I bought this book thinking it was a textbook for preparation for the ASCP molecular pathology certification exam. Instead, I find it is a print-out of power-point slides, without any accompanying text or commentary from the lectures they were used in! Many of the slides are diagrams and graphs which are worthless because of this lack of information. There are hardly any references, either....

I was assigned this text book for a class on The Art of Human Communication, which is about the history of the philosophy of rhetoric. I'm a very good student, but I have a terrible time understanding this book - it's not clearly written at all. The writing is overblown and unclear, and nothing is in bold or clearly headed to make understanding the writing any easier. I also don't think it flows very well, it's hard to follow and understand. My professor has promised to change text books next semester, and I would recommend that others choose another text as well!