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Seeing & Writing 3
Seeing & Writing was the first 4-color composition reader to truly reflect the visual in our culture and in composition. Instructors who have used the past two editions tell us that this textbook helped them envision a new kind of composition class, based on a simple grounding principle: Careful seeing leads to effective writing. Students read this book when they don't have to. They actively and critically see the details of each verbal and visual text, think about its composition and the cultural context within which it operates, and then write thoughtfully and convincingly about it. With a new look, new essays and images, and new notes on teaching from teachers who have used this cutting-edge text, Seeing & Writing 3 continues to lead the way -- as a visual, flexible, and above all, inspiring tool for the composition classroom.
761 pages, Paperback
First published January 3, 2006
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September 9, 2013
Some of my dissatisfaction with this book is partially due to the fact that I picked up a class that had already begun, only to find out then that it had a textbook I hadn't read before, so take this with a grain of salt.
Who the heck has a reader that is meant to be for rhetoric and composition courses that doesn't ever speak about rhetoric or composition? That's not entirely fair. There are a few very interesting comics, which do address the writing process (very briefly), but that's it. This is a critical failing, as this book is obviously aimed at beginning writers, but it doesn't seem to bother itself with actual things that beginning writers will need to tackle.
It goes much further though. This text contains no student essays at all, so that a reader can understand something from their peers, and almost all of its essays are the kind of lyrical nonfiction that is beautiful, but isn't particularly useful for most students. Where are the critical essays, the academic articles, the works that make use of works cited pages and/or footnotes? They are completely lacking.
The idea of linking visuals with text is wonderful, and something I have been doing myself for years, and it's great to have a textbook incorporate it to its very core, but the selections here make for poor comparison/contrast most of the time, and since the written selections are so disparate to the kind of writing the students will be doing, it seems a waste.
There is really some wonderful writing contained in this book, and a student that reads it front to back will be exposed to a world of difference, which is great, but this is supposed to be a text to help introduce students to writing, and for that, it is terrible.
Who the heck has a reader that is meant to be for rhetoric and composition courses that doesn't ever speak about rhetoric or composition? That's not entirely fair. There are a few very interesting comics, which do address the writing process (very briefly), but that's it. This is a critical failing, as this book is obviously aimed at beginning writers, but it doesn't seem to bother itself with actual things that beginning writers will need to tackle.
It goes much further though. This text contains no student essays at all, so that a reader can understand something from their peers, and almost all of its essays are the kind of lyrical nonfiction that is beautiful, but isn't particularly useful for most students. Where are the critical essays, the academic articles, the works that make use of works cited pages and/or footnotes? They are completely lacking.
The idea of linking visuals with text is wonderful, and something I have been doing myself for years, and it's great to have a textbook incorporate it to its very core, but the selections here make for poor comparison/contrast most of the time, and since the written selections are so disparate to the kind of writing the students will be doing, it seems a waste.
There is really some wonderful writing contained in this book, and a student that reads it front to back will be exposed to a world of difference, which is great, but this is supposed to be a text to help introduce students to writing, and for that, it is terrible.
June 21, 2012
Currently reading this for my English class. Interesting book so far. We are skipping around to various essays, photo collections and comics.
July 23, 2014
some great excerpts plucked from eric liu, annie dillard...
but busyness of photos/format made it hard to sit and think.
but busyness of photos/format made it hard to sit and think.
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