This is a study which focuses on the central role of language on people's lives. It directs students to a deeper critical understanding of their own and others' use of language. It begins with an exploration of previous language experiences in the home, community, pre-college schooling, and then in higher education, professional life and civic life. The text includes explorations of popular culture and literary language.

Living Languages: Contexts for Reading and Writing

Reference

Diogenes, Marvin

Moneyhun, Clyde

Buffington, Nancy

Words, Language & Grammar

PRENTICE/HALL

Laughing Matters showcases how a range of contemporary writers including Jon Stewart and David Sedaris craft persuasive arguments, using humor to make their case while entertaining the reader.

Laughing Matters, A Longman Topics Reader

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Pearson

This anthology of 58 articles, interviews, memoirs, and critical and personal essays gives students convenient and affordable access to a wide variety of important selections that discuss the theory and practice of fiction writing. The readings are accompanied by questions that encourage critical reading, as well as writing activities that invite creative responses. A compact writing workshop included guides students in drafting and revising their stories.

Crafting Fiction: In Theory, In Practice

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

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