Creative writing and creative writing guides

A guide should give clear directions and then get out of your way.

An indispensable guide to the craft of writing and business of publishing from one of our bestselling and most versatile authors.

Have you ever thought about writing a mystery, and gave up the idea because you didn't know where to begin?

Get Your Creative Juices FlowingA sumptuous, sensuous writing guide from the author of the award-winning The Book of Dead Birds

Everyone has a story to tell.

Writers of the modern essay can trace their chosen genre all the way back to Michel de Montaigne (1533-92).

Writing in Community is a book of inspiration and encouragement for writers who want to reach deep within themselves and write to their fullest potential.

Becoming International: Musings on Studying Abroad in AmericaThis collection of flash nonfiction chronicles the experiences of international students as they leave home, cross borders, and begin their studies in the United States.

Editors and contributors pursue the ambitious goal of including within WAC theory, research, and practice the differing perspectives, educational experiences, and voices of second-language writers.

Writing a Progressive Past: Women Teaching and Writing in the Progressive Era traces the lineage of writing instruction during the Progressive Era, from the influences of John Dewey, to the graduate program designed and run by Fred Newton Scott.

You don't need a Master's Degree in Psychology to make your characters pop off the page!

Language "e;Appealing As Sunlight After a Storm.

We have confessional poets, who write about themselves; nature poets, who write about place; experimental poets, who write about language.

This reference guide provides a comprehensive review of the literature on all the issues, responsibilities, and opportunities that writing program administrators need to understand, manage, and enact, including budgets, personnel, curriculum, assessment, teacher training and supervision, and more.

Plato wrote in the Timaeus of time as the moving image of eternity.

Rich in river imagery and an intense sense of the passage of time, The Wash explores the incessant music that permeates journeys with a destination unknown.

We'll See, originally published in France in 1995 as On Verra Bien by le de bleu, is Georges L.

Lisa Fishman's Current follows The Happiness Experiment (Ahsahta, 2007) further into an experience of time as theater, weather, myth, insect body, plantlife, transcription, synchrony, and figment.

Reconnecting Reading and Writing explores the ways in which reading can and should have a strong role in the teaching of writing in college.

The essays and poems in The Weight of My Armor represent the work of twenty-three members of the Syracuse Veterans' Writing Group, which meets monthly on the Syracuse University campus.

Scientific Writing in a Second Language investigates and aims to alleviate the barriers to the publication of scientific research articles experienced by scientists who use English as a second language.

Rewriting Success in Rhetoric and Composition Careers presents alternative narratives of what constitutes success in the field of rhetoric and composition from those who occupy traditionally undervalued positions in the academy (tribal college, community colleges, postdoctoral tracks), those who have used their PhDs outside of the academy (a law firm, a textbook publisher, a community center), and those who have engaged in professionalization opportunities not typical in the field (research center, a nonprofit humanities organization).

Unlock your creativity and choose the genre of writing that suits you bestDo you have an idea that you re burning to get down on paper?

The WPA Outcomes Statement-A Decade Later examines the ways that the Council of Writing Program Administrators' Outcomes Statement for First-Year Composition has informed curricula, generated programmatic, institutional, and disciplinary change, and affected a disciplinary understanding of best practices in first-year composition.

For over twenty-five years, NICOLAS PESQUES has been writing an homage to Juliau, the mountain he sees out his window.

Theory has been used widely in the field of second language writing.

Professionalizing Second Language Writing is an edited collection that bring together perspectives of second language writing specialists who shed light on second language writing as a profession.

Breaks down the most important aspects of argumentative or persuasive essay writing.

Rhetoric Across Borders features a select representation of 27 essays and excerpts from the "e;In Conversation"e; panels at the Rhetoric Society of America's 2014 conference on "e;Border Rhetorics.

Describes mentoring of teachers and scholars in the field of composition and rhetoric.

A Commonplace is a dialogue about how poetry is made and how it makes a difference to our lives.

Working with educators at all academic levels involved in WAC partnerships, the authors and editors of this collection demonstrate successful models of collaboration between schools and institutions so others can emulate and promote this type of collaboration.

Brittany Perham's first collection, THE CURIOSITIES, fixes its sure and unsettling gaze on daughters and fathers, sisters and brothers, madness, sickness, longing and love.

Andy Kirkpatrick and and Zhichang Xu offer a response to the argument that Chinese students' academic writing in English is influenced by "e;culturally nuanced rhetorical baggage that is uniquely Chinese and hard to eradicate.

The PC era is giving way to a new form of popular computing in which smart, globally-connected objects and environments are the new computational ground.

As Ron Silliman has written, "e;Attention is all.