Blog Post #10

Nicolas Blanton

Mat Wenzel

ENC 2135-15

21 March 2018

This Blog is just going to be a quick rant about Textbook requirements. I am very glad that we actually use our textbook, The Bedford Book of Genres. However, not every class is this way. In total I have had to spend close to a thousand dollars on books this entire year. The BBG is the first one I have actually used. The rest I bought because I thought I would need them because they are “required reading” for the course. Meanwhile we were just expected to read the chapters that pertained to the material being covered in class. I did not realize this because quite frankly, the reading was not necessary to succeed in the course. So, I refrained from reading because it did not seem to add anything. I mean, maybe reading would have let me make a 99 instead of a 96 in a course, but I did not see any benefit. And this has been the case for nine of my last 11 courses. Lesson of the year: don’t buy the book until you have an actual assignment out of it. Save your time, save your money, and save your back from the weight of those useless bindings.