In this bold and exhilarating mix of memoir and writing guide, Melissa Febos tackles the emotional, psychological, and physical work of writing intimately while offering an utterly fresh examination of the storyteller's life and the challenges it presents. How do we write about the relationships that have formed us? How do we describe our bodies, their desires and traumas? What does it mean to have your writing, or living, dismissed as "navel-gazing"-or else hailed as "so brave, so raw"? And to whom, in the end, do our most intimate stories belong? Drawing on her journey from aspiring writer to acclaimed author and writing professor-via addiction and recovery, sex work and academia-Melissa Febos has created a captivating guide to the writing life, and a brilliantly unusual exploration of subjectivity, privacy, and the power of divulgence. Candid and inspiring, Body Work will empower readers and writers alike, offering ideas-and occasional notes of caution-to anyone who has ever hoped to see their true self reflecting back from the open page. -- .

Well Composed: A Guide to Effective Composition and Transformational Leadership provides students with an innovative approach to English composition and rhetoric. The book uniquely challenges students to develop writing skills and delve into the study of the foundational concepts in transformational leadership. Throughout, students are encouraged to introspectively examine their own level of leadership and self-leadership. The opening chapter, a transformational leadership rudimentary guide, informs students of the principles and components of transformational leadership. Chapter 2 serves as a writing manual that focuses on composition development, featuring explanations of the patterns of development, the composition process from word to essay, and offering samples and visual formats of each pattern. The third chapter introduces students to the basics of argumentation and analysis. Each of the remaining chapters focuses on various aspects of transformational leadership including mindfulness, confidence, self-discipline, grit, emotional intelligence, diplomacy, and character, granting opportunity for students to examine some of America's notable leaders against the backdrop of transformational leadership. With each chapter providing collaboration and composition opportunities, as well as class activities designed to raise students' transformational leadership awareness, the lessons sharpen students' written, speech, critical thinking, and collaboration skills and help them develop their voices. The revised first edition features a completely refreshed interior design. Well Composed is an essential writing text that encourages students' expression, introspection, and retrospection. It is an ideal textbook for courses in English composition, rhetoric, and college writing, and serves as a profound transformational leadership primer.

All students are required to write assignments. Despite this, there seem to be few books available that provide concise guidelines as to how to compile them. Those that are available are often outdated and complicated, and do not illustrate well how the information, once gathered, should be integrated and implemented. Assignment writing uses practical examples to show clearly how to approach and write an assignment. Contents include the following: The process of assessing, planning, writing, editing and handing in an assignment; Technical requirements, such as the use of scientific language, abbreviations, tables and figures, as well as neatness and binding; Referencing techniques and the compilation of a list of sources; Formatting the document, from cover to cover. Assignment writing is aimed at all students needing to produce assignments to the standard required by tertiary institutions.