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\u2019ll find it fits perfectly into a variety of introductory courses. –W.W. Norton<\/em><\/p>\n Available in paperback only (3-vol. set: short fiction, poems, drama)<\/p>\n $50.00 from the Norton site with free shipping<\/p>\n https:\/\/wwnorton.com\/books\/9780393631692#<\/a><\/p>\n ISBN: 978-0-393-63169-2<\/p>\n Direct student purchase The Seagull Book of Literature<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Open Stax: Natalie Allen, na39@rice.edu<\/a><\/p>\n Bedford\/St. Martin: Allison Curley, allison.curley@macmillan.com<\/a> Guidelines The FYW program recommends a range of texts for both WRIT 105 and WRIT 106. 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\nDrawn from our best-selling anthology,\u00a0The Bedford Introduction to Literature<\/em>,\u00a0Literature to Go<\/em>\u00a0is 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\u2014continuing the anthology\u2019s mission to present literature as a living, changing art form.\u00a0-Macmillan Higher Ed<\/em><\/p>\n
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