Narrative Theory: A Critical Introduction by Kent Puckett

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

Think figuring out what the mind craves from each story it encounters, what fuels the luck of any nice tale, and what retains readers transfixed. stressed 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 makes a speciality of "writing good" as though it have been almost like telling an exceptional tale.

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

Confessional Crises and Cultural Politics in Twentieth-Century the United States revolutionizes how we predict 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 provoking Composition Commonplaces, Ian Barnard argues that composition nonetheless keeps the majority of educational practices that have been utilized in the many years prior to poststructuralist conception discredited them. whereas acknowledging that the various foundational insights of poststructuralist idea could be tricky to translate to the school room, Barnard upends numerous in particular intransigent tenets that proceed to steer 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 devour and bring texts. ” ---from the advent. 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.