Kategoria BISAC: Language Arts & Disciplines >> Writing - General

When she was a college student, aspiring writer Carren Strock's English professor told her, "Some people are writers, and some people aren't. You are not a writer."

She didn't pick up a pen for more than fifteen years... until Robert Redford came to town.

Appearing in Redford's movie led to writing for national magazines, and then to selling her first nonfiction book to a major New York publisher.

Now Carren Strock lays out her improbable journey from "not a writer" to professional writer. She shares what she's learned along the way, and tells you how you can do it,...

In this engrossing memoir, poet and literacy scholar Eli Goldblatt shares the intimate ways reading and writing influenced the first thirty years of his life in the classroom but mostly outside it. "Writing Home: A Literacy Autobiography "traces Goldblatt s search for home and his growing recognition that only through his writing life can he fully contextualize the world he inhabits.Goldblatt connects his educational journey as a poet and a teacher to his conception of literacy, and assesses his intellectual, emotional, and political development through undergraduate and postgraduate...

An essential reference for students and scholars exploring the methods and methodologies of writing research.

What does it mean to research writing today? What are the practical and theoretical issues researchers face when approaching writing as they do? What are the gains or limitations of applying particular methods, and what might researchers be overlooking? These questions and more are answered by the writing research field s leading scholars in "Writing Studies Research in Practice: Methods and Methodologies."

Editors Nickoson and Sheridan gather twenty chapters from leaders in...

This book advances creative writing studies as a developing field of inquiry, scholarship, and research. It discusses the practice of creative writing studies, the establishment of a body of professional knowledge, and the goals and future direction of the discipline within the academy. This book also traces the development of creative writing studies; noting that as the new discipline matures--as it refers to evidence of its own research methodology and collective data, and locates its authority in its own scholarship--creative writing studies will bring even more meaning to the academy,...