Composition Creative Writing category: 2214 books
Creative Writing: the Quick Matrix
Selected exercises & ideas for teachers
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Creative Writing: the Quick Matrix is for writers teaching creative writing to adults. Can be adapted by any teacher for many levels of creative writing, and by writers' circles and individual writers.The 86 exercises and 18 mini-lectures selected from the original paperback are arranged in five sections...
by Jade C. Jamison
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
“My first thought when I finished reading was ‘Where the hell was this book when I jumped into self-publishing?’ I love the no-nonsense style that pulls no punches and keeps you interested. If you are thinking about self-publishing (or even going the traditional route) you should read this book...
Dialogue on Writing
Rethinking Esl, Basic Writing, and First-year Composition
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Designed for courses on theories and methods of teaching college writing, this text is distinguished by its emphasis on giving teachers a foundation of knowledge for teaching writing to a diverse student body. As such, it is equally relevant for teacher training in basic writing, ESL, and first year...
The Nonfictionist's Guide
On Reading and Writing Creative Nonfiction
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2007
Nonfiction—the "fourth genre" (along with poetry, fiction, and drama)—is a literary field affecting bestseller lists, writing programs, writers' workshops, and conferences on the study of creative writing, composition/rhetoric, and literature. It is often labeled and/or limited as "creative"...
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....
by
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Writing studies has been dominated throughout its history by grand narratives of the discipline, but in this volume Bruce McComiskey begins to explore microhistory as a way to understand, enrich, and complicate how the field relates to its past. Microhistory investigates the dialectical interaction...
In the Archives of Composition
Writing and Rhetoric in High Schools and Normal Schools
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
In the Archives of Composition offers new and revisionary narratives of composition and rhetoric’s history. It examines composition instruction and practice at secondary schools and normal colleges, the two institutions that trained the majority of U.S. composition teachers and students during the...
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...
Composing Magic
How to Create Magical Spells, Rituals, Blessings, Chants, and Prayer
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2007
You've attended rituals that took your breath away. You've borrowed spells out of books. You've read splendid Pagan poetry in magazines. Now learn to compose all these types of magical writing yourself!
Composing Magic guides you through the exciting realm of magical and spiritual writing....
Creative Writing Course (Advanced)
Ever wanted to write? A short story or perhaps even a book?
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2019
ADVANCED CREATIVE WRITING COURSE
by craig lock
CREATIVE WRITING COURSE (ADVANCED): COURSE II(1998)
(Eagle Productions NZ)
by craig lock
A university creative writing class was asked to write a
concise essay containing these four elements:
- religion
- royalty
- sex
- mystery
The...
Securing a Place for Reading in Composition
The Importance of Teaching for Transfer
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
Securing a Place for Reading in Composition addresses the dissonance between the need to prepare students to read, not just write, complex texts and the lack of recent scholarship on reading-writing connections. Author Ellen C. Carillo argues that including attention-to-reading practices is crucial...
Writing across Contexts
Transfer, Composition, and Sites of Writing
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
Addressing how composers transfer both knowledge about and practices of writing, Writing across Contexts explores the grounding theory behind a specific composition curriculum called Teaching for Transfer (TFT) and analyzes the efficacy of the approach. Finding that TFT courses aid students in transfer...
by Robert Coogan, Jane Donawerth, Molly J. Scanlon
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2018
What current theoretical frameworks inform academic and professional writing? What does research tell us about the effectiveness of academic and professional writing programs? What do we know about existing best practices? What are the current guidelines and procedures in evaluating a program’s...