The Writer's Workplace with Readings: Building College Writing Skills
For the past twenty years, THE WRITER'S WORKPLACE has served the needs of half a million two-year and four-year students as they have worked their way toward rewarding careers in many fields. John Scarry and Sandra Scarry present writing instruction in a clear and manageable form, with step-by-step explanations to help build and maintain students' confidence in their writing. The result of many years of classroom teaching and research, this comprehensive and time-tested resource
During the seventeenth century, England was beset by three epidemics of the bubonic plague, each outbreak claiming between a quarter and a third of the population of London and other urban centers. Surveying a wide range of responses to these epidemics—sermons, medical tracts, pious exhortations, satirical pamphlets, and political commentary—Plague Writing in Early Modern England brings to life the many and complex ways Londoners made sense of such unspeakable devastation.
In her usual engaging style, Marilyn Burns conveys the role writing can play when incorporated into math lessons. Numerous examples illustrate how students sort, clarify, and define their thinking through different types of writing-journal writing, solving math problems, explaining mathematical ideas, and creative writing about math. This invaluable and inspiring resource also includes assessment strategies, practical teaching tips and suggestions, answers to frequently asked questions, and samples of student work.
Substantially updated and revised, the third edition of Philosophical Writing is designed to help those with little or no experience in philosophy to think and write successfully. Traces the evolution of a good philosophical essay from draft stage to completion
You're Not Fooling Anyone When You Take Your Laptop to a Coffee Shop: Scalzi on Writing
There are books which claim to teach you how to write. This book is about the writing life: The business of writing. The day-to-day existence of a professional writer. The ways writers interact with other writers. The things writers do to help themselves out - and the things they do to trip themselves up.
