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Thank You for Arguing: What Aristotle, Lincoln, and Homer Simpson Can Teach Us about the Art of Persuasion
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 Cicero’s three-step strategy for moving an audience to...
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In the Midst of Winter: Selections from the Literature of Mourning
by Mary J Moffat Publisher Comments Death silences not only those it takes, but those it leaves behind: All too typically we can neither express our grief nor express sympathy for the bereaved. In his sensitive collection, toss finds a voice -- or several voices -- in the poetry, fiction...
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Familiar Quotations 16TH Edition
by John Bartlett Publisher Comments Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, the classic and indispensable reference, has, for the sixteenth edition, been completely revised and updated by preeminent Pulitzer Prize -- winning biographer Justin Kaplan. This distinguished new edition, the most...
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Revolution in Poetic Language
by Julia Kristeva Synopsis < P> -- Alice Jardine, Harvard University< /P>...
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Tutor's Guide (2ND 05 Edition)
by Ben Rafoth Publisher Comments Well-informed by contemporary theory, the essays in this collection touch on important but often neglected aspects of writing-center tutoring, from dealing with emotionally charged topics, to engaging diffident writers, to working with students on thorny...
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The Big Book of Jewish Humor
by William Novak Publisher Comments A special silver anniversary edition of the classic collection of Jewish humor features contributions by both famous and obscure comics, as well as from literary and historical sources, including such notables as the Marx Brothers, Shel Silverstein, Neil...
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Writer's Companion (4TH 99 Edition)
by Richard Marius Publisher Comments This brief guide to writing the essay and writing across the curriculum is indeed true to its title. It offers excellent advice on developing and polishing prose, with an emphasis on style and process--all with wit, charm, and intelligence....
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Art of Teaching Writing New Edition
by Lucy Calkins Publisher Comments An outstanding publication on the latest developments in writing instruction. - Language Arts When Lucy Calkins wrote the first edition of The Art of Teaching Writing, the writing workshop was a fledgling idea, piloted by a few brave innovators. Now, as...
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Garland Reference Library of the Humanities #1267: The Romance of Arthur: An Anthology of Medieval Texts in Translation
by James J. (edt) Wilhelm Synopsis This book covers nearly a thousand years of translated texts in a broad range of genres, from the early chronicles and Welsh verse through Sir Thomas Malory....
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Style: An Anti-Textbook
by Richard A. Lanham Publisher Comments "A necessary manual for those interested in the perpetuation, and the possibilities, of good English prose."-Harper's Magazine "[Lanham's] style is notable for its audacity, liveliness, and grace."-The Times Literary Supplement "The most applicably...
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Blending Genre, Altering Style: Writing Multigenre Papers
by Tom Romano Publisher Comments For Tom Romano, the multigenre paper is much more than a writing assignment. It is a multilayered, multivoiced literary experience. Genres of narrative thinking require writers to make an imaginative leap, melding the factual with the imaginative...
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Geary's Guide to the World's Great Aphorists
by James Geary Publisher Comments Bestselling expert James Geary’s enlightening, entertaining compendium of wit and wisdom, from Sun Tzu to Desmond Tutu—and 350 aphorists in between. Both an expert and a collector, James Geary has devoted his life to aphorisms—...
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Dissemination (81 Edition)
by Jacques Derrida Publisher Comments "The English version of Dissemination [is] an able translation by Barbara Johnson . . . . Derrida's central contention is that language is haunted by dispersal, absence, loss, the risk of unmeaning, a risk which is starkly embodied in all writing. The...
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Making Stories: Law, Literature, Life
by Jerome Bruner Publisher Comments Stories pervade our daily lives, from human interest news items, to a business strategy described to a colleague, to daydreams between chores. Stories are what we use to make sense of the world. But how does this work? In Making Stories, the eminent...
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Literary Nonfiction (02 Edition)
by Patsy Sims Publisher Comments Literary Nonfiction: Learning by Example examines the principles and techniques of the genre by taking a close, analytical look at outstanding contemporary essays by fifteen highly accomplished writers. Featuring examples of memoir, profile, literary...
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Rhetoric in the European Tradition (90 Edition)
by Thomas M. Conley Publisher Comments Rhetoric in the European Tradition provides a comprehensive, chronological survey of the basic models of rhetoric as they developed from the early Greeks through the twentieth century. Discussing rhetorical theories and practices in the context of the...
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The Writer's FAQ's: A Pocket Handbook
by Muriel Harris Publisher Comments For writers who want a clear, concise, user-friendly pocket guide beside them while they write, this book has it all. Its easy-to-navigate coverage offers a wide variety of traditional topics as well as the most current information on conducting online...
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Fragments of Rationality: Postmodernity & the Subject of Composition (Pittsburgh Series in Composition, Literacy, and Culture)
by Lester Faigley Synopsis In an insightful assessment of the study and teaching of writing against the larger theoretical, political, and technological upheavals of the past thirty years, "Fragments of Rationality" questions why composition studies has been less affected by...
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Textual Carnivals : the Politics of Composition (90 Edition)
by Susan Miller Publisher Comments This is the first book-length study of the status of composition in English studies and the uneasy relationship between composition and literature. Composition studies and institutional histories of English studies have long needed this kind of...
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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 traitthey are true to their personalities, spirits, and characters. How do they do this? How...
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