Language Arts & Disciplines

Writing Program AdministrationSeries Editors: Christopher Carter and Laura R. MiccicheWhat People Are Saying"With assessment considered a significant focus of any WPA or WCD position, Writing Assessment at Small Liberal Arts Colleges will become a go-to resource for professionals of all ranks." -Allison Carr, Coe...

Why do certain words make us blush or wince? Why do men and women really speak different languages? Why do nursery rhymes in vastly different societies possess similar rhyme and rhythm patterns? What do slang, riddles and puns secretly have in common? This erudite...

Trolling began long before the internet. This accessible history traces the ancestry of its textual and rhetorical strategies, by looking at literature from ancient Greece to the 1980s. Trolling is the most controversial genre of writing to have risen to prominence in the 21st...

T.O.M.B. (Those of My Blood) is a book about the prison environment from an intellectual angle that highlights its differing degrees of engagement. This book exposes many things about the prison structure and its habits. It defines the different descriptions as they apply to...

Author: J. KentPublisher: Penguin Publishing GroupPublished: 03/21/1984Pages: 144Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.29lbsSize: 8.02h x 5.38w x 0.39dISBN: 9780399510021

For nearly fifty years, the Chicago-based Associated Negro Press (ANP) fought racism at home and grew into an international news organization abroad. At its head stood founder Claude Barnett, one of the most influential African Americans of his day and a gifted, if unofficial,...

Build your writing business into a thriving and satisfying career.Are you a feisty, creative person? Independent, ideas-driven, and ready to work hard for the lifestyle you deserve? If so, you may be a feisty freelancer. Freelancing is not for the faint of heart, but...

"Criticism is itself an art." This is one of the singular arguments in what must be one of Oscar Wilde's most compelling critical dialogues ever published. The Critic as Artist explores Wilde's defense of criticism through sharp, witty dialogue and riveting, thoughtful arguments. This...

Author: Ashley MansourPublisher: Monikher, LLCPublished: 01/21/2025Pages: 270Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.13lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63dISBN: 9780996278782

Author: Ashley MansourPublisher: Monikher, LLCPublished: 01/21/2025Pages: 266Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.79lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56dISBN: 9780996278775

The dispersal of the Indo-European language family from the third millennium BCE is thought to have dramatically altered Europe's linguistic landscape. Many of the preexisting languages are assumed to have been lost, as Indo-European languages, including Greek, Latin, Celtic, Germanic, Baltic, Slavic and Armenian,...

Author: Ryan C. VetPublisher: Inspire Forward PressPublished: 01/14/2025Pages: 202Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.97lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50dISBN: 9781734161052

From airport bookstores to deckchairs, as audiobooks downloaded by commuters, and on Kindles and other portable devices, twenty-first century bestsellers move in old and new ways. This Element examines the locations and mobilities of the contemporary bestseller as a multi-format commercial object. It employs...

ఇదిబతుకుసేద్యంఇక్కడనేనుజీవనం హలంపట్టిదున్నుకుపోతున్నప్పుడుఅడ్డుపడ్డరాయిరప్పలూ గుచ్చుకున్న ముండ్లూచూసిఉక్రోషంఉప్పొంగినప్పుడల్లా నేను పడ్డనా సంవేదనల సారంనా ఘర్మజలంఇలాచెమరించినాసారాంశమైఈకవనక్షేత్రమంతాఇలాపారి తడిపేసింది- కవితశ్రీAuthor: D. Srinivasulu M. a.Publisher: Kasturi VijayamPublished: 05/05/2023Pages: 152Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.42lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.38dISBN: 9788196229139Language: TeluguThis title is not returnable

Rhetorical Economies of Whiteness examines the interplay of rhetoric, whiteness, and economics--attending not only to how economic arrangements that sustain whiteness are rhetorically enacted and legitimated but also to how rhetoric itself operates as an economy to give identities exchange value. Case studies across...

Pushing beyond the anthologized writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson frequently taught in American literature courses, this book examines the corpus of his published work to cultivate a unique understanding of his ideas in relation to reading. By following the history of Emersonian criticism over...

By the 1970s, World War II had all but disappeared from US popular culture. But beginning in the mid-eighties it reemerged with a vengeance, and for nearly fifteen years World War II was ubiquitous across US popular and political culture. In this book, Barbara...

This new edition of the bestseller Reading, Writing, and Talk responds to the urgent need for creating language and literacy pathways that are inclusive, intentional, and center wholeness and belonging. The authors explain, show, and offer critical reflections on the development, teaching, and learning...

What do we mean when we say that a text is relevant to a young person or to a group of young people? And how might a reimagining of relevance, shaped through the voices of young men of color, enhance literacy teaching and learning?...

This volume deals with important historical aspects of the Associated Press', the largest news agency in the world with bureaus in more than 100 countries. The book concentrates on those Pulitzer Prizes earned by AP journalists for topics of some kind of international or...