Composition category: 2309 books
Cracking the AP English Language & Composition Exam, 2019 Edition
Practice Tests & Proven Techniques to Help You Score a 5
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO HELP SCORE A PERFECT 5. Ace the AP English Language & Composition Exam with this comprehensive study guide—including 2 full-length practice tests with complete explanations, thorough content reviews, targeted strategies for every section of the exam, and access to online extras.
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Teaching Music Through Composition
A Curriculum Using Technology
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2013
Teaching Music through Composition offers a practical, fully multimedia curriculum designed to teach basic musical concepts through the creative process of music composition. Author and award-winning music educator Barbara Freedman presents classroom-tested ways of teaching composition with technology...
Exploring Composition Studies
Sites, Issues, Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
Kelly Ritter and Paul Kei Matsuda have created an essential introduction to the field of composition studies for graduate students and instructors new to the study of writing. The book offers a careful exploration of this diverse field, focusing specifically on scholarship of writing and composing....
Political Literacy in Composition and Rhetoric
Defending Academic Discourse against Postmodern Pluralism
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015
In *Political Literacy in Composition and Rhetoric, *Donald Lazere calls for revival of NCTE resolutions in the 1970s for teaching the “critical reading, listening, viewing, and thinking skills necessary to enable students to cope with the persuasive techniques in political statements, advertising,...
Music Theory and Composition
A Practical Approach
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018
***Music Theory and Composition: A Practical Approach***presents a pragmatic, accessible approach to music theory through an emphasis on melody and counterpoint. This focus explains the “why” of musical construction more clearly than the traditional approach of beginning with chords. By starting...
Concepts in Composition
Theory and Practice in the Teaching of Writing
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Concepts in Composition: Theory and Practice in the Teaching of Writing is designed to foster reflection on how theory impacts practice, enabling prospective teachers to develop their own comprehensive and coherent conception of what writing is or should be and to consider how people learn to write....
Decisions, Agency, and Advising
Key Issues in the Placement of Multilingual Writers into First-Year Composition Courses
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Decisions, Agency, and Advising considers the role of students’ own agency in the placement of multilingual writers—including international students and US residents or citizens who are nonnative users of English—in US college composition programs. Grounded in qualitative research and concerned...
Repurposing Composition
Feminist Interventions for a Neoliberal Age
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
In Repurposing Composition, Shari J. Stenberg responds to the increasing neoliberal discourse of academe through the feminist practice of repurposing. In doing so, she demonstrates how tactics informed by feminist praxis can repurpose current writing pedagogy, assessment, public engagement, and other...
by Dr Adam Koehler
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
In an era of blurred generic boundaries, multimedia storytelling, and open-source culture, creative writing scholars stand poised to consider the role that technology-and the creative writer's playful engagement with technology-has occupied in the evolution of its theory and practice*.
Composition,...
First-Year Composition
From Theory to Practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
First-Year Composition: From Theory to Practice’s combination of theory and practice provides readers an opportunity to hear twelve of the leading theorists in composition studies answer, in their own voices, the key question of what it is they hope to accomplish in a first-year composition course....
Teaching Subject, A
Composition Since 1966, New Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
In this classic text, Joseph Harris traces the evolution of college writing instruction since the Dartmouth Seminar of 1966. A Teaching Subject offers a brilliant interpretive history of the first decades during which writing studies came to be imagined as a discipline separable from its partners...
Composing Electronic Music
A New Aesthetic
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2015
Electronic music evokes new sensations, feelings, and thoughts in both composers and listeners. Opening the door to an unlimited universe of sound, it engages spatialization as an integral aspect of composition and focuses on sound transformation as a core structural strategy. In this new domain,...
Musical Composition
Craft and Art
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
An invaluable introduction to the art and craft of musical composition from a distinguished teacher and composer
This essential introduction to the art and craft of musical composition is designed to familiarize beginning composers with principles and techniques applicable to a broad range...
by Edgar Allan Poe
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2014
*This Book is annotated (it contains a detailed biography of the author). *An active Table of Contents has been added by the publisher for a better customer experience. *This book has been checked and corrected for spelling errors.
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