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Higher Learning: Reading and Writing about College
Patti See, Student Services Coordinator
Bruce Taylor, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire

ISBN-10: 0205287891
ISBN-13:  9780205287895

Publisher:  Prentice Hall
Copyright:  2001
Format:  Paper; 338 pp
Published:  05/02/2000
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  This item has been replaced by Higher Learning: Reading and Writing About College, 2/E.



For courses in Freshman Orientation/Student Success/Freshman Composition.

This anthology of imaginative literature—by student as well as professional writers—contains stories, poems, drama, essays, letters, and memoirs about all aspects of college life in order to motivate students, especially first year students, to read, discuss, write, and think critically about the problems and challenges of succeeding in college. Historical and cultural diversity offers students a broader context in which to appreciate and understand the college experience.

  • Quality writing—Offers a large quantity and variety of readings that explore contemporary issues. One third of the text is written by students.

    • Most of the pieces are short enough to be read in one sitting, and many take their subject seriously enough to know how humorous life can be. Ex.___

  • Readings about diversity—e.g., ethnicity; class; age; gender; and sexual preference. Promotes tolerance by helping students realize how much of a college education involves not only learning about but from other people, cultures, and customs.

    • Allows instructors to more easily address difficult issues. Ex.___

  • Transitional experiences—“Where We're Coming From” section addresses such issues as deciding to go to college; leaving high school and home behind.

    • Helps students recognize the importance of their history through readings on formal and informal education. Ex.___

  • Everyday student life—“School Daze” section covers such issues as roommates; failing grades; balancing home and school; applying course work to real life; homesickness; and professors' expectations.

    • Keeps students interested in learning with readings capturing the personal, daily lives of their contemporaries. Ex.___

  • Coverage of interpersonal relations—“Student Affairs” section looks at such issues as friendship, first love, virginity, rape, AIDS, and sexual discovery.

    • Provides students with material on current social issues so that they can ponder the effects of romantic relationships, platonic friendships, gender, love, and sexuality in their lives. Ex.___

  • Coverage of student/teacher relations—“Teacher Teacher” section.

    • Depicts professors as real people with the same challenges and problems as other people so that students can see the classroom experience from both sides of the desk. Ex.___

  • Retrospectives from former students—“Looking Forward/Looking Back” section offers a valuable reflection on who some students have become and how, as well as what college looks like to them now.

    • Encourages students to work toward completion of a degree, and find the future that awaits them. Ex.___

  • Writing exercises—Posed by high quality and quantity questions pertaining to all aspects of college life.

    • Offers a variety of writing opportunities from journal entries to formal and informal essays to research papers. Ex.___

  • A co-learner approach to teaching.

    • Promotes teacher-student and student-teacher dialogue that is meaningful to all involved. Ex.___

  • A broad historical perspective.

    • Fosters a sense of what is different and what has stayed the same about college life with pieces dating from 1860 to the present. Ex.___

  • “Critical Thinking Points”—e.g., “As You Read;” and “After You've Read” and “Some Possibilities for Writing.”

    • Offers opportunities for personal analysis, reflection, class discussion and/or collaborative writing. Ex.___

  • “Further Suggestions for Writing”—Addresses the larger issues of each chapter with hundreds of additional writing prompts.

    • Offers assignments based on traditional writing strategies for persuasion/argumentation, comparison/contrast, cause/effect, classification and process, as well as issues for extended research. Ex.___

  • “Suggestions for Further Reading.”

    • Encourages students to find and read selected texts that reinforce and amplify themes from each chapter. Ex.___

  • “Selected Films for College Lives”—Offers an annotated filmography of selected films for each chapter depicting college life from 1927 to the present, as well as a variety of writing prompts.

    • Enhances students' understanding of the college experience through the use of film and popular culture. Ex.___

(NOTE: Each part concludes with Further Suggestions for Writing and Selected Films.)

I. WHERE WE'RE COMING FROM: LEAVING OTHER LIVES.

Incurring My Mother's Displeasure, Zitkala-Sa. From Up from Slavery, Booker T. Washington. Raising My Hand, Antler. The English Lesson, Nicholasa Mohr. Miss Rinehart's Paddle, Jeri McCormick. The Day I Became an Autodidact, Kendall Hailey. In High School I Majored in Shop, Peter Martin. 50% Chance of Lightning, Cristina Salat. Somewhere in Minnesota, Peter Klein. The Eyes of Chickens, Michael Lancaster.

II. SCHOOL DAZE: LIFE IN THE FIRST YEAR.

A Day in the Life Of, Greg Adams. Ten Commandments for a College Freshman, Joseph McCabe. My First Week at Mizzou, Andrew Hicks. From Diary of a Freshman, Charles Macomb Flandreau. Hunters and Gatherers, Jennifer Hale. Waiting for Daylight, Linda Mannheim. Grading Your Professors, Jacob Neusner. Theme for English B, Langston Hughes. College Students Speak about ADD, Erik and Chris. Outside In: The Life of a Commuter Student, Patti See. Homeward Bond, Daisy Nguyen. From I Walk in Beauty, Davina Ruth Begaye Two Bears. From The Freshman Year Thrill Ride, Missy Loney and Julie Feist. “Who Shall I Be?” The Allure of a Fresh Start, Jennifer Crichton.

III. STUDENT AFFAIRS: FRIENDS AND LOVERS.

Raspberries, Jennifer Fandel. First Love, R.A. Sasaki. Revision, John David Rose. Carmen, Jennifer Sheridan. What It's Really Like, Frank Smoot. Virginity, Jane Barnes Casey. Irreversible Seasons, Anita Santiago. No More Kissing—Aids Everywhere, Michael Blumenthal. The Blue-Light System, Katie Roiphe. Dancing, Paul Durica. The Good Student Apologizes to His Professor and to the Girl in Room 303, Ron Watson.

IV. TEACHER, TEACHER: WILL THIS BE ON THE TEST?

Teachers: A Primer, Ron Wallace. Take This Fish and Look at It, Samuel H. Scudder. When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer, Walt Whitman. Mayday, William Crawford Woods. No Immediate Danger, Mary McLaughlin Slëchta. Open Admission, Shirley Lauro. Signed, Grateful, Kate Boyes. Of This Time, of That Place, Lionel Trilling. April Inventory, W.D. Snodgrass.

V. BEEN THERE, DONE THAT: LOOKING FORWARD, LOOKING BACK.

The Speech the Graduates Didn't Hear, Jacob Neusner. The Eighty-Yard Run, Irwin Shaw. Reunion, Dawn Karima Pettigrew. Moon June Spoon, Frank Smoot. Scarlet Ribbons, Mike Perry. Passion, Monica Coleman.

Appendix: Critical Thinking Points on Selected Films.

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    Higher Learning: Reading and Writing About College, 2/E
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"I was drawn into each reading, finding them accessible and highly interesting. The readings portray good examples of real-life instances that are directly relevant to incoming freshmen. The readings should draw students into thinking about their own experiences and stimulate active class discussions."—Lee Rademacher, Purdue University-Calumet.



"I found this collection of readings to be thought-provoking and applicable to the first-year experience from many different perspectives."—Kathryn Lowe, University of Evansville



"This book seems to fill a niche which hasn't been particularly well addressed: a literature text which deals specifically with transition issues from the student point of view. It is clear that the authors understand the 'mind' of first-year students."— Anne Lundquist, Guilford College

While attending a Written Communications course at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, one of Patti See's students complained, "How come we never read about people like us?" See and co-author Bruce Taylor began searching for "coming of age" stories about college students. Four years later, Higher Learning was born.

After using several selections from Higher Learning in two summer writing courses and three semesters of College Writing, the response from students has been phenomenal! The following student comments underscore the student appeal of this book:

"The reader Higher Learning is something that I will probably pick up again and read through."

"Within the first week of having the reader, I had already read the entire thing."

"It wasn't something that told me how to live my life and how to study, but it showed others (sic) past experiences."

"What this helped me realize is that little steps can be just as magnificent as those that shake the earth."

The authors are convinced that reading about the "experience" of college prepares students, especially freshmen, to better understand and deal with their own experiences. They also believe that exposing students to a wide variety of situations experienced by their peers, nurtures a sense of empathy and community that is sometimes lacking in a diverse world. Whether as a component of a student success course or a freshman writing course, the challenges and problems explored by the selections in this book offer valuable insight for any student.

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