A World of Ideas: Essential Readings for College Writers

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 for example, Niccolò 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 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.