Addressing the continuing interest in liberal arts issues, interdisciplinary themes, diverse perspectives, and critical thinking, The McGraw-Hill Reader provides students with a full range of quality prose works spanning various disciplines, ages, cultures, and subjects.
This one starts by teaching how to mark up books (gasp). Although I have been known to do so, it is usually much more sparingly than what is recommended here. That being said, there are quite a few essays in this collection and I found a fair percentage were interesting while reading them. But don't ask me to detail these, because they were apparently forgettable.
Beautiful cover; though not much to explore even if some do offer glints of insights and unexpected depths. It is a textbook after all. I have read more or less 20 essays here.
This text will provide half of the prescribed readings for my research writing class. It covers a solid variety of contemporary issues and supplies excellent queries post readings that I will be using to lead class discussions. Very well constructed text for critical thinking for undergraduates.
This one's OK. It's standard but nothing new or exciting here. It goes with the basic canon of essays and authors. It's surprising to me that there are so many readers out there that are so simlar.