Discovering Ideas

English Composition Spring 2009 Palomar College

Books

Five books are required for the course.  One of them, The Discovering Ideas Handbook, is only available on-line and is posted on its own Web page at Palomar.  The other four are available as print books.  They are listed below with complete bibliographical information in case you would like to order them on-line.  They are listed in the order in which we will use them.  You are required to own all of these books and retain them until the end of the semester.  Buy the books now, or soon.   Do not postpone purchasing a book until it is already assigned or you may not be able to get it in time.

Richard J. Light.  Making the Most of College: Students Speak Their Minds.  Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2001.  ISBN: 0-674-00478-7.  This book is available from Amazon.com and other on-line booksellers and many bookstores such as Barnes and Noble and Borders, as well as the Palomar College bookstore.  However, you will need to have this book in the first week of class. 

Laurie G. Kirszner and Stephen R. Mandell.  The Pocket Wadsworth Handbook. 4th Edition.  Wadsworth-Cengage, 2008.  ISBN: 1-4282-2978-7 Make sure you have the fourth edition.  This book should be available online or from the campus bookstore. 

Robert McHenry.  How to Know.  Booklocker.com, 2004.  ISBN: 1-59113-523-0.  This book is available from Amazon.com and from the publisher, Booklocker.com: http://www.booklocker.com/books/1641.html.   You may be able to get a used copy of this book from the campus bookstore.  If not, the quickest and least expensive way to get it is to order it on-line.

C. S. Lewis.  The Abolition of ManHarperSanFrancisco, 2001.  ISBN: 0060652942. This book is available from Amazon.com, other on-line booksellers, and many bookstores, or from the Palomar College bookstore.


On-line Discovering Ideas Table of Contents
On-line Syllabus

On-Campus Discovering Ideas Table of Contents
On-Campus Syllabus

Discovering Ideas
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