Product Description: Being A Writer is a brief rhetoric that explores writing processes with an emphasis on their variety; invention, with an emphasis on its playfulness; revision as a technique of invention; collaboration as a means of revision; and personal engagement in academic writing, from literary analysis to argument...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Writing with Elbow is a volume written by leading scholars now working in the field of composition who trace their own scholarship to foundational work done by Peter Elbow over the last 30 years. The book is in that sense a celebration...read more

Product Description: Writing with Elbow also test him, extend his work, explore his intellectual forebears, address his critics and contexts, and complicate his legacy across a wide range of issues in current composition research and practice. A thoughtful, comprehensive retrospective on Peter Elbow's legacy, Writing with Elbow is a must-read collection for composition scholars, teachers, English educationists, and graduate students...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Designed to support the Annenberg/CPB telecourse, English Composition: Writing for an Audience, this telecourse version includes video prompts and quotes to integrate the telecourse material with the information found in the text...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This groundbreaking rhetoric/reader is known for its practical, workshop approach. Addressing students as writers, A COMMUNITY OF WRITERS features numerous writing activities and assignments that challenge students to develop their skills by writing often, by exploring their writing processes, and by sharing their writing with others...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The many handbooks on the market share in a common irony: they intimidate and confuse at least as much as they help. This book grew out of its teacher-authors' dissatisfaction with such works -- and the unenlightened fixities they're filled with, the overdose of rules they dispense, and the resulting linguistic disabilities they perpetuate...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book, the first to focus exclusively on portfolio assessment, is practical, theoretical, and broad in scope, offering places to start rather than claiming to be definitive. The articles, all by teachers with considerable experience in using portfolio grading, are free of jargon, making sound composition and assessment theory available to every reader, regardless of the level of writing taught...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The 16 essays in this book provide a theoretical underpinning for freewriting.Sheryl I. Fontaine opens the book with a description of the organization, purpose, and content of students’ 10-minute unfocused freewriting.Pat Belanoff discusses the relationship between skilled and unskilled student writers...read more