Composition

The New Work of Writing Across the Curriculum is a descriptive analysis of how institutions can work to foster stronger intellectual activities around writing as connected to campus-wide diversity and inclusion initiatives. Author Staci M. Perryman-Clark...

In Telling Stories, more than a dozen longitudinal writing researchers look beyond conventional project findings to story their work and, in doing so, offer otherwise unavailable glimpses into the logics and logistics of long-range studies of writing...

Multimodal Composing and Writing Transfer explores transfer across various contexts of multimodal composing, extending the early conversations connecting multimodality to writing. Contributors address how writing transfer theories intersect with...

In this collection writing program and writing center administrators from a range of academic institutions come together to explore their work through the lens of sensemaking. Sensemaking is an organizational theory concept that enables institutions,...

As the nation becomes increasingly divided by economic inequality, racial injustice, xenophobic violence, and authoritarian governance, scholars in writing studies have strived to develop responsive theories and practices to engage students, teachers,...

First published in 1969, The Compass of Irony is a detailed study of the nature, qualities, classifications, and significance of irony. Divided into two parts, the book offers first a general account of the formal qualities of irony and a classification...

This book presents a lively, rich, and concise introduction to the key concepts and tools for developing clarity and coherence in academic writing. Well-known authors and linguists David Nunan and Julie Choi argue that becoming an accomplished writer is...

In this book, authors Murphy and O'Neill propose a new way forward, moving away from high-stakes, test-based writing assessment and the curriculum it generates and toward an approach to assessment that centers on student learning and success. Reviewing...

Community colleges in the United States are the first point of entry for many students to a higher education, a career, and a new start. They continue to be a place of personal and, ultimately, societal transformation. And first-year composition courses...

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...

Teaching Black: The Craft of Teaching Black Life and Literature presents the experiences and voices of Black creative writers who are also teachers. The authors presented here write and teach across a variety of genres and at numerous intersections,...

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 *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781582977966Author Dinty W. MooreFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Writer's Digest BooksPublisher F&W Publications IncWeight(grams) 313gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806540733Author Lajos EgriFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Citadel Press Inc.,U.S.Publisher Citadel Press Inc.,U.S.

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...

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) 576gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Professor Strumpf explains these and other language issues with wit and wisdom, showing how to speak more clearly and write more impressively by avoiding common errors and following the principles of good grammar. Whether you need a comprehensive review...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952928291Author Morgan Tarpley SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Ink Map PressPublisher Ink Map PressWeight(grams) 245gDimensions(mm) 279mm *...

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 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) 141gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781946995407Author Randy EllefsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 802Imprint Evermore Press, LLCPublisher Evermore Press, LLCWeight(grams) 1157gDimensions(mm)...

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...