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COMMUNITY LITERACY JOURNAL 10.2 (Spring 2016) The journal understands "community literacy" as the domain for literacy work that exists outside of mainstream educational and work institutions. It can be found in programs devoted to adult education, early childhood education, reading initiatives, lifelong learning, workplace literacy, or work with marginalized populations, but it can also be found in more informal, ad hoc projects. For COMMUNITY LITERACY JOURNAL, literacy is defined as the realm where attention is paid not just to content or to knowledge but to the symbolic means by...

A Primer for Poets and Readers of Poetry guides young poets toward a deeper understanding of how poetry can function in their lives, while also introducing the art in an exciting new way. Structuring the presentation from life toward art, Orr urges poets to "turn worlds into words" and then give those words a dramatic structure.

Using such poems as Theodore Roethke's "My Papa's Waltz" and Robert Hayden's "Those Winter Sundays," the Primer encourages young writers to approach their "thresholds"--those places where disorder meets order, where shaping imagination can...

The definitive guide to writing an amazing essay and mastering the college applications process.

Writing a memorable personal statement can seem like an overwhelming project for a young college applicant, but college essay coach Alan Gelb's organized and encouraging step-by-step instructions take the intimidation out of the process, enabling applicants to craft a meaningful and polished college admissions essay. Gelb teaches students to identify an engaging topic and use creative writing techniques to compose a vivid statement that will reflect their individuality. A...

Writers of the modern essay can trace their chosen genre all the way back to Michel de Montaigne (1533-92). But save for the recent notable best seller How to Live: A Life of Montaigne by Sarah Bakewell, Montaigne is largely ignored. After Montaigne--a collection of twenty-four new personal essays intended as tribute--aims to correct this collective lapse of memory and introduce modern readers and writers to their stylistic forebear.
Though it's been over four hundred years since he began writing his essays, Montaigne's writing is still fresh, and his use of the form as a...

First published in 1951 (this edition in 1967), this book forms the first part of Arnold Kettle s An Introduction to the English Novel. Since the novel, like every other literary form, is a product of history, the book opens with a discussion of how and why the novel developed in England in the eighteenth century, as well as the function and background of prose fiction. The third part of the book examines six great novels from Jane Austen to George Eliot.

A serious and rewarding study.

His examination of some eighteenth...

CONTENTS OF COMPOSITION STUDIES 44.2 (Fall 2016) From the Editor COMPOSING WITH: Pleasures of (Recomposing) the Text by Lucille M. Schultz ARTICLES: Teaching Visual Rhetoric as a Close Reading Strategy by Rebekka Andersen Cultivating a Reflective Approach to Language Difference in Composition Pedagogy by Daniel V. Bommarito and Emily Cooney Secrets in the Thirdspace: The National Day on Writing as Campus Engagement by Casie J. Fedukovich Writing Toward the End: Students' Perceptions of Doneness in the Composition Classroom by Rob McAlear and Mark Pedretti At a Distance: The Encoding of...

This is Writers on Writing - An Author's Guide where your favorite authors share their ultimate secrets in becoming and being an author.

Ready to unleash the author in you?

The Infrastructure of the Gods by Brian Hodge

The Writer's Purgatory by Monique Snyman

Why Rejection is Still Important by Kevin Lucia

Real Writers Steal Time by Mercedes M. Yardley

What Right Do I Have to Write by Jasper Bark

Go Pace Yourself by Jack Ketchum

A Little Infusion of Magic by Dave-Brendon de Burgh

Confronting Your Fears in Fiction by...

Learn APA Style: Writing in Psychology and the Social Sciences features:

"Test your knowledge" quizzes (with answers) for each section of the APA manual

"In Depth" exercises on clear and concise writing, non-sexist and non-biased writing, abbreviations, punctuation, crediting sources, and author names

Twenty topics in psychology with corresponding empirical studies, books, chapters in edited books, literature reviews, meta-analyses, and case study references

"APA style in a nutshell" - distilling the APA rules to a "cheat sheet" of literary style

Since library instruction's very beginnings librarians and writing instructors have been natural partners. Library-writing program connections illustrate that both writing and information seeking and use (information literacy) share powerful links: both are central to posing and exploring problems and questions and to seeking informed and creative approaches to them. Thus, at the heart of writing and information literacy are inquiry and critical thinking, which many college educators across disciplines view to be at the center of learning. But despite these intersections, there is still a...

In Plotting the Character-driven Novel, Linda Rodriguez turns her sought-after writing course on using depth of character as a springboard to a strong plot into a book designed to help the aspiring writer who wants to tell a story made compelling by the truth and complexity of its characters. She provides examples of actual documents she has used in creating her own award-winning books to demonstrate the methods she teaches. Great plot springs from character and the motivations each character has for taking or not taking action. How do you use character as the springboard to a strong plot...