Gregory L. Roper

Help for those wanting to becoming a better writer. 

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Florida

English

Imitating Your Way to Better Writing

The Writer's Workshop takes an approach to teaching writing that is new only because it is so old. Today, rhetoric and composition typically proceed by ignoring what was done for 2,500 years in Western education. Gregory Roper, on the other hand, helps students learn to write in the way the great writers of the past themselves learned: by carefully imitating masters of the craft, including Cicero, Thomas Aquinas, Charles Dickens, Sojourner Truth, James Joyce, and Ernest Hemingway. By living in their workshops and apprenticing to these and other masters, apprentice writers—like apprentice musicians, painters, and blacksmiths of the past—will rapidly improve the complexity of their art and discover their own native voices. Interspersed into chapters full of sound practical advice and challenging assignments are reflections on Great Ideas from "Realism and Impressionism" to "Nominalism and Modern Science." Perfect for the college or even high school writing classroom—as well as a marvelous book for homeschoolers and others who would like to improve their own writing—The Writer's Workshop is a fine practical guide, and Dr. Roper a friendly yet demanding teacher-mentor.

The Writer's Workshop

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This teacher's edition is designed to be used with the Writing and Rhetoric Book 7: Encomium and Viteuperation Student Edition (sold-separately). Student pages are reproduced with answers overlaid; additional inserted grey side boxes provide examples, additional clarifications, resources, objectives, sample answers for more open-ended exercises, and other helpful information. 348 pages, softcover.

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Texas

Writing and Rhetoric Teacher’s Edition

BJU Staff

2nd Edition / Unused CD included!  Pair with 2nd Edition Student Text. 

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

South Carolina

Teacher Edition - CD Included! 

The Teacher's Edition provides easy instructions to teach grammar for understanding and to guide the teaching of writing using the Writing Process. Students plan, draft, revise, proofread, and publish eight different types of writing: game instructions, friendly letter, persuasive essay, story, book report, sound poem, research report, and compare-contrast essay. Rubrics are provided to help the teacher evaluate each type of writing. The Teacher's Edition contains reduced student pages and Extra Practice pages (with answers) as well as Keeping Up transparency masters (with answers) to quickly review grammar during the writing chapters. A thorough presentation of English instruction with a balance of grammar study and writing practice. Coordinates with English 3 Student Worktext (2nd ed.), English 3 Tests, and English 3 Tests Answer Key.

BJU Press Writing & Grammar Grd 3

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2nd Edition. 
Pair with 2nd Edition Student Text. 
No writing or markings. 
Unused CD included. 

Teachers Edition. CD Included!! 

BJU Press English 2 Writing & Grammar

John Schilb

John Clifford

Colorado

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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A Guide and Reference

Instructors at hundreds of colleges and universities have turned to How to Write Anything for support that empowers every student with advice they need, when they need it.  And students love it--holding onto the book for other classes --because the authors' tone makes writing in any genre approachable, with a flexible, rhetorical framework for the most commonly taught academic and public genres.

The fourth edition offers students a new Part 1: Strategies for College Writing, even more support for understanding genres and purpose, and an expanded and thoroughly revised take on grammar, mechanics, and usage--all essential to academic success. The result is everything you need to teach composition in a flexible and highly visual guide, reference, handbook, and reader.



Also available: LaunchPad, an online course space with pre-built units featuring the full e-book, book-specific reading comprehension quizzes, adaptive LearningCurve activities to help students hone their understanding of reading and writing, and additional support in A Student's Companion to How to Write Anything.

How to Write Anything with Readings with 2020 APA Update

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Oversized Paperback (4 to 6 lbs)

New Jersey

Social Studies

Social and Behavioral Science Methods

* Prepares students to conduct their first empirical research study, with quantitative and qualitative methods covered in detail. Common features as well as differences between the two research approaches are explored.

* While theoretical material is included, the emphasis is on providing practical, easy-to-follow advice on how to conduct a first research project.

* Unlike most texts with hypothetical examples, this text--with real examples written by a variety of published researchers--makes research methods come alive. Students see how research methods are used to explore important, contemporary problems.

* Factual Questions at the end of each chapter help students review key concepts covered in the chapters.

* Questions for Discussion encourage students to consider specific techniques and strategies that they might use while conducting their research.

Conducting Research-1st Ed

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Science

Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association

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Gerald Graff

Cathy Birkenstein

Russel Durst

Georgia

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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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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Cover shows signs of wear and previous owner wrote name and address of ownership inside front cover. For its age, it is still a very sturdy and well holding book.

Each section has a piece of writing from a well known author with questions at the end to help pick apart how the composition was put together and why/how that is effective. Despite being a book from 1969, it has great examples and great questions to help you understand how to put writing into action!

Massachusetts

Reading & Language Arts

Contexts for Composition

Rise B. Axelrod

Charles R. Cooper

The Concise St. Martin's Guide provides step-by-step guides to writing and reading to help you learn those essential skills and apply them to all of your college courses.

The Concise St. Martin's Guide to Writing

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Jerome Stern

Couple highlights but untouched for the most part. 

Michigan

A deft analysis and appreciation of fiction--what makes it work and what can make it fail.

Here is a book about the craft of writing fiction that is thoroughly useful from the first to the last page--whether the reader is a beginner, a seasoned writer, or a teacher of writing. You will see how a work takes form and shape once you grasp the principles of momentum, tension, and immediacy. "Tension," Stern says, "is the mother of fiction. When tension and immediacy combine, the story begins." Dialogue and action, beginnings and endings, the true meaning of "write what you know," and a memorable listing of don'ts for fiction writers are all covered. A special section features an Alphabet for Writers: entries range from Accuracy to Zigzag, with enlightening comments about such matters as Cliffhangers, Point of View, Irony, and Transitions.

Making Shapely Fiction

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1959 edition, wonderful collection of many the greatest American and European authors, classic stories and writings. The set is in near new condition, unfortunately due to termite damage, 8 volumes have been lost, 1, 10, 22, 23, 24, 31, 32, 33. Set does include the Lectures  volume and the Reading Guide. Also vols. 17, 20, 31, 42, & 43 have been purchased. I am willing to sell all, one or as many as you may need prices will be as follow: 1 vol. $7.50, 2-4 vols. $6.75, 5-9 vols. $6.00, 10-20 vols. $5.25.

Mammoth Hardcover (8 to 10 lbs)

California

The Five-Foot Shelf Of Books

Harvard Classics 

Indiana University

CP Readings for Analytical Writing Indiana University

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Minor scuffing on the cover and some wear on the bottom right corner.

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. 

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

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book is otherwise in great condition.

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. 

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.

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