Guide to St.martian's Cust.reader-w/cd

The St. Martin's Custom Reader enables instructors to create their own readers -- readers that truly reflect the content and goals of their courses and the interests and needs of their students. Based on the most exhaustive study ever conducted of the reading selections that have actually been taught in freshman composition (Lynn Z. Bloom's "Essay Canon" research, College English, March 1999) -- The St. Martin's Custom Reader makes available the essays that have proven most teachable for first-year writing courses. With a database of approximately 240 classic and contemporary essays, The St. Martin's Custom Reader can be created easily online at the Bedford/St. Martin's Web site, www.customreader.bedfordstmartins.com.Bloom is the author of 'Guide to St.martian's Cust.reader-w/cd' with ISBN 9780312399818 and ISBN 0312399812.