Composition category: 2309 books
Decomposition
A Music Manifesto
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
Decomposition is a bracing, revisionary, and provocative inquiry into music—from Beethoven to Duke Ellington, from Conlon Nancarrow to Evelyn Glennie—as a personal and cultural experience: how it is composed, how it is idiosyncratically perceived by critics and reviewers, and why we listen to...
National Healing
Race, State, and the Teaching of Composition
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
In National Healing, author Claude Hurlbert persuasively relates nationalism to institutional racism and contends that these are both symptoms of a national ill health afflicting American higher education and found even in the field of writing studies. Teachers and scholars, even in progressive fields...
College Writing and Beyond
A New Framework for University Writing Instruction
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2008
Composition research consistently demonstrates that the social context of writing determines the majority of conventions any writer must observe. Still, most universities organize the required first-year composition course as if there were an intuitive set of general writing "skills" usable...
Composing for the Cinema
The Theory and Praxis of Music in Film
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
With nearly 400 scores to his credit, Ennio Morricone is one of the most prolific and influential film composers working today. He has collaborated with many significant directors, and his scores for such films as The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly; Once Upon a Time in America; Days of Heaven; The Mission;...
by Thomas Benjamin
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2005
"The Craft of Modal Counterpoint" is the companion book to Benjamin's "The Craft of Tonal Counterpoint," recently republished in a second edition by Routledge. Modal counterpoint is the style of composition that was employed until the "tonal" revolution pioneered by Bach;...
Generation Vet
Composition, Student Veterans, and the Post-9/11 University
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2014
Institutions of higher education are experiencing the largest influx of enrolled veterans since World War II, and these student veterans are transforming post-secondary classroom dynamics. While many campus divisions like admissions and student services are actively moving to accommodate the rise...
Crafting Presence
The American Essay and the Future of Writing Studies
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Essays are central to students’ and teachers’ development as thinkers in their fields. In Crafting Presence, Nicole B. Wallack develops an approach to teaching writing with the literary essay that holds promise for writing students, as well as for achieving a sense of common purpose currently...
The Writer's Practice
Building Confidence in Your Nonfiction Writing
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
“Unique and thorough, Warner’s handbook could turn any determined reader into a regular Malcolm Gladwell.” —Booklist
For anyone aiming to improve their skill as a writer, a revolutionary new approach to establishing robust writing practices inside and outside the classroom, from the...
A New Writing Classroom
Listening, Motivation, and Habits of Mind
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2014
In A New Writing Classroom, Patrick Sullivan provides a new generation of teachers a means and a rationale to reconceive their approach to teaching writing, calling into question the discipline's dependence on argument.
Including secondary writing teachers within his purview, Sullivan advocates...
Preparing to Teach Writing
Research, Theory, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
Preparing to Teach Writing, Fourth Edition is a comprehensive survey of theories, research, and methods associated with teaching composition successfully at the middle, secondary, and college levels. Research and theory are examined with the aim of informing teaching. Practicing and prospective...
Composing Magic
How to Create Magical Spells, Rituals, Blessings, Chants, and Prayer
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2007
You've attended rituals that took your breath away. You've borrowed spells out of books. You've read splendid Pagan poetry in magazines. Now learn to compose all these types of magical writing yourself!
Composing Magic guides you through the exciting realm of magical and spiritual writing....
After the Public Turn
Composition, Counterpublics, and the Citizen Bricoleur
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
In After the Public Turn, author Frank Farmer argues that counterpublics and the people who make counterpublics—“citizen bricoleurs”—deserve a more prominent role in our scholarship and in our classrooms. Encouraging students to understand and consider resistant or oppositional discourse...
Chasing Literacy
Reading and Writing in an Age of Acceleration
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2013
Arguing that composition should renew its interest in reading pedagogy and research, Chasing Literacy offers writing instructors and literacy scholars a framework for understanding and responding to the challenges posed by the proliferation of interactive and multimodal communication technologies...
by Brian Huot
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2003
Brian Huot's aim for this book is both ambitious and provocative. He wants to reorient composition studies' view of writing assessment. To accomplish this, he not only has to inspire the field to perceive assessment--generally not the most appreciated area of study--as deeply significant to theory...