In the Archives of Composition: Writing and Rhetoric in High by Lori Ostergaard,Henrietta Rix Wood

Wired for Story: The Writer's Guide to Using Brain Science to Hook Readers from the Very First Sentence

Think realizing what the mind craves from each story it encounters, what fuels the luck of any nice tale, and what retains readers transfixed. stressed for tale finds those cognitive secrets--and it is a game-changer for a person who has ever set pen to paper.     nearly all of writing recommendation makes a speciality of "writing good" as though it have been almost like telling an outstanding tale.

Confessional Crises and Cultural Politics in Twentieth-Century America (Rhetoric and Democratic Deliberation)

Confessional Crises and Cultural Politics in Twentieth-Century the United States revolutionizes how we predict approximately confession and its ubiquitous position in American tradition. It argues that the sheer act of labeling a textual content a confession has develop into probably the most strong, and most unconsidered, varieties of intervening in American cultural politics.

Upsetting Composition Commonplaces

In provoking Composition Commonplaces, Ian Barnard argues that composition nonetheless keeps the majority of educational practices that have been utilized in the many years earlier than poststructuralist concept discredited them. whereas acknowledging that the various foundational insights of poststructuralist conception could be tricky to translate to the study room, Barnard upends a number of particularly intransigent tenets that proceed to steer the instructing of writing and the way scholars are inspired to appreciate writing.

Composing Media Composing Embodiment

“What any physique is—and is ready to do—cannot be disentangled from the media we use to eat and bring texts. ” ---from the advent. Kristin Arola and Anne Wysocki argue that composing in new media is composing the body—is embodiment. In Composing (Media) = Composing (Embodiment), they havebrought jointly a strong set of essays that agree at the want for compositionists—and their students—to interact with a variety of new media texts.