A World of Ideas: Essential Readings for College Writers

About this book

The most successful reader of its kind A World of Ideas introduces first-year writing students to the thinkers and writers whose ideas have shaped civilization: for example Niccol Machiavelli on government Elizabeth Cady Stanton on justice and Sigmund Freud on the mind. Because students perceive these writers as important they take the writing course seriously: they learn to read more attentively think more critically and write more effectively. No other composition reader offers a comparable collection of important readings along with the supportive apparatus students need to understand analyze and respond to them.