A World of Ideas: Essential Readings for College Writers

 

A World of Ideas: Essential Readings for College Writers
A World of Ideas: Essential Readings for College Writers
by Authors: Lee A. Jacobus
Released: 01 July, 2001
ISBN: 031239019X
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A World of Ideas: Essential Readings for College Writers > Customer Review #1:
Required text that lives longer than the semester.

This book has some great peices of writing from the likes of The Buddah, Lao-Tzu, Martin Luther King, Jr., Jefferson, Freud, Nietzsche, Rousseau, and more. There is not enough time in a semester to cover it all so you may end up reading it on your own time as I have. The Biographical and Rhetorical sections help comprehension of these writings.

The one place this book is really lacking is in the translated writings. If you wish to get a better feel of Lao-Tzu and the Tao Teh Ching I would suggest John C.H. Wus translation. It remains truer to the origional text.



A World of Ideas: Essential Readings for College Writers > Customer Review #2:
A World of Ideas

The book is required for my english class.I just got it and have not had a achance to read it. What I can tell you is that the book arrived very quickly, which is exactly what I needed. Thank You.

A World of Ideas: Essential Readings for College Writers > Customer Review #3:
Basic College Writing

This is an excellent book for transitioning students from high school to college. The selections are intellegent and demanding and cover several areas of study. The introduction gives a method for reading and evaluating that will serve the student for the remainder of his/her college career and beyond.

 
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