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TEXTBOOKS
Introductory
Ordering Textbooks
Process of Adopting and Recommending
The Program's Adopted Textbook
Required Handbook: A Writer's Reference
Recommended Textbooks
Humanities Text
Visual & Popular Culture
Cultural Studies
Civic Engagement
Also Recommended
ORDERING
TEXTBOOKS
The adopted handbook, A Writer’s Reference,
will be ordered for all sections of ENG 101.
Desk copies are available from the writing program
director.
Faculty should order any additional texts they wish to use. If you would
like the writing program director to order texts for you, just send a
note (cullickj@nku.edu).
PROCESS
OF ADOPTING AND RECOMMENDING
To promote direction in the curriculum and to
assist faculty in identifying new approaches in the teaching of composition,
four groups of faculty reviewed and recommended textbooks within four
approaches to writing instruction. The writing program thanks all of these
individuals for their contributions.
* Humanities
Group: Angie Hesson-chair, Kristi Eiler, Tiffany Hinton
* Visual & Popular Culture Group:
John Alberti-chair, Kristi Brock
* Cultural Studies Group:
Chris Wilkey-chair, Kate Cochran, Tonya Krouse
* Civic Engagement Group:
Jon Cullick-chair, Wanda Crawford, Maureen Cronin
HANDBOOK
A
WRITER’S REFERENCE
DIANA HACKER
BEDFORD/ST.MARTIN'S PRESS
Web site: www.dianahacker.com/writersref
Courses: ENG 101, 151, 291
This handbook, with accompanying workbook and CD-ROM,
is ordered for all sections of ENG 101. Students are urged not to sell
this book; they should keep it for ENG 291 and continue to use it for
all writing assignments at the university.
Key
Features
- Clear,
student-friendly layout, with concise style and easy-to-use index and
reference system
- A tutorial
to teach students how to use the handbook
- A thoroughly
integrated web site offering exercises and quizzes in writing, grammar,
documentation, and research across the curriculum
- Discipline-specific
research sections for doing research in MLA, APA, and CMS
- Supplementary
workbook and CD of exercises in writing, research, style, grammar, and
documentation
HUMANITIES
THE
COMPOSITION OF EVERYDAY LIFE
JOHN MAUK AND JOHN METZ
THOMSON WADSWORTH
Paperback, Brief Edition
Web Site http://english.wadsworth.com/maukmetz
Courses ENG 101, ENG 291
Key Features
* As accessible as popular guides to writing, offering a progression of
major assignments, a process approach, and a complete toolbox of information,
readings, models, and exercises
* Specifically
targeted to the kind of student population at NKU
* Appeals to the "everyday life" experiences of first generation
college students who have jobs and family responsibilities
* Writing projects in remembering, explaining, analyzing, responding,
arguing, evaluating, researching, and proposing
* Emphasis on invention, with carefully guided heuristics, exploratory-analytical
exercises, and annotated sample essays
* Much use of popular culture for discussion and writing
* Creative ideas in every chapter for converting essays into public or
visual rhetoric (letters, brochures, web pages, flyers, posters)
* Chapters in exploring the arts, business communication, on-line writing,
visual argument, and "thinking radically" (an essay assignment
requiring students to take a position that departs from their usual ways
of thinking)
VISUAL
& POPULAR CULTURE
CONVERGENCES:
MESSAGE, METHOD, MEDIUM
ROBERT ATWAN
BEDFORD/ST. MARTIN'S PRESS
Paperback
Web Site: www.bedfordstmartins.com/convergences
Courses: ENG 101, ENG 151, ENG 291
Key Features
* Chapters
organized around specific rhetorical activities that combine the visual
and verbal
* Complete assignments in every chapter
* Key terms in every chapter, such as classification and narrative,
which connect the visual rhetoric approach to more traditional approaches
* Structuring
device of "message/method/medium" in each chapter to provide
an accessible and consistent introduction to visual rhetoric, an approach
that builds on the skills used in analyzing textual rhetoric
* Accessible to students, beginning with examples of visual rhetoric drawn
from everyday experience
* Visually rich and attractive layout
CULTURAL
STUDIES
READING
LIFE
INGE FINK & GABRIELLE GAUTREAUX
THOMSON/WADSWORTH
Paperback
Web Site: none
Courses: ENG 101, ENG 151, ENG 291
Key
Features
* Readings organized around topics that students can readily identify
with through their own lived experience
* Readings that invite students to consider the relationship between their
own lives and the work of culture in society at large
* Wide range of difficulty in the readings for instructors to select
* Especially relevant sections of readings (e.g., "Human Relations"
and "Learning Matters") because our students are likely to identify
with the struggles associated with both local community life and the life
of schooling
* Comprehensive rhetoric section that is accessible to 101 students
* A commitment to providing a broad range of topics that are designed
to appeal to a variety of "traditional" and "commuter"
student experiences
CIVIC
ENGAGEMENT
WRITING
AND COMMUNITY ACTION
THOMAS DEANS
LONGMAN
Paperback
Web Site: none
Courses: ENG 101, ENG 151, ENG 291
Key Features
* Appropriate for a course that uses the local community as the basis
for research, discussion, and writing
* Progresses from personal to experiential to textual source-based writing
* Assignments are organized clearly but also invite much creativity
* Each chapter presents a short introduction to the concept, a clearly
articulated writing assignment, directions and exercises for writing,
challenging readings with accessible follow-up questions, actual student
samples, and process questions.
* Instructors who have used a modes approach and wish to combine that
pedagogy with community-based learning will find something familiar in
this book.
ALSO
RECOMMENDED
THE
CALL TO WRITE
JOHN TRIMBUR
LONGMAN
Paperback
Web Site: www.ablongman.com/trimbur
Courses: ENG 151, ENG 291
Recommended for courses in Civic Engagement or Cultural Studies
Key
Features
* Unique public writing assignments, such as analyzing
public documents, writing action letters to newspapers and public officials,
and designing flyers or brochures
* Much attention to the ethics of writing as a public activity
* Chapters on visual design, writing essay exams, and creating portfolios
* Inclusion of visual argument in every chapter
THE
NEW YORK TIMES
Faculty list the Times as a required text in the syllabus, and
students order individually through the NKU Bookstore, with special subscription
rates for students and free daily copies for the instructor.
Web Site: www.nytimes.com/college
Courses: ENG 151, ENG 291
Recommended for General Courses, Civic Engagement or Popular Culture
Key
Features
*
Breadth of articles in national news, international news, politics, education,
culture, business, arts, science, travel, sports, and fashion
* Depth of analysis and quality of writing
* Contemporary readings in issues as they unfold in the news
* A web site specifically designed for college students and faculty, with
access to the same fact-check web page used by Times reporters
and columnists
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