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...Supplemental materials and articles] allow more room for arguments among students," he adds. "A book that tells the story of a historical event can be compared to a novel version of the same event or to technical material. Students can see how each text treats the material and compare for themselves...
Murphy says that the decisive factor in what text professors choose for their course depends solely on what the professor is trying to achieve in the classroom...
...types of text selected for classes is obviously important because they determine the interest that is generated," says Richard F. Thomas, professor of Greek and Latin. "It is an incentive for professors to pick interesting text that is also at the right level for the students...
...when a course lacks a single comprehensive text, the professor is not always responsible for that decision...
...says Professor of Fine Arts Norman Bryson. "There's only one course out of the zillions that we do in art history--Literature and Arts B-10 ["Art and Visual Culture: Introduction to the Historical Study of Art and Architecture"], the department's introductory class--that we have one text that could be seen as a textbook...