English Department Collaborative

Text Recommendations

                   In order to reduce the cost of textbooks for students, the English Department has decided to recommend EasyWriter by Andrea Lunsford as a handbook for all of its composition courses.  You are not required, of course, to use a handbook, but please consider:

• Lunsford, Andrea.  EasyWriter.  3rd Ed.  New York:  Bedford/St. Martin's, 2005. 

English 20

• Aaron, Jane E.  The Compact Reader.  7th ed.  Boston:  Bedford Books, 2003.
• Atwan, Robert.  America Now.  7th ed.  Boston:  Bedford Books, 2005.
• Campbell, Martha.  Focus: Writing Paragraphs & Essays.  Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1999.
• Downing, Skip.  On Course.  5th ed.  Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2005.
• Langan, John.  The Primis Langan Writing Series.  2nd ed.  New York:  McGraw-Hill, 2002.

English 52

• Wyrick, Jean.  Discovering Ideas. 4th Ed.  New York:  Harcourt Brace, 1997.
• Penfield, Elizabeth.  Short Takes. 9th Ed.  New York:  Pearson, 2007
• Clouse, Barbara Fine. Patterns for a Purpose. 4th ed. Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2005.
• Ackley, Katherine.  Essays from Contemporary Culture.  5th ed. New York: Heinle & Heinle, 2003.
• Chaffee, John.  Thinking Critically. 8th ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004.
• Otte, George and Linda J. Palumbo.  Casts of Thought: Writing in and Against Tradition.  New York: Macmillan, 1990.
• Reinking, Harts, and Von der Osten.  Strategies for Successful Writing: A Rhetoric, Research Guide, Reader, and Handbook. 8th ed. SFSW, 2006.
•  

English 100

• Axelrod, Rise B. and Charles R. Cooper. St. Martin's Guide to Writing. 7th ed. Boston: St. Martin's, 2004.

Suggested Novels - please note that a novel is required for English 100

Villasenior, Victor.  Burro Genius.

Orwell, George.  1984

Nafisi, Azar.  Reading Lolita in Tehran.

Shelley, Mary.  Frankenstein

Tolkien, J.R.R. The Hobbit.

Lahiri, Jhumpa. The Namesake

Huxley, Aldous.  Brave New World