Current Issues and Enduring Questions: A Guide to Critical Thinking and Argument, with Readings | 
 enlarge | Authors: Sylvan Barnet, Hugo Bedau
Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
Category: Book
Buy New: $33.50
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 77065
Media: Paperback
Edition: Eighth Edition
Pages: 992
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.4
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6 x 1.6
ISBN: 0312459866
Dewey Decimal Number: 168
EAN: 9780312459864
Publication Date: July 1, 2007
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 Good intro text; watch out for edition number August 28, 2008
Jenny H (Ann Arbor)
Good intro to the principles of critical thinking. It was a little weird for me to have this book assigned in grad school; I remember it from my daughter's college freshman year.
New editions keep the readings current, but that means you have to pay attention to the edition number if you want (or your prof wants) a particular edition. Many vendors, Amazon and Amazon Marketplace included, don't post it clearly, if at all.
(Previewing my review, I see I mis-clicked and gave it 5 stars. I meant to hit 4, because it's so draggingly introductory at times.)
 Good, solid textbook for Freshman Composition II December 20, 2007
Rufel F. Ramos (Irving, TX USA)
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
Teaching college English since 1999, I've used _Current Issues and Enduring Questions_ since the 7th edition. It has always been a good, solid textbook for teaching Freshman Composition II (called ENGL 1302 in Texas) as an issues-based argumentative essays and research paper class. It is flexible enough a text for any teacher to craft his/her class. However, if you're used to teaching ENGL 1302 as a survey to Literature class, this isn't the text for you.
The only problem I have with it is the skimpyness of some of the MLA style instruction, but that's par for the course in Comp II books that have extensive readings.
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