Books written by Sidney I. Dobrin

  • Natural Discourse: Toward Ecocomposition

    Other theorists, including Susan Wells and Irene Ward, have examined composition's desire for efficacious public writing — especially as it is invested in students — and have theorized ways to construct public spheres that students ...

  • Wild Things: Children's Culture and Ecocriticism

    Newcastle - upon - Tyne , England : Marshall Hall Associates , 1979 . Hanley , Keith . " The Discourse of Natural Beauty . ... Literature Association , 1985 , 221-32 . " Tread softly for you tread on my dreams ' 98 KAREN WELBERRY.

  • Ethnography Unbound: From Theory Shock to Critical Praxis

    In our ethnographic engagement with rural Nebraskans , we have each found this to be so . Those engagements have changed our identifications , both at the foundational level of who we feel ourselves to be and at the more public level of ...

  • Technical Communication in the Twenty-First Century: International Edition

    This text features a wealth of interesting examples, applications, and cases that engage the student and demonstrate both effective and flawed communication.

  • Technical Communications in the 21st Century

    A built-in Gradetracker allows students and instructors to track student results. Access card also includes access to a complete E-Book of Dobrin's Technical Communications in the 21st Century, 2nd Edition.

  • Writing Posthumanism, Posthuman Writing

    Sean Morey is an Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Professional Communication at Clemson University, where he teaches writing and digital media in the Department of English. His research focuses on developing theories of writing at ...

  • Writing Situations

    Bridge from everyday writing to writing in any situation. College students write regularly in personal and social settings, but they often find it challenging to transition successfully to academic contexts....

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    Author Sid Dobrin presents a rhetorical situation both nuanced and practical, grounded not only in audience, purpose, and context but also impacted by medium, methodology, and relationships among stakeholders.

  • Writing Situations

    Writing Situations provides a framework and a process for students to apply to any writing project and any situation. 0321866150 / 9780321866158 Writing Situations, Brief Edition Plus MyWritingLab with eText -- Access Card Package Package ...

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    Author Sid Dobrin presents a rhetorical situation both nuanced and practical, grounded not only in audience, purpose, and context but also impacted by medium, methodology, and relationships among stakeholders.

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    Author Sid Dobrin presents a rhetorical situation both nuanced and practical, grounded not only in audience, purpose, and context but also impacted by medium, methodology, and relationships among stakeholders.

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    Author Sid Dobrin presents a rhetorical situation both nuanced and practical, grounded not only in audience, purpose, and context but also impacted by medium, methodology, and relationships among stakeholders.

  • Composition Theory for the Postmodern Classroom

    Walter Benjamin In an interview soon to be published in theJournal ofAdvanced Composition, Gary Olson responded to a claim I made about the close relation between the teaching of reading and the teaching of writing by pointing out that ...

  • Writing Posthumanism, Posthuman Writing

    Black Bodies and Quantum Cats: Tales from The Annals of Physics. New York: Penguin, 2005. Print. Said, Edward. Orientalism. New York: Pantheon. 1978. Print. Sayre, Kenneth M. Cybernetics and the Philosophy of Mind.

  • A Closer Look: The Writer's Reader

    Organized alphabetically by author, A Closer Look is a unique composition reader that features 84 essays by 21 of the most important writers of our time. The focus of the...

  • EcoComix: Essays on the Environment in Comics and Graphic Novels

    We3's three- dimensional movements in and out of panel sequences coupled with their narrative of escape suggests a feral quality to We3's behaviors because these creatures are free from convention and control.

  • Writing Environments

    Writing Natural History An Interview with Ann Zwinger For the past thirty years , Ann Zwinger has been recognized as one of the most important natural history writers writing in America . Her writing is often exciting , though marked ...

  • Natural Discourse: Toward Ecocomposition

    “Nature/Writing: Literature, Ecology, and Composition.”JAC:AJournal of Composition Theory 17 (1997): 401–414. ———. Dramas of Solitude: Narratives of Retreat in American Nature Writing. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998.

  • Mediating Nature: The Role of Technology in Ecological Literacy

    Scholarship in environmental communication has focused almost exclusively on verbal rather than visual rhetoric, and this book engages ecocritical and ecocompositional inquiry to shift focus onto the making of images.

  • Writing Environments

    In Porter's Rhetorical Ethics and Internetworked Writing , he is specifically concerned with ethical rhetorics that do not " derive from print assumptions " ( 1 ) , and with understanding " values and language use as inextricably ...