John Schilb

John Clifford

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Colorado

English

A Compact Guide and Anthology

Making Arguments About Literature combines a complete text on argumentative writing with a flexible anthology of literature in a compact format.

Making Arguments about Literature

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California

The Politics and Practice of Writing for Social Change

First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Why We Write

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Allan A. Glatthorn

There are highlights and notes throughout this book. 

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Wisconsin

A Step-By-Step Guide

Here′s an experience-based, step-by-step, practical guide to take you through planning, writing, and presenting your dissertation or thesis. Find out how to write an objective, documented, and detailed report of your research, one that reflects well on you as a researcher and can help advance your career. Glatthorn divides the book into five sections, with each section focusing on a specific part of the process.

This Second Edition includes two completely new chapters - one on using the technology in doing the research and writing the dissertation and one on using peer collaboration. It also provides specific models and examples for each chapter of the dissertation.

He shows you exactly how to:

- Find a research topic and lay the proper groundwork

- Develop a high-quality proposal and defend it successfully

- Do your research, collect your ideas, and write your paper

- Defend and (if appropriate) publish your work

- Solve work- or committee-related problems that may come up along the way

You′ll gain a wealth of knowledge from Glatthorn′s experience chairing nearly 100 dissertation committees. He shows you how the correct academic style adds credibility to your work. His insights can save you hours of valuable time and help you streamline the preparation of your paper. If you have a thesis or dissertation to write, and you are having a hard time getting started or have questions about the process, this is the book you need. It answers your questions and gives you the information to need to get started and keep going. It can make the difference success and failure for your dissertation between.

Writing the Winning Thesis or Dissertation

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Joseph M. Williams

Joseph Bizup

The cover has a few stickers on it as seen in the picture, but the spine isn’t cracked, there are no written notes in the text, and the
book is otherwise in great condition.

Massachusetts

Lessons in Clarity and Grace

Engaging and direct, Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace is the guidebook for anyone who wants to write well.Engaging and direct, Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace is the guidebook for anyone who wants to write well. Williams' own clear, accessible style models the kind of writing that audiences-both in college and after-will admire. The principles offered here help writers understand what readers expect and encourage writers to revise to meet those expectations more effectively. This book is all you need to understand the principles of effective writing.

Style

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Kathryn Aalto

Women Poets, Ramblers, and Mavericks Who Shape How We See the Natural World

"Re-centers and gives voice to a diversity of women naturalists and writers across time." --Cultivating Place



In Writing Wild, Kathryn Aalto celebrates 25 women whose influential writing helps deepen our connection to and understanding of the natural world. These inspiring wordsmiths are scholars, spiritual seekers, conservationists, scientists, novelists, and explorers. They defy easy categorization, yet they all share a bold authenticity that makes their work both distinct and universal. Part travel essay, literary biography, and cultural history, Writing Wild ventures into the landscapes and lives of extraordinary writers and encourages a new generation of women to pick up their pens, head outdoors, and start writing wild.

Writing Wild

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Andrea Lunsford

Michal Brody

Lisa Ede

Carole Clark Papper

Keith Walters

Beverly J. Moss

Brand new- never used. Still in plastic wrapping. 

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Nevada

With Readings

Built on the keystones of rhetoric, Everyone's an Author provides a strong foundation for authoring in the digital age: in college essays, but also on Twitter; in print, but also online; with words, but also with sound, video, and images. It shows students that the rhetorical skills they already use in social media, in their home and religious communities, at work and in other nonacademic contexts are the same ones they'll need to succeed in college. Examples and readings drawn from across multiple media and dealing with topics that matter to students today make this a book that everyone who takes first-year writing will relate to.

Everyone's an Author with 2016 MLA Update

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Beautiful binded journal from comic con. Never used, pages and pencil

New York

Binded notebook/ journal

Natalie Goldberg

Robert M. Pirsig

Freeing the Writer Within

Natalie Goldberg's word-of-mouth hit has sold well over half a million copies. Goldberg, who has conducted writing workshops for both beginners and professionals all over the United States, sees writing as a practice that helps us comprehend the value of our lives. With insight, humor, and practicality, she inspires writers and would-be writers alike to take the leap into writing creatively and well.

Writing Down the Bones

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Most handbooks include chapters on various general writing topics (e.g., the writing process or the elements of an argument), but few cover the specific kinds of writing students are assigned to do. The Little Seagull has chapters on reports, analyses, and all the other genres that college students are most often assigned. And because it's so small, so easy to use, and so affordable, it's proven to be a popular alternative to larger (and much more costly) handbooks. The 3rd Edition adds a new section on editing the errors that matter--and free access to InQuizitive for Writers, which provides practice in editing the same errors.

The Little Seagull Handbook

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Arizona

A New Little Rhetoric, by Andrea Lunsford

Let's Talk... a Pocket Rhetoric

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Gerald Graff

Cathy Birkenstein

Russel Durst

Does have highlights, notes, and post its throughout the book. 

This is the book that demystifies academic writing and shows how to engage with the views of others with practical advice and readings that represent a multitude of perspectives and disciplines. Extensively revised thanks to feedback from our community of adopters, this edition features a new chapter on Research, new exercises, expanded support for reading, and twenty-six new readings about five important questions that matter, including the new chapter "Why Care about the Planet?"

They Say / I Say with Readings

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Indiana University

CP Readings for Analytical Writing Indiana University

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Library of Great American writing volume 1 first edition

Ohio

World Languages

Paul Eschholz

Alfred Rosa

Virginia Clark

Readings for College Writers

Immediately and universally relevant, language is the ideal theme to explore in a composition course. Language Awareness collects contemporary and classic readings about language that not only make students more aware of its uses and more capable of analyzing its effects, but also help them to deploy language more effectively in their own writing. New coverage in the eleventh edition provides even more advice on critical reading and working with sources, while a new organization focuses each short chapter on a single, cohesive theme. In addition, insightful "Language in Action" activities help students connect what they learn about language to what they observe in their daily lives.

Language Awareness

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X. J. Kennedy

Dana Gioia

Texas

An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and Writing

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Cultivate a Love of Literature...

The smallest and most economical member of the Kennedy/Gioia family, Backpack Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and Writing, 5/e   is a brief paperback version of the discipline's most popular Literature anthology.  

 

Backpack Literature introduces college students to the appreciation and experience of literature in its major forms and develops the student's ability to think critically and communicate effectively through writing.  The book is built on the assumption that great literature can enrich and enlarge the lives it touches. Both editors, literary writers themselves, believe that textbooks should be not only informative and accurate but also lively, accessible, and engaging.

 

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This title is also available with MyLiteratureLab - an online resource that works with our literature anthologies to provide engaging experiences to instructors and students.
 
Students can access new content that fosters an understanding of literary elements, which provides a foundation for stimulating class discussions. This simple and powerful tool offers state-of-the-art audio and video resources along with practical tools and flexible assessment. The Literature Collection eText within MyLiteratureLab includes more than 700 selections and valuable multimedia resources--including professional performances, biographies of key authors, contextual videos, interactive student papers--that bring literature to life.


Backpack Literature

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Gretchen Bernabei

Jayne Hover

Cynthia Candler

Lessons to Help Students Blow the Roof off Writing Tests--And Become Better Writers in the Process

"Our schools should be accountable, but do they have to become joyless halls of drudgery? I'm not against measuring student achievement and learning. But can't we develop lessons that use the best of what we know about learning and about children, lessons informed by research and results, lessons that include color, life, conversation and laughter?"-Gretchen Bernabei

 * Crunchtime is a practical grab-and-go resource for teachers.
 * Crunchtime strategies are engaging and fun for students.
 * Crunchtime is especially effective in helping struggling writers, including English language learners.

In this eagerly-anticipated teacher resource, master teachers Gretchen Bernabei, Jayne Hover, and Cynthia Candler share writing lessons that are healthy for kids, promote lifelong literacy, and, coincidentally, will help your students blow the roof off of their state test scores. Organized around the writing process-selecting topics, crafting drafts, and polishing finished pieces-explicit lessons engage student writers while shoring up the gaps between learning and testing. Growing out of their own work in Title I schools, Gretchen, Jayne, and Cynthia's strategies have proven to be especially effective in helping ESL and special education students, not only pass the test, but achieve commended performance. In addition to providing classroom-tested strategies, this practical teaching resource provides a wealth of crunchtime tools (rubrics, reproducibles, and writing samples) minilessons, and lesson plans that will help you teach strategically and position your students for success on their state writing tests and beyond.

Crunchtime includes the following downloadable resources: 4-week planner [http://www.heinemann.com/shared/companionResources/E02673/4wkplanner.pdf], writing prompts [http://www.heinemann.com/shared/companionResources/E02673/prompts.pdf], and reproducibles [http://www.heinemann.com/shared/companionResources/E02673/reproducibles.pdf].

Crunchtime

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Jo Ray McCuen-Metherell

Anthony C. Winkler

READINGS FOR WRITERS is the preeminent rhetorical reader for the freshman composition course. This bestseller continues its tradition of providing comprehensive coverage of the writing and research process, while also offering a wide variety of appealing readings. With more than 70 selections from a broad range of topics and genres, this text offers something to spark excitement in any writer. This edition has been updated to reflect guidelines from the 2016 MLA HANDBOOK, Eighth Edition. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.

Readings for Writers, 2016 MLA Update

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Gina Hogan

The Building Better series evolved with developmental students in mind; however, the textbooks are designed to be inexpensive and flexible enough that all college students or writing instructors can use them as a quick reference guide.

Building Better Grammar

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Shane Templeton

Donald R. Bear

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Reading & Language Arts

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The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing

This book identifies the key rhetorical moves in academic writing. It shows students how to frame their arguments as a response to what others have said and provides templates to help them start making the moves. The fourth edition features many NEW examples from academic writing, a NEW chapter on Entering Online Discussions, and a thoroughly updated chapter on Writing in the Social Sciences. Finally, two NEW readings provide current examples of the rhetorical moves in action.

They Say / I Say

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Muriel G. Harris

Jennifer L. Kunka

Florida

Thirty years of experience at the Purdue University writing center told Muriel Harris that few students could effectively use their handbook. A truly useful textbook, she felt, would have ways to help students find the information they were seeking without having to know the terminology, would be clear and easy to understand for all students, and would be written in a student-friendly language and tone to avoid the intimidating formal instructional tone of some handbooks. These principles became the foundation of Harris's Prentice Hall Reference Guide. Check us out on Facebook at www.facebook.com/HarrisPHReferenceGuide!

Prentice Hall Reference Guide

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Sheryl Fontaine

Cherryl Smith

A Student's Guide

Writing academic essays in college often seems mysterious to students who do not yet understand the process of developing an idea into a finished piece of reasoned prose. Writing Your Way Through College demystifies that process and enables teachers to help students "invent the university" as they reinvent themselves as proficient writers and rhetorical problem solvers. Writing Your Way Through College offers instructors a set of careful lessons that draw on current disciplinary knowledge in composition and rhetoric. Sheryl Fontaine and Cherryl Smith provide a classroom-centered text that guides students through progressively more complex, evidence-based writing. Writing Your Way Through College offers students and teachers: practical lessons on writing and learning a set of assignments that build incrementally a support system for new instructors accessible information about college writing a flexible approach to the classroom. In a concise, readable format, Writing Your Way Through College offers insights into how individuals negotiate language communities so that students can better master the conventions and rhetorical characteristics of academic writing. A creative and effective template for the teaching of writing, Writing Your Way Through College belongs on every shelf and in every classroom.

Writing Your Way Through College

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Oversized Paperback (4 to 6 lbs)

3rd edition 

As critical thinking and coherent argument become even more important in our contemporary world, Arguing about Literature economically combines two first-year writing books in one: a concise guide to reading literature and writing arguments, and a compact thematic anthology of stories, poems, plays, essays, and arguments for inquiry, analysis, and research. The authors of the groundbreaking Making Literature Matter draw connections between contemporary debates and literary analysis, bringing both argument and literature into a contemporary context. Through instruction in close critical reading of texts and well-supported, rhetorically sound argumentative writing, Arguing about Literature prepares students to read, write, and argue effectively. The third edition includes a new chapter on evaluating internet resources and visual arguments in the "post-truth" era, as well as dozens of new works of literature and argumentation.



Achieve with Schilb, Arguing about Literature, puts student reading, writing, and revision at the core of your course, with interactive close reading modules, reading comprehension quizzes for the selections in the book, videos of professional writers and students discussing literary works, and a dedicated composition space that guides students through draft, review, source check, reflection, and revision. For details, visit macmillanlearning.com/college/us/englishdigital.

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Making Arguments about Literature

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Why We Write

Allan A. Glatthorn

Writing the Winning Thesis or Dissertation

Joseph M. Williams; Joseph Bizup

Style

Kathryn Aalto

Writing Wild

Andrea Lunsford; Michal Brody; Lisa Ede; Carole Clark Papper; Keith Walters; Beverly J. Moss

Everyone's an Author with 2016 MLA Update

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Natalie Goldberg; Robert M. Pirsig

Writing Down the Bones

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The Little Seagull Handbook

Andrea Lunsford; Michal Brody; Lisa Ede; Beverly Moss; Carole Clark Papper; Keith Walters

Everyone's an Author with 2016 MLA Update

Andrea Lunsford

Let's Talk... a Pocket Rhetoric

Gerald Graff; Cathy Birkenstein; Russel Durst

They Say / I Say with Readings

Indiana University

CP Readings for Analytical Writing Indiana University

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Library of Great American writing volume 1 first edition

Paul Eschholz; Alfred Rosa; Virginia Clark

Language Awareness

X. J. Kennedy; Dana Gioia

Backpack Literature

Gretchen Bernabei; Jayne Hover; Cynthia Candler

Crunchtime

Jo Ray McCuen-Metherell; Anthony C. Winkler

Readings for Writers, 2016 MLA Update

Gina Hogan

Building Better Grammar

Shane Templeton; Donald R. Bear

Houghton Mifflin Spelling and Vocabulary

Cathy Birkenstein; Gerald Graff

They Say / I Say

Muriel G. Harris; Jennifer L. Kunka

Prentice Hall Reference Guide

Sheryl Fontaine; Cherryl Smith

Writing Your Way Through College

John Schilb; John Clifford

Arguing about Literature: a Guide and Reader