Composition category: 2309 books
1977
A Cultural Moment in Composition
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2008
A product of extensive archival research and numerous interviews, 1977: A Cultural Moment In Composition examines the local, state, and national forces (economic, political, cultural, and academic) that fostered the development of the first-year composition program at one representative site, Penn State University, in the late 1970s.
Bridging the Multimodal Gap
From Theory to Practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2019
Bridging the Multimodal Gap addresses multimodality scholarship and its use in the composition classroom. Despite scholars’ interest in their students’ multiple literacies, multimodal composition is far from the norm in most writing classes. Essays explore how multimodality can be implemented...
by Steve Slagle
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Aimed at musicians searching for the next level in their ability to compose and improvise, this handy reference draws on the author’s own published music as well as accessible standards. Educational text is interspersed with personal experiences playing alongside legends such as "Machito"...
Musical Composition
Projects in Ways and Means
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 1995
A volume of projects designed to help student composers achieve technical mastery and artistic growth. For each chapter the author provides suggested exercises paralleling the text and musical illustrations. Teachers may use this book as a classroom text; students may use it independently.
Music Theory Through Improvisation
A New Approach to Musicianship Training
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Designed for Music Theory courses, Music Theory Through Improvisation presents a unique approach to basic theory and musicianship training that examines the study of traditional theory through the art of improvisation. The book follows the same general progression of diatonic to non-diatonic harmony...
by Kevin J. Porter, Michael Bernard-Donals, Jeff Rice
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2016
This collection is organized around the concept of abduction, a logical operation introduced by Charles Sanders Peirce that explains how new ideas are formed in response to an uncertain future. Responding to this uncertain future with rigor and insight, each essay imagines new methods, concepts, and...
Living Rhetoric and Composition
Stories of the Discipline
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1998
This collection--of the stories of scholars who have found a lifelong commitment to the teaching of writing--includes the professional histories of 19 rhetoricians and compositionists who explain how they came to fall in love with the written word and with teaching. Their stories are filled with personal anecdotes--some funny, some touching, some m
Genre And The Invention Of The Writer
Reconsidering the Place of Invention in Composition
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2003
In a focused and compelling discussion, Anis Bawarshi looks to genre theory for what it can contribute to a refined understanding of invention. In describing what he calls "the genre function," he explores what is at stake for the study and teaching of writing to imagine invention as a way...
by MobileReference
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Boost Your grades with this comprehensive Study Guide. You will use it from high school to college and beyond.Audience:Intended for everyone interested in improving their writing and presentation skills, particularly high school and college students.FEATURES:- An essentialguide for students struggling...
The Elements of Style
The Original Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2012
The original edition of the most trusted writer's guide to American English, this is the book that generations of writers have relied upon for timeless advice on grammar, diction, syntax, sentence construction, and other writing essentials. In brief and concise terms, author William Strunk, Jr., identifies...
by Susan Wise Bauer
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2014
This third volume of the groundbreaking writing series prepares students for advanced work in rhetoric and composition. Straightforward, detailed instructions lead students through brainstorming, researching, and constructing original compositions.
Building on the first two levels of Writing...
Writing New Media
Theory and Applications for Expanding the Teaching of Composition
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2007
As new media mature, the changes they bring to writing in college are many and suggest implications not only for the tools of writing, but also for the contexts, personae, and conventions of writing. An especially visible change has been the increase of visual elements-from typographic flexibility...
Everyone Can Write
Essays toward a Hopeful Theory of Writing and Teaching Writing
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2000
With Writing without Teachers (OUP 1975) and Writing with Power (OUP 1995) Peter Elbow revolutionized the teaching of writing. His process method--and its now commonplace "free writing" techniques--liberated generations of students and teachers from the emphasis on formal principles of grammar that...
Techniques du récit et composition dramatique
Guide pratique
Language: French
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Pour les romans, contes, nouvelles, pièces de théâtre, scénarios de films, etc.Si vous savez raconter une histoire en public, vous avez déjà des dons de conteur. Mais encore faut-il les développer sur la durée d'un texte.Ce manuel expose quatre manières de structurer une histoire `"qui se tienne"....