A Companion to Roman Rhetoric (Blackwell Companions to the by William Dominik,Jon Hall

Wired for Story: The Writer's Guide to Using Brain Science to Hook Readers from the Very First Sentence

Think understanding what the mind craves from each story it encounters, what fuels the good fortune of any nice tale, and what retains readers transfixed. stressed out for tale finds those cognitive secrets--and it is a game-changer for someone who has ever set pen to paper.     the majority of writing suggestion specializes in "writing good" as though it have been kind of like telling an outstanding tale.

Confessional Crises and Cultural Politics in Twentieth-Century America (Rhetoric and Democratic Deliberation)

Confessional Crises and Cultural Politics in Twentieth-Century the US revolutionizes how we expect approximately confession and its ubiquitous position in American tradition. It argues that the sheer act of labeling a textual content a confession has turn into some of the most strong, and most ignored, kinds of intervening in American cultural politics.

Upsetting Composition Commonplaces

In scary Composition Commonplaces, Ian Barnard argues that composition nonetheless keeps the majority of educational practices that have been utilized in the a long time ahead of poststructuralist idea discredited them. whereas acknowledging that the various foundational insights of poststructuralist conception may be tricky to translate to the study room, Barnard upends numerous specifically intransigent tenets that proceed to persuade the educating of writing and the way scholars are inspired to appreciate writing.

Composing Media Composing Embodiment

“What any physique is—and is ready to do—cannot be disentangled from the media we use to eat and bring texts. ” ---from the creation. Kristin Arola and Anne Wysocki argue that composing in new media is composing the body—is embodiment. In Composing (Media) = Composing (Embodiment), they havebrought jointly a robust set of essays that agree at the want for compositionists—and their students—to interact with quite a lot of new media texts.