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Product Description: IN DEPTH offers writing instructors a wide-ranging collection of outstanding essayists and essays.

Product Description: 1995 - 1st Edition - Mayfield - Paperback - A Forest of Vocies : Reading & Writing rhe Environment - By Chris Anderson & Lex Runciman - In Protective Cover - Inside there are passages that are highlighted in yellow highlighter - VG Condition - Collectible

The portrait of a female serial killer, the first woman executed in Florida in more than a century, tells of how Judias Buenoano, owner of a chain of nail salons in Pensacola, killed her husbands, lovers, and disabled first-born son for profit. Reprint.

Product Description: Free/Style covers techniques for getting started, approaches to style, the sound of words, the shape of content, structure of syntax, "tricks of the trade" and achieving special effects. Among the main features are: The opening chapter introduces freewriting techniques to help writers get words on the page or screen quickly...read more

Product Description: At a time when the study of composition seems especially prone to excess and imbalance—heading toward what could be a tyrannizing theoretical order—here is a call back to the center, to the concreteness of the teaching moment itself...read more

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Product Description: Recognizing nonfiction as something of intrinsic value, Chris Anderson calls on writing teachers who are also literature teachers and literary critics who also work in composition to study the styles and forms of literary nonfiction...read more

Taking the position that style has a value in its own right, that language forms a major component of the story a nonfiction writer has to tell, Anderson analyzes the work of America’s foremost practitioners of New Journalism—Tom Wolfe, Truman Capote, Norman Mailer, and Joan Didion. Anderson does for nonfiction what insightful critics have long been doing for fiction and poetry. His approach is rhetorical, and his message is that the rhetoric of Wolfe, Capote, Mailer, and Didion is a direct response to the problem of trying to convey to a general audience the sublime, inexplicable, or private and intuitive experiences that conventional rhetoric cannot evoke. The emphasis in this book is on style, not genre, and the analysis characterizes the distinctive styles of four American writers, showing how the richness and complexity of their prose discloses an important argument about the value of language itself. Their prose is complex, nuanced, layered, affecting, always aware of itself as style. This self-consciousness, Anderson contends, prepares the reader to regard style as argument, a “tacit but powerful statement about the value of form as form, style as style.”

Contains the story of Jake La Motta, the controversial boxer, and his transformation into the older, wiser performer he is today, revealing his loves, conflicts, fights, and terrors