Constructing Literacies
This text avoids repeating essays likely to surface in 75 percent of all readers and takes aim at the college studentÂ's basic intellectual need: to be encouraged and enabled to consider seriously what college education involves."I appreciated the effort the author made to include selections that are not traditional sorts of reading selections.  The lists of statistics and questionnaire reports, for example, or the selections drawn from Internet sources, are interesting in themselves, but also offer self-evident support to the authorÂ's basic premise that there exist differing cultures of learning-all of which are appropriate fields for the student to examine.