Writing & Composition Books

New and Published Books

1. Digital Storytelling

   Capturing Lives, Creating Community

   By Joe Lambert

   Listen deeply. Tell stories. This is the mantra of the Center for Digital Storytelling (CDS) in Berkeley California, which, since 1998 has worked with nearly 1,000 organizations around the world and trained more than 15,000 people in the art of digital storytelling. In this revised...

   Published December 6th 2012 by Routledge
2. The Routledge Reader in Rhetorical Criticism

   Edited by Brian Ott, Greg Dickinson

   Bringing together 50 key readings on rhetorical criticism in a single accessible format, The Rhetorical Criticism Reader furnishes instructors with an ideal resource for teaching and practicing the art of rhetorical criticism. Unlike existing readers and textbooks, which rely on cookie-cutter...

   Published October 16th 2012 by Routledge
3. Report Writing for Readers with Little Time

   By Rien Elling, Bas A. Andeweg, Christine Swankhuizen, Jaap de Jong, Kim van der Linden

   Writing reports is a vital skill in many professions and roles across every sector. Despite this, the majority of reports generated in organizations tend to be difficult to read, dull and do not make the impact they should - either for the content or for the author. In this book, you will learn how...

   Published May 21st 2012 by Routledge
4. A Short History of Writing Instruction

   From Ancient Greece to Contemporary America, 3rd Edition

   Edited by James J. Murphy

   Short enough to be synoptic, yet long enough to be usefully detailed, A Short History of Writing Instruction is the ideal text for undergraduate courses and graduate seminars in rhetoric and composition. It preserves the legacy of writing instruction from antiquity to contemporary times with a...

   Published March 13th 2012 by Routledge
5. Ecology, Writing Theory, and New Media

   Writing Ecology

   Edited by Sidney Dobrin

   Series: Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication

   Moving beyond ecocomposition, this book galvanizes conversations in ecology and writing not with an eye toward homogenization, but with an agenda of firmly establishing the significance of writing research that intersects with ecology. It looks to establish ecological writing studies not just as a...

   Published December 21st 2011 by Routledge
6. The Radical Pedagogies of Socrates and Freire

   Ancient Rhetoric/Radical Praxis

   By Stephen Brown

   Series: Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication

   Situating contemporary critical praxis at the intersection of the social, the political, and the rhetorical, this book is a provocative inquiry into the teaching philosophies of Plato’s Socrates and Paulo Freire that has profound implications for contemporary education. Brown not only sheds new...

   Published October 23rd 2011 by Routledge
7. Integrity and Historical Research

   Edited by Tony Gibbons, Emily Sutherland

   Series: Routledge Approaches to History

   There have been serious debates between historians, novelists and filmmakers as to how best present historical narratives. When writers and filmmakers talk of using historical research with integrity, what exactly do they mean? Integrity and Historical Research examines this question in detail. The...

   Published August 24th 2011 by Routledge
8. Renewing Rhetoric's Relation to Composition

   Essays in Honor of Theresa Jarnagin Enos

   Edited by Shane Borrowman, Stuart Brown, Thomas Miller

   Renewing Rhetoric’s Relation to Composition comprehensively examines the development of rhetoric and composition, using the writings of Theresa Jarnagin Enos as points of departure for studies of broader trends. Chapters explore such topics as the historical relations of rhetoric and composition,...

   Published March 29th 2009 by Routledge