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Grammar Girl's 101 Troublesome Words You'll Master in No Time
St. Martin's Press 2012; US$ 5.99Millions of people around the world communicate better thanks to Mignon Fogarty, aka Grammar Girl , whose top-rated weekly grammar podcast has been downloaded more than 40 million times. Now she?s turning her attention to solving your worst problems?one troublesome word at a time. Are you feeling "all right" or "alright"? Does "biweekly" mean twice... more...
The Creativity Market
Channel View Publications 2012; US$ 25.00This book focuses on creative writing both as a subject in universities and beyond academia, with chapters arranged around three organising sub-themes of practice, research and pedagogy. It explores the ?creative? component of creative writing in the globalised marketplace, making the point that creative writing occurs in and around universities throughout... more...
Follow the Story
Simon & Schuster 2012; US$ 16.00In Follow the Story, bestselling author and journalist James B. Stewart teaches you the techniques of compelling narrative writing. It is the indispensable guide to writing successful nonfiction books, articles, feature stories, or memoirs. Stewart provides concrete directions for conceiving, reporting, structuring, and writing nonfiction -- techniques... more...
Negotiating Academic Literacies
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 56.95Negotiating Academic Literacies: Teaching and Learning Across Languages and Cultures is a cross-over volume in the literature between first and second language/literacy. This anthology of articles brings together different voices from a range of publications and fields and unites them in pursuit of an understanding of how academic ways of knowing... more...
Hybrid Voices and Collaborative Change
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 125.00In this study, Bartlett presents a theoretical and descriptive development in the discipline of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) extending the recent trend away from critiques of hegemonic practices and towards the description of alternative and minority practices that has been labelled Positive Discourse Analysis (PDA). Through an in-depth case... more...
F.C.S. Schiller and the Dawn of Pragmatism
Lexington Books 2011; US$ 84.99Ferdinand Canning Scott Schiller (1864?1937) was the foremost first generation British pragmatist; he is also the most overlooked pragmatist. F. C. S. Schiller and the Dawn of Pragmatism: The Rhetoric of a Philosophical Rebel , by Mark J. Porrovecchio, provides the first comprehensive examination of his philosophical career, examining the rhetorical... more...
Informal Logical Fallacies
University Press of America 2012; US$ 16.99This is a systematic and concise introduction to more than forty fallacies, from anthropomorphism and argumentum ad baculum, to reductionism and the slippery slope argument. With helpful definitions, relevant examples, and thought-provoking exercises, the author guides the reader through the realms of fallacious reasoning and deceptive rhetoric. more...
Writing to Survive
R&L Education 2011; US$ 34.95This book brings research-based attention to the problem of increasing violence, abuse more...
Culture & Rhetoric
Berghahn Books 2012; US$ 29.95While some scholars have said that there is no such thing as culture and have urged to abandon the concept altogether, the contributors to this volume overcome this impasse by understanding cultures and their representations for what they ultimately are ? rhetorical constructs. These senior, international scholars explore the complex relationships... more...
The Argument Culture
Random House Publishing Group 2012; US$ 15.95In her number one bestseller, You Just Don't Understand, Deborah Tannen showed why talking to someone of the other sex can be like talking to someone from another world. Her bestseller Talking from 9 to 5 did for workplace communication what You Just Don't Understand did for personal relationships. Now Tannen is back with another groundbreaking book,... more...









