Real Texts

Real Texts is a new kind of reader for freshman composition–a collection of texts by academic, professional, and student writers that model the very best practices of writing within and across disciplines, from communication to chemistry, from nursing to education.

The consistently organized chapters in this unique reader demonstrate how good writing practice can transfer from college to the wider world.  Each chapter provides models of academic, student, and public writing that follow the rhetorical conventions of a discipline and underline how each discipline has developed its particular writing conventions to respond to real-world questions.