The rhetoric that tells students what they need to know—and resists the temptation to tell them everything there is to know. Now available in two versions, with and without an anthology of 50 readings.
This is a fieldguide. It doesn't go into detail. It merely scratches the surface. At least it is a textbook that I can use with my students. However, I have to supplement it a lot because it doesn't hav enough information to provide much help. I teach intro to writing and hope that we will use a different book next year.
This book was assigned reading for a masters degree class in creative nonfiction writing. Personally, I feel that using a book clearly intended for high school students or, at best, college freshman was a bad choice for a masters level course. It does not teach much of anything that post graduate students should already know.
Though it is a textbook this was one that I could not have done without. I kept the book as it was so useful I would like to reference it in the future.