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Signs, Genres, and Communities in Technical Communication (Hardcover): M. Jimmie Killingsworth, Michael Gilbertson Signs, Genres, and Communities in Technical Communication (Hardcover)
M. Jimmie Killingsworth, Michael Gilbertson
R5,332 Discovery Miles 53 320 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This important new text invites readers to step back from their busy professional lives and look at technical communication philosophically, to ask fundamental questions such as what does it mean to communicate? and how do language and graphics - the ""signs"" or ""tools"" of the technical communicator - relate to action in a technological world? Through this excursion in the theory of technical discourse, you will discover a fresh approach to reports, manuals, and proposals produced and consumed daily in business, government, and research organizations around the world. The authors examine familiar genres in two relatively new ways.

Signs, Genres, and Communities in Technical Communication (Paperback): M. Jimmie Killingsworth, Michael Gilbertson Signs, Genres, and Communities in Technical Communication (Paperback)
M. Jimmie Killingsworth, Michael Gilbertson
R1,317 Discovery Miles 13 170 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This important new text invites readers to step back from their busy professional lives and look at technical communication philosophically, to ask fundamental questions such as what does it mean to communicate? and how do language and graphics - the ""signs"" or ""tools"" of the technical communicator - relate to action in a technological world? Through this excursion in the theory of technical discourse, you will discover a fresh approach to reports, manuals, and proposals produced and consumed daily in business, government, and research organizations around the world. The authors examine familiar genres in two relatively new ways.

The Cambridge Introduction to Walt Whitman (Hardcover): M. Jimmie Killingsworth The Cambridge Introduction to Walt Whitman (Hardcover)
M. Jimmie Killingsworth
R1,345 Discovery Miles 13 450 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Walt Whitman is one of the most innovative and influential American poets of the nineteenth century. Focusing on his masterpiece Leaves of Grass, this book provides a foundation for the study of Whitman as an experimental poet, a radical democrat, and a historical personality in the era of the American Civil War, the growth of the great cities, and the westward expansion of the United States. Always a controversial and important figure, Whitman continues to attract the admiration of poets, artists, critics, political activists, and readers around the world. Those studying his work for the first time will find this an invaluable book. Alongside close readings of the major texts, chapters on Whitman's biography, the history and culture of his time, and the critical reception of his work provide a comprehensive understanding of Whitman and of how he has become such a central figure in the American literary canon.

Performing Prose - The Study and Practice of Style in Composition (Paperback): Chris Holcomb, M. Jimmie Killingsworth Performing Prose - The Study and Practice of Style in Composition (Paperback)
Chris Holcomb, M. Jimmie Killingsworth
R1,218 R1,024 Discovery Miles 10 240 Save R194 (16%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In "Performing Prose," authors Chris Holcomb and M. Jimmie Killingsworth breathe new life into traditional concepts of style. Drawing on numerous examples from a wide range of authors and genres, Holcomb and Killingsworth demonstrate the use of style as a vehicle for performance, a way for writers to project themselves onto the page while managing their engagement with the reader. By addressing style and rhetoric not as an editorial afterthought, but as a means of social interaction, they equip students with the vocabulary and tools to analyze the styles of others in fresh ways, as well as create their own.

Whereas most writing texts focus exclusively on analysis or techniques to improve writing, Holcomb and Killingsworth blend these two schools of thought to provide a singular process of thinking about writing. They discuss not only the benefits of conventional methods, but also the use of deviation from tradition; the strategies authors use to vary their style; and the use of such vehicles as images, tropes, and schemes. The goal of the authors is to provide writers with stylistic "footing" an understanding of the ways writers use style to orchestrate their relationships with readers, subject matter, and rhetorical situations.

Packed with useful tips and insights, this comprehensive volume investigates every aspect of style and its use to present an indispensable resource for both students and scholars. "Performing Prose" moves beyond customary studies to provide a refreshing and informative approach to the concepts and strategies of writing.

The Cambridge Introduction to Walt Whitman (Paperback): M. Jimmie Killingsworth The Cambridge Introduction to Walt Whitman (Paperback)
M. Jimmie Killingsworth
R830 Discovery Miles 8 300 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Walt Whitman is one of the most innovative and influential American poets of the nineteenth century. Focusing on his masterpiece Leaves of Grass, this book provides a foundation for the study of Whitman as an experimental poet, a radical democrat, and a historical personality in the era of the American Civil War, the growth of the great cities, and the westward expansion of the United States. Always a controversial and important figure, Whitman continues to attract the admiration of poets, artists, critics, political activists, and readers around the world. Those studying his work for the first time will find this an invaluable book. Alongside close readings of the major texts, chapters on Whitman's biography, the history and culture of his time, and the critical reception of his work provide a comprehensive understanding of Whitman and of how he has become such a central figure in the American literary canon.

Whitman's Poetry of the Body - Sexuality, Politics, and the Text (Paperback, New edition): M. Jimmie Killingsworth Whitman's Poetry of the Body - Sexuality, Politics, and the Text (Paperback, New edition)
M. Jimmie Killingsworth
R1,192 Discovery Miles 11 920 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book combines literary and historical analysis in a study of sexuality in Walt Whitman's work. Informed by his "new historicist" understanding of the construction of literary texts, Jimmie Killingsworth examines the progression of Whitman's poetry and prose by considering the textual history of "Leaves of Grass" and other works.
Killingsworth demonstrates that Whitman's "poetry of the body" derives its radical power from the transformation of conventional attitudes toward sexuality, traditional poetics, and conservative politics. The sexual relation, with its promise of unity, love, equality, interpenetration, and productivity for partners, becomes a metaphor for all political and social relationships, including that of poet and reader. The effect of the poems is protopolitical, an altering of consciousness about the body's relation to other bodies, a shifting of the categories of knowledge that foretells political action.
Killingsworth traces the interplay in Whitman's poetry between sexual and textual themes that derive from Whitman's political response to the historical turbulence of mid-century America. He describes a subtle shift in Whitman's prose writings on poetics, which turn from a view of poetry in the early 1850s as morally and politically efficacious to a chastened romanticism in the postwar years that frees the poet from responsibility for the world outside his poems.
Later editions of "Leaves of Grass" are marked by the poet's deliberate repression of erotic themes in favor of a depoliticized aestheticism that views art not as a motivator of political and moral action but as an artifact embodying the soul of the genius.

Ecospeak - Rhetoric and Environmental Politics in America (Paperback): M. Jimmie Killingsworth, Jacqueline Palmer Ecospeak - Rhetoric and Environmental Politics in America (Paperback)
M. Jimmie Killingsworth, Jacqueline Palmer
R1,143 R1,036 Discovery Miles 10 360 Save R107 (9%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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In this book, M. Jimmie Killingsworth and Jacqueline S. Palmer have a twofold purpose: to analyze the patterns of rhetoric used in written discourse about environmental politics and to make a practical contribution to the art of rhetorical criticism through the study of rhetoric in use.

The language, professional objectivity, and research programs of scientists insulate these best-informed citizens in enclaves of specialization, limiting access to crucial information and hindering effective reformative action. Science, the authors stress, is not merely a database to rely upon but a view of the world that must be broadened in order to affect social morality. Science-based activism must arise to ensure the care and future of the environment.

Killingsworth and Palmer argue that for grassroots activism to be tied to this globally conscious philosophy, a rhetoric of sustainability must be cultivated.

Appeals in Modern Rhetoric - An Ordinary-language Approach (Paperback, 3rd Revised edition): M. Jimmie Killingsworth Appeals in Modern Rhetoric - An Ordinary-language Approach (Paperback, 3rd Revised edition)
M. Jimmie Killingsworth
R1,128 R1,049 Discovery Miles 10 490 Save R79 (7%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

A low-jargon, conversational methodology for understanding how persuasion works. ""Appeals in Modern Rhetoric: An Ordinary-Language Approach"" introduces students to current issues in rhetorical theory through an extended treatment of the rhetorical appeal, a frequently used but rarely discussed concept at the core of rhetorical analysis and criticism. Shunning the standard Aristotelian approach that treats ethos, pathos, and logos as modes of appeal, M Jimmie Killingsworth uses common, accessible language to explain the concept of the rhetorical appeal - meaning the use of language to plead and to please. The result is a practical and innovative guide to understanding how persuasion works that is suitable for graduate and undergraduate courses yet still addresses topics of current interest to specialists. Supplementing the volume are practical and theoretical approaches to the construction and analysis of rhetorical messages and brief and readable examples from popular culture, academic discourse, politics, and the verbal arts. Killingsworth draws on close readings of primary texts in the field, referencing theorists to clarify concepts, while he decodes many of the basic theoretical constructs common to an understanding of identification. Beginning with examples of the model of appeals in social criticism, popular film, and advertising, he covers in subsequent chapters appeals to time, place, the body, gender, and race. Additional chapters cover the use of common tropes and rhetorical narrative, and each chapter begins with definitions of key concepts.

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