Write For College: A Student Handbook
by Dave Kemper, Patrick Sebranek, Verne Meyer
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Author: Dave Kemper, Patrick Sebranek, Verne MeyerEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1900-01
ISBN: 0669444022
Number of pages: 893
Publisher: Great Source
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Book Review: Is everything better than nothing?
Summary: 3 Stars
As a teacher who has had to use this book for the past 2 years, I would be rather sorry to part with it--from my personal library. After all, it contains an almanac, a six-year calendar, the U. S. Constitution along with all sorts of pointers about how to succeed in college and life. Moreover, for teachers unexperienced in teaching composition, the text breaks down the writing process in both a short, simplified sequence and an extended, more detailed one. And lengthy chapters are devoted to writing every kind of discourse--from literary essays to science reports to business letters and essay exams. When I discovered that most of my students who had purchased the book for a previous course never used it, I tried mightily to incorporate it into my classes, and there was the rub. The lengthy and repetitious sections on the writing process are unwieldy and no substitute for doing it, and the "handbook" section is minimal and of limited practical value. In fact, there's no convenient way for student writers to connect correction symbols with related discussions in the text. A student writer would not find out how to punctuate a compound sentence containing a conjunctive adverb, but he would discover that success in college requires "determination, curiosity, and self-reliance" (p. 544). Perhaps it's just as well that the parental, if not preachy, tone of much of the text assures students will not make use of it: The authors caution students against change, reminding them it's smart "to stick to your values and beliefs" (547). As an educator, I would have to disqualify the book from serious consideration on the basis of that sentence alone.
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