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  • Genre Knowledge in Disciplinary Communication

    Cognition/culture/power

    by Carol Berkenkotter, Thomas N. Huckin ...
    Although genre studies abound in literary criticism, researchers and scholars interested in the social contexts of literacy have recently become interested in the dynamic, rhetorical dimensions of speech genres. Within this burgeoning scholarly community, the authors are among the first researchers working within social science traditions to study genre from the perspective of the implicit ... Read more

    $116.79 CAD

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    by Maggie Sokolik ...
    What characterizes academic writing and business writing? What are the differences between the two genres? Where do they intersect? This book offers an overview of the features of both styles of writing, as well as opportunities to improve your writing skills in a wide variety of contexts.This book was written to accompany the free online course of the same name, the second of two courses offered ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Years of Talking Dangerously

    by Geoffrey Nunberg ...
    "There has never been," Nunberg writes, "an age as wary as ours of the tricks words can play, obscuring distinctions and smoothing over the corrugations of the actual world . . . Yet as advertisers and marketers know, our mistrust of words doesn't inoculate us against them." These are the years of talking dangerously, and Nunberg is a sure guide to the pitfalls. With illuminating intelligence and ... Read more

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  • Watching My Language:

    Adventures in the Word Trade

    by William Safire ...
    America's most entertaining language maven is back with more words to live by in his latest exploration of hot catchphrases, syntactical controversies, and other matters of national linguistic importance.Before you scratch that seven-year-itch, you might want to know where it came from. And before someone blurts, "You just don't get it," perhaps you should consult the Pulitzer Prize winning ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Postcolonial Cinema Studies

    Edited by Sandra Ponzanesi, Marguerite Waller ...
    This collection of essays foregrounds the work of filmmakers in theorizing and comparing postcolonial conditions, recasting debates in both cinema and postcolonial studies. Postcolonial cinema is presented, not as a rigid category, but as an optic through which to address questions of postcolonial historiography, geography, subjectivity, and epistemology.Current circumstances of migration and ... Read more

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  • Why Johnny Can't Write

    How to Improve Writing Skills

    by Myra J. Linden, Arthur Whimbey ...
    The authors of this book, both experienced teachers, examine the controversy surrounding two popular methods for teaching writing -- the "process" approach and its offspring, Writing Across the Curriculum. Both have recently been called into question for their ineffectiveness. An alternative lesser-known procedure called "sentence combining," which has been proven successful in numerous studies ... Read more

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  • Toward a Civil Discourse

    Rhetoric and Fundamentalism

    by Sharon Crowley ...
    Series Book 163 - Composition, Literacy, and Culture
    Toward a Civil Discourse examines how, in the current political climate, Americans find it difficult to discuss civic issues frankly and openly with one another. Because America is dominated by two powerful discourses—liberalism and Christian fundamentalism, each of which paints a very different picture of America and its citizens' responsibilities toward their country-there is little common ... Read more

    $61.59 CAD

  • Appeals to Interest

    Language, Contestation, and the Shaping of Political Agency

    by Dean Mathiowetz ...
    It has become a commonplace assumption in modern political debate that white and rural working- and middle-class citizens in the United States who have been rallied by Republicans in the “culture wars” to vote Republican have been voting “against their interests.” But what, exactly, are these “interests” that these voters are supposed to have been voting against? It reveals a lot about the role of ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Text + Field

    Innovations in Rhetorical Method

    Edited by Sara L. McKinnon, Robert Asen, Karma R. Chávez, Robert Glenn Howard ...
    Rhetorical critics have long had a troubled relationship with method, viewing it as at times opening up provocative avenues of inquiry, and at other times as closing off paths toward meaningful engagement with texts. Text + Field shifts scholarly attention from this conflicted history, looking instead to the growing number of scholars who are supplementing text-based scholarship by venturing out ... Read more

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  • The George W. Bush Presidency

    A Rhetorical Perspective

    by Matthew T. Althouse, Gwen Brown, Stephen Cooper, Matthew J. Franck, Sandra L. French, Robert V. Friedenberg, Jim A. Kuypers, Patrick S. Loebs, Joseph M. Valenzano III, Ben Voth, Terrence L. Warburton ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Studies in Political Communication
    To date, there are only a couple dozen or so books specifically about the Presidency of George W. Bush. Political operatives, members of the media, and former administration officials have written most of the volumes. Additionally, the early books on the Bush presidency focus on the various aspects and dimensions of the “War on Terror.” In essence, these studies challenge the justification of our ... Read more

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  • Writing the Gettysburg Address

    by Martin P. Johnson ...
    Four score and seven years ago . . . .Are any six words better known, of greater import, or from a more crucial moment in our nation's history? And yet after 150 years the dramatic and surprising story of how Lincoln wrote the Gettysburg Address has never been fully told. Until now.Martin Johnson's remarkable work of historical and literary detection illuminates a speech, a man, and a moment in ... Read more

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  • Teaching Academic Literacy

    The Uses of Teacher-research in Developing A Writing Program

    Edited by Katherine L. Weese, Stephen L. Fox, Stuart Greene ...
    Teaching Academic Literacy provides a unique outlook on a first-year writing program's evolution by bringing together a group of related essays that analyze, from various angles, how theoretical concepts about writing actually operate in real students' writing. Based on the beginning writing program developed at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a course that asks students to consider what it ... Read more

    $53.58 CAD