About the Book
ALERT: Before you purchase, check with your instructor or review your course syllabus to ensure that you select the correct ISBN. Several versions of Pearson's MyLab & Mastering products exist for each title, including customized versions for individual schools, and registrations are not transferable. In addition, you may need a CourseID, provided by your instructor, to register for and use Pearson's MyLab & Mastering products. Packages Access codes for Pearson's MyLab & Mastering products may not be included when purchasing or renting from companies other than Pearson; check with the seller before completing your purchase. Used or rental books If you rent or purchase a used book with an access code, the access code may have been redeemed previously and you may have to purchase a new access code. Access codes Access codes that are purchased from sellers other than Pearson carry a higher risk of being either the wrong ISBN or a previously redeemed code. Check with the seller prior to purchase. -- For courses in Freshman Orientation/Student Success/Freshman Composition. This anthology of imaginative literature-by student as well as professional writers-contains stories, poems, drama, essays, letters, and memoirs about all aspects of college life in order to motivate students, especially first year students, to read, discuss, write, and think critically about the problems and challenges of succeeding in college. Higher Learning presents historical and cultural diversity which offers students a broader context in which to appreciate and understand the college experience. It appeals to students and teachers because it is written from their point of view, and allows students to see how their individual experiences fit into the culturally and historically diverse traditions and perspectives of university life. Significant changes in the third edition include: 18 new, diverse readings, 3 Research papers on timely topics, 21 student-written pieces, nearly 20 "First Generation" authors, examples class-tested writing assignments, and student responses to readings.
About the Author :
Patti See teaches courses in critical thinking, learning strategies, transitions to college, and third-wave feminism. She also supervises tutoring programs for first-generation/low-income students, multicultural students, and students with disabilities. Her stories, poems, and essays have appeared in Salon Magazine, Women's Studies Quarterly, Journal of Developmental Education, The Wisconsin Academy Review, and HipMama, as well as other magazines and anthologies. She speaks at universities and conferences on a variety of topics, including first-year experience, critical thinking, third-wave feminism, and the depiction of masculinities in popular film. She was the recipient of the 2004 Academic Staff Excellence in Performance Award from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and the 2006 University of Wisconsin-System Regent Award for Excellence. Bruce Taylor, Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, has taught courses including first-year experience, introduction to college writing, creative writing, American literature, as well as in the Honors Program in his thirty-five years as a college teacher. He is the author of six books of poetry, including Pity the World (Plainview Press) and This Day (Juniper Press); he is the editor of seven anthologies, including the UPRIVER series of Wisconsin Poetry and Prose, and Wisconsin Poetry, published by the Wisoconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters.. His poetry, prose, and translations have appeared in such places as Carve Magazine, The Chicago Review, Exquisite Corpse, The Nation, Nerve, The New York Quarterly, The Northwest Review, Poetry, and E2ink-1: the Best of the Online Journals 2002. He has also served as a member of the Literature Panel of the Wisconsin Arts Board and host of The Writer's Workshop: Wisconsin ETN, and he has served as program scholar and consultant for the Wisconsin Humanities Council, the Lila Wallace Foundation, the L.E. Phillips Library, and the Annenberg/CPB Project. He has won awards and fellowships from the Wisconsin Arts Board, Fullbright-Hayes, the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Bush Artist Foundation. He was the recipient of the 2004 Excellence in Scholarship Award from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, and the 2006 Major Acheivment Award from the Council of Wisconsin Writers for his lifetime of work as a poet, teacher, and community arts advocate. We wwould love to hear from you. Please e-mail the authors with any feedback or suggestions at seepk@uwec.edu or taylorb@uwec.edu
Review :
This text keeps getting better and better. A definite strength seems to be the addition of the student responses to some of the readings. First-year students especially need to see how their peers engage with a topic and present their ideas on it. A second strength are the updated selections-new movie/video listings and websites!!! My students are going to love these! -Jennifer Rosti, Roanoke College This text first and foremost is culturally and in every way diverse, which is something that many first year experience texts do not take into account. The single theme of the student experience is great and all of the many topics therein are relevant. -Susan Quarell, CUNY Lehman College (This book) gives effective snapshots into the lives of college students.-Andrea Berta, The University of Texas at El Paso "I really enjoyed the narratives in this text. In fact, this has been my favorite reviewed text thus far....Kudos to the authors and editors for a job well done."--Elisa Michals, Sacramento State University
