"Critical Encounters" - Deborah Appleman

This text is my least favorite of the three that we used for class. Overall, I feel like the author used far far far to many examples which, for the most part, didn't even seem like real students would write. I did like that the author toughed on many of the literary theories that we studied in class, but she was not nearly as extensive in her definitions of those theories as the other text was. I didn't have a particularly favorite or least favorite chapter, but as a whole I would have left this book at the bookstore. Too many words with too little information, but some of the activities at the end of the book were interesting enough to warrant my opening of this book at a later date.