Aims-based rhetoric/reader/handbook characterized by its accessibility and based on the authors' classroom teaching. Emphasizes invention, including a unique technique based on Burke. Includes 31 professional and 21 student essays (from authors' classes), 3 poems, and 4 short stories. Differentiates between argument and persuasion - unique. Unique chapters on style at the word and sentence level.

Longwood Guide to Writing, The

Reference

Bridges, Bill

Lunsford, Ronald F.

Bridges, Charles W.

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Allyn&Bacon

Reflecting ron lunsford and bill bridges' fifty years of combined teaching experience and their commitment to (and understanding of) the writing process, the longwood guide to writing is among the most engaging, up-to-date, and authoritative aims-based rhetorics on the market. In this text, the authors help students see the organic nature of the writing process by continually offering students the opportunity to examine and refine their own individual writing processes, rather than limiting them to a single one-size-fits-all process. Students are introduced to the various phases of the writing process, beginning with a wide variety of invention strategies, then they are invited to apply their creativity and what they have learned to a variety of writing "occasions" ? from the personal essay to the persuasive to the literary. They learn effective ways to do research, write with sources, take essay exams, and create portfolios, and ? in two unique chapters devoted to style ? they learn how form affects content.

Longwood Guide to Writing, The: Brief Edition

Words, Language & Grammar

Reflecting the author's fifty years of combined teaching experience, The Longwood Guide to Writing is among the most accessible, up-to-date, and authoritative aims-based rhetorics on the market.

The Longwood Guide to Writing (4th Edition)

Pearson

Reflecting Ron Lunsford and Bill Bridges' fifty years of combined teaching experience, The Longwood Guide to Writing is among the most accessible, up-to-date, and authoritative rhetorical guides to writing. A three-chapter sequence at the beginning of the text details strategies for the writing process, from generating ideas to shaping those ideas to rewriting. The invention chapter provides an extraordinary variety of prewriting strategies-some of them unique to this book-while the revision chapter addresses both paragraph-level and global revision. A chapter on responding to readings strengthens reading skills both as a means of generating ideas for writing and as a way to become more critical readers of their own writing and that of their peers. Research and writing with resources, essay writing and writing portfolios are each covered in their own comprehensive chapters, in addition to the "Preparing for Publication" section which provides a brief handbook of grammar, usage, mechanics, punctuation, and spelling. The Second Edition features an expanded emphasis on the Internet, and twelve new professional essays. For those interested in sharpening their reading, writing and critical thinking skills.

The Longwood Guide to Writing (2nd Edition)

Longman

Reflecting Ron Lunsford and Bill Bridges' fifty years of combined teaching experience, The Longwood Guide to Writing is among the most accessible, up-to-date, and authoritative rhetorical guides to writing. A three-chapter sequence at the beginning of the text details strategies for the writing process, from generating ideas to shaping those ideas to rewriting. The invention chapter provides an extraordinary variety of prewriting strategies-some of them unique to this book-while the revision chapter addresses both paragraph-level and global revision. A chapter on responding to readings strengthens reading skills both as a means of generating ideas for writing and as a way to become more critical readers of their own writing and that of their peers. Research and writing with resources, essay writing and writing portfolios are each covered in their own comprehensive chapters. The Second Edition features an expanded emphasis on the Internet, and twelve new professional essays. For those interested in developing their reading, writing and critical thinking skills.

The Longwood Guide to Writing (Brief 2nd Edition)

Reflecting the authors' fifty years of combined teaching experience, The Longwood Guide to Writing is among the most accessible, up-to-date, and authoritative aims-based rhetorics on the market. This guide introduces readers to all phases of the writing process and then provides “writing occasions” —projects that encourage the reader to practice what they¿ve learned and improve their own writing. The “occasions” include writing personal essays, informative and evaluative essays, essays from and about literature, and position, persuasive, and problem/solution essays. Each of these core writing chapters features five to seven professional readings, discusses the rhetorical triangle, and follows a student through their writing process. Students also learn effective ways to conduct research, write with sources, take essay exams, and create portfolios. Ideal for individuals interested in gaining a practical understanding of the writing process.

Longwood Guide to Writing, The (3rd Edition)

Although linguistics is often a technical and increasingly abstruse discipline, many linguists retain a concern for the way in which linguistics can shed light on literature and literary problems. In their introductory chapter, the editors of this collection of essays, by linguists on either side of the Atlantic, enunciate a bold stance that defines the theoretical relationship between linguistics and literature, delimits what should be considered a linguistic analysis of literature, and explains how such an analysis is related to current theories of readership and literary criticism. The editors’ theory of the relationship between linguistic and literary studies stipulates an eclectic rather than a holistic approach, and the essays they have gathered together reflect this belief. The contributions include such varied approaches as transformational grammar, text grammar and speech act theory, and the topics analysed include many that are at the heart of literature, such as topicalization, imagery, figurative language, ambiguity, and the play on words through puns. The anthology as a whole illustrates how linguistic theory illuminates the very nature of literary language. It also gives evidence of the new insights into literature that have arisen from a close analysis of the language in which the literature is encoded.

Linguistic Perspectives on Literature (RLE Linguistics C: Applied Linguistics)

Literature & Fiction

Haley, Michael C.

Ching, Marvin K.L.

History & Criticism

Routledge

Although linguistics is often a technical and increasingly abstruse discipline, many linguists retain a concern for the way in which linguistics can shed light on literature and literary problems. In their introductory chapter, the editors of this collection of essays, by linguists on either side of the Atlantic, enunciate a bold stance that defines the theoretical relationship between linguistics and literature, delimits what should be considered a linguistic analysis of literature, and explains how such an analysis is related to current theories of readership and literary criticism. The editors’ theory of the relationship between linguistic and literary studies stipulates an eclectic rather than a holistic approach, and the essays they have gathered together reflect this belief. The contributions include such varied approaches as transformational grammar, text grammar and speech act theory, and the topics analysed include many that are at the heart of literature, such as topicalization, imagery, figurative language, ambiguity, and the play on words through puns. The anthology as a whole illustrates how linguistic theory illuminates the very nature of literary language. It also gives evidence of the new insights into literature that have arisen from a close analysis of the language in which the literature is encoded.

Linguistic Perspectives on Literature (RLE Linguistics C: Applied Linguistics) (Routledge Library Editions: Linguistics)

How do well-recognized teachers of composition make comments on student writing? What might be learned about teacher response through their example? In Twelve Readers Reading: Responding to College Student Writing, Richard Straub and Ronald F. Lunsford examine the state of the art of responding to student writing, using as case studies the responses 12 teacher-scholars make on a sampling of first-year college student writing. The teachers come from a variety of schools and represent a range of perspectives on the teaching of writing: Chris Anson, Peter Elbow, Anne Gere, Glynda Hull, Richard Larson, Ben McClelland, Frank O'Hare, Jane Peterson, Donald Stewart, Patricia Stock, Tillie Warnock, and Edward White.The book is grounded in recent theory, but it is first of all a practical guide for teachers. In it, the authors display over 60 full sets of commentary, create a rubric for analyzing comments, analyze the 12 readers' responding styles, and identify the common strategies the teachers as a group use in responding to student writing.

Twelve Readers Readings: Responding to College Student Writing (Written Language)

Straub, Richard

Short Stories & Anthologies

Hampton Pr

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