Want to write a story, a book, a screen play but don’t know where to start? This book could be the answer. Seven Ways to Plot can help you plot your novel as it helps you determine which plotting method works best for you. How do you go from idea to pages? Do you start with characters? Do you begin plotting at the beginning or at the end? What about story boards? Do you need to plot at all? Get the basics on different methods that have been used forever by authors, plus new systems of plotting that can help you get started on your own story idea. Then let two multi-published authors show you how you can use those methods to plot your own book in easy step by step process.

Seven Ways to Plot: Let's Write a Story (Volume 1)

Reference

Viders, Sue

Martinez, Becky

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

Sue Viders

Straddling Class in the Academy: 26 Stories of Students, Administrators, and Faculty From Poor and Working-Class Backgrounds and Their Compelling Lessons for Higher Education Policy and Practice

Education & Teaching

Ardoin, Sonja

Higher & Continuing Education

Stylus Publishing

Why do we feel uncomfortable talking about class? Why is it taboo? Why do people often address class through coded terminology like trashy, classy, and snobby? How does discriminatory language, or how do conscious or unconscious derogatory attitudes, or the anticipation of such behaviors, impact those from poor and working class backgrounds when they straddle class? Through 26 narratives of individuals from poor and working class backgrounds – ranging from students, to multiple levels of administrators and faculty, both tenured and non-tenured – this book provides a vivid understanding of how people can experience and straddle class in the middle, upper, or even elitist class contexts of the academy. Through the powerful stories of individuals who hold many different identities--and naming a range of ways they identify in terms of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, age, ability, and religion, among others--this book shows how social class identity and classism impact people's experience in higher education and why we should focus more attention on this dimension of identity. The book opens by setting the foundation by examining definitions of class, discussing its impact on identity, and summarizing the literature on class and what it can tell us about the complexities of class identity, its fluidity, sometimes performative nature, and the sense of dissonance it can provoke. This book brings social class identity to the forefront of our consciousness, conversations, and behaviors and compels those in the academy to recognize classism and reimagine higher education to welcome and support those from poor and working class backgrounds. Its concluding chapter proposes means for both increasing social class consciousness and social class inclusivity in the academy. It is a compelling read for everyone in the academy, not least for those from poor or working class backgrounds who will find validation and recognition and draw strength from its vivid stories.

Straddling Class in the Academy

Routledge

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