The ideal book for the AP* English Language course. The Language of Composition is the first textbook built from the ground up to help students succeed in the new AP English Language course.
Since the eighteenth century, most of our great moralists have at one time or another turned their attention to the language, from Addison, Swift, and Johnson to Arnold, James, Shaw, Mencken, and Orwell. In their essays and in the great ...
Written by a team of experts with experience in both high school and college, this text focuses on teaching students the skills they need to read, write, and think at the college level.
The nine chapters comprising part 1 of the collection focus on the origins of the “English only” bias dominating U.S. composition classes and present alternative methods of teaching and research that challenge this monolingualism.
Cover all the essential content and prepare students for the AP English Language and Composition exam through a perfect blend of engaging nonfiction readings, written by both classic and contemporary writers, and practical writing ...
Compared to their contemporaries ashore, able-bodied seamen in the Franklin Expedition — thanks to Barrow's foresight — ate and drank quite well. Contrary to myth, a seaman wasn't surviving on weevil-filled hardtack and putrid water.
The Language of Composition: Reading, Writing, Rhetoric
In the Archives of Composition offers new and revisionary narratives of composition and rhetoric’s history.
The book is divided into two parts: the first part of the text teaches students the skills they need for success in an AP Literature course, and the second part is a collection of thematic chapters of literature with extensive apparatus and ...
The book is a practical, useful way of seriously engaging with alternative ways of thinking, doing, and learning academic English literacies.
Shipka analyzes the work of current scholars in multimodality and combines this with recent writing theory to create her own teaching framework.