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Alice Mary Kennedy Lynch diary
Negative photostats of diary kept in former roll book (1856, Intermediate Dept., North Beach School, San Francisco). Accounts (1863-1864) for Tierra Redonda, her husband's sheep ranch in San Luis Obispo Co., included.
The Rhetorical Construction of Vegetarianism
This book explores themes in the rhetoric of vegetarian discourse. A vegan practice may help mitigate crises such as climate change, global health challenges, and sharpening socioeconomic disparities, by ensuring both fairness in the treatment of animals and food justice for marginalized populations. How the message is spread is crucial for these aims. Vegan practices thus uncover tensions between individual dietary choices and social justice activism, between ego and eco, between human and animal, between capitalism and environmentalism, and within the larger universe of theoretical and practical ethics. The chapters apply rhetorical methodologies to understand vegan/vegetarian discourse, e...
Dialectical Rhetoric
In Dialectical Rhetoric, Bruce McComiskey argues that the historical conflict between rhetoric and dialectic can be overcome in ways useful to both composition theory and the composition classroom. Historically, dialectic has taken two forms in relation to rhetoric. First, it has been the logical development of linear propositions leading to necessary conclusions, a one-dimensional form that was the counterpart of rhetorics in which philosophical, metaphysical, and scientific truths were conveyed with as little cognitive interference from language as possible. Second, dialectic has been the topical development of opposed arguments on controversial issues and the judgment of their relative st...
Signposts
Towards a comprehensive and functional descriptive grammar of writing for students of English as a Second Language – Assistance in developing general English language foundations – Broad-based reference and study materials for English writing grammar – Presentation of useful information in the context of academic writing projects including journal articles and college course papers
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Center Will Hold
Introduction : tracing the growth of a scholarly community / Michael A. Pemberton and Joyce Kinkead -- The writing lab newsletter as history : tracing the growth of a scholarly community / Michael A. Pemberton -- In the spirit of service : making writing center research a "featured character" / Nancy M. Grimm -- Writing center assessment : searching for the "proof" of our effectiveness / Neal Lerner -- Separation, initiation and return : tutor training manuals and writing center lore / Harvey Kail -- Power and authority in peer tutoring / Peter Carino -- Breathing lessons, or Collaboration is / Michele Eodice -- (Re) shaping the profession : graduate courses in writing center theory, practice, and administration / Rebecca Jackson, Carrie Leverenz, Joe Law -- Administration across the curriculum : or Practicing what we preach / Josephine A. Koster -- An ideal writing center : re-imagining space and design / Leslie Hadfield ... [et al.] -- Mentoring in electronic spaces : using resources to sustain relationships / James A. Inman and Donna M. Sewell.
The Scott, Foresman Handbook for Writers
The Scott, Foresman Handbook for Writers, 6e continues its tradition of innovation with ground-breaking coverage of grading, service learning, document design, and research. Already the most imitated book in its field, SFH/6e becomes the first handbook to offer a full chapter on Evaluating Writing, covering both traditional and portfolio systems of grading. The new chapter answers many of the questions about grading principles, criteria and procedures that instructors face every term. There's more, too, in this edition about the kinds of writing more and more college writers are doing in their professional and civic lives or in service-learning courses. Already a leader in technology, SFH no...
Academic Writing Consulting and WAC
This book provides theoretical models and practical methods for helping writing teachers and writing program administrators within postsecondary institutions conduct the interdisciplinary, collaborative consulting activities that are common with formal and information writing across the curriculum (WAC) programs. It specifically discusses how to conduct the day-to-day work of negotiating close working partnerships with faculty in other disciplines and is the first book length treatment to do so. The book deepens current understandings of how writing specialist collaborate with non-writing specialists in academic contexts and provides a map for structuring successful collaborations in the future.
