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The Facts on File Guide to Style
Martin H. Manser
Paperback - $30.95
Finding a style and voice helps people become clear and concise writers. The perfect companion to The Facts On File Guide to Good Writing, this book helps readers refine and improve their writing style.
Reading Chinese Fortune Cookie : The Making of Chinese American Rhetoric
Luming Mao
Paperback - $47.95
LuMing Mao offers an important discussion of the rhetoric of Chinese American speakers, which has wide implications for the teaching of writing in English and for our understanding of cross-cultural influences in discourse.
Recent scholarship te ...
A Writer's Companion
Richard Marius
Paperback - $109.95
This brief guide to writing the essay and writing across the curriculum is indeed true to its title. It offers excellent advice on developing and polishing prose, with an emphasis on style and process--all with wit, charm, and intelligence.
Future of Thinking
Jeff Mason
Paperback - $96.95
Learning to think is a complex activity cultivated through reading, writing, listening, speaking and remembering textual materials. "The Future of Thinking" adapts rhetorical exercises such as paraphrase, precis, summary and transcription to give stu ...
The Future of Thinking
Jeff Mason
Hardcover - $306.95
Learning to think is a complex activity cultivated through reading, writing, listening, speaking and remembering textual materials. "The Future of Thinking" adapts rhetorical exercises such as paraphrase, precis, summary and transcription to give stu ...
Tactics of Hope : The Public Turn in English Composition
Paula J. Mathieu
Paperback - $47.95
Institutions of higher learning seem traditionally isolated from the realities of the neighborhoods around them. But increasingly, colleges and universities have thrown open their gates and made a public turn toward school-community partnerships, bri ...
Principles of Japanese Discourse : A Handbook
Senko K. Maynard
Paperback - $90.95
This is the first book on Japanese rhetorical style and strategy ever made available for English readers. Professor Maynard presents, in thirty entries, clear explication of Japanese discourse organization and detailed analysis of the rhetorical stra ...
In a Field of Words : A Creative Writing Text
Janet McCann
Paperback - $120.95
IN A FIELD OF WORDS is designed to help aspiring writers find words for their stories and give them shape. It includes guidelines for writing fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry and features invaluable tips and techniques for getting started, so ...
The Rhetoric of Economics
Deirdre N. McCloskey
Paperback - $54.95
A classic in its field, this pathbreaking book humanized the scientific rhetoric of economics to reveal its literary soul. "McCloskey's target is the pretentious scientism in which economists couch their mutual persuasions--a scientism that lingers o ...
Gorgias and the New Sophistic Rhetoric
Bruce McComiskey
Hardcover - $75.95
In Gorgias and the New Sophistic Rhetoric, Bruce McComiskey achieves three rhetorical goals: he treats a single sophist's rhetorical techne (art) in the context of the intellectual upheavals of fifth-century BCE Greece, thus avoiding the problem of g ...