Writing Books

New and Published Books

1. English for Journalists

   Twentieth Anniversary Edition

   By Wynford Hicks

   Series: Media Skills

   English for Journalists has established itself in newsrooms the world over as an invaluable guide to the basics of English and to those aspects of writing, such as reporting speech, house style and jargon, which are specific to the language of journalism. Written in a highly accessible and engaging...

   Published May 20th 2013 by Routledge
2. Journalism of Ideas

   Brainstorming, Developing, and Selling Stories in the Digital Age

   By Daniel Reimold

   Journalism of Ideas is a comprehensive field guide for brainstorming, discovering, reporting, digitizing, and pitching news, opinion, and feature stories within journalism 2.0. With on-the-job advice from professional journalists, activities to sharpen your multimedia reporting skills, and dozens...

   Published April 23rd 2013 by Routledge
3. L2 Writing in Secondary Classrooms

   Student Experiences, Academic Issues, and Teacher Education

   Edited by Luciana C. de Oliveira, Tony Silva

   Series: ESL & Applied Linguistics Professional Series

   Second language writers and the teaching of writing at the secondary level have received little attention compared with other skills such as reading. Addressing this gap, this volume uniquely looks at both adolescent L2 writing and the preparation of secondary teachers to work with this population...

   Published March 24th 2013 by Routledge
4. International Life Writing

   Memory and Identity in Global Context

   Edited by Paul Longley Arthur

   Representing the best of international life writing scholarship, this collection reveals extraordinary stories of remarkable lives. These wide-ranging accounts span the Americas, Britain, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia and the Pacific over a period of more than two centuries. Showing fascinating...

   Published March 3rd 2013 by Routledge
5. 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
6. 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
7. 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
8. 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
9. 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
10. 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