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Engaging Ideas
Wiley 2011; US$ 40.00Learn 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 Konversationsanalyse
De Gruyter 2014; US$ 350.00This 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 Writing
R&L Education 2012; US$ 18.99Using 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 Sentence
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 Like
HarperCollins 2009; Not AvailableThe 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 Rhetoric
Taylor and Francis 2011; US$ 44.95This 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 Masters
Cooper Square Press 2000; US$ 9.99This unorthodox but delightful anthology of 42 essays focuses on the masters of world literature. more...
Feminist Rhetorical Resilience
Utah State University Press 2012; US$ 24.00Although 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 Guide
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2007; US$ 41.99As 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 Morals
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2012; US$ 54.99Whether 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...









