Guidelines: A Cross-Cultural Reading/Writing Text

by Ruth Spack

A rhetoric that takes students through the progression of increasingly challenging assignments, from writing from personal experience to writing about course readings, and to writing from outside sources.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312259026
• ISBN13: 9780312259020
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 338 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.

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But too bad they left out the May Sarton essay...

I've used Guidelines for my advanced ESL composition course at a community college for the past six or seven years, and it's the best book I know of for the purpose. My only regret is that May Sarton's essay "The Rewards of Living a Solitary Life" was omitted from this new edition. I've had some great student papers that came from reading the Sarton essay back-to-back with Yezierska's "College," and considering the difference between solitude and loneliness. It's only a few pages--put it back in next time!

Super! For use with any college students - not just ESL/EFL

I began using Guidelines (the first edition) in 1995 when it was essentially prescribed by an EFL colleague using it to teach another section of composition. I found it to be one of the best texts I've ever used for a comp class. The readings are genuinely engaging and students really felt motivated to reply in writing and with in-class discussion. Many years later, I'm no longer teaching composition, but keep this book on my shelf anyway since I never know when I will want to refer to one of the readings. April Spencer Director, Office of International Programs U of Maine Farmington