The Tongue is Also a Fire: Essays on Conversation, Rhetoric by James Como

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

Think realizing what the mind craves from each story it encounters, what fuels the good fortune of any nice tale, and what retains readers transfixed. stressed for tale finds those cognitive secrets--and it is a game-changer for a person who has ever set pen to paper.     the majority of writing recommendation makes a speciality of "writing good" as though it have been almost like telling a very good 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 the most strong, and most unconsidered, sorts 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 many years earlier than poststructuralist conception discredited them. whereas acknowledging that many of the foundational insights of poststructuralist thought should be tough to translate to the study room, Barnard upends a number of specially intransigent tenets that proceed to steer the instructing 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 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 desire for compositionists—and their students—to have interaction with quite a lot of new media texts.