Writing category: 7965 books
Creative Writing for Critical Thinking
Creating a Discoursal Identity
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
This book explores narrative imagination and emotion as resources for learning critical meta-reflection. The author examines the learning trajectories of several students as they engage in learning to think critically through a new approach to creative writing, and details how learning through writing...
by Simon Rose
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2018
These four writer's guides from Simon Rose offer invaluable tips and advice for both aspiring and established authors in all genres.
The Children's Writer's Guide examines working as an author for children and young adults. Topics include getting started as a writer, dealing with writer’s...
Writing Personal Essays
Shaping and Sharing Your Life Experience
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
Writing from the truths in our lives seems difficult but personal essayist Sheila Bender provides a powerful methodology to reach more deeply into your personal experience and, therefore, to reach others deeply. You'll create eight styles of personal essays to examine your life events from different...
Very Like a Whale
The Assessment of Writing Programs
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
Winner of the 2015 CPTSC Award for Excellence in Program Assessment
Written for those who design, redesign, and assess writing programs, Very Like a Whale is an intensive discussion of writing program assessment issues. Taking its title from Hamlet, the book explores the multifaceted forces...
ReWRITING the Basics
Literacy Learning in Children's Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
What are the real “basics” of writing, how should they be taught, and what do they look like in children’s worlds? In her new book, Anne Haas Dyson shows how highly scripted writing curricula and regimented class routines work against young children’s natural social learning processes. Readers...
Applied Pedagogies
Strategies for Online Writing Instruction
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Teaching any subject in a digital venue must be more than simply an upload of the face-to-face classroom and requires more flexibility than the typical learning management system affords. Applied Pedagogies examines the pedagogical practices employed by successful writing instructors in digital classrooms...
by Grant Andrews
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
A quick and easy guide to planning your essayThis short guide will give you the tools you need to plan your essay effectively, so that you're sure you're answering the question and that you construct a good, effective piece of writing.Learn how to understand the question, brainstorm...
by Della Ata Khoury
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
REA's College & University Writing Super Review Get all you need to know with Super Reviews! 2nd Edition REA's College & University Writing Super Review contains an in-depth review that fully explains everything high school and college students need to know about the subject. Written in an easy-to-read...
by Dr Adam Koehler
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
In an era of blurred generic boundaries, multimedia storytelling, and open-source culture, creative writing scholars stand poised to consider the role that technology-and the creative writer's playful engagement with technology-has occupied in the evolution of its theory and practice*.
Composition,...
How to Write and Self-Publish a Travel Guide #1 (Plan Your Book)
Create Passive Income from your Travel Writing
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2018
Planning your Travel GuideThis is book one in a series of four books to help streamline your travel guide writing process. I demystify the steps involved in writing and self-publishing a travel guide and provide you with the information and tools you need to achieve your self-publishing success....
by Peggy O'Neill, Cindy Moore, Brian Huot
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2009
While most English professionals feel comfortable with language and literacy theories, assessment theories seem more alien. English professionals often don’t have a clear understanding of the key concepts in educational measurement, such as validity and reliability, nor do they understand the statistical...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
This handbook brings together scholars from around the globe who here contribute to our
understanding of how digital rhetoric is changing the landscape of writing. Increasingly, all of us
must navigate networks of information, compose not just with computers but an array of
mobile devices, increase...
Heart, Sass & Soul
Journal Your Way to Inspiration and Happiness
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2019
Heart, Soul & Sass is a self-help book about using the practice of writing to create a fulfilling life. One that is rich, and full, and truly expresses who you are. It’s not about writing because you want to be a writer (although that may be true – in fact, you may already be an accomplished...
Transiciones
Pathways of Latinas and Latinos Writing in High School and College
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2015
Transiciones is a thorough ethnography of seven Latino students in transition between high school and community college or university. Data gathered over two years of interviews with the students, their high school English teachers, and their writing teachers and administrators at postsecondary institutions...