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.
Collectively, these...

Jason Audley, a young man on the margins, narrates his wild quest for a missing girl--a quest that brings him into the quirky and dangerous world of freight train riders, and a quest that teaches him much about himself, friendship, and the consequences of choices.

Winter Lake continues the story of Jason Audley, introduced in the novel The Skeleton Train. It is now seven years later and we find Jason wandering northern Wisconsin as the drummer in the woeful Chess Chalmers Band. His journey eventually takes him to Winter Lake and adventure, where his aimlessness doesn't work, where others grow to depend on him, and where he finds that he must confront his past to reveal his future.