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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780874212464Author Lynn BloomFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Utah State University PressPublisher Utah State University PressWeight(grams)...

Discover an innovative, evidence-based method for preparing students for the demands of college writing called Supporting Strategic Writers (SSW). The goal of SSW is to help students become independent learners who understand the value of strategies and...

When most people think of wikis, the first---and usually the only---thing that comes to mind is Wikipedia. The editors of Wiki Writing: Collaborative Learning in the College Classroom, Robert E. Cummings and Matt Barton, have assembled a collection of...

Somewhat ironically, the Internet makes it both easier to copy and easier to detect copying. The essays in this volume explore the complex issues of originality, imitation, and plagiarism, especially as they concern students and scholars, while also...

Crafting Compositions guides students through the entire writing process, with exercises in planning, drafting, responding and revising, and polishing. In addition to completing free writing exercises, keeping a journal of informal responses, and...

This book presents an approach to the teaching of second language writing in which students themselves work as discourse analysts. By investigating genres of writing as they occur in authentic social contexts, learners can become more versatile and...

Reading & Writing for Academic Success was designed to present high-level academic content-based instruction to students who are preparing to participate in the academic community. The material is appropriate for classes where critiquing and integrating...

The critical approach to L2 writing is arguably one of the most significant recent developments in L2 writing pedagogy. A. Suresh Canagarajah provides a thorough discussion of this topic in Critical Academic Writing and Multilingual Students.This volume...

The book explores the journey of 10 international students to better understand their experiences at a U.S. educational institution and how they constructed and revealed these experiences in this particular socio-academic space. The study features a...

Since the publication of the first edition in 2002, there have been two major developments in L2 writing and peer response teaching and research. The first is the increased interest in CALL and computer-mediated communication (CMC) for L2 pedagogy; the...

Clean, Well-Lighted Sentences is a small, engaging book that sits at your desk and gives golden advice. It knows precisely what your questions are, answers them clearly, makes sure you understand, and stops. What an unusual find: a grammar and...

Writers know it instinctively: Verbs make a sentence zing. Grammar gurus agree: Drama in writing emerges from the interplay of a subject (noun) and a predicate (verb). Constance Hale, the best-selling author of Sin and Syntax, zooms in on the colorful...

Write Like a Chemist is a unique guide to chemistry-specific writing. Written with National Science Foundation support and extensively piloted in chemistry courses nationwide, it offers a structured approach to writing that targets four important...

Connecting Speaking & Writing in Second Language Writing Instruction provides both a theoretical perspective on the importance of L2 learners' development of written language as well as practical strategies for incorporating social interaction into the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781607326298Author Associate Professor Kelly RitterFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Utah State University PressPublisher Utah State University...

Relocating Authority examines the ways Japanese Americans have continually used writing to respond to the circumstances of their community's mass imprisonment during World War II. Using both Nikkei cultural frameworks and community-specific history for...

Get inspired and build your skills with one year of daily creative writing promptsThe best way to get better at writing? Practice! This prompt-a-day journal is designed to keep your mind moving, with 365 unique writing prompts that flex your writing...

Punia's father used to dive for lobsters in an underwater cave. Then the Shark King came to live there. One day, when Punia was a baby, his father went diving for lobsters and never came back. Now Punia has a plan to trick the Shark King, and to bring...

Long ago, China had no freshwater rivers or lakes. The people had to depend on rainwater for drinking and for watering their crops. But one hot summer, no rain fell. Four kind dragons wanted to help the people. Can they figure out a way to bring water to...

C Chulainn is the greatest hero and warrior of Irish legend. But he was not always a warrior. Once he was an unknown boy. How did this boy become a legend?Book InformationISBN 9781285191492Author Micheal SuileabhainPage Count 16Imprint National...

This examines composition as an act of communication that can be expressed through any number of media and as a path to meaning-making. It offers an in-depth examination of multimodality via the processes, values, structures, and semiotic practices...

Reimagining composition's key termsBruce Horner's Rewriting Composition: Terms of Exchange shows how dominant inflections of key terms in composition-language, labor, value/evaluation, discipline, and composition itself-reinforce composition's low...

For more than four decades, the dominant model for pedagogy and research in the field of composition has been a how-centered process approach to writing instruction, which involves studying the writing that students produce to expose the various stages...

From the end of Reconstruction through World War II, a network of public colleges for white women flourished throughout the South. Founded primarily as vocational colleges to educate women of modest economic means for life in the emerging "new" South,...

The venture of this inviting collection is to look, from the many vantages that the 35 poets in this eclectic anthology chose to look, at what it was-knowing that a poem can't be conceived in advance of its creation-that helped their poems to emerge or...

Praise for Annie Finch"A self-proclaimed 'postmodern poetess,' Annie Finch lives up to the moniker, presenting a simultaneously thorough and mercurial array of musings on poetics focusing on form and meter, remaining three beats ahead of the...

This volume has been written as a response to the new types of communicative demands that the twenty-first century has brought to the workplace. Today's adult education programs must prepare students to understand complex operations, be problem-solvers,...

This workbook accompanies the 2nd Edition of The ESL Writer's Handbook (ISBN: 978-0-472-03707-0). The Workbook extends the topics covered in the Handbook to enable a teacher to use the books as the core texts in an advanced ESL writing or first-year...

The ESL Writer's Handbook is a reference work for ESL students who are taking college-level courses. Because its purpose is to provide help with the broad variety of writing questions students may have when working on school assignments, the text focuses...

The goals of this resource are broader than many standard books on writing assessment, which focus on evaluating an individual's ability to create an effective piece of writing for a particular purpose. Assessing Writing, Assessing Learning seeks to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788417418373Author Jose Carlos ArandaFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint AlmuzaraPublisher AlmuzaraWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm) 218mm * 145mm * 28mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781587299209Author John McNallyFormat PaperbackPage Count 177Imprint University of Iowa PressPublisher University of Iowa PressWeight(grams) 380g

A fill-in book from the San Francisco Writers' Grotto, authors of the bestselling 642 Things series Focus on a single aspect of the craft of writing with help from the San Francisco Writers' Grotto. Writing Memoir starts with a foreword by New York...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780826222954Author William Least Heat-MoonFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint University of Missouri PressPublisher University of Missouri...

Why Write? An Anthology for English Composition equips students with the knowledge, skillsets, and applied practice needed to improve their academic writing, critical thinking skills, and research capability. The anthology provides students with engaging...

When Linda Spence asked her aging mother to write her life story, her mother stared at a blank sheet of paper and asked-"How? Where do I begin?" In this practical guide to capturing those memories that have been stored away, Linda Spence provides the...

In the years since the first edition of Controversies in Second Language Writing was published, there been little to no clear resolution of the controversies Casanave so accessibly and fair-mindedly laid out. In fact, many of them have become far more...

Journal writing is not new--journals have been around for centuries. More recently, journals have been viewed as a means of scaffolding reflective teaching and encouraging reflectivity in research processes. As a result, some educators may ask, "What...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780393918809Author Karen GocsikFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint W. W. Norton & CompanyPublisher W. W. Norton & CompanyWeight(grams) 113gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780929895390Author Susan KoehlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Maupin House PublishingPublisher Maupin House PublishingWeight(grams)...