Guidelines: A Cross-Cultural Reading/Writing Text

By Ruth Spack

Book Overview

Guidelines Third edition is an advanced reading and writing text designed specifically to strengthen students' academic writing. Guidelines is a classic reading/writing text that teaches academic essay and research writing. The book contains stimulating cross-cultural readings that provide source materials for critical thinking and writing. The book concludes with a hundred-page handbook that contains information on how to document sources and how to draft, review, revise, and edit.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521613019
• ISBN13: 9780521613019
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.9" x 9.9"

Customer Reviews

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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