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Write Like Hemingway: Writing Lessons You Can Learn from the Master

Write Like Hemingway: Writing Lessons You Can Learn...

Author: R Andrew Wilson
ISBN: 9781283475747
Format: Electronic book text
$55.94

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Lazy Virtues: Teaching Writing in the Age of Wikipedia

Lazy Virtues: Teaching Writing in the Age of Wikipedia...

Author: Robert E Cummings
ISBN: 9781282258891
Format: Electronic book text
$76.53

Using Wikipedia to understand and teach electronic collaboration in college writing  Read More >>

Writing Against the Curriculum

Writing Against the Curriculum

Author: Randi Gray Kristensen ,  Ryan M Claycomb
ISBN: 9781299642126
Format: Electronic book text
$224.37

Writing against the Curriculum responds to the popularity of Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) and similar programs...  Read More >>

Learning from Language

Learning from Language

Author: Walter H Beale
ISBN: 9781306732093
Format: Undefined
$65.87

In Learning from Language, Walter H. Beale seeks to bring together the disciplines of linguistics, rhetoric,...  Read More >>

Taste for Language

Taste for Language

Author: James Ray Watkins, Jr
ISBN: 9781336153578
Format: Electronic book text
$92.40

This is a book about the American Dream as it has become embodied in the university in general and in the English...  Read More >>

Before Shaughnessy

Before Shaughnessy

Author: Associate Professor Kelly Ritter, Ba, Mfa, PhD
ISBN: 9781336153639
Format: Electronic book text
$92.40

In Before Shaughnessy: Basic Writing at Yale and Harvard, 1920 1960, Kelly Ritter uses materials from the archives...  Read More >>

My Word!

My Word!

Author: Professor Susan D Blum (University of Notre Dame)
ISBN: 9781336226753
Format: Electronic book text
$131.87

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Explorations in Stylistics

Explorations in Stylistics

Author: Andrew Goatly
ISBN: 9781845532963
Format: Hardback
$224.40

"Explores some of the developments in Stylistics since its pioneer, Roman Jakobson identified the patterning of...  Read More >>

Language, Culture and the Law: The Formulation of Legal Concepts across Systems and Cultures

Language, Culture and the Law: The Formulation of Legal...

Author: Paola Evangelisti Allori ,  Vijay K. Bhatia
ISBN: 9783039114702
Format: Paperback
$232.19

The volume presents a set of invited papers based on analyses of legal discourse drawn from a number of international...  Read More >>

Elements of Rhetoric: Comprising an Analysis of the Laws of Moral Evidence and of Persuasion

Elements of Rhetoric: Comprising an Analysis of the...

Author: Richard Whately
ISBN: 9780559712319
Format: Paperback
$107.58

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each...  Read More >>

Elements of Rhetoric: Comprising an Analysis of the Laws of Moral Evidence and of Persuasion

Elements of Rhetoric: Comprising an Analysis of the...

Author: Richard Whately
ISBN: 9780559712357
Format: Hardback
$113.49

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each...  Read More >>

Making Sense of Language: Readings in Culture and Communication

Making Sense of Language: Readings in Culture and Communication...

Author: Professor Susan D Blum (University of Notre Dame)
ISBN: 9780195336382
Format: Paperback
$113.39

Each of the forty-five readings in Making Sense of Language: Readings in Culture and Communication acts as a window--a...  Read More >>

Contexts: Meaning, Truth, and the Use of Language

Contexts: Meaning, Truth, and the Use of Language

Author: Stefano Predelli (University of Nottingham)
ISBN: 9780199558117
Format: Paperback
$88.95

Stefano Predelli comes to the defence of the traditional 'formal' approach to natural-language semantics, arguing...  Read More >>

Legitimisation in Political Discourse: A Cross- Disciplinary Perspective on the Modern US War Rhetoric

Legitimisation in Political Discourse: A Cross- Disciplinary...

Author: Piotr Cap
ISBN: 9781443800266
Format: Paperback
$38.79

How did the G.W. Bush administration manage to persuade Americans to go to war in Iraq in March 2003? How was this...  Read More >>

Text, Type and Texture

Text, Type and Texture

Author: Gail Forey ,  Geoff Thompson
ISBN: 9781845532147
Format: Hardback
$162.80

Texture - the quality that makes a text 'hang together' as a text - is a key focus of investigation in discourse...  Read More >>

Mediawriting

Mediawriting

Author: W Richard Whitaker (Buffalo State College, USA) ,  Janet E Ramsey (Buffalo State College, USA)
ISBN: 9781281931849
Format: Electronic book text
$405.35

Designed for those preparing to write in the current multimedia environment, MediaWriting explores the linkages...  Read More >>

When She Named Fire: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry by American Women

When She Named Fire: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry...

Author: Andrea Hollander Budy
ISBN: 9781932870268
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Budy's anthology compiles work from some of the United States' most talented female poets, exploring a wide variety...  Read More >>

Evaluation in Media Discourse: Analysis of a Newspaper Corpus

Evaluation in Media Discourse: Analysis of a Newspaper...

Author: Dr. Monika Bednarek (University of Sydney, Australia)
ISBN: 9781847063342
Format: Paperback
$78.00

Evaluation is the linguistic expression of speaker/writer opinion, and has become the focus of linguistic analysis....  Read More >>

Rethinking Idiomaticity: A Usage-based Approach

Rethinking Idiomaticity: A Usage-based Approach

Author: Dr Stefanie Wulff
ISBN: 9781847064202
Format: Hardback
$350.00

Explores the complex nature of idiomaticity by bringing together a quantitative corpus-linguistic approach and judgement...  Read More >>

Vernacular Voices: The Rhetoric of Publics and Public Spheres

Vernacular Voices: The Rhetoric of Publics and Public...

Author: Gerard A. Hauser
ISBN: 9781570037887
Format: Paperback
$85.80

Addresses the role of citizen voices in steering a democracy through an examination of the rhetoric of publics -...  Read More >>

Representations: Doing Asian American Rhetoric

Representations: Doing Asian American Rhetoric

Author: LuMing Mao ,  Morris Young
ISBN: 9780874217247
Format: Paperback
$79.07

"Asian American rhetorics, produced through cultural contact between Asian traditions and US English, also comprise...  Read More >>

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