Composition category: 2309 books
by Winifred Phillips
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2014
A comprehensive, practical guide to composing video game music, from acquiring the necessary skills to finding work in the field.
Music in video games is often a sophisticated, complex composition that serves to engage the player, set the pace of play, and aid interactivity. Composers of video...
by Speedy Publishing
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2014
A study guide on English composition and style helps you to study by assisting in the process of identifying and adhering to a schedule of activity so that the use of your time is maximized. You are presented with a strategic way to formulate specific steps for enhancing and completing a study regimen....
Composing for Moving Pictures
The Essential Guide
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Making quality moving pictures has never been easier or more affordable, and the proliferation and ease of access to digital recording devices has prompted scores of amateurs to record and post videos to YouTube and its ilk. Paradoxically, however, scoring and arranging music for motion pictures is,...
Composition in Black and White
The Life of Philippa Schuyler
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 1997
George Schuyler, a renowned and controversial black journalist of the Harlem Renaissance, and Josephine Cogdell, a blond, blue-eyed Texas heiress and granddaughter of slave owners, believed that intermarriage would "invigorate" the races, thereby producing extraordinary offspring. Their daughter,...
by Ronald T. Kellogg
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 1999
The human ability to render meaning through symbolic media such as art, dance, music, and speech defines, in many ways, the uniqueness of our species. One symbolic medium in particular--written expression--has aroused increasing interest among researchers across disciplines, in areas as diverse as...
Designing Interactive Worlds With Words
Principles of Writing As Representational Composition
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2000
No two writing situations are exactly the same and skilled writers, like skilled painters, must develop the know-how to represent the objects of their writing as part of a flexible art. This special art of writing lies hidden between grammar--the well-formedness of sentences--and genre--the capacity...
Advanced Compositions For Primary 6
Based on commonly tested topics and PSLE questions
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2013
Generating interesting and effective plots for school compositions is a challenge for many students. Sometimes, the difficulty is encountered when students are inadequately taught the fundamental techniques of creative writing. Other times, students lack high-quality resources from which they can...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
While traditional writing is typically understood as a language based on the combination of words, phrases, and sentences to communicate meaning, modern technologies have led educators to reevaluate the notion that writing is restricted to this definition. Exploring Multimodal Composition and Digital...
Young Adult Literature in the Composition Classroom
Essays on Practical Application
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2018
Young adult literature holds an exceptional place in modern American popular culture. Accessible to readers of all levels, it captures a diverse audience and tends to adapt to the big screen in an exciting way. With its wide readership, YAL sparks interesting discussions inside and outside of the...
by Alexandria Peary, Tom C Hunley
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2015
The creative writing workshop: beloved by some, dreaded by others, and ubiquitous in writing programs across the nation. For decades, the workshop has been entrenched as the primary pedagogy of creative writing. While the field of creative writing studies has sometimes myopically focused on this single...
Teaching U.S.-Educated Multilingual Writers
Pedagogical Practices from and for the Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
This volume was born to address the lack of classroom-oriented scholarship regarding U.S.-educated multilingual writers. Unlike prior volumes about U.S.-educated multilinguals, this book focuses solely on pedagogy--from classroom activities and writing assignments to course curricula and pedagogical...
Economies of Writing
Revaluations in Rhetoric and Composition
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Economies of Writing advances scholarship on political economies of writing and writing instruction, considering them in terms of course subject, pedagogy, technology, and social practice. Taking the "economic" as a necessary point of departure and contention for the field, the collection...
Concepts in Composition
Theory and Practices in the Teaching of Writing
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2019
Concepts in Composition is designed to foster reflection on how theory impacts practice, allowing prospective teachers to assume the dual role of both teacher and student as they enter the discipline of Writing Studies and become familiar with some of its critical conversations. Now in its third edition,...
English Composition & Style
Speedy Study Guides
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2014
Learning how to write well is a very complex skill that requires a person to know how to compose a work, and then make it so that it is the kind of things that the reader likes to read. Students need to know this, and so it is a great idea for them to use an English composition and style study guide....