Composition

Transnational composition is a site for engaging with difference across populations, economies, languages, and borders and for asking how cultures, languages, and national imaginaries interanimate one another.Organized in three parts, the book addresses...

Drilled to Write offers a rich account of US Army cadets navigating the unique demands of Army writing at a senior military college. In this longitudinal case study, J. Michael Rifenburg follows one cadet, Logan Blackwell, for four years and traces how...

In Toward an Anti-Capitalist Composition, James Rushing Daniel argues that capitalism is eminently responsible for the entangled catastrophes of the twenty-first century-precarity, economic and racial inequality, the decline of democratic culture, and...

Above the Well explores race, language and literacy education through a combination of scholarship, personal history, and even a bit of fiction. Inoue comes to terms with his own languaging practices in his upbring and schooling, while also arguing that...

Unwell Writing Centers focuses on the inroads the wellness industry has made into higher education. Following graduate and undergraduate writing tutors during a particularly stressful period (2016-2019), Genie Nicole Giaimo examines how top-down and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646423460Author Jay JordanFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint Wac ClearinghousePublisher Wac Clearinghouse

As teaching practices adapt to changing technologies, budgetary constraints, new student populations, and changing employment practices, writing programs remain full of people dedicated to helping students improve their writing. This edited volume offers...

The Material Culture of Writing opens up avenues for understanding writing through scholarship in material culture studies. Contributors to this volume each interrogate an object, set of objects, or writing environment to reveal the sociomaterial...

CounterStories from the Writing Center gathers emerging scholars of colour and their white accomplices to challenge some of the most cherished lore about the work of writing centres. Writing within an intersectional feminist frame, this volume's...

Until now there has been little consideration of the intellectual and historical impact editors have had on the young and ever-evolving field of writing studies. Behind the Curtain of Scholarly Publishing provides new and seasoned scholars with...

Black or Right: Anti/Racist Campus Rhetorics explores notions of Blackness in white institutional-particularly educational-spaces. In it, Louis M. Maraj theorizes how Black identity operates with/against ideas of difference in the age of...

Racing Translingualism provides both theoretical and pedagogical reconsiderations of the translingual approach to language diversity by addressing the intersections of race and translingualism. This collection extends the disciplinary conversations...

Hashtag Activism Interrogated and Embodied analyzes the ways that hashtags repurpose and reclaim societal narratives, considering how these digital interactions carry over into external spaces and are embodied by both participants and spectators alike. A...

The Dual Enrollment Kaleidoscope serves as a starting point for elevating the voices of those who do dual enrollment (DE) work-those who historicize, legitimize, scrutinize, critically analyze, align, and assess it-pushing readers beyond unique, singular...

Unlimited Players provides writing center scholars with new approaches to engaging with multimodality in the writing center through the lenses of games, play, and digital literacies. Considering how game scholarship can productively deepen existing...

Translingual and Transnational Graduate Education in Rhetoric and Composition investigates the implications of composition studies' changing terminological and ideological landscape around language and nation for the professionalization of future...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948742948Author Ron HoganFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Belt PublishingPublisher Belt PublishingWeight(grams) 127gDimensions(mm) 178mm * 127mm *...

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A frivolous argument or inflated claim is often dismissed with the reply, "That's just rhetoric!" But as Scott Crider explains in The Office of Assertion, the classical tradition of rhetoric is both a productive and a liberal art. The ability to employ...

"Brilliant, time-tested and clear" advice that will help writers at all stages, in all genres, write their very best book-and then make it better. As a freelance editor for more than a decade, Williams has shepherded books from rough draft to polished...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913236052Author Sacha BlackFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Atlas Black PublishingPublisher Sacha Black LtdWeight(grams) 576g

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Academic Writing Now: A Brief Guide for Busy Students is a rhetoric designed to cover the basics of a college writing course in a concise, student-friendly format. Anything inessential to the business of college writing has been excluded. Each chapter...

The world is on fire.We are too young to change a thing.So how else can one express these undulating emotions but to put pen to paper?From the very tops of mountains, running through cities, to our childhood homes and all the way down to seas abroad...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982123079Author Kevin LarimerFormat HardbackPage Count 496Imprint Avid Reader Press / Simon & SchusterPublisher Avid Reader Press / Simon &...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781989387702Author Young Dreamers PressFormat PaperbackPage Count 107Imprint Young Dreamers PressPublisher YDP Creative IncWeight(grams) 217gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915216694Author Hackney And JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint Hackney and JonesPublisher Hackney and JonesWeight(grams) 141g

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You ain't gonna like it: bad grammar's not so bad. - The TimesRemember all those grammar rules from school? No? Most of us don't. Mike McCarthy, renowned corpus linguist and co-author of the 900-page Cambridge Grammar of English answers the awkward...

Virginia Woolf, Toni Morrison, Neil Armstrong, Jack Kerouac, Yoda: these are just a handful of the writers and speakers whose words are parsed in this diverting romp through sentences culled from poems, essays, speeches, songs, fiction and film. In...

This flexible textbook provides an integrated approach to user experience (UX) writing and equips students and practitioners with the essential principles and methods to succeed in writing for UX.The fundamental goal of UX writing is to produce usable...

We all know the basic structure of a sentence: a subject and verb pair expressing a complete thought and ending with proper punctuation. But that classroom definition doesn't begin to describe the ways in which these elements can combine to resonate with...

A Guide to Composition Pedagogies is the essential bibliographic guide written for newcomers to the field. Since our field has evolved quite a lot over the last decade, this long-awaited second edition contains many important changes, additions, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781599631455Author Nina AmirFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Writer's Digest BooksPublisher F&W Publications Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614290070Author Dinty W. MooreFormat HardbackPage Count 152Imprint Wisdom Publications,U.S.Publisher Wisdom Publications,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781607857754Author Patrick BarryFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Michigan Publishing ServicesPublisher Michigan Publishing Services

With a little knowledge and a lot of practice, you can do more than just sound more professional when you skillfully use commas, semicolons, and other forms of punctuation. You can, importantly, become more persuasive. That's what students who have taken...

Investigative Creative Writing is Mark Spitzer's lively and original treatment of creative writing practice and teaching within a college/university environment. The author presents an experiential, discovery-based approach that builds on teaching...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780822948568Author Ce MacKenziePage Count 200Imprint University of Pittsburgh PressPublisher University of Pittsburgh Press

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