Style and the Future of Composition Studies.

Style and the Future of Composition Studies.

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""Many college writing teachers operate under the belief that style refers to issues discussed in Strunk and White's outdated book, The Elements of Style. This view is challenged and offers theories and pedagogies from diverse perspectives helping teachers and students develop strateg...

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Main Author: Butler, Paul
Other Authors: Ray, Brian, Vanguri, Star Medzerian, Farmer, Frank
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago : Utah State University Press, 2020.
Subjects:
Literary style > Study and teaching.
English language > Style > Study and teaching.
Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Foreword | Frank Farmer
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Moving Forward with Style | Paul Butler, Brian Ray, and Star Medzerian Vanguri
  • Section 1: Style Mediates Relationships
  • 1. Cans of Worms: Tracing an Undergraduate Thesis-Writer's Style Knowledge over Time | Andrea R. Olinger
  • 2. "Here's What I Would Like for You to Know": Epistolary Style as an Invitation to Read and Write Metonymically | Melissa A. Goldthwaite
  • 3. "Clarity" Really Means Rhythm: Toward a Psychoanalytic Poetics of Prose | T. R. Johnson
  • 4. Erasmus in the Professional Writing Classroom: Workplace Genre, Designing and Writing for the Web, and the Future of Style | Tom Pace
  • Section 2: Style Conveys Identity
  • 5. The Stylized Portrayal of the Writing Life in Spike Jonze's Her | Cydney Alexis and Eric Leake
  • 6. Stance as Style: Toward a Framework for Analyzing Academic Language | Laura L. Aull and Zak Lancaster
  • 7. Looking Forward to a Nice, Stupid, Future Style. R U? | Jimmy Butts
  • 8. Metaphorical Translingualisms: The Hip-Hop Cipher as Stylistic Concept | Eric A. House
  • Section 3: Style Forms Strategy
  • 9. Expectations of Exaltation: Formal Sublimity as a Prolegomenon to Style's Unbounded Future | Jarron Slater
  • 10. Civil Style: Reexamining Discourse and Rhetorical Listening in Composition | Laura L. Aull
  • 11. Applied Legal Storytelling: Toward a Stylistics of Embodiment | Almas Khan
  • 12. What Style Can Add to Genre: Suggestions for Applying Stylistics to Disciplinary Writing | Anthony Box
  • Section 4: Style Creates and Transcends Boundaries
  • 13. Point of Departures: Composition and Creative Writing Studies' Shared Stylistic Values | Jon Udelson
  • 14. The Danger of Using Style to Determine Authorship: The Case of Luke and Acts | Mike Duncan
  • 15. Words, Words, Words, or Leveraging Lexis for a Pedagogy of Style | William T. FitzGerald
  • About the Authors
  • Index

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