Stanly Community College Library: English 111 Writing & Inquiry: e-books

Writing Type eBooks (Selected)

Arguments, Aggression, and Conflict
The book features an exclusive focus on two "aggressive communication" traits: argumentativeness and verbal aggressiveness, one of the most dominant areas of communication research over the last twenty-five years both nationally and internationally.
Controversy and Confrontation
The essays that are collected in Controversy and Confrontation provide a closer insight into the relationship between controversy and confrontation that deepens our understanding of the functioning of argumentative discourse in managing differences of opinion.
Exploring Argumentative Contexts
In Exploring Argumentative Contexts Frans H. van Eemeren and Bart Garssen bring together a broad variety of essays examining argumentation as it occurs in seven communicative domains: the political context, the historical context, the legal context, the academic context, the medical context, the media context, and the financial context.
Expository and Argumentative Eureka
Argumentative Eureka features the best of model expository and argumentative stories written by English Language and Literature specialist, Diana Tham. Through her essays, as well as works by her students, Diana shows students how to apply model structures and writing techniques to their own writing, providing them with strategies that will help to crystallize their ideas and realize their potential.

Description in Literature and Other Media
The volume opens with a detailed introductory essay, which aims at clarifying the descriptive as a basic semiotic form of organizing signs from a theoretical perspective but also provides a first overview of the uses of description as well as its problematics in fiction, painting and instrumental music.
Reference Grammars and Modern Linguistic Theory
The series will continue to deliver new impulses for research and maintain the central insight of linguistics that progress can only be made in acquiring new knowledge about human languages both synchronically and diachronically by closely combining empirical and theoretical analyses.
Writing for Understanding
Written specifically for non-language arts teachers, this resource focuses on using writing as an instructional tool to deepen and expand student understanding in the content areas.

Exemplars
The book is organized around the six key traits of good writing: relevant and appropriate content organization that includes a logical beginning, middle, and end sentence variety that adds interest word choice that indicates an awareness of purpose and audience an original and honest voice an understanding of spelling, punctuation, and usage.
Writing for Understanding
Written specifically for non-language arts teachers, this resource focuses on using writing as an instructional tool to deepen and expand student understanding in the content areas.
Writing with Power
From students and teachers to novelists and poets, Writing with Power reminds us that we can celebrate the uses of mystery, chaos, non-planning, and magic, while achieving analysis, conscious control, explicitness, and care in whatever it is we set down on paper.

Me-Search and Re-Search
This eye-catching title also illuminates the authors'intent to turn this seemingly intimidating method of self-inquiry into something very accessible and doable. Their jargon-free language is friendly and inviting. Although they don't intend to make their many methodological tips and tools too prescriptive, their practical suggestions provided in this guidebook are, indeed, helpful and useful.
The Memoir and the Memoirist
The memoir is the most popular and expressive literary form of our time. Writers embrace the memoir and readers devour it, propelling many memoirs by relative unknowns to the top of the best-seller list. Writing programs challenge authors to disclose themselves in personal narrative. Memoir and personal narrative urge writers to face the intimacies of the self and ask what is true.
Readers Writing
When faced with a blank page in their readers'notebooks, students often fall back on what is familiar: summarizing. Despite our best efforts to model through comprehension strategies what good readers do, many students struggle to transfer this knowledge and make it their own when writing independently about books.
Telling Stories
Telling Stories is intended for anyone interested in thinking more about the elements of storytelling in short stories, novels, and memoirs. Martin clearly delineates helpful and practical techniques for demystifying the writing process and provides tools for perfecting the art of the scene, characterization, detail, point of view, language, and revision—in short, the art of writing.

Can I Change Your Mind?
These days, we all need the ability to argue a case effectively inwriting. Engaging, entertaining and-as you'd expect-highly persuasive, "Can I Change Your Mind?" will change the way you think about the words you use forever.
How to Write Persuasively Today
Standard five-paragraph essays. Advertising copy. Opinion pieces, articles, sermons, and presentations. Persuasive written communication exists in many forms.
Thank You for Arguing
Thank You for Arguing is for you. Warm, witty, erudite, and truly enlightening, it not only teaches you how to recognize a paralipsis when you hear it, but also how to wield the weapons of persuasion the next time you really, really, want to get your own way.