We quickly rejected that idea as unsatisfactory and confusing for students. Our best alternative was to cut and paste an existing textbook. With the publisher's and author's permission, we chose to modify Kotz and Purcell's Chemistry and Chemical Reactivity , second edition. We took apart the Kotz and Purcell text, then reassembled it, along with some of our original text, into a manuscript for the students. This manuscript refers students back to color photos, some tables, and figures in the original text rather than reproducing them.
Students buy both the manuscript and the original text.
While all of the reading assignments come from the manuscript, students may use the text's figures and tables as needed. This method has the advantage of preserving copyright privileges of the authors and publisher while providing a manuscript tailored to the needs of this particular course. For the second semester, students simply purchase a separate Case Study manuscript. Qualitative Survey Topics covered in the 1st semester of the spiral ap-proach to Introductory Chemistry are listed below. In Chapter 3 we omit balancing complex redox reactions and add brief discussions of organic and bio-organic compounds .