What Writing Does And How It Does It

Author : Charles Bazerman,Paul Prior
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2003-12-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781135649692

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In What Writing Does and How It Does It, editors Charles Bazerman and Paul Prior offer a sophisticated introduction to methods for understanding, studying, and analyzing texts and writing practices. This volume addresses a variety of approaches to analyzing texts, and considers the processes of writing, exploring textual practices and their contexts, and examining what texts do and how texts mean rather than what they mean. Included are traditional modes of analysis (rhetorical, literary, linguistic), as well as newer modes, such as text and talk, genre and activity analysis, and intertextual analysis. The chapters have been developed to provide answers to a specified set of questions, with each one offering: *a preview of the chapter's content and purpose; *an introduction to basic concepts, referring to key theoretical and research studies in the area; *details on the types of data and questions for which the analysis is best used; *examples from a wide-ranging group of texts, including educational materials, student writing, published literature, and online and electronic media; *one or more applied analyses, with a clear statement of procedures for analysis and illustrations of a particular sample of data; and *a brief summary, suggestions for additional readings, and a set of activities. The side-by-side comparison of methods allows the reader to see the multi-dimensionality of writing, facilitating selection of the best method for a particular research question. The volume contributors are experts from linguistics, communication studies, rhetoric, literary analysis, document design, sociolinguistics, education, ethnography, and cultural psychology, and each utilizes a specific mode of text analysis. With its broad range of methodological examples, What Writing Does and How It Does It is a unique and invaluable resource for advanced undergraduate and graduate students and for researchers in education, composition, ESL and applied linguistics, communication, L1 and L2 learning, print media, and electronic media. It will also be useful in all social sciences and humanities that place importance on texts and textual practices, such as English, writing, and rhetoric.

Author : Charles Bazerman,Paul A. Prior
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780805838053

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Introducing textual analysis as it applies to composition research, this volume focuses on the various approaches to analyzing texts and considers the processes of writing, exploring textual practices and their contexts, and examining what writing does.

Author : George Orwell
Publisher : Renard Press Ltd
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781913724269

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Why I Write by George Orwell Pdf

George Orwell set out ‘to make political writing into an art’, and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature – his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new vocabulary that is fundamental to understanding totalitarianism. While 1984 and Animal Farm are amongst the most popular classic novels in the English language, this new series of Orwell’s essays seeks to bring a wider selection of his writing on politics and literature to a new readership. In Why I Write, the first in the Orwell’s Essays series, Orwell describes his journey to becoming a writer, and his movement from writing poems to short stories to the essays, fiction and non-fiction we remember him for. He also discusses what he sees as the ‘four great motives for writing’ – ‘sheer egoism’, ‘aesthetic enthusiasm’, ‘historical impulse’ and ‘political purpose’ – and considers the importance of keeping these in balance. Why I Write is a unique opportunity to look into Orwell’s mind, and it grants the reader an entirely different vantage point from which to consider the rest of the great writer’s oeuvre. 'A writer who can – and must – be rediscovered with every age.' — Irish Times

Author : Dianne Donnelly
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2010-05-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781847693969

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Does the Writing Workshop Still Work? by Dianne Donnelly Pdf

This book explores the effectiveness of the workshop in the Creative Writing classroom, and looks beyond the question of whether or not the workshop works to address the issue of what an altered pedagogical model might look like. In visualising what else is possible in the workshop space, the sixteen chapters collected in ‘Does the Writing Workshop Still Work?’ cover a range of theoretical and pedagogical topics and explore the inner workings and conflicts of the workshop model. The needs of a growing and diverse student population are central to the chapter authors’ consideration of non-normative pedagogies. The book is a must-read for all teachers of Creative Writing, as well as for researchers in Creative Writing Studies.

Author : Chris Fox
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-06
Category : Authorship
ISBN : 1548220396

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Write to Market by Chris Fox Pdf

Many authors write, then market. Successful authors write TO market Have you written a book that just isn't selling? Would you like to write a book that readers eagerly devour? Many authors write, then market. Successful authors write TO market. They start by figuring out how to give readers what they want, and that process begins before writing word one of your novel. This book will teach you to analyze your favorite genre to discover what readers are buying, to mine reviews for reader expectations, and to nail the tropes your readers subconsciously crave. Don't leave the success of your novel up to chance. Deliver the kind of book that will have your fans hounding you for the next one.

Author : Rick Riordan
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780804151931

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Big Red Tequila by Rick Riordan Pdf

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series Everything in Texas is bigger . . . even murder. Meet Tres Navarre—tequila drinker, Tai Chi master, and unlicensed P.I., with a penchant for Texas-size trouble. Jackson “Tres” Navarre and his enchilada-eating cat, Robert Johnson, pull into San Antonio and find nothing waiting but trouble. Ten years ago Navarre left town and the memory of his father’s murder behind him. Now he’s back, looking for answers. Yet the more Tres digs, trying to put his suspicions to rest, the fresher the decade-old crime looks: Mafia connections, construction site payoffs, and slick politicians’ games all conspire to ruin his homecoming. It’s obvious Tres has stirred up a hornet’s nest of trouble. He gets attacked, shot at, run over by a big blue Thunderbird—and his old girlfriend, the one he wants back, is missing. Tres has to rescue the woman, nail his father’s murderer, and get the hell out of Dodge before mob-style Texas justice catches up to him. The chances of staying alive looked better for the defenders of the Alamo. “Riordan writes so well about the people and topography of his Texas hometown that he quickly marks the territory as his own.”—Chicago Tribune Don’t miss any of these hotter-than-Texas-chili Tres Navarre novels: BIG RED TEQUILA • THE WIDOWER’S TWO-STEP • THE LAST KING OF TEXAS • THE DEVIL WENT DOWN TO AUSTIN • SOUTHTOWN • MISSION ROAD • REBEL ISLAND

Author : Margaret Atwood
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2009-04-21
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780786747764

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Writing with Intent by Margaret Atwood Pdf

From one of the world's most passionately engaged and acclaimed literary citizens comes Writing with Intent, the largest collection to date of Margaret Atwood's nonfiction, ranging from 1983 to 2005. Composed of autobiographical essays, cultural commentary, book reviews, and introductory pieces to great works of literature, this is the award-winning author's first book-length nonfiction publication in twenty years. Arranged chronologically, these writings display the development of Atwood's worldview as the world around her changes. Included are the Booker Prize -- winning author's reviews of books by John Updike, Italo Calvino, Toni Morrison, and others, as well as essays in which she remembers herself reading Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse at age nineteen, and discusses the influence of George Orwell's 1984 on the writing of The Handmaid's Tale. Atwood's New York Times Book Review piece that helped make Orhan Pamuk's Snow a bestseller can be found here, as well as a look back on a family trip to Afghanistan just before the Soviet invasion, and her "Letter to America," written after September 11, 2001. The insightful and memorable pieces in this book serve as a testament to Atwood's career, reminding readers why she is one of the most esteemed writers of our time.

Author : Vilém Flusser
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816670222

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Does Writing Have a Future? by Vilém Flusser Pdf

A prescient exploration of the fate of the book in the digital age.

Author : United States. Council of Personnel Administration. Procedures and Records Committee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1946
Category : English language
ISBN : MINN:31951D03266931C

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To Government Writers: how Does Your Writing Read? by United States. Council of Personnel Administration. Procedures and Records Committee Pdf

Author : Enquirer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600079393

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The enquirer's oracle: or, What to do and how to do it by Enquirer Pdf

Author : Abraham Verghese
Publisher : Random House India
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788184001754

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Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese Pdf

Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon. Orphaned by their mother’s death and their father’s disappearance and bound together by a preternatural connection and a shared fascination with medicine, the twins come of age as Ethiopia hovers on the brink of revolution. Moving from Addis Ababa to New York City and back again, Cutting for Stone is an unforgettable story of love and betrayal, medicine and ordinary miracles—and two brothers whose fates are forever intertwined.

Author : Carol Burnell,Jaime Wood,Monique Babin,Susan Pesznecker,Nicole Rosevear
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1636350283

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The Word on College Reading and Writing by Carol Burnell,Jaime Wood,Monique Babin,Susan Pesznecker,Nicole Rosevear Pdf

An interactive, multimedia text that introduces students to reading and writing at the college level.

Author : Robin Jeffrey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Academic achievement
ISBN : OCLC:1097143261

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About Writing by Robin Jeffrey Pdf

Author : Karyn Lewis Searcy
Publisher : Plural Publishing
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-11
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781597567053

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Here's How to do Early Intervention for Speech and Language by Karyn Lewis Searcy Pdf

Author : Carrianne Leung
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781443452885

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That Time I Loved You by Carrianne Leung Pdf

Life is never as perfect as it seems. Tensions that have lurked beneath the surface of a shiny new subdivision rise up, in new fiction from the author of the Toronto Book Award—shortlisted The Wondrous Woo The suburbs of the 1970s promised to be heaven on earth—new houses, new status, happiness guaranteed. But in a Scarborough subdivision populated by newcomers from all over the world, a series of sudden catastrophic events reveals that not everyone’s dreams come true. Moving from house to house, Carrianne Leung explores the inner lives behind the tidy front gardens and picture-perfect windows, always returning to June, an irrepressible adolescent Chinese-Canadian coming of age in this shifting world. Through June and her neighbours, Leung depicts the fine line where childhood meets the realities of adult life, and examines, with insight and sharp prose, how difficult it is to be true to ourselves at any age.