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  • Engaging Ideasby John C. Bean; Maryellen Weimer

    Wiley 2011; US$ 40.00

    Learn to design interest-provoking writing and critical thinking activities and incorporate them into your courses in a way that encourages inquiry, exploration, discussion, and debate, with Engaging Ideas, a practical nuts-and-bolts guide for teachers from any discipline. Integrating critical thinking with writing-across-the-curriculum approaches,... more...

  • Einführung in die Konversationsanalyseby Helga Kotthoff; Angelika Bauer; Peter Auer; Karin Birkner

    De Gruyter 2014; US$ 350.00

    This volume introduces students to the subject matter, methods and findings of conversation analysis. Conversation analysis deals with all situations of every-day communication (e.g. doctor-patient, lawyer-client, buyer-vendor etc.). The Introduction to Conversation Analysis provides a basis for all BA-/MA study programmes in which the methods of conversation... more...

  • Better Writingby Travis J. Koll

    R&L Education 2012; US$ 18.99

    Using casual language and a straightforward approach, Better Writing: Beyond Periods and Commas provides students with an easy-to-read and effective guide for developing their writing skills. more...

  • How to Write a Sentenceby Stanley Fish

    HarperCollins 2011; Not Available

    ?Like a long periodic sentence, this book rumbles along, gathers steam, shifts gears, and packs a wallop.?  ?Roy Blount Jr.   ?Language lovers will flock to this homage to great writing.? ? Booklist Outspoken New York Times columnist Stanley Fish offers an entertaining, erudite analysis of language and rhetoric in this delightful celebration... more...

  • I Never Metaphor I Didn't Likeby Mardy Grothe

    HarperCollins 2009; Not Available

    The murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums. America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people. Critics are like pigs at the pastry cart. Describing something by relating it to another thing is the essence of metaphorical thought. It is one of the oldest activities of humankind?and one of... more...

  • Activism and Rhetoricby Seth Kahn; JongHwa Lee

    Taylor and Francis 2011; US$ 44.95

    This volume examines the role of rhetoric in today?s culture of democratic activism. The volume takes on two of the most significant challenges currently facing contemporary rhetorical studies: (1) the contested meanings and practices of democracy and civic engagement in global context, and (2) the central role of rhetoric in democratic activist practices.... more...

  • Essays of the Mastersby Charles Neider

    Cooper Square Press 2000; US$ 9.99

    This unorthodox but delightful anthology of 42 essays focuses on the masters of world literature. more...

  • Feminist Rhetorical Resilienceby Elizabeth A Flynn; Patricia Sotirin; Ann Brady

    Utah State University Press 2012; US$ 24.00

    Although it is well known in other fields, the concept of “resilience” has not been addressed explicitly by feminist rhetoricians. This collection develops it in readings of rhetorical situations across a range of social contexts and national cultures. Contributors demonstrate that resilience offers an important new conceptual frame for... more...

  • The Nonfictionist's Guideby Robert Root

    Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2007; US$ 41.99

    As a vital and growing literary genre, nonfiction impacts bestseller lists, writing programs, writers? workshops, and academic conferences on creative writing, composition/rhetoric, and literature. In a lively exploration of its poetics, The Nonfictionist?s Guide examines the elements of contemporary nonfiction and suggests imaginative approaches... more...

  • Of Mottos and Moralsby Mike W. Martin

    Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2012; US$ 54.99

    Whether in slogans, catchphrases, adages or proverbs, we encounter mottos every day, but we rarely take time to reflect on them. In Of Mottos and Morals: Simple Words for Complex Virtues, Martin explores the possibility that mottos themselves are worthy of serious thought, examining how they contribute to moral guidance and help us grapple with... more...