18 books like Reading Like a Writer

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Expressive Writing Kathleen Adams · 2013 · 259p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Expressive writing is life-based writing that focuses on authentic expression of lived experience, with resultant insight, growth and skill-building. For decades, it has been the province of journals, memoirs, poets, and language arts classrooms. Social science research now provides indisputable evidence that expressive writing is also healing. In this remarkable collection, eight leading… Shares: Creative writing, Rhetoric, English language

Encyclopedia of rhetoric and composition Theresa Enos · 1996 · 832p · ≈ 27h · Moderate This reference guide surveys the field, covering rhetoric's principles, concepts, applications, practical tools, and major thinkers. Rhetoric is increasingly studied in the context of other disciplines, such as anthropology, linguistics, philosophy, psychology, and pedagogy, because its well-established rules and time-honored methods are useful for developing modern communications and writing… Shares: Rhetoric, English language, Literary Criticism

Writing Fiction Janet Burroway · 1982 · ★ 4.1 · 397p · ≈ 13h · Moderate The most widely used and respected text in its field, Writing Fiction, 7e by novelists Janet Burroway and Elizabeth Stuckey-French guides the novice story writer from first inspiration to final revision by providing practical writing techniques and concrete examples. Written in a tone that is personal and non-prescriptive, the text encourages students to develop proficiency through each step of… Shares: Creative writing, Literary Criticism

An Experiment in Criticism C. S. Lewis · 1961 · ★ 4.2 · 142p · ≈ 4h · Moderate "Professor Lewis believed that literature exists above all for the joy of the reader and that books should be judged by the kind of reading they invite. He doubted the use of strictly evaluative criticism, especially its condemnations. Literary criticism is traditionally employed in judging books, and 'bad taste' is thought of as a taste for bad books. Professor Lewis' experiment consists in… Shares: Books and Reading, Literary Criticism

Autobiographical Writing and Identity in EFL Education Shizhou Yang · 2013 · 300p · ≈ 10h · Moderate The book explores the pedagogical potential of autobiographical writing in English-as-a-foreign language, approaching the topic from an educational, longitudinal, dialogical, and social perspective. Through a number of case studies, the author delineates four phases that EFL writers may experience in their identity construction processes, illustrating the complexity of EFL writers’ social… Shares: Rhetoric, English language

Essay Connection Lynn Z. Bloom · 1991 · 753p · ≈ 25h · Moderate Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Recipe reveals the surprising lessons that recipes teach, in addition to the obvious instructions on how to prepare a dish or perform a process. These include lessons in hospitality, friendship, community, family and ethnic heritage, tradition, nutrition, precision and order, invention and… Shares: Rhetoric, English language

Accidental Genius Mark Levy · 2010 · ★ 3.9 · 190p · ≈ 6h · Moderate "Mark Levy teaches readers a wonderful mental technology, freewriting, that helps you dive deep into your unconscious to discover treasures."—B. J. Bueno, coauthor of The Power of Cult Branding   When it comes to creating ideas, we hold ourselves back. That's because inside each of us is an internal editor whose job is to forever polish our thoughts so we sound smart and in control and so… Shares: Rhetoric, English language

Lectures on rhetoric and belles lettres Hugh Blair · 1783 · ★ 4.2 · 282p · ≈ 9h · Demanding "The lectures on rhetoric by Dr. Hugh Blair are too well known to require an extended introduction. They are based largely upon the system of Aristotle, and have served as the groundwork for many modern textbooks on this subject. In their original form they are too long for the use of present-day students, but in the condensed style in which they are presented in this book it is believed they… Shares: Rhetoric, English language

Coleridge and the armoury of the human mind Peter J. Kitson · 1991 · 128p · ≈ 4h · Moderate First published in 1991, this book collects a broad array of path-finding scholarship by specialists in Coleridge and Romantic literature on the subject of his prose. They range from broad appraisals of Coleridge’s own critical practises; demonstrations of the fecundity of his autobiography, the Biographia Literaria, for contemporaries; the effect of Milton and the radical polemicists of the… Shares: Prose, Literary Criticism

You have a point there Eric Partridge · 1953 · 230p · ≈ 7h · Moderate This standard work on punctuation has long been judged the foremost study of the subject. It reveals punctuation to be both an indispensable craft and an invaluable art - a friend, not an enemy. Shares: English language, Literary Criticism

Introducing English grammar David J. Young · 1984 · 126p · ≈ 4h · Moderate Introducing English Grammar provides a basic grounding in English grammar, without going into too much detail or theory, and will lay the foundation for further grammatical studies. David Young presents English grammar in a coherent and lively way. He dispels the popular notion among students that grammar is simply a set of dreary rules and argues for the importance of grammar in describing the… Shares: English language, Literary Criticism

Öteki renkler Orhan Pamuk · 1999 · ★ 4.0 · 448p · ≈ 14h · Moderate In the three decades that Nobel prize-winning author Orhan Pamuk has devoted himself to writing fiction, he has also produced scores of witty, moving, and provocative essays and articles. He engages the work of Nabokov, Kundera, Rushdie, and Vargas Llosa, among others, and he discusses his own books and writing process. We also learn how he lives, as he recounts his successful struggle to quit… Shares: Books and Reading, Literary Criticism

How to read literature like a professor Thomas C. Foster · 2002 · ★ 3.6 · 325p · ≈ 10h · Moderate What does it mean when a fictional hero takes a journey?. Shares a meal? Gets drenched in a sudden rain shower? Often, there is much more going on in a novel or poem than is readily visible on the surface—a symbol, maybe, that remains elusive, or an unexpected twist on a character—and there's that sneaking suspicion that the deeper meaning of a literary text keeps escaping you.In this practical… Shares: Books and Reading, Literary Criticism

The undergraduate essay Robin Sutton Harris · 1900 · 104p · ≈ 3h · Challenging Shares: Rhetoric, English language

Ways of reading David Bartholomae · 1987 · ★ 3.6 · 903p · ≈ 30h · Moderate A book of stories and essays by famous writers with comprehensive suggestions for in depth assignment topics for students. Authors included are Saul Bellow, John Berger, Raymond Carver, Robert Coles, Thomas Cottle, Stephen Klineberg, Annie Dillard, Dorothy Dinnerstein, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Stanley Fish, Paulo Freire, Sigmund Freud, Clifford Geertz, Thomas Kuhn, Joyce Carol Oates, Walker Percy,… Shares: Rhetoric, English language

Narrative fiction Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan · 1983 · 192p · ≈ 6h · Moderate What is a narrative? What is narrative fiction? How does it differ from other kinds of narrative? Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan provides a synthesis of contemporary approaches to narrative fiction, considering in particular Anglo-American New Criticism, Russian Formalism and French Structuralism. Shares: Rhetoric, Literary Criticism

The Secret Adversary Agatha Christie · 1922 · ★ 3.9 · 220p · ≈ 7h · Challenging Tommy Beresford and Prudence 'Tuppence' Cowley are young, in love… and flat broke. Just after Great War, there are few jobs available and the couple are desperately short of money. Restless for excitement, they decide to embark on a daring business scheme: Young Adventurers Ltd.—"willing to do anything, go anywhere." Hiring themselves out proves to be a smart move for the couple. In their first… Shares: Rhetoric, English language

A short guide to writing about literature Sylvan Barnet · 1968 · ★ 3.7 · 394p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Part of Longman's successful Short Guide Series, A Short Guide to Writing about Literature emphasizes writing as a process and incorporates new critical approaches to writing about literature. The twelfth edition continues to offer students sound advice on how to become critical thinkers and enrich their reading response through accessible, step-by-step instruction. This highly respected text is… Shares: Rhetoric, English language

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