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The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr. and E. B. White and Maira Kalman Staff Pick The classic bible of grammar and clear writing, illustrated with the delightful art of Maira Kalman. A must-have and a great gift.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr. and E. B. White Publisher Comments You know the authors' names. You recognize the title. You've probably used this book yourself. This is The Elements of Style, the classic style manual, now in a fourth edition. The revisions to the new edition are purposely kept minimal in order to... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Crafting Authentic Voice (04 Edition) by Tom Romano Publisher Comments A good writer has a distinctive voice. A great writer has an inimitable one. Regardless of subject or place in time or space, good and great writers share one trait-they are true to their personalities, spirits, and characters. How do they do this? How... (read more) List Price $40.25 Your price: $27.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Stylish Academic Writing by Helen Sword Publisher Comments Elegant data and ideas deserve elegant expression, argues Helen Sword in this lively guide to academic writing. For scholars frustrated with disciplinary conventions, and for specialists who want to write for a larger audience but are unsure where to... (read more) Your price: $21.95 New - Hardcover
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I Is an Other: The Secret Life of Metaphor and How It Shapes the Way We See the World by James Geary Publisher Comments From President Obama’s political rhetoric to the bursting of the housing bubble, from conversations to commercials, James Geary shows that every aspect of our day-to-day experience is molded by metaphor. Geary takes readers from Aristotle’s... (read more) Your price: $14.99 New - Trade Paper
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Into the Garden: A Wedding Anthology: Poetry and Prose on Love and Marriage by Robert Hass and Stephen Mitchell Staff Pick The best collection of wedding-related poetry I found. The editors also include an useful primer on wedding service scripts (in case you're writing your own), presenting standard examples from Protestant, Catholic, Jewish, and Zen traditions.... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Poets Beyond the Barricade: Rhetoric, Citizenship, and Dissent After 1960 (Rhetoric, Culture, and Social Critique) by Dale M. Smith Publisher Comments Since the cultural conflicts over the Vietnam War and civil rights protests, poets and poetry have consistently raised questions surrounding public address, social relations, friction between global policies and democratic institutions, and the... (read more) Your price: $29.95 New - Hardcover
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Ready to Write 3: From Paragraph to Essay by Karen Lourie Blanchard Publisher Comments A fresh new design, updated content throughout, and a host of new activities reinforce the approach that has made the Ready to Write series a classroom favorite for more than two decades. Features: Updated examples and model paragraphs illustrate... (read more) List Price $37.87 Your price: $19.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Thank You for Arguing : What Aristotle, Lincoln, and Homer Simpson Can Teach Us About the Art of Persuasion (07 Edition) by Jay Heinrichs Publisher Comments Thank You for Arguing is your master class in the art of persuasion, taught by professors ranging from Bart Simpson to Winston Churchill. The time-tested secrets the book discloses include Ciceros three-step strategy for moving an audience to action&... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Essentials of Argument (3RD 11 Edition) by Nancy V. Wood Publisher Comments This concise argument text presents a broad range of rhetorical theory while providing the clear explanations and examples to make it accessible to an exceptionally wide range of students. Essentials of Argument, 3e, contains ten... (read more) List Price $62.67 Your price: $48.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Writing Academic English (4TH 06 Edition) by Alice Oshima Publisher Comments Now in its fourth edition, Writing Academic English, by Alice Oshima and Ann Hogue, is the essential writing text to prepare high-intermediate and advanced college or college-bound English language learners for academic success. Features A step-by-... (read more) List Price $55.50 Your price: $36.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Out of Style (08 Edition) by Paul G. Butler Publisher Comments Paul Butler applauds the emerging interest in the study of style among scholars of rhetoric and composition, arguing that the loss of stylistics from composition in recent decades left it alive only in the popular imagination as a set of grammar... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $13.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Writing From Sources (8TH 11 Edition) by Brenda Spatt Publisher Comments Covering every step of research, writing, and documentation, Writing from Sources provides a complete guide to source-based writing. The book builds from fundamental skills -- such as annotating a passage -- to more demanding ones such as integrating... (read more) List Price $72.45 Your price: $51.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Rehabilitating Literary Theory: A Practical Guide for the Critical and Semiotic Analysis of Poetry and Drama by Khaled Besbes Book News Annotation Besbes (English language and literature, U. of Sharjah, the United Arab Emirates) seeks to revitalize and rehabilitate literary theory from the skepticism that has fastened to the discipline over the past few years. He starts by pointing out that most... (read more) Your price: $37.25 New - Trade Paper
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The Describer's Dictionary by David Grambs Publisher Comments Have you ever found yourself grasping in vain for that ideal descriptive word lost somewhere within the misty recesses of your vocabulary? Or felt frustrated that an oddly shaped structure or pretty setting you wished to portray in writing didn't quite... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Brief Mcgraw-hill Reader (11 Edition) by Gilbert Muller Publisher Comments Supporting a liberal arts tradition in the classroom, across the curriculum, and beyond, The Brief McGraw-Hill Reader offers rich and diverse readings in education, the social sciences, business and economics, the humanities, and the sciences.... (read more) List Price $71.75 Your price: $51.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Stylized: A Slightly Obsessive History of Strunk & White's the Elements of Style by Mark Garvey Publisher Comments A LIVELY, WITTY, AND PASSIONATE CELEBRATION OF THE "LITTLE BOOK" THAT HAS DONE MORE TO SHAPE WRITING IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE THAN ANY OTHER GUIDE IN MODERN TIMES Since 1959, The Elements of Style has been required reading for aspiring writers, English... (read more) List Price $22.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Call of Stories: Teaching and the Moral Imagination by Robert Coles Publisher Comments The Call of Stories presents a study of how listening to stories promotes learning and self-discovery.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Cultural Conversations: The Presence of the Past by Stephen Dilks Publisher Comments This unique new thematic composition reader brings together 6 key texts from the past and multiple contemporary reverberations to engage students in some of todays most significant cultural conversations.... (read more) List Price $71.00 Your price: $34.00 Used - Trade Paper
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75 Arguments : Anthology (08 Edition) by Alan Ainsworth Publisher Comments This new offering in McGraw-Hill's line of inexpensive readers collects seventy-five extensively taught arguments into a single volume. With topics including national security, technology, marriage, race, economics, the environment, and globalization... (read more) List Price $40.85 Your price: $29.00 Used - Trade Paper
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