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melanie_page's review
2.0
Just to clarify: I have the 2013 edition that, for whatever reason, needed to be re-printed the week school started. The publisher took ages getting the book to the school (it was week 3 before everyone had the text).
However, this book has made it easy to show students that writing is not a thing that has a formula, something I've been working on demonstrating for ages. Why do some professional writers have their thesis at the end of the conclusion, but we're telling students it has to be the last sentence in the introduction? Why does a paragraph have to look like X when some authors have a paragraph made up of one sentence? This book addresses all of that, and gives students LOTS of options. I love that.
I like the way the text offers lots of "Learn by Doing" ideas, or things like "Quick Starts" to do in class. This way, teaching becomes easier. The book makes simple connections between the material and ways to learn it, which saves me time.
My students are struggling with the e-readings. E-readings appear everywhere and anywhere. Students have to log on to a special URL for your class and then put in an access code located in the back of their books. Except the access code keeps telling them they don't have access. This has screwed up more than one of my class periods, as not a soul in the room could get online. The content of the book isn't bad, but the design created by Bedford is just the worst I have ever seen. When I call tech support for help, no one there knows anything about Launch Pad or the differences between LP and LPSolo (by the way, LP wasn't even finished when school started despite the book being published in 2013). This has been a terrible semester.
However, this book has made it easy to show students that writing is not a thing that has a formula, something I've been working on demonstrating for ages. Why do some professional writers have their thesis at the end of the conclusion, but we're telling students it has to be the last sentence in the introduction? Why does a paragraph have to look like X when some authors have a paragraph made up of one sentence? This book addresses all of that, and gives students LOTS of options. I love that.
I like the way the text offers lots of "Learn by Doing" ideas, or things like "Quick Starts" to do in class. This way, teaching becomes easier. The book makes simple connections between the material and ways to learn it, which saves me time.
My students are struggling with the e-readings. E-readings appear everywhere and anywhere. Students have to log on to a special URL for your class and then put in an access code located in the back of their books. Except the access code keeps telling them they don't have access. This has screwed up more than one of my class periods, as not a soul in the room could get online. The content of the book isn't bad, but the design created by Bedford is just the worst I have ever seen. When I call tech support for help, no one there knows anything about Launch Pad or the differences between LP and LPSolo (by the way, LP wasn't even finished when school started despite the book being published in 2013). This has been a terrible semester.
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