As one of my PhD professors observed, it is interesting to just go round the table and ask everyone what they have read lately. Students have reported on a number of interesting books including
Blue Ocean, Black Swan, Gladwell's recent best sellers, or the Panic of 1907.
For ideas business and investing is a search category at Amazon, Barnes and Noble and Borders all offer a business category that lists current best sellers. There is a fine library at Palo Alto Community College, indeed one of the best building designs I have visited with indirect natural lighting. The Cortez Public Library is north one light on Poteet Blvd. And of course there are public libraries all over San Antonio.
We take writing very seriously here at A & M San Antonio. No matter your major, eventually you will be called upon to produce a serious report at your job. Your future at that job will likely be determined by just how well you write and communicate. Reports with grammar and spelling errors will not be accepted and will likely get your career permanently derailed on the job.
Class is your laboratory, this is the time to attempt your best. Do not delude yourself that you do not have to rise to the occasion now but somehow some way will do so in the future 'when it counts.'
The counting has begun….
Professor Elam 
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