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At a time when everyone seems to regard the state of writing instruction with despair, the appearance of this book is especially welcome. Here is an engaging and enlightening look back at how eight leading teachers and researchers from the past succeeded with the teaching of writing. The crisis over writing ability is hardly new, John Brereton observes, and over the past eighty years educators have worked to devise appropriate theories and techniques, devoting their careers to researching the wr...

In this work the question of political persuasion is treated from a variety of points of view drawn from modern linguistics: appraisal and engagement theory, rhetorical studies, information structure and representational patterns. The aim is to show how politicians are able to work their persuasive discursive magic, and the work features studies of five celebrated rhetors: Edmund Burke, Benjamin Disraeli, Sir Winston Churchill, Malcolm X and Gerry Adams. The different historical contexts make it...

Now known to the Chinese as the ""ten years of chaos,"" the Chinese Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) brought death to thousands of Chinese and persecution to millions. Rhetoric of the Chinese Cultural Revolution identifies the rhetorical features and explores the persuasive effects of political language and symbolic practices during the period. Xing Lu examines how leaders of the Communist Party constructed and enacted a rhetoric in political contexts to legitimize power and violence and to dehum...

Un libro único, íntimo y revelador, que recoge el pensamiento de la escritora brasileña ganadora del Premio Príncipe de Asturias. Pocos escritores brasileños dominan el arte de la palabra como Nélida Piñon, una creadora siempre exuberante en todas sus formas de expresión: en la novela, en el relato o en el ensayo, del que este volumen es un claro ejemplo de talento. La épica del corazón nos muestra el vivo interés de la autora por la tradición literaria latinoamericana y su profundo conocimien...

With its focus on issues of personal and social identity, this new thematic reader contains eight essays by writers across gender, race and class lines to ensure student's understanding of how powerful social factors affect everyone's life. It covers all aspects of the reading process from speed of word recognition to sophisticated thinking/comprehension skills.

En partant du debat actuel qui met en opposition sciences naturelles et sciences humaines et sociales, cette etude s'interesse a une lutte des paradigmes tout a fait comparable de la fin du XIXe siecle, afin d'analyser, pour la premiere fois, l'affrontement entre le paradigme historique et le paradigme bio-medical. Deux modeles de la vie humaine y sont en jeu : une vision culturaliste, qui souligne les transformations historiques de l'homme, ses possibilites, ses progres ; et une vision naturali...

Autobiography is naturally regarded as an art of retrospect, but making autobiography is equally part of the fabric of our ongoing experience. We tell the stories of our lives piecemeal, and these stories are not merely about our selves but also an integral part of them. In this way we "live autobiographically"; we have narrative identities. In this book, noted life-writing scholar Paul John Eakin explores the intimate, dynamic connection between our selves and our stories, between narrative and...

Including poems, short stories, and personal essays, this collection-culled from a successful contest now in its fourth year-honors the perspective of South African girls and women who have been the victims of abuse. Based on the idea that creative writing aids the healing process, these selections describe the struggle to survive, the difficulty of reconciling past and present lives, and the enduring nature of the human spirit. Told from a survivor's perspective, the tales paint a textured emot...

Proust etait fascine par l'etrange et par l'etranger, qui le lui a bien rendu. Sa notoriete de premier auteur " moderne " est nee hors des frontieres hexagonales. Son oeuvre a ete traduite tres tot. D'ailleurs, puisqu'elle est traduite, nous ne lisons sans doute plus de la meme maniere le texte francais, lui aussi devenu " etrange et etranger ". Peut-on imaginer un Proust anglais, italien, americain, turc? Que deviennent les auteurs etrangers une fois entres dans, et assimiles par l'univers prou...

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 century, with far-reaching consequences for its writers and readers alike. But it is too often regarded as a technological problem, confined to the internet. This book takes a very different approach: it regards trollin...

The Loeb Classical Library series Fragmentary Republican Latin continues with oratory, an important element of Roman life from the earliest times, essential to running public affairs and for advancing individual careers long before it acquired literary dimensions, which happened once orators decided to write up and circulate written versions of their speeches after delivery.Beginning with Appius Claudius Caecus (340-273 BC), this three-volume edition covers the full range of speech-making-politi...

Over the past ten years the writing curriculum in colleges and universities has been adapted to recognize cultural diversity in the classroom. By studying this changing curriculum, the contributors to this volume attempt to clarify the ways in which issues of authority, audience, and discourse have intersected to create meaning. "Contested Terrain" seeks to flesh out the key concepts that mark the field of study when writing is used to infuse cultural diversity into the curriculum. It makes expl...

12 exciting themed work books to choose from. Each title has a different creative writing theme, which will stimulate a child's imagination and inspire them to write. Each booklet provides 2 or 3 stories in several paragraphs to read and re-draft and provides stimulating ideas for follow up activities. Booklet may be used in any order and purchased by parents as and when required as a magazine would be purchased. Prepares children for more advanced writing. Aimed at children of 9-14 ye...

The most comprehensive best selling anthology of its kind, the second volume in this two-part survey enables leaders to choose among the most important canonical and less-familiar texts of the Western literary tradition in Europe and the Americas. It offers complete texts whenever possible, uses the best translations of foreign-language material, and, when appropriate, presents more than one text by each author. Volume Two provides detailed historical and biographical notes and introductions to...

Created by the continuous feedback of a "student-tested, faculty-approved" process, COMP (with CourseMate Printed Access Card), 3E delivers a visually appealing, succinct print component, tear-out review cards for students and instructors, and a consistent online offering with Enhanced CourseMate that includes an eBook in addition to a set of interactive digital tools all at a value-based price and proven to increase retention and outcomes. Attention CourseMate user: The CourseMate platform is...

What does it mean to be a subject of human rights? The status of the subject is closely connected with the form and rhetoric of the framing discourse, and this book investigates the relationship between the status of the subject and the form of human rights discourse, in differing aesthetic and social contexts. Historical as well as contemporary declarations of rights have stressed both the protective and political aspects of human rights. But in concrete situations and conflictual moments, the...