Composition Creative Writing category: 2214 books
The Writer's Style
A Rhetorical Field Guide
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2018
Designed to help all writers learn to use style as a rhetorical tool, taking into account audience, purpose, context, and occasion, The Writer’s Style is not only a style guide for a new generation but a new generation of style guide. The book helps writers learn new strategies inductively, by looking...
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 Stephen May
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2014
Get Started in Creative Writing will help writers at the very beginning of their creative journey to gain confidence and find inspiration, and then support you in the completion of your first pieces of creative writing - a short story, a poem, a draft of a novel or screenplay. Each chapter includes...
by Casey Clabough PhD
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Creative writing may be the ultimate form of self-expression. Whether the reader is a creative writing student or someone who feels compelled to create stories and poetry in their free time, Idiot's Guides: Creative Writing helps them master the basics of fiction and creative nonfiction and write...
by Mark Hanen
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2013
Words skillfully guides you, step by step, through your entire writing project. Written in a conversational style, Words explains how to shape, focus, organize, and polish your nonfiction writing. It coaches you through the process of discovering what you want to say, how you want to say it, and how...
Quick English Compositions
Writing Effective Paragraphs and Essays
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2014
The global environment demands English writing skill. QEC (Quick English Compositions) helps learners understand and practice English composition skills. Focusing on one essay type at a time, QEC can help you write better quickly, with many example patterns, focusing on the sentence level. QEC includes...
by Maggie Hamand
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2010
Do you have an idea that you’re burning to get down on paper? Do you want to document your travels to far-flung places, or write a few stanzas of poetry? Whether you dream of being a novelist, a travel writer, a poet, a playwright or a columnist, Creative Writing For Dummies shows you how to unlock...
Can Creative Writing Really Be Taught?
Resisting Lore in Creative Writing Pedagogy (10th anniversary edition)
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2017
Revised and updated throughout, this 10th-anniversary edition of Can Creative Writing Really Be Taught? is a significantly expanded guide to key issues and practices in creative writing teaching today.
Challenging the myths of creative writing teaching, experienced and up-and-coming teachers...
by Susan Wise Bauer
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2014
The third volume of the groundbreaking writing series that prepares students for high-level work in rhetoric and composition. Full support for parents and teachers, including rubrics, model compositions, teaching tips, and suggested dialogue.
Building on the first two levels of Writing With...
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,...
Toward an Inclusive Creative Writing
Threshold Concepts to Guide the Literary Writing Curriculum
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
The creative writing workshop has existed since the early part of the 20th century, but does it adequately serve the students who come to it today? While the workshop is often thought of as a form of student-centered pedagogy, it turns out that workshop conversations serve to marginalize a range of...
Community Writing
Researching Social Issues Through Composition
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2001
Community Writing: Researching Social Issues Through Composition employs a series of assignments that guide students to research and write about issues confronting their individual communities. Students start by identifying a community to which they belong and focusing on problems in it, and then...
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...