Writing A Guide for College and Beyond

You'll never look at a writing guide the same way again! Here's what teachers are saying "Lester Faigley's book is a winner for composition classes!" - Bennis Blue,Virginia State University "My favorite part ofA Backpack Guide to Writingis the use of student writing. I love how the student texts are shown in Chapters 8-14, particularly how the student's writing process is shown. I've never seen that done in any other text I've used in my ten years of working with college students, and I think it would be so helpful to my students." - Sara Webb-Sunderhaus,Indiana University Purdue University, Fort Wayne "A Backpack Guide to Writingis distinctive because it situates writing in activities students understand and value: discovering, exploring, journeying." - Maureen Murphy,Dakota State University "The readings inA Backpack Guide to Writingare a diverse and eclectic set of examples that show students how to write different essays different ways and also provide a lot of fodder for class discussion and short assignment writing, longer essays and journal writing." - Michael Dubson,Bunker Hill Community College "The most distinctive and special aspect ofA Backpack Guide to Writingis its use of visuals to communicate ideas. I have found that to a greater and greater degree, students understand visual representations of ideas to linguistic ones. I have worked hard over the last 3-4 years to find ways of communicating with my students in ways that are more visual in nature - charts, graphs, diagrams, etc. This text does this and does it very well. I think that many of the students I have will benefit from this greatly." - Michael Boyd,Illinois Central College And here's what students are saying "This is one of the most helpful, thorough, and resourceful texts I've seen thus far." - Lauren Olsen,Castleton State College "This book is more eye catching to me, and more informational. I will actually read this book!" - Abbey Kline,Ball State University "I like the fact that with the visual pictures I could understand the readings better." - Jorge Arias,Grand Valley State University "I thought the chapters did an excellent job of combining visual and textual explanations of the material. The combined presentation of the two gave me a greater understanding of the concepts." - John Weiss, Jr.,Ball State University "College students have a lot of reading in every class and this text is more interesting and to the point. It is not busy work." - Missi Dreyer,Grand Valley State UniversityFaigley, Lester is the author of 'Writing A Guide for College and Beyond', published 2007 under ISBN 9780205558308 and ISBN 0205558305.