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81. Designing Interactive Worlds With Words

    Principles of Writing As Representational Composition

    By David S. Kaufer, Brian S. Butler

    No two writing situations are exactly the same and skilled writers, like skilled painters, must develop the know-how to represent the objects of their writing as part of a flexible art. This special art of writing lies hidden between grammar--the well-formedness of sentences--and genre--the...

    Published February 29th 2000 by Routledge
82. Rethinking Basic Writing

    Exploring Identity, Politics, and Community in interaction

    By Laura Gray-Rosendale

    This book surveys the history of basic writing scholarship, suggesting that we cannot adequately theorize the situations of basic writers unless we examine how they construct their own conceptions of their identities, their constructions of their relationships to social forces, and their...

    Published November 30th 1999 by Routledge
83. Teaching the Art of Poetry

    The Moves

    By Baron Wormser, A. David Cappella, A. David Cappella

    Concise and accessible, this guide to teaching the art of poetry from Shakespeare to contemporary poets enables anyone to learn about how poets approach their art. Teachers can use this book to explore any facet or era of poetry. Any reader can use it as an entryway into the art of poetry. Teaching...

    Published November 30th 1999 by Routledge
84. A Psychologist's Proactive Guide to Managed Mental Health Care

    Edited by Alan J. Kent, Michel Hersen

    A Psychologist's Proactive Guide to Managed Mental Health Care offers a concise overview of the evolution of managed mental health care and its impact on the working lives of clinical and counseling psychologists. Although many books explore the ramifications of managed care for psychotherapy, this...

    Published October 31st 1999 by Routledge
85. Plato on Rhetoric and Language

    Four Key Dialogues

    Edited by Jean Nienkamp

    Plato on Rhetoric and Language presents, for the first time in one volume, four key Platonic dialogues on rhetoric and language in complete, contemporary translations: the Ion, the Protagoras, the Gorgias, and the Phaedrus. Previously, those interested in reading or teaching these dialogues had to...

    Published June 30th 1999 by Routledge
86. Rhetoric, the Polis, and the Global Village

    Selected Papers From the 1998 Thirtieth Anniversary Rhetoric Society of America Conference

    Edited by C. Jan Swearingen, David S. Kaufer

    Rhetoric, the Polis, and the Global Village represents current thought on the role of rhetoric in various disciplines, and includes such diverse topics as race, technology, and religion, demonstrating the expanding relevance of rhetoric in today's world. The essays included in this volume address...

    Published June 30th 1999 by Routledge
87. Worlds Apart

    Acting and Writing in Academic and Workplace Contexts

    By Patrick Dias, Aviva Freedman, Peter Medway, Anthony Par‚

    Series: Rhetoric, Knowledge, and Society Series

    Worlds Apart: Acting and Writing in Academic and Workplace Contexts offers a unique examination of writing as it is applied and used in academic and workplace settings. Based on a 7-year multi-site comparative study of writing in different university courses and matched workplaces, this volume...

    Published March 31st 1999 by Routledge
88. Teaching Academic Literacy

    The Uses of Teacher-research in Developing A Writing Program

    Edited by Katherine L. Weese, Stephen L. Fox, Stuart Greene

    Teaching Academic Literacy provides a unique outlook on a first-year writing program's evolution by bringing together a group of related essays that analyze, from various angles, how theoretical concepts about writing actually operate in real students' writing. Based on the beginning writing...

    Published January 31st 1999 by Routledge
89. Communicating Uncertainty

    Media Coverage of New and Controversial Science

    Edited by Sharon M. Friedman, Sharon Dunwoody, Carol L. Rogers

    Series: Routledge Communication Series

    Exploring the interactions that swirl around scientific uncertainty and its coverage by the mass media, this volume breaks new ground by looking at these issues from three different perspectives: that of communication scholars who have studied uncertainty in a number of ways; that of science...

    Published January 31st 1999 by Routledge
90. Progressive Politics and the Training of America's Persuaders

    By Katherine Adams

    At the beginning of the 20th century, Progressive reformers set up curricula in journalism, public relations, and creative writing to fulfill their own purposes: well-trained rhetors could convince the United States citizenry to accept Progressive thinking on monopolies and unions and to elect...

    Published December 31st 1998 by Routledge