Composition Creative Writing category: 2214 books
Assessing the Teaching of Writing
Twenty-First Century Trends and Technologies
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
Although fraught with politics and other perils, teacher evaluation can contribute in important, positive ways to faculty development at both the individual and the departmental levels. Yet the logistics of creating a valid assessment are complicated. Inconsistent methods, rater bias, and overreliance...
Popular Health & Medical Writing for Magazines
How to Turn Current Research & Trends into Salable Feature Articles
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2005
Here's how to transform your interest in popular health topics such as gene hunters, medical trends, self-help, nutrition, current issues, or pets into writing salable feature articles for popular publications.
Become a health-aware feature writer, journalist, editor, indexer, abstractor, proofreader,...
Writing Program Architecture
Thirty Cases for Reference and Research
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Writing Program Architecture offers an unprecedented abundance of information concerning the significant material, logistical, and rhetorical features of writing programs. Presenting the realities of thirty diverse and award-winning programs, contributors to the volume describe reporting lines, funding...
by Hollis George
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
Illustrated with a series of 48 pictures to enhance the reading experience, helping to place the authors in their era.
Here are three classic authors sharing their tips and how-to’s about writing. This anthology includes “Essays in the Art of Writing” by Robert Louis Stevenson, “How to Tell...
by Alison Plus
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2017
You must write an application essay. This essay might accompany an application to college, graduate school, or professional school. Or it might be part of a job application or a request for a scholarship or other funding. Regardless of the nature of the application, all of these essays are united...
by Ruth Punton
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2015
Writing the Story is the 3rd Module in the series Fiction Writers WorkBook. The first 2 Modules dealt with Creating Characters and Plots & Tension.This Module deals with writing the first draft, chapters, voice, setting, style, the short story and rewriting. Language usage deals with narrative...
Finishing School
The Happy Ending to That Writing Project You Can't Seem to Get Done
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
All too many people start a writing project with grand ambitions but reach a crisis of completion. Finishing School helps writers reignite the passion that started them on the project in the first place and work steadily to get it done.
Untold millions of writing projects—begun with hope...
The Unity of Content and Form in Philosophical Writing
The Perils of Conformity
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
In The Unity of Content and Form in Philosophical Writing, Jon Stewart argues that there is a close relation between content and form in philosophical writing. While this might seem obvious at first glance, it is overlooked in the current climate of Anglophone academic philosophy, which, Stewart contends,...
Rethinking Basic Writing
Exploring Identity, Politics, and Community in interaction
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1999
This book surveys the history of basic writing scholarship, suggesting that we cannot adequately theorize the situations of basic writers unless we examine how they construct their own conceptions of their identities, their constructions of their relationships to social forces, and their representations...
Keys to Inspiration
A Teacher's Guide to a Student-Centered Writing Program
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Student-centered instruction is the buzzword among today’s educators, yet the teaching of writing is still very top-down. Student-centered should mean student-inspired, and that’s where Keys to Inspiration comes in. The path to a writer’s truth always starts with an emotion, and almost all forms...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Tutoring Second Language Writers, a complete update of Bruce and Rafoth’s 2009 ESL Writers, is a guide for writing center tutors that addresses the growing need for tutors who are better prepared to work with the increasingly international population of students seeking guidance at the writing center.
Drawing...
by Sandra Daniel
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2014
Impactful Academic Writing is a practical guide to the most essential academic writing skills that a student needs. It will direct graduate and undergraduate students from paragraph structuring to writing lengthy assignments through a systematic approach. It contains examples and good advice on how...
Writing and Teaching to Change the World
Connecting with Our Most Vulnerable Students
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Perfect for use in teacher preparation courses and professional learning groups, this book shows what critical pedagogy looks like and identifies the conditions needed for it to emerge in the K–12 classroom. Focusing on and documenting their experiences with one of their most disenfranchised...
Out in the Center
Public Controversies and Private Struggles
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
Out in the Center explores the personal struggles of tutors, faculty, and administrators in writing center communities as they negotiate the interplay between public controversies and features of their own intersectional identities. These essays address how race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, class,...