Grassroots with Readings: The Writer's Workbook, Eighth Edition
I hope our developmental English program will continue to re-adopt Grassroots for a long time to come. It is so very accessible for our instructors and students alike. I encourage my students to keep this book with them throughout their college days as a valuable resource in their subsequent college-credit writing projects. I also tell them that I plan to be buried with my copy of Grassroots."One of the strongest features of this text is the Writer's Workshop at the end of each unit and the following Writing Assignments page. The variety of suggested topics and points of view suggested for student writings I found IMPRESSIVE. The writing assignments in the text are STRONG....  With the changes [mentioned] above, I definitely would push for adoption in Independent Studies."The great strength of Grassroots is its high-interest content. I know this is a selling point of the textbook, but it's just plain true. I would feel very comfortable assigning almost every exercise in Grassroots, which I cannot say without reservation about the other textbooks I've encountered.