This book analyzes the communication and writing strategies necessary to craft and maintain ongoing crowdfunding campaigns to support businesses, non-profits, artists, and others. Drawing on theory from technical communication and user experience, as well as mixed methods research, and text mining, this book takes an evidence-based approach to understanding the successes and failures of crowdfunding campaigns. It examines campaigns across a range of platforms including Kickstarter, GoFundMe, IndieGoGo, and Patreon. The book breaks down successful exemplar campaigns that have proven long-term success to showwhat has worked and why, giving readers a solid foundation to research and create a campaign of their own. Sustainable Crowdfunding serves as a supplemental text for courses in technical and professional communication, user experience, communication research methods, and digital marketing, and will be of interest to both communication scholars and advanced crowdfunding professionals. Online interactive tools for qualitative and quantitative analysis are available at https://rhetoricaldata.com. A stop word appendix for the book can be accessed at routledge.com/9781032312736

This book analyzes the communication and writing strategies necessary to craft and maintain ongoing crowdfunding campaigns to support businesses, non-profits, artists, and others. Drawing on theory from technical communication and user experience, as well as mixed methods research, and text mining, this book takes an evidence-based approach to understanding the successes and failures of crowdfunding campaigns. It examines campaigns across a range of platforms including Kickstarter, GoFundMe, IndieGoGo, and Patreon. The book breaks down successful exemplar campaigns that have proven long-term success to showwhat has worked and why, giving readers a solid foundation to research and create a campaign of their own. Sustainable Crowdfunding serves as a supplemental text for courses in technical and professional communication, user experience, communication research methods, and digital marketing, and will be of interest to both communication scholars and advanced crowdfunding professionals. Online interactive tools for qualitative and quantitative analysis are available at https://rhetoricaldata.com. A stop word appendix for the book can be accessed at routledge.com/9781032312736

Bradley Duncan is a 13-year-old nerd. He likes being a nerd. But when he is forced to move to another state, he decides to change his theme and ends up becoming the new school bully. Will Bradley change his bad reputation before school ends, or is he stuck with the label of being a bully for the rest of his life? With its comical sketches and the musings of Bradley Duncan-our brilliant and reluctant young hero-Blog of a Bully will keep the reader in stitches from the very first page. If you like Diary of a Wimpy Kid, you'll love Blog of a Bully