Ideal for instructors and students in a wide range of sociological courses, this guide makes the case that thinking and writing are integrally related and that writing, therefore, exercises the soc
Give your students the structured practice and instruction they need to become strong writers without losing the creative spirit that makes writing fun!Paragraph Writing is jam-packed with activities
Provide your students with the inspiration they need to develop the vocabulary, ideas, and enthusiasm that will make their writing shine!The new edition of Creative Writing Ideas comes with a wide var
The dynamic world of reading and writing has changed greatly over the past few years. Writers are pitching their ideas online, exchanging works in progress with critique partners and forming street te
Explore the world of poetry with your students! Step-by-step directions lead students through writing couplets, cinquains, haikus, and limericks. Resources include: writing forms, step-by-step directi
The Writing Power series is unlike most other writing textbooks. Rather than focusing on one are of writing, such as fluency, language use, academic writing, or social writing the series includes
Writing, one of Marguerite Duras’s last works, is a meditation on the process of writing and on her need for solitude in order to do it. In the five short pieces collected in this volume, she explores
Everyone has a story. Whether it is a drama, thriller, comedy, or horror, writing a screenplay is about finding your voice as a writer and writing your own unique story that comes alive through plays
Writing Power is a practical and thoughtful resource that shows teachers how to encourage students to consider the reader's thinking as they write. Using the same five thinking strategies from Adrienn
The title of this collection refers both to women writing to refute female stereotypes and the current process of writing women back into their proper place in literary history. A sub theme is the con
Reporting and Writing: Basics for the 21st Century draws on Christopher Scanlan's twenty-five years of work as a journalist, reporter, writer, writing coach, and teacher. It combines his vast experien
War affects life writing and lives affect war writing. The traditional forms of life writing—memoir, biography, letters, diaries—buckle under the strain of war. War writing has fewer traditional forms
SPECIAL INTRODUCTORY PRICE!Valid until three months after publicationThe past three decades have seen a remarkable growth of cross-disciplinary academic interest in travel writing. This new four-volum
Trauma and its aftermath pose acute problems for historical representation and understanding. In Writing History, Writing Trauma, Dominick LaCapra critically analyzes attempts by theorists and litera
The stories and poems written here are the product of many tasks which were given to me, or suggested, however vaguely, by a teacher of Creative Writing. There would have been more but the Wirral Boro
This Third Edition of Opinion Writing breaks new ground for all writers of trial and appellate opinions—trial and appellate judges, administrative law judges, arbitrators, as well as current and aspir
Part of the Longman Topics reader series, Writing Places encourages students to examine the locations that define their past, present and future. As students begin to think critically and to write abo
In this engrossing memoir, poet and literacy scholar Eli Goldblatt shares the intimate ways reading and writing influenced the first thirty years of his life—in the classroom but mostly outside it.
In the aftermath of disaster, literary and other cultural representations of the event can play a role in the renegotiation of political power. InDisaster Writing, Mark D. Anderson analyzes four natur
One of Canada's best-known and most-honoured biographers turns to the raw material of his own life in Writing History. A university professor, prolific scholar, public intellectual, and frank critic o
"No one in the news media should write or talk about immigration without reading Writing Immigration." --Lawrence O'Donnell, Host of MSNBC The Last word with Lawrence O'Donnell"I cannot help but appla
"No one in the news media should write or talk about immigration without reading Writing Immigration." --Lawrence O'Donnell, Host of MSNBC The Last word with Lawrence O'Donnell"I cannot help but appla
Coman, author of The Memory Bank and What Jamie Saw, presents this guide to the story writing process for teachers and students alike. The author focuses on the core of good story crafting: plot, char
Engaging Writing, a newly expanded two-level series, gives students the concepts and skills they need for success in academic writing. Engaging Writing provides clear, step-by-step instruction in the
Moginet, a graphic and type designer based in Morocco, presents a concise visual history of Arabic writing, from its origins to the present day. The brief text is beautifully presented in mainly two-p
Grammar-Writing Connections teaches intermediate students the grammar items and structures that will give a more literate and natural sound to their writing. Unlike most other textbooks that are avail
Affirming the professional knowledge, practice, and engagement of teachers in the face of recurring media attacks on their profession, this examination of the role of writing in various teaching and l
Explicit Business Writing: Best Practices for the Twenty-First Century contains best practices The Business Writing Center has isolated over decades of training business people to write effectively.
In Writing Men, Berthold Schoene-Harwood develops a trajectory of masculine emancipation from the monstrous imagery of nineteenth-century fiction to contemporary men writers' experimental new discours
Writing Centers have traditionally been viewed as marginalized facilities within their institutions. At the same time, faculty in all disciplines have come to stress the importance of good writing, an
A study of accounts of foreign travel by women and the conditions that made them possible, focusing on writing by white, middle- and upper- middle-class American women. Encompasses the formal transfor
Translators Writing, Writing Translators is a collection of essays by some of the leading scholar-practitioners working in the field of translation studies. Inspired by the work of distinguished trans
Dobrin presents 13 essays which examine the relationship between posthumanism and writing in the theoretical demanding context of writing studies. He defines the book’s content as an “attempt to incit
Bringing the study of writing to the heart of sociolinguistic inquiry, this textbook illustrates and challenges the 'great divide' between speech and writing and raises questions about what's involved
Teaching Creative Writing includes lively contributions from over two dozen leading practitioners in the field. Topics addressed include history of Creative Writing, workshops, undergraduate, postgrad
Teaching Creative Writing includes lively contributions from over two dozen leading practitioners in the field. Topics addressed include history of Creative Writing, workshops, undergraduate, postgrad
The Writing Power series is unlike most other writing textbooks. Rather than focusing on one area of writing, such as fluency, language use, academic writing, or social writing, the series includes
Thaiss (university writing program, U. of California, Davis) et al. compile 42 essays that originated in the International Writing Across the Curriculum/Writing In Disciplines Mapping Project, which b
