Students often feel stifled about writing and lack the passion to polish their skills in composition and rhetoric. The World is a Text opens doors for writers, and it enables students to understand the power of reading and writing for life. I absolutely love the addition of chapters on Nature, Sports, Fashion, and Technology. These topics are terrific, and they broaden the scope of the book. Colleen Ruggieri, Ohio University
The World is a Text is eminently accessible; familiar in its rhetorical vocabulary and engagement with writing process; and comprehensive in projecting subject matter for college writing classes. From pop-culture topoi like fashion, music, and sports to complex social problems rooted in identity, gender, race, and technology, Silverman and Rader provide a wealth of invention heuristics in a dozen categories. Most interesting, perhaps, The World is a Text links writing self-consciously to readingthat crucial, complementary literate practice too often taken for granted in college writing textbooks. Peter Vandenberg, DePaul University Chicago
