Title: Not What It Should Be
Product review: This is the first time I have taught freshman calculus in several years. Our department selected Stewart's book about 7 years ago, but I was unaffected by the choice. Now that I am teaching out of the book, I am disappointed and sometimes even angry. The author does not have the crisp logical presentation that I expect of college-level text. The writing has no personality. It is almost like I am looking at the Reader's Digest of calculus books, with one page taken from Book A, another from Book B, and another from Book C. My students do not like the book, and this has created a poor attitude in class. The next time our department meets to discuss calculus texts, I plan to participate in the decision.
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