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Review title: A so-so text
Product review: "Exploring Language" has a good format--thematically related groups of essays mostly on contemporary issues. However, in each succeeding edition I was required to use, I have found some of the most effective essays replaced by those seemingly less related to the the themes of the sections they are in. Further, as we all know, textbooks often are extremely overpriced. I find it disheartening that this anthology is needlessly revised so often that re-sale value is short-lived, which is a hardship for many of my students. Most of my students need to sell back texts outside their majors. Instead, they end up being stuck with books that inevitably will languish on shelves, collecting dust, or in adding to a landfill. It is for these reasons I would rate this as a so-so textbook.
