Writing Skills

For more than a quarter of a century, Pat Schneider has helped writers find and liberate their true voices. She has taught all kinds--the award win...

Talk about Writing: The Tutoring Strategies of Experienced Writing Center Tutors offers a book-length empirical study of the discourse between expe...

Foreword by M. G. Leonard: 'It's rare to find a book that's as useful as it is inspiring ... essential reading.'The indispensable guide to writing ...

This edited collection offers self-reflexive, critical accounts of how feminist writing studies scholars variously situated within rhetoric, compos...

This edited collection provides the first principled examination of social justice and the advancement of opportunity as the aim and consequence of...

Leading with the provocative observation that writing programs administration lacks “an established set of texts that provides a baseline of shared...

Leading with the provocative observation that writing programs administration lacks “an established set of texts that provides a baseline of shared...

Academics Writing recounts how academic writing is changing in the contemporary university, transforming what it means to be an academic and how, a...

A study at many levels of Scott’s long poem Coming to Jakarta, a book-length response to a midlife crisis triggered in part by the author’s initial...

This book is aimed at researchers who need to write clear and understandable manuscripts in English. Today, English is the official language of int...

This book explores how writers from several different cultures learn to write in their academic settings, and how their writing practices interact ...

At the beginning of the 20th century, Progressive reformers set up curricula in journalism, public relations, and creative writing to fulfill their...

This volume's goal is to provide readers with up-to-date information on the research and theory of scientific text comprehension. It is widely ackn...

Community Writing: Researching Social Issues Through Composition employs a series of assignments that guide students to research and write about is...

This book explores how writers from several different cultures learn to write in their academic settings, and how their writing practices interact ...

At the beginning of the 20th century, Progressive reformers set up curricula in journalism, public relations, and creative writing to fulfill their...

This new volume is the first to focus entirely on automated essay scoring and evaluation. It is intended to provide a comprehensive overview of the...

This book surveys the history of basic writing scholarship, suggesting that we cannot adequately theorize the situations of basic writers unless we...

There are writing centers at almost every college and university in the United States, and there is an emerging body of professional discourse, res...

There are writing centers at almost every college and university in the United States, and there is an emerging body of professional discourse, res...

The Resource Guide for Food Writers represents the first comprehensive listing of resources for food writers and culinary enthusiasts. A feast for ...

Original Writing:* provides students with the practical skills they need to write confidently and effectively for different purposes and audiences*...

With this new edition, Science and Technical Writing confirms its position as the definitive style resource for thousands of established and aspiri...

Original Writing:* provides students with the practical skills they need to write confidently and effectively for different purposes and audiences*...