Writing 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. How Journalism Uses History

   Edited by Martin Conboy

   Series: Journalism Studies

   How Journalism Uses History examines the various ways in which journalism uses history and historical sources in order to better understand the relationships between journalists, historians and journalism scholars. It highlights the ambiguous overlap between the role of the historian and that of...

   Published May 2nd 2012 by Routledge
3. 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
4. Academic Advancement in Composition Studies

   Scholarship, Publication, Promotion, Tenure

   Edited by Richard C. Gebhardt, Barbara Genelle Smith Gebhardt

   This volume deals with a number of related issues that are becoming increasingly crucial for English studies during this time when most faculty in the field are assistant professors approaching tenure review or associate professors seeking promotion. These critical issues focus on: * The diversity...

   Published December 11th 2011 by Routledge
5. Concepts in Composition

   Theory and Practice in the Teaching of Writing, 2nd Edition

   By Irene L. Clark

   Concepts in Composition: Theory and Practice in the Teaching of Writing is designed to foster reflection on how theory impacts practice, enabling prospective teachers to develop their own comprehensive and coherent conception of what writing is or should be and to consider how people learn to write...

   Published August 28th 2011 by Routledge
6. Journalism and Politics in Indonesia

   A Critical Biography of Mochtar Lubis (1922-2004) as Editor and Author

   By David T. Hill

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia

   Mochtar Lubis was one of Indonesia’s best-known newspaper editors, authors and cultural figures, with a national, regional and international prominence that he retained from the early 1950s until his recent death in 2004. This book traces the major events in the life of Mochtar Lubis, which is also...

   Published December 12th 2010 by Routledge
7. Writing for Broadcast Journalists

   2nd Edition

   By Rick Thompson

   Series: Media Skills

   'This is a superb book which combines the rare mixture of high quality information with humour. The style of writing engages the reader from the introduction and the experience and insight of the author occasionally makes it difficult to put down, a rare feature of a textbook. I would unreservedly...

   Published July 15th 2010 by Routledge
8. Writing for Digital Media

   By Brian Carroll

   Writing for Digital Media teaches students how to write effectively for online audiences—whether they are crafting a story for the website of a daily newspaper or a personal blog. The lessons and exercises in each chapter help students build a solid understanding of the ways that the Internet has...

   Published April 5th 2010 by Routledge
9. Official Portraits and Unofficial Counterportraits of At Risk Students

   Writing Spaces in Hard Times

   By Richard J. Meyer

   This book chronicles 5th and 6th grade writers - children of gang members, drug users, poor people, and non-documented and documented immigrants - in a rural school in the southwest US coming into their voices, cultivating those voices, and using those voices in a variety of venues, beginning with...

   Published October 29th 2009 by Routledge
10. Professional Feature Writing

    5th Edition

    By Bruce Garrison

    Series: Routledge Communication Series

    Professional Feature Writing provides the basics of news media feature writing and establishes a solid foundation for students and writers making feature writing their career. This fifth edition offers a thorough and up-to-date look at newspaper, magazine, newsletter, and online publications, with...

    Published October 13th 2009 by Routledge