The Writer's Practice: Building Confidence in Your Nonfiction Writing Contributor(s): Warner, John (Author) |
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ISBN: 0143133152 ISBN-13: 9780143133155 Publisher: Penguin Books
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Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Writing - General - Language Arts & Disciplines | Writing - Authorship - Language Arts & Disciplines | Style Manuals |
Dewey: 808.02 |
LCCN: 2018032895 |
Lexile Measure: 1040 |
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.5" W x 7.4" L (0.55 lbs) 256 pages |
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Price on Product |
Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 10/22/2018 Booklist 12/01/2018 pg. 13 Library Journal 12/01/2018 pg. 78 |
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Publisher Description: "Unique and thorough, Warner's handbook could turn any determined reader into a regular Malcolm Gladwell." --Booklist For anyone aiming to improve their skill as a writer, a revolutionary new approach to establishing robust writing practices inside and outside the classroom, from the author of Why They Can't Write After a decade of teaching writing using the same methods he'd experienced as a student many years before, writer, editor, and educator John Warner realized he could do better. Drawing on his classroom experience and the most persuasive research in contemporary composition studies, he devised an innovative new framework: a step-by-step method that moves the student through a series of writing problems, an organic, bottom-up writing process that exposes and acculturates them to the ways writers work in the world. The time is right for this new and groundbreaking approach. The most popular books on composition take a formalistic view, utilizing "templates" in order to mimic the sorts of rhetorical moves academics make. While this is a valuable element of a writing education, there is room for something that speaks more broadly. The Writer's Practice invites students and novice writers into an intellectually engaging, active learning process that prepares them for a wider range of academic and real-world writing and allows them to become invested and engaged in their own work. |
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