These are some emails me and a teacher of mine exchanged. The textbook is titled "Management"....think about how many textbooks have been named "Management" over time...I read her syllabus but it did not have the ISBN number and only said it should be the 8th edition.....Are you serious lady??? I had already seen it on the campus bookstore website but they too did not give out the ISBN but at least I got an author. So with that in mind.... our emails: (like the brown nosing at the end?) Her response: (Within the time I emailed her and her response she sent an email to all her students giving the same minimal info about the textbook and that it was available at the bookstore.) Are you fucking serious? I told her it was the 8th edition in my short email! Did she even read my email or just see the word "textbook" and went on auto-pilot?!? wtf.... I eventually found the ISBN on my own during this time. So I tried hard to make it seem I wasnt calling her an idiot in my next email but at the same time telling her she should have this information in her syllabus especially for a book call fucking "Management" : hopefully she was drunk
I wouldn't imagine most teachers to bother to give you the ISBN number so you can order it online for cheaper. Just how it is, kind of unreasonable to ask them for it really if the book is in the bookstore.
most professors assume you will just buy at the bookstore, and if the book is there, that's it. they have no obligation to help you save money by buying from resellers.
Not to jump all over you darizzle, but I'm with BK on this one. You might be tripping on your teacher, but she is probably tripping on you. She skims an email from a student asking about the class book. She responds the class is using the 8th edition and it is in the bookstore. She gets a detailed response saying basically that you didn't need her help after all, you found the code, the book on line, saved money (oh and fuck your bookstore that makes money for the school) I don't think the teacher feels this code is necessary to give, just get the book at the bookstore or get the title and author from the book store and surf it on line. If I was the teacher I would shrug my shoulders and say this student is going to be a trip.
ill agree 99% of students dont contact the teacher before the semester but I think its a simple request...ISBN # please...Its her job to help the students. I like to get the books before the class starts, the bookstore is packed and overpriced.....But I see your point
Glad you didn't take that the wrong way. I know I can be a much bigger "trip" on this board alone and god knows what my teachers thought of me.
Have you tried this? http://isbndb.com/ or any of the other 73 million websites that came up when i typed in "isbn number search"? The teacher is suppose to help you with the subject, not save money. that is something MAYBE the student resources could do.
I've never been given an ISBN number in a syllabus. The normal process is to go to the bookstore...they have the class lists and books by class there. You want to use an unusual process to order online, you get to do extra legwork...
why dont you actually look at what your 73million links are...and the site you linked is useless with the minimal info the syllabus provided. Part of helping with the subject is making it clear what textbook to get
she did. it's in your book store. I can't exactly tell you the number without knowing the book can i?
On a somewhat related note, what amused me was when I enrolled in a class and the required textbook was written by the professor. I didn't know if that meant I was fortunate enough to get a professor who is so knowledgable on the subject he has written a textbook on it or if I got a professor who is struggling financially and makeing us buy his book. It happened at least 5 times. The funniest was the one that made us go to kinkos to buy his text that they had on file. It was basically him just typing a bunch of chapters into his computer and having kinko's bind it. It wa cheap . . . so maybe he was doing us a favor.
