Composition Creative Writing category: 2214 books

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...

Writing at the State U presents a comprehensive, empirical examination of writing programs at 106 universities. Rather than using open survey calls and self-reporting, Emily Isaacs uses statistical analysis to show the extent to which established principles of writing instruction and administration...

In Dialectical Rhetoric, Bruce McComiskey argues that the historical conflict between rhetoric and dialectic can be overcome in ways useful to both composition theory and the composition classroom. Historically, dialectic has taken two forms in relation to rhetoric. First, it has been the logical...

This unique collection considers the nature of writing groups inside and outside the academic environment. Exploring writing groups as contextual literacy events, editors Beverly J. Moss, Nels P. Highberg, and Melissa Nicolas bring together contributors to document and reflect on the various types...

Writing in Bereavement is a practical creative handbook that will assist counsellors, volunteers and others in their work with bereaved adults. Writing is a powerful outlet for the emotions that accompany grief and it is therefore a valuable therapeutic tool to help those who are bereaved communicate...

The Handbook of Research on Writing ventures to sum up inquiry over the last few decades on what we know about writing and the many ways we know it: How do people write? How do they learn to write and develop as writers? Under what conditions and for what purposes do people write? What resources and...

This stimulating workbook is aimed at committed writers and students of Creative Writing who want to engage with ideas about writing and develop their craft and practice. Drawing on the expertise of a range of professional and award-winning contributors, the focus is on writing as 'process', moving...

Learning how to write well is a very complex skill that requires a person to know how to compose a work, and then make it so that it is the kind of things that the reader likes to read. Students need to know this, and so it is a great idea for them to use an English composition and style study guide....

Bridging the Multimodal Gap addresses multimodality scholarship and its use in the composition classroom. Despite scholars’ interest in their students’ multiple literacies, multimodal composition is far from the norm in most writing classes. Essays explore how multimodality can be implemented...

SAGGIO (49 pagine) - SCRITTURA CREATIVA - Un prontuario di scrittura di altri-mondi, da parte del vincitore del Premio Urania 2011 Dall'autore di "Com'è facile scrivere difficile" e "Com'è facile diventare un eroe", una nuova, scanzonata, agile ma esperta guida pratica...

SAGGIO (64 pagine) - SCRITTURA CREATIVA - Un manuale agile e completo per conoscere tutti i trucchi, i segreti e i regolamenti necessari per affermarsi nei premi letterari   Partecipare a un concorso letterario, di qualsiasi genere esso sia, presuppone la conoscenza di regolamenti, tecniche...

Versione ePUB del manuale fondamentale che ripercorre e amplia gli argomenti del corso di scrittura "La Cassetta Degli Attrezzi", ideato da Casa Editrice Eclypsed Word e indirizzato a scrittori esordienti o desiderosi di perfezionare il loro stile. Il manuale include un'approfondita parte...

An inspirational guide to charting your inner landscape through personal writing. Why write out of our lives? What can it do for us? How can sharing our stories connect us with others? Acclaimed novelist and essayist Lynn Lauber chronicles her journey as a writer and longtime teacher at creative...

Wallace Stegner founded the acclaimed Stanford Writing Program-a program whose alumni include such literary luminaries as Larry McMurtry, Robert Stone, and Raymond Carver. Here Lynn Stegner brings together eight of Stegner's previously uncollected essays-including four never-before-published pieces...