Product Description: Fully revised and updated, this new edition of English in Practice continues to be an essential practical guide to studying English at University. It is for all those who are about to embark on an English degree or are in the midst of completing one, and for those who want to re-engage with their reasons for teaching it...read more

Product Description: For nearly twenty-five years, English studies has been focused on two terms: politics and ethics. However, the institutional emergence, development, and relationship of these two concepts have yet to be examined. Between Politics and Ethics: Toward a Vocative History of English Studies traces the development of politics and ethics in contemporary English studies, questions the current political orientation of the discipline, and proposes a rethinking of the history of English studies based on a “vocative” dimension of writing—the idea that writers form a virtual community by “calling to” and listening to other writers...read more

Product Description: Readin’ + Writin’ for the Hard-Hat Crowd explores the history of an urban public university from its conception in 1964 to the dawn of the twenty-first century. The reader views this place in time through the lens of the evolving nature of «freshman English», an introductory curriculum that began as four semesters of Great Books...read more

Product Description: The assignment: Teaching the dreaded college research paper. The challenge: Motivating students to take risks and think critically and imaginatively, while teaching them to infuse their argumentative essays with research. The solution: Introducing the multi-voiced argument (MVA) into your syllabus...read more

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Product Description: In this lucid book Scholes takes a critical look at the nature and direction of English studies in America. He offers a thoughtful and witty intervention in current debates about educational and cultural values and goals.

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Product Description: Book by Smagorinsky, Peter, Whiting, Melissa E., Conference on English Education (Organization : U. S.)

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Product Description: Book by Olson, Gary, Metzger, Elizabeth, Ashton-Jones, Evelyn

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