Composition Creative Writing category: 2214 books
by Jackie Grutsch McKinney
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Peripheral Visions for Writing Centers aims to inspire a re-conception and re-envisioning of the boundaries of writing center work. Moving beyond the grand narrative of the writing center—that it is solely a comfortable, yet iconoclastic place where all students go to get one-to-one tutoring on...
Writing in Online Courses
How the Online Environment Shapes Writing Practices
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
For scholars interested in the intersection of writing and online instruction, Writing in Online Courses: How the Online Environment Shapes Writing and Practice examines both the theoretical and practical implications of writing in online courses. The essays in this collection reflect upon what the...
by Cory Arcangel
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
What does it feel like to try and create something new? How is it possible to find a space for the demands of writing a novel in a world of instant communication?
Working on My Novel is about the act of creation and the gap between the different ways we express ourselves today. Exploring the...
The Writer's Portable Mentor
A Guide to Art, Craft, and the Writing Life, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018
Designed to mentor writers at all levels, from beginning to quite advanced, The Writer’s Portable Mentor offers a wealth of insight and crafting models from the author’s twenty-plus years of teaching and creative thought. The book provides tools for structuring a book, story, or essay. It trains...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Enhancing Writing Skills includes conference presentation papers from the Carnegie Writers, Inc. 1st Annual Conference. The anthology provides published and aspiring writers resources for sustaining, enhancing and evaluating their writing skills. The chapter themes focus on genrebased writing, creativity...
by Robert Graham
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2017
Short story publishing is flourishing in the twenty-first century and is no longer seen as a poor relation of the novel. But what is a short story? And how do you write one? Robert Grahamtakes you through everything you need to know, from how a writer works to crafting and editing your own fiction.
This...
Write!
Find the Truth in Your Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Write! is a breakthrough book from a successful professional author, for an audience of writers of all levels seeking a guide to the craft. DiPego’s unique personal approach takes readers on a private tour of his well-lighted rooms and dark corners, revealing his way of pulling feeling, experience...
Good God but You Smart!
Language Prejudice and Upwardly Mobile Cajuns
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
Taking Cajuns as a case study, Good God but You Smart! explores the subtle ways language bias is used in classrooms, within families, and in pop culture references to enforce systemic economic inequality. It is the first book in composition studies to examine comprehensively, and from an insider’s...
Writing Center Talk over Time
A Mixed-Method Study
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2018
In the last 15 to 20 years, writing centers have placed greater importance on tutor training, focusing on teaching tutors best practices in fostering student writers’ engagement and writing skills. Writing Center Talk over Time explores the importance of writing center talk and demonstrates the...
by Nicole Caswell, Jackie Grutsch McKinney, Rebecca Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
The first book-length empirical investigation of writing center directors’ labor, The Working Lives of New Writing Center Directors presents a longitudinal qualitative study of the individual professional lives of nine new directors. Inspired by Kinkead and Harris’s Writing Centers in Context (1993),...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
From scholars working in a variety of institutional and geographic contexts and with a wide range of student populations, Retention, Persistence, and Writing Programs offers perspectives on how writing programs can support or hinder students’ transitions to college. The contributors present individual...
"They're All Writers"
Teaching Peer Tutoring in the Elementary Writing Center
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
“They’re All Writers” will help teachers explore the power of writing centers. In elementary school classrooms across the country, writing instruction (not grammar worksheets or spelling drills) is still the neglected “R.” In this book, classroom teachers will find foundational...
by Cynthia Muchnick
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Peterson's Writing Successful College Applications offers outstanding suggestions and detailed expert advice to help students create a college application package that will help them stand out from a crowd of competitive candidates.
‘It’s more than just the essay.’ This guide reviews...
Knowing and Writing School History
The Language of Students' Expository Writing and Teachers' Expectations
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Because school history often relies on reading and writing and has its own disciplinespecific challenges, it is important to understand the language demands of this content area, the typical writing requirements, and the language expectations of historical discourse. History uses language is specialized...