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Alternatives to Grading Student Writingby Ncte Committee on Alternatives to Grading Student Writing, Stephen TchudiISBN 0814101305 (0-8141-0130-5)
Softcover, Natl Council of Teachers
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Bootstraps: From an American Academic of Colorby Victor VillanuevaISBN 0814103774 (0-8141-0377-4)
Softcover, Natl Council of Teachers
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bootstraps: From an American Academic of Color'Book summary:_Bootstraps_ is an unusual book: at one level it is autobiographical, detailing the life of an American of Puerto Rican extraction from his childhood in New York City to an academic post at a university. At another level, Villanueva ponders his experiences in light of the history of rhetoric, the English Only movement, current socio- and psycholinguistic theory, and the writings of Gramsci and Freire, among others.
Winner of the David H. Russell Award for Distinguished Research in the Teaching of English. [via]More editions of Bootstraps: From an American Academic of Color:
City Comp: Identities, Spaces, Practicesby Bruce McComiskey, Cynthia RyanISBN 0791455505 (0-7914-5550-5)
Softcover, State Univ of New York Pr
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Classroom Practices in Teaching English, 1979-1980: How to Handle the Paper Loadby Gene StanfordISBN 0814106897 (0-8141-0689-7)
Softcover, Natl Council of Teachers
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A Closer Look: The Writer's Readerby Sidney I. Dobrin, Anis S. BawarshiISBN 0767417437 (0-7674-1743-7)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
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Coherence, Counterpoint, Instrumentation, Instruction in Form/Zusammenhang, Kontrapunkt, Instrumentation, Formenlehre: Zusammenhang, Kontrapunkt, Instrumentation, Formenlehreby Arnold Schoenberg, Severine NeffISBN 0803242301 (0-8032-4230-1)
Hardcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Coherence, Counterpoint, Instrumentation, Instruction in Form/Zusammenhang, Kontrapunkt, Instrumentation, Formenlehre: Zusammenhang, Kontrapunkt, Instrumentation, Formenlehre'Book summary:Only Stravinsky can claim as much credit as Schoenberg for the most dramatic innovations in twentieth-century music. Inventor of the twelve-tone row, explorer of atonality and the hexachord, composer of tone poems, songs, and chamber music, and chief spokesman for the Vienna Circle, Schoenberg has become ever more influential as his successors have come to understand him.Fuller understanding has been delayed because many of his writings have not yet been edited or published. This volume collects four short works, each concentrated on a key issue in composition. Written in 1917, but altered and augmented many times in later years, the manuscripts edited and translated in this volume have never been published before.Their importance can permit no further delay since they present Schoenberg's thinking well after the publication in 1911 of Harmonielehre, his revolutionary theoretical book. The later texts provide numerous prospects for enhancing the study and appreciation of Schoenberg's compositions and theories.Also a painter, Schoenberg enjoyed the friendship of Kandinsky and the Berlin expressionists. This volume includes a frontispiece reproducing one of Schoenberg's paintings.[via]More editions of Coherence, Counterpoint, Instrumentation, Instruction in Form/Zusammenhang, Kontrapunkt, Instrumentation, Formenlehre: Zusammenhang, Kontrapunkt, Instrumentation, Formenlehre:
Collision Course: Conflict, Negotiation, and Learning in College Compositionby Russel K. DurstISBN 0814107427 (0-8141-0742-7)
Softcover, Natl Council of Teachers
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The Communitarian Reader: Beyond the Essentialsby Amitai Etzioni, Drew Volmert, Elanit Rothschild, Andrew VolmertISBN 0742542181 (0-7425-4218-1)
Hardcover, Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Communitarian Reader: Beyond the Essentials'Book summary:As an academic discipline, a public philosophy, and a social movement, Communitarianism has had a profound influence on contemporary American society. By promoting the idea that a good society is based on a carefully crafted balance between individual rights and social responsibilities, Communitarians have inspired new ideas and crafted new policies to strengthen our families, communities and nation. The Communitarian Reader: Beyond the Essentials brings together essays by prominent social thinkers, reflecting on a wide-range of issues_from new approaches to fighting crime in inner city, to the relationship between norms and laws, and to the role of civil liberties after September 11th. Following the success of The Essential Communitarian Reader, this work takes readers to the next level of Communitarianism, and serves as a vital guide for all interested in further exploring this important social movement. [via]
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Community in the Digital Age: Philosophy and Practiceby Andrew Feenberg, Darin BarneyISBN 0742529584 (0-7425-2958-4)
Hardcover, Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc
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Composing at the Piano: Early Intermediate Levelby Martha Baker, Lee EvansISBN 0793571510 (0-7935-7151-0)
Softcover, Hal Leonard Corp
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Composition in the Twenty-First Century: Crisis and Changeby Lynn Z. Bloom, Edward M. White, Donald A. DaikerISBN 0809321289 (0-8093-2128-9)
Softcover, Southern Illinois Univ Pr
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Composition/Rhetoric: A Synthesisby W. Ross WinterowdISBN 0809312379 (0-8093-1237-9)
Hardcover, Southern Illinois Univ Pr
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Creating Writers Through 6-Trait Writing Assessment and Instructionby Vicki SpandelISBN 0801332524 (0-8013-3252-4)
Softcover, Allyn & Bacon, Incorporated
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Critical Literacy in a Digital Era: Technology, Rhetoric, and the Public Interestby Barbara WarnickISBN 0805841164 (0-8058-4116-4)
Softcover, Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc Inc
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The Dominie Thesaurus for Young Writersby Patricia J. Hughes, Vera Dobson GouldISBN 0768522986 (0-7685-2298-6)
Hardcover, Dominie Press
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Drawingby Smithmark StaffISBN 0765197251 (0-7651-9725-1)
Hardcover, Smithmark Publishers, Incorporated
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Ecocomposition: Theoretical and Pedagogical Approachesby Sidney I. Dobrin, Christian WeisserISBN 0791449408 (0-7914-4940-8)
Softcover, State Univ of New York Pr
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The Elements of Orchestrationby Gordon JacobISBN 0807900435 (0-8079-0043-5)
Hardcover, October House
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Embodied Literacies: Imageword and a Poetics of Teachingby Kristie S. FleckensteinISBN 0809325268 (0-8093-2526-8)
Softcover, Southern Illinois Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Embodied Literacies: Imageword and a Poetics of Teaching'Book summary:[via]Embodied Literacies: Imageword and a Poetics of Teaching is a response to calls to enlarge the purview of literacy to include imagery in its many modalities and various facets. Kristie S. Fleckenstein asserts that all meaning, linguistic or otherwise, is a result of the transaction between image and word. She implements the concept of imageworda mutually constitutive fusion of image and wordto reassess language arts education and promote a double vision of reading and writing. Utilizing an accessible fourfold structure, she then applies the concept to the classroom, reconfiguring what teachers do when they teach, how they teach, what they teach with, and how they teach ethically.
Fleckenstein does not discount the importance of text in the quest for literacy. Instead, she places the language arts classroom and teacher at the juncture of image and word to examine the ways imagery enables and disables the teaching of and the act of reading and writing. Learning results from the double play of language and image, she argues. Helping teachers and students dissolve the boundaries between text and image, the volume outlines how to see reading and writing as something more than words and language and to disestablish our definitions of literacy as wholly linguistic.
Embodied Literacies: Imageword and a Poetics of Teaching comes at a critical time in our cultural history. Echoing the opinion that postmodernity is a product of imagery rather than textuality, Fleckenstein argues that we must evolve new literacies when we live in a culture saturated by images on computer screens, televisions, even billboards. Decisively and clearly, she demonstrates the importance of incorporating imagerywhich is inextricably linked to our psychological, social, and textual livesinto our epistemologies and literacy teaching.
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Evaluating Children's Writing: A Handbook of Communication Choices for Classroom Teachersby Suzanne Bratcher, BrathcherISBN 0805880011 (0-8058-8001-1)
Softcover, Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc Inc
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Expanding Literacies: English Teaching and the New Workplaceby Mary Sue Garay, Stephen A. BernhardtISBN 0791436764 (0-7914-3676-4)
Softcover, State University of New York Press
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Fencing With Words: A History of Writing Instruction at Amherst College During the Era of Theodore Baird, 1938-1966by Robin VarnumISBN 0814116779 (0-8141-1677-9)
Softcover, Natl Council of Teachers
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Fractured Feminisms: Rhetoric, Context, and Contestationby Laura Gray-Rosendale, Gil HarootunianISBN 0791458024 (0-7914-5802-4)
Softcover, State Univ of New York Pr
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Gender and Rhetorical Space in American Life, 1866-1910by Nan JohnsonISBN 0809324261 (0-8093-2426-1)
Softcover, Southern Illinois Univ Pr
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Geographies of Writing: Inhabiting Places and Encountering Differenceby Nedra ReynoldsISBN 0809325608 (0-8093-2560-8)
Hardcover, Southern Illinois Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Geographies of Writing: Inhabiting Places and Encountering Difference'Book summary:[via]Twenty-first-century technological innovations have revolutionized the way we experience space, causing an increased sense of fragmentation, danger, and placelessness. In Geographies of Writing: Inhabiting Places and Encountering Difference, Nedra Reynolds addresses these problems in the context of higher education, arguing that theories of writing and rhetoric must engage the metaphorical implications of place without ignoring materiality.
This text marks a summit of work initiated in Reynoldss well-received article, Compositions Imagined Geographies: The Politics in the Frontier, City, and Cyberspace. In continuing this earlier work, Geographies of Writing multiplies its range of application and proposes a geographical rhetoric. Reynolds uses cultural geography, feminist theory, qualitative research, and service learning to link writing and spatial practices and to unpack the layers of the social production of space. Drawing largely from participant-observation research in a cultural geography class at Leeds University in England, she investigates questions of difference and identity and offers an alternative to the process paradigm.
Geographies of Writing makes three closely related contributions: one theoretical, to re-imagine composing as spatial, material, and visual; one political, to understand the sociospatial construction of difference; and one pedagogical, to teach writing as a set of spatial practices. Aided by seven maps and illustrations that reinforce the books visual rhetoric, Geographies of Writing shows how composing tasks and electronic space function as conduits for navigating reality.
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Introduction to Painting Landscapesby Ted GouldISBN 0785803939 (0-7858-0393-9)
Hardcover, Book Sales, Incorporated
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Landscape: Drawing and Paintingby Patricia MonahanISBN 0762100311 (0-7621-0031-1)
Hardcover, Readers Digest
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Living Rhetoric and Composition: Stories of the Disciplineby Theresa Enos, Stuart C. Brown, Duane H. RoenISBN 0805823735 (0-8058-2373-5)
Softcover, Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc Inc
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Mayfield's Quick View Guide to the Internet: For Students of Englishby Michael KeeneISBN 0767400321 (0-7674-0032-1)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
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The Methodical Memory: Invention in Current Traditional Rhetoricby Sharon CrowleyISBN 0809316153 (0-8093-1615-3)
Hardcover, Southern Illinois Univ Pr
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Methods and Methodology in Composition Researchby Gesa Kirsch, Patricia A. SullivanISBN 0809317273 (0-8093-1727-3)
Softcover, Southern Illinois Univ Pr
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The Midi Companionby Jeffrey Rona, Scott R. WilkinsonISBN 0793530776 (0-7935-3077-6)
Softcover, Hal Leonard Corp
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Motives for Writingby Robert Keith MillerISBN 076741683X (0-7674-1683-X)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
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Moving Beyond Academic Discourse: Composition Studies and the Public Sphereby Christian WeisserISBN 0809324164 (0-8093-2416-4)
Softcover, Southern Illinois Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Moving Beyond Academic Discourse: Composition Studies and the Public Sphere'Book summary:[via]Moving student writing beyond academic discourse and into larger public spheres is a difficult task, but Christian R. Weissers study challenges composition instructors to do just that. This highly accessible book does what no other study has attempted to do: place the most current, cutting-edge theories and pedagogies in rhetoric and composition in their intellectual and historical contexts, while at the same time offering a unique, practical theory and pedagogy of public writing for use both inside and outside of the classroom.
By positing a theory of the public for composition studies, one which envisions the public sphere as a highly contested, historically textured, multilayered, and sometimes contradictory site, Weisser offers a new approach to the roles that compositionists might assume in their attempts to initiate progressive political and social change.
After first providing a historical context that situates compositions recent interest in public writing, Weisser next examines recent theories in composition studies that consider writing an act of social engagement before outlining a more complex theory of the public based on the work of Jürgen Habermas. The resulting re-envisioning of the public sphere expands current conversations in rhetoric and composition concerning the public.
Weisser concludes with a holistic vision that places greater political and social import on addressing public issues and conversations in the composition classroom and that elucidates the role of the public intellectual as it relates specifically to compositionists in postmodern society.
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Much Ado About a Lot: How to Mind Your Manners in Print and in Personby Mary Newton BruderISBN 0786865172 (0-7868-6517-2)
Hardcover, Hyperion Books
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Music and Technology in the Twentieth Centuryby International Committee for the History of Technology, Symposium Icohtec 1996 Budapest, Hungary), Hans-Joachim BraunISBN 0801868858 (0-8018-6885-8)
Hardcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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Mutuality in the Rhetoric and Composition Classroomby David L. Wallace, Helen Rothschild EwaldISBN 0809323249 (0-8093-2324-9)
Softcover, Southern Illinois Univ Pr
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My Freshman Year: What A Professor Learned By Becoming A Studentby REBEKAH NATHANISBN 0801443970 (0-8014-4397-0)
Hardcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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Natural Discourse: Toward Ecocompositionby Sidney I. Dobrin, Christian WeisserISBN 0791453561 (0-7914-5356-1)
Softcover, State Univ of New York Pr
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Notes on the Heart: Affective Issues in the Writing Classroomby Susan H. McLeodISBN 0809321068 (0-8093-2106-8)
Softcover, Southern Illinois Univ Pr
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On Second Language Writingby Tony J. Silva, Paul Kei MatsudaISBN 0805835164 (0-8058-3516-4)
Softcover, Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc Inc
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On Writing: A Memoir of the Craftby Stephen KingISBN 0743455967 (0-7434-5596-7)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft'Book summary:Short and snappy as it is, Stephen King's On Writing really contains two books: a fondly sardonic autobiography and a tough-love lesson for aspiring novelists. The memoir is terrific stuff, a vivid description of how a writer grew out of a misbehaving kid. You're right there with the young author as he's tormented by poison ivy, gas-passing babysitters, uptight schoolmarms, and a laundry job nastier than Jack London's. It's a ripping yarn that casts a sharp light on his fiction. This was a child who dug Yvette Vickers from Attack of the Giant Leeches, not Sandra Dee. "I wanted monsters that ate whole cities, radioactive corpses that came out of the ocean and ate surfers, and girls in black bras who looked like trailer trash." But massive reading on all literary levels was a craving just as crucial, and soon King was the published author of "I Was a Teen-Age Graverobber." As a young adult raising a family in a trailer, King started a story inspired by his stint as a janitor cleaning a high-school girls locker room. He crumpled it up, but his writer wife retrieved it from the trash, and using her advice about the girl milieu and his own memories of two reviled teenage classmates who died young, he came up with Carrie. King gives us lots of revelations about his life and work. The kidnapper character in Misery, the mind-possessing monsters in The Tommyknockers, and the haunting of the blocked writer in The Shining symbolized his cocaine and booze addiction (overcome thanks to his wife's intervention, which he describes). "There's one novel, Cujo, that I barely remember writing."
King also evokes his college days and his recovery from the van crash that nearly killed him, but the focus is always on what it all means to the craft. He gives you a whole writer's "tool kit": a reading list, writing assignments, a corrected story, and nuts-and-bolts advice on dollars and cents, plot and character, the basic building block of the paragraph, and literary models. He shows what you can learn from H.P. Lovecraft's arcane vocabulary, Hemingway's leanness, Grisham's authenticity, Richard Dooling's artful obscenity, Jonathan Kellerman's sentence fragments. He explains why Hart's War is a great story marred by a tin ear for dialogue, and how Elmore Leonard's Be Cool could be the antidote.
King isn't just a writer, he's a true teacher. --Tim Appelo [via]
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Opening Dialogue: Understanding the Dynamics of Language and Learning in the English Classroomby Martin NystrandISBN 0807735736 (0-8077-3573-6)
Softcover, Teachers College Press, Teachers College, Columbia University
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A Passion for Narrativeby Jack HodginsISBN 0771041985 (0-7710-4198-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Passion for Narrative'Book summary:This book is not intended to persuade you to take up writing novels or short stories Its going to be a lot of work, Jack Hodgins warns. Nor will it tell you how to market your stories. But it will take you through the problems facing any fiction writer and show you how some of the best writers in English have solved them.
The chapters are clear and comprehensive: Finding Your Own Stories; One Good Sentence After Another on the skills of writing well; Setting; Character how to make your characters come alive; Plot; Structure The Architecture of Story ; Point of View and Voice; Metaphors, Symbols and Allusions; Revising an all-important chapter that also deals with the impact of writing on a computer; The Story of a Story where Jack Hodgins talks of his own experience with one of his most famous stories; and the final chapter, And Now What? Creating Your Own Workshop, which builds on the fact that every chapter in the book contains writing exercises to help you work away at home at the mysterious business of writing fiction.
As an award-winning novelist and short-story writer Jack Hodgins is uniquely qualified to preach what he practises. As a trained teacher, he has been giving creative lessons for thirty years, at high schools and universities and to writers summer schools. In recent years his creative writing courses at the University of Victoria have become discreetly famous. Now, anyone who buys this book can share in the experience of learning fiction-writing from a master.
With its scores of examples of first-class writing this lively, truly fascinating book will almost certainly make you be atter writer; it is guaranteed to make you a better reader. [via] 
Post-Process Theory: Beyond the Writing-Process Paradigmby Thomas KentISBN 0809322447 (0-8093-2244-7)
Softcover, Southern Illinois Univ Pr
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Public and Its Problemsby J. DeweyISBN 0804002541 (0-8040-0254-1)
Softcover, Swallow Pr
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Publishing in Rhetoric and Compositionby Gary A. Olson, Todd W. TaylorISBN 079143396X (0-7914-3396-X)
Softcover, State University of New York Press
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(Re) Visioning Composition Textbook: Conflicts of Culture, Ideology and Pedagogyby Fredric G. Gale, Xin Liu GaleISBN 0791441229 (0-7914-4122-9)
Softcover, State Univ of New York Pr
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Research on Composition: Multiple Perspectives on Two Decades of Changeby Peter SmagorinskyISBN 0807746371 (0-8077-4637-1)
Hardcover, Teachers College Pr
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Researching Society and Cultureby Clive SealeISBN 0761941975 (0-7619-4197-5)
Softcover, Sage Pubns
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The Resistant Writer: Rhetoric As Immunity, 1850 to the Presentby Charles PaineISBN 0791440494 (0-7914-4049-4)
Hardcover, State Univ of New York Pr
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Rhetoric and Composition: A Sourcebook for Teachersby Richard L. GravesISBN 0810459841 (0-8104-5984-1)
Hardcover, Hayden Book Co
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Rhetoric and Composition As Intellectual Workby Gary A. OlsonISBN 0809324334 (0-8093-2433-4)
Softcover, Southern Illinois Univ Pr
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Rhetorical Listening: Identification, Gender, Whitenessby Krista RatcliffeISBN 0809326698 (0-8093-2669-8)
Softcover, Southern Illinois Univ Pr
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Saving Placeby Sidney I. DobrinISBN 0767413245 (0-7674-1324-5)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill Humanities Social
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Second Language Writing Research: Perspectives On The Process Of Knowledge Constructionby Paul Kei Matsuda, Tony J. SilvaISBN 0805850465 (0-8058-5046-5)
Softcover, Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc Inc
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Sketching: Planning and Drawingby Valerie WiffenISBN 0806924373 (0-8069-2437-3)
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The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Societyby Jurgen HabermasISBN 0745610773 (0-7456-1077-3)
Softcover, Polity Pr
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Teaching Esl Composition: Purpose, Process, and Practiceby Dana Ferris, John HedgcockISBN 0805824502 (0-8058-2450-2)
Softcover, Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc Inc
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Teaching Esl Composition: Purpose, Process, and Practiceby Ferris Dana R., John HedgcockISBN 0805844678 (0-8058-4467-8)
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Technology And English Studies: Innovative Professional Pathsby James A. Inman, Beth L. HewettISBN 0805845887 (0-8058-4588-7)
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Technology and Literacy in the Twenty-First Century: The Importance of Paying Attentionby Cynthia L. Selfe, Hugh BurnsISBN 0809322692 (0-8093-2269-2)
Softcover, Southern Illinois Univ Pr
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Telling Writingby Ken MacRorieISBN 0810460246 (0-8104-6024-6)
Hardcover, Hayden Book Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Telling Writing'Book summary:Why is Telling Writing, now in its fourth edition, still going strong in hundreds of colleges and universities? Ken Macrorie touches on the answer in his preface: "Good teaching in any field isn't a matter of employing gimmicks and choosing from a damnfool encyclopedia of tricks to play on students . . . but a matter of setting up a climate friendly to learning and then challenging learners to connect their experience and ideas with those of the accepted authorities or producers. Students can't become truly educated unless they grow out of and beyond themselves . . . Telling Writing gives them an indispensable base, a knowledge of themselves on which to grow."
Macrorie's approach works because it helps students break away from the deadly academic prose fostered by so many writing courses and enables them to write about and from their own experiences.
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The Territory of Language: Linguistics, Stylistics, and the Teaching of Compositionby Donald McQuadeISBN 0809312174 (0-8093-1217-4)
Hardcover, Southern Illinois Univ Pr
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The Transitive Vampire: A Handbook of Grammar for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomedby Karen Elizabeth GordonISBN 0812911016 (0-8129-1101-6)
Hardcover, Times Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Transitive Vampire: A Handbook of Grammar for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed'Book summary:Karen Elizabeth Gordon is no ordinary grammarian, and her works (including The New Well-Tempered Sentence, Torn Wings and Faux Pas, and The Disheveled Dictionary)--are no ordinary books of grammar. A special edition of the 1984 classic, The Deluxe Transitive Vampire is populated by a wickedly decadent cast of gargoyles, mastodons, murderous debutantes, and, yes, vampires (both transitive and otherwise), who cavort and consort in order to illustrate basic principles of grammar. The sentences are intoxicating--"How he loved to dangle his participles, brush his forelock off his forehead with his foreleg, and gaze into the aqueous depths"--but the rules and their explanations are as sound as any you might find in Strunk and White. Outlining the building blocks of the English language, from parts of speech to phrases and clauses, The Deluxe Transitive Vampire goes on to exorcise such grammatical demons as passive voice, fragments, comma splices, and run-on sentences. At last, a handbook of grammar you will actually want to read. In the words of Gordon's preface, "Howling, exploding, crackling, flickering with new life-forms, and drunk on fresh blood (some of mine is certainly missing), this deluxe edition reminds us on every page that words, too, have hoofs and wings to transport us far and deep." [via]
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User's Guide to the Bibleby Chris WrightISBN 0745926452 (0-7459-2645-2)
Hardcover, David C Cook
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Ways of Thinking, Ways of Teachingby Lee Shulman, George HillocksISBN 0807738034 (0-8077-3803-4)
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The Wealth of Reality: An Ecology of Compositionby Margaret A. SyversonISBN 080932251X (0-8093-2251-X)
Hardcover, Southern Illinois Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wealth of Reality: An Ecology of Composition'Book summary:[via]Margaret A. Syverson discusses the ways in which a theory of composing situations as ecological systems might productively be applied in composition studies. She demonstrates not only how new research in cognitive science and complex systems can inform composition studies but also how composing situations can provide fruitful ground for research in cognitive science.
Syverson first introduces theories of complex systems currently studied in diverse disciplines. She describes complex systems as adaptive, self-organizing, and dynamic; neither utterly chaotic nor entirely ordered, these systems exist on the boundary between order and chaos. Ecological systems are "metasystems" composed of interrelated complex systems. Writers, readers, and texts, together with their environments, constitute one kind of ecological system.
Four attributes of complex systems provide a theoretical framework for this study: distribution, embodiment, emergence, and enaction. Three case studies provide evidence for the application of these concepts: an analysis of a passage from an autobiographical poem by Charles Reznikoff, a study of first-year college students writing collaboratively, and a conflict in a computer forum of social scientists during the Gulf War. The diversity of these cases tests the robustness of theories of distributed cognition and complex systems and suggests possibilities for wider application.
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What Writing Does and How It Does It: An Introduction to Analyzing Texts and Textual Practicesby Paul A. PriorISBN 0805838066 (0-8058-3806-6)
Softcover, Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'What Writing Does and How It Does It: An Introduction to Analyzing Texts and Textual Practices'Book summary:In What Writing Does and How It Does It, editors Charles Bazerman and Paul Prior offer a sophisticated introduction to methods for understanding, studying, and analyzing texts and writing practices. This volume addresses a variety of approaches to analyzing texts, and considers the processes of writing, exploring textual practices and their contexts, and examining what texts do and how texts mean rather than what they mean. Included are traditional modes of analysis (rhetorical, literary, linguistic), as well as newer modes, such as text and talk, genre and activity analysis, and intertextual analysis.
The chapters have been developed to provide answers to a specified set of questions, with each one offering:
*a preview of the chapter's content and purpose;
*an introduction to basic concepts, referring to key theoretical and research studies in the area;
*details on the types of data and questions for which the analysis is best used;
*examples from a wide-ranging group of texts, including educational materials, student writing, published literature, and online and electronic media;
*one or more applied analyses, with a clear statement of procedures for analysis and illustrations of a particular sample of data; and
*a brief summary, suggestions for additional readings, and a set of activities.
The side-by-side comparison of methods allows the reader to see the multi-dimensionality of writing, facilitating selection of the best method for a particular research question.
The volume contributors are experts from linguistics, communication studies, rhetoric, literary analysis, document design, sociolinguistics, education, ethnography, and cultural psychology, and each utilizes a specific mode of text analysis. With its broad range of methodological examples, What Writing Does and How It Does It is a unique and invaluable resource for advanced undergraduate and graduate students and for researchers in education, composition, ESL and applied linguistics, communication, L1 and L2 learning, print media, and electronic media. It will also be useful in all social sciences and humanities that place importance on texts and textual practices, such as English, writing, and rhetoric.
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Work Time: English Departments and the Circulation of Cultural Valueby Evan WatkinsISBN 0804720150 (0-8047-2015-0)
Softcover, Stanford Univ Pr
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A Writer's Companionby Louis Decimus Rubin, Jerry Leath MillsISBN 080711992X (0-8071-1992-X)
Hardcover, Louisiana State Univ Pr
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The Writing Center Director's Resource Bookby Christina Murphy, Byron L. StayISBN 0805856080 (0-8058-5608-0)
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Writing Environmentsby Sidney I. Dobrin, Christopher J. KellerISBN 0791463311 (0-7914-6331-1)
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Writing for Scholarly Publication: Behind the Scenes in Language Educationby Christine Pearson Casanave, Stephanie VandrickISBN 0805842446 (0-8058-4244-6)
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Writing in the Academic Disciplines: A Curricular Historyby David R. Russell, Elaine P. MaimonISBN 0809324679 (0-8093-2467-9)
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Writing Powerby Nancy WhiteISBN 0743241169 (0-7432-4116-9)
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Writing Space : Computers, Hypertext and the Remediation of Printby J. David BolterISBN 0805829199 (0-8058-2919-9)
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The Writing Space: The Computer, Hypertext and the History of Writingby Jay David BolterISBN 0805804285 (0-8058-0428-5)
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Writing Superheroes: Contemporary Childhood, Popular Culture, and Classroom Literacyby Anne Haas DysonISBN 0807736392 (0-8077-3639-2)
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Writing to Learn: Strategies for Assigning and Responding to Writing Across the Disciplinesby Peter Elbow, Mary Deane SorcinelliISBN 0787998591 (0-7879-9859-1)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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You Can Write Using Good Grammarby Jennifer Rozines RoyISBN 0766020843 (0-7660-2084-3)
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