Creative Writing

The Construction of Negotiated Meaning: A Social Cognitive Theory of Writing (Paperback)

Product DescriptionBased on five years of close observation of students, writing and collaborative planning—the practice in which student writers take the roles of planner and supporter to help each other develop a more rhetorically sophisticated writing plan—foremost cognitive compos (more…)

Writing the Mind Alive: The Proprioceptive Method for Finding Your Authentic Voice (Kindle Edition)

Product DescriptionDiscover the revolutionary writing practice that can transform your life!In 1976, Linda Trichter Metcalf, then a university English professor, sat down with pen and paper and intuitively started a self-guided writing practice that helped to bring herself into focus and (more…)

Black Sanford PhD Mechanical Pencil.5mm

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With their stylish metal features and cushioned triangular grip PhD mechanical pencils offer an appealing combination of elegant looks with writing comfort and control. They include a fully retractable refillable lead and a jumbo twist eraser.

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Creative Writing: A Workbook with Readings (Paperback)

Review‘For anyone getting going as a writer (and even for those who have already made a start), this is an invaluable how-to guide, full of useful tips, mind-freeing exercises, and inspiring wisdom from established authors. A book to banish the terror of the blank page.’ – Blake Mor (more…)

Before Shaughnessy: Basic Writing at Yale and Harvard, 1920-1960 (Studies in Writing and Rhetoric) (Paperback)

Review“By focusing on basic writing at Yale and Harvard in the early to mid-twentieth century, the elegantly written Before Shaughnessy fills a historical gap in the disciplinary conversation and enriches our sense of basic writing by dismantling the stereotype of the ‘typical’ basi (more…)

Writing Workplace Cultures: An Archaeology of Professional Writing (Hardcover)

Review”This is a brilliant book, highly readable as well as deeply scholarly and wide-ranging in its analysis. It seems to me almost unique in the field. . . . The combination of methodologies Henry employs (traditional rhetorical as well as Foucauldian, narratological, and cultural analy (more…)

The Creative Writing MFA Handbook: A Guide for Prospective Graduate Students (Paperback)

Product Description The Creative Writing MFA Handbook guides prospective graduate students through the difficult process of researching, applying to, and choosing graduate schools in creative writing. The handbook includes profiles of fifty creative writing programs, guidance through the (more…)

Writing in the Workplace: New Research Perspectives (Paperback)

ReviewBeneficial to workplace writers as well as academicians, Writing in the Workplace: New Research Perspectives helps establish a framework for the unification of theory and practice in technical communication research. In fact, it is the linking of theory and practice that makes it an (more…)

The Psychologist’s Companion: A Guide to Scientific Writing for Students and Researchers (Kindle Edition)

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“An extremely useful book for undergraduates that provides the basics for writing psychology papers.” Choice

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“An extremely useful book for undergraduates that provides the basics for writing psychology papers.” Choice”This book provides a wealth of useful informatio (more…)

I-Writing: The Politics and Practice of Teaching First-Person Writing (Paperback)

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The book is a pleasure to read–lucid, complicated, metaphoric, narrative, and critical at the same time. — Wendy Bishop, review comments on jacket
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Review”Karen Paley’s text is fluent and presents ethnographic reporting at i (more…)