Composition Creative Writing category: 2214 books
by Peter Gutiérrez
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This dynamic resource offers teachers a new way to energize the teaching of writing while also meeting Common Core State Standards. The author draws on his unique background in education and media to provide this all-in-one resource to help teachers use the versatility of scriptwriting to motivate...
The Writing Program Administrator's Resource
A Guide To Reflective Institutional Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2005
The role of the writing program administrator is one of diverse activities and challenges, and preparation for the position has traditionally come through performing the job itself. As a result, uninitiated WPAs often find themselves struggling to manage the various requirements and demands of the...
by H.E. Colby
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2014
Don’t miss the critical skills and knowledge inside this guide in order to fuel powerful business communications with more than a billion people worldwide who speak English!
This e-Guide is an abridged version adapted from the original audio e-Clinic of the same name designed to enhance your...
ReWRITING the Basics
Literacy Learning in Children's Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
What are the real “basics” of writing, how should they be taught, and what do they look like in children’s worlds? In her new book, Anne Haas Dyson shows how highly scripted writing curricula and regimented class routines work against young children’s natural social learning processes. Readers...
Applied Pedagogies
Strategies for Online Writing Instruction
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Teaching any subject in a digital venue must be more than simply an upload of the face-to-face classroom and requires more flexibility than the typical learning management system affords. Applied Pedagogies examines the pedagogical practices employed by successful writing instructors in digital classrooms...
The Writing Life
Thoughts along the Writing Journey
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
THE WRITING LIFE
Thoughts along the Writing Journey:
A book being written “on the go”
“We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.”
– Ernest Hemingway
From Craig's Writing Journey blog at Wordpress
About the Author
Craig is an extensive...
Writing in the Flow
More thoughts on writing "in the Zone"
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2019
“This happens when finding the right words is no longer a struggle. Words simply flow into your head faster than you can write them down (or press the keyboard). You read what you have just written and say: “Bloody hell. That’s good. Did I really write that? Wonder where all that came from.”
–...
Writing Centers and the New Racism
A Call for Sustainable Dialogue and Change
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
Noting a lack of sustained and productive dialogue about race in university writing center scholarship, the editors of this volume have created a rich resource for writing center tutors, administrators, and scholars. Motivated by a scholarly interest in race and whiteness studies, and by an ethical...
Writing Tips And Tricks - More Than 40 Ways to Improve YOUR Writing Today!
Author's Secrets, #1
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
Do you love to write, but struggle to do so ? If so, this is the book for you!
Packed with amazing tips and tricks, to get you unstuck from ‘writer’s block’ and to improve your writing in dozens of little ways, there are tips about all aspects of writing, for both fiction and non-fiction...
Ecologies of Writing Programs
Program Profiles in Context
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
Ecologies of Writing Programs: Profiles of Writing Programs in Context features profiles of exemplary and innovative writing programs across varied institutions. Situated within an ecological framework, the book explores the dynamic inter-relationships as well as the complex rhetorical and material...
The Aboutness of Writing Center Talk
A Corpus-Driven and Discourse Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2016
Writing centers in universities and colleges aim to help student writers develop practices that will make them better writers in the long term and that will improve their draft papers in the short term. The tutors who work in writing centers accomplish such goals through one-to-one talk about writing....
Crossing Divides
Exploring Translingual Writing Pedagogies and Programs
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Translingualism perceives the boundaries between languages as unstable and permeable; this creates a complex challenge for writing pedagogy. Writers shift actively among rhetorical strategies from multiple languages, sometimes importing lexical or discoursal tropes from one language into another to...
Writing Majors
Eighteen Program Profiles
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2015
The writing major is among the most exciting scenes in the evolving American university. Writing Majors is a collection of firsthand descriptions of the origins, growth, and transformations of eighteen different programs. The chapters provide useful administrative insight, benchmark information, and...
by Alessandra Bancroft
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
Break Into The Biggest, Most Lucrative Writing Genre of Them All!
Are you looking to get into publishing and increase your chances of becoming a successful author? Why not start with romance? Romance is the most popular and best-selling genre of all fiction stories, accounting for the majority...