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At the beginning of the 20th century, Progressive reformers set up
curricula in journalism, public relations, and creative writing to
fulfill their own purposes: well-trained rhetors could convince the
United States citizenry to accept Progressive thinking on
monopolies and unions and to elect reform candidates. Although
Progressive politicians and educators envisioned these courses and
majors as forwarding their own goals, they could not control the
intentions of the graduates thus trained or the employers who hired
them. The period's vast panorama of rhetoric, including Theodore
Roosevelt's publicity stunts, muckraker exposes, ad campaigns for
patent medicines, and the selling of World War I, revealed the new
national power of propaganda and the media, especially when wielded
by college-trained experts imbued with the Progressive tradition of
serving a cause and ensuring social betterment.
For over 25 years, the journal Writing on the Edge has published interviews with influential writers, teachers, and scholars. Now, Teachers on the Edge: The WOE Interviews, 1989-2017 collects the voices of 39 significant figures in writing studies, forming an accessible survey of the modern history of rhetoric and composition. In a conversational style, Teachers on the Edge encourages a remarkable group of teachers and scholars to tell the stories of their influences and interests, tracing the progress of their contributions. This engaging volume is invaluable to graduate students, writing teachers, and scholars of writing studies.
Foreword by bestselling and award-winning author Smriti Halls. The indispensable guide to writing for children of all ages from pre-school to young adults, this Yearbook provides inspirational articles from dozens of successful writers and illustrators on how to get your work published. It includes a directory of over a thousand up-to-date listings with contacts from across the media and publishing industry. This bestselling Yearbook is full of practical advice on all stages of the writing and illustration process from getting started, writing for different markets and genres, and preparing an illustration portfolio, through to submission to literary agents and publishers. It also covers the financial, contractual and legal aspects of being a writer and illustrator. Widely recognised as the essential support for authors and illustrators working across all forms: fiction, non-fiction, poetry, screen, audio and theatre, it is equally relevant to those wishing to self-publish as well as those seeking a traditional publisher-agent deal. It includes advice from bestselling writers, such as Sarah Crossan, Kiran Millwood Hargrave, Tom Palmer, David Wood and many more. Additional articles, free advice, events information and editorial services at www.writersandartists.co.uk
This three-in-one guide is the perfect addition to any professional or amateur writer's bookshelf. Aimed at those who use language in their day-to-day lives, it is divided into three parts. The Grammar Guide provides clear, comprehensive guidance on sentence structure, parts of speech and punctuation; the Vocabulary Builder helps you choose the right word by listing commonly confused, misused and cliched words; the dictionary of Literary Terms provides concise definitions of linguistic forms. The budding writer can use this guide to quickly enhance their style and improve their word power. The rules and advice provided are accompanied by usage examples throughout.
Although speech departments have "owned" delivery for the last 100
years, those who teach writing, especially English departments, can
gain a great deal by reinstating delivery into their conceptions of
and theories about writing. Thus, in the author's vision of
"dramatizing writing" in the composition classroom, delivery can
have an impact on all the composing steps, from invention to final
draft. The goals of this text are to redefine delivery for writing,
to reunite it with other parts of the classical rhetorical canon,
and to practically apply it in contemporary writing instruction.
Comprised of a study spanning over five years, this text looks at
four engineering co-op students as they write at work. Since the
contributors have a foot in both worlds -- work and school -- the
book should appeal to people who are interested in how students
learn to write as well as people who are interested in what writing
at work is like. Primarily concerned with whether engineers see
their writing as rhetorical or persuasive, the study attempts to
describe the students' changing understanding of what it is they do
when they write.
Comprised of a study spanning over five years, this text looks at
four engineering co-op students as they write at work. Since the
contributors have a foot in both worlds -- work and school -- the
book should appeal to people who are interested in how students
learn to write as well as people who are interested in what writing
at work is like. Primarily concerned with whether engineers see
their writing as rhetorical or persuasive, the study attempts to
describe the students' changing understanding of what it is they do
when they write.
Academic and practitioner journals in fields from electronics to
business to language studies, as well as the popular press, have
for over a decade been proclaiming the arrival of the "computer
revolution" and making far-reaching claims about the impact of
computers on modern western culture. Implicit in many arguments
about the revolutionary power of computers is the assumption that
communication, language, and words are intimately tied to culture
-- that the computer's transformation of communication means a
transformation, a revolutionizing, of culture.
In this volume, methodological, cultural, technological, and
political boundaries felt by writers are analyzed, translated, and
challenged in a way that will appeal to researchers, theorists,
graduate students, instructors, and managerial audiences. Instead
of extracting rules from previous research, the contributors,
working from multidisciplinary perspectives, describe and analyze
the social and technological contexts surrounding nonacademic
writing. Their essays present a formative rather than summative
outlook toward future research on nonacademic writing.
Memory has long been ignored by rhetoricians because the written
word has made memorization virtually obsolete. Recently however, as
part of a revival of interest in classical rhetoric, scholars have
begun to realize that memory offers vast possibilities for today's
writers. Synthesizing research from rhetoric, psychology,
philosophy, and literary and composition studies, this volume
brings together many historical and contemporary theories of
memory. Yet its focus is clear: memory is a generator of knowledge
and a creative force which deserves attention at the beginning of
and throughout the writing process.
This textbook provides an examination of modern literary theory and critical appreciation from the perspective of the creative writer. The book is intended for students of English literature and language, teachers, student teachers and teacher educators.
Completely revised and updated in a second edition, this volume
represents the only book ever written that analyzes sports writing
and presents it as "exceptional" writing. Other books discuss
sports writers as "beat reporters" in one area of journalism,
whereas this book shows aspiring sports writers a myriad of
techniques to make their writing stand out. It takes the reader
through the entire process of sports writing: observation,
interviewing techniques, and various structures of articles; types
of "leads;" transitions within an article; types of endings; use of
statistics; do's and don'ts of sports writing; and many other style
and technique points. This text provides over 100 examples of leads
drawn from newspapers and magazines throughout the country, and
also offers up-to-date examples of sports jargon from virtually
every major and minor sport played in the U.S.
This volume explores adult work-world writing issues from the
perspectives of five seasoned professionals who have logged
hundreds of hours working with adults on complicated written
communication problems. It examines the gap between school-world
instructional practices and real-world problems and situations.
After describing the five major economic sectors which are writing
intensive, the text suggests curricular reforms which might better
prepare college-educated writers for these worlds. Because the
volume is based on the extensive work-world experiences of the
authors, it offers numerous examples of real-world writing problems
and strategies which illustrate concretely what goes wrong and what
needs to be done about it.
Understanding, Evaluating, and Conducting Second Language Writing Research speaks to the rapidly growing area of second language writing by providing a uniquely balanced approach to L2 writing research. While other books favor either a qualitative or quantitative approach to second language acquisition (SLA) research, this text is comprehensive in scope and does not privilege one approach over the other, illuminating the strengths of each and the ways in which they might complement each other. It also provides equal weight to the cognitive and socio-cultural approaches to SLA. Containing an array of focal studies and suggestions for further reading, this text is the ideal resource for students beginning to conduct L2 writing research as well as for more experienced researchers who wish to expand their approach to conducting research.
Using a process-writing approach, Krueger/Fauvel's TACHES D'ENCRE: FRENCH COMPOSITION, 5th edition, helps you master your writing skills, find your voice in written French and -- ultimately -- become a confident author. Organized in a workbook format, this third-year composition text is written entirely in French, except for the introductory chapter. Each chapter begins and ends with a creative writing exercise. In between these, you will broaden your repertoire of related speech acts, vocabulary, grammatical structures and stylistic elements as illustrated in a rich assortment of specially chosen literary excerpts, journalistic selections and informal writings. In addition, timely new readings and activities promote diversity throughout.
* Written by a leading scholar in composition theory * Accessible and jargon-free, the book presents a new approach to writing instruction based in linguistic research and theory * Includes sample texts and guidelines ready for writing teachers to use
Even if children know their phonics and ABC's inside out and can read every book in their book bag, why is it still so difficult to get them to want to read and write? How do we begin to get our children excited about literacy? The answer might surprise you...let them play! Featuring 40 engaging play-based activities, this book makes literacy so fun that children won't notice they're also actively developing reading and writing skills. From blow painting words to making paper chain sentences, each activity can be done using household items and they are adaptable for children of any age and ability, making learning accessible for all. With charming black and white line illustrations to depict each activity, this is a great way to connect with children while helping to build their literacy skills at the same time.
Empowering striving writers to thrive as writers! Somehow, in every classroom during every year, there are students who keep us up at night because of the instructional challenges they face as writers. These students-our striving writers-may find success exploring different entry points and pathways than those their classmates travel. Every Child Can Write will help you lead striving writers along their journey toward growth, confidence, and success. Filled with practical strategies, classroom-management ideas,and reproducible tools, this book also offers low- and high-tech solutions for increasing writing volume and boosting self-esteem. Plus, with suggestions for differentiating instruction based on standards and student needs, it will help you: Implement principles of UDL to optimize your classroom environment and student learning; Identify and honor students' strengths throughout your writing instruction; Maximize the power of formative assessment to set goals with students; and Integrate the most appropriate technology that empowers students and leads them to independence. As essential as writing is in elementary school, it will be even more important when your students reach middle school. Now is the time to give them the skills, practice, and confidence they need to succeed. As we know, in distance learning caregivers and teachers partner more than ever to help students with writing. The Distance Learning companion to Every Child Can Write is for teachers to share with caregivers to help children develop their writing lives-even while learning at home. Each of the eight modules contains video clips that talk caregivers through tools for supporting their student writers, along with downloadable tools that can be used by teachers or caregivers.
'Designing Texts' is an edited collection dedicated to teaching visual communication in non-visual disciplines, with a particular focus on the fields of technical and professional communication, rhetoric, and composition. |
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