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University of Michigan Press (Imprint)

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The Imaginary Present

Essays in Quantum Poetics

By Amy Catanzano
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Writing, Essay and Interview
Series: Poets on Poetry

Exploring the questions of the universe through poetry and science

Hold Me Down

By Ben Lauren
Subjects: Writing, Music, Music Composition
Series: Music and Social Justice

How the concept of feel is used to write songs

Corpse Crusaders

The Zombie in American Comics

By Chera Kee
Subjects: American Studies, Media Studies, New Media, Literary Studies, American Literature, History, American History, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Writing, Race and Ethnicity

Unearthing the undead stalking the panels of action/adventure and superhero comics

The Next Draft

Inspiring Craft Talks from the Rainier Writing Workshop

Edited by Brenda Miller
Subjects: Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Essay and Interview, Writing
Series: Writers on Writing

Essays inspiring readers to take an innovative approach to writing

Millions of Suns

On Writing and Life

By M. C. Benner Dixon & Sharon Fagan McDermott
Subjects: Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Writing
Series: Writers on Writing

Invites all writers to share their own perspective

To Go Into the Words

By Norman Finkelstein
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Essay and Interview, Writing
Series: Poets on Poetry

A critical look at transcendence and a radical delight with language

The Violence of the Letter

Toward a Theory of Writing

By Melanie McMahon
Subjects: Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Writing, Cultural Studies

The alphabet's devastating consequences for humanity

Becoming a Social Science Researcher

Quest and Context

By Bruce Parrott
Subjects: Writing, Education, Higher Education

The philosophical, sociological, and psychological dimensions of research

Going to the Tigers

Essays and Exhortations

By Robert Cohen
Subjects: Writing, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory
Series: Writers on Writing

The art of fiction, uncaged

On Burning Ground

Thirty Years of Thinking About Poetry

By Sandra Gilbert
Subjects: Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Literary Criticism and Theory, Writing
Series: Poets on Poetry

A Braided Heart

Essays on Writing and Form

By Brenda Miller
Subjects: Literary Studies, Essay and Interview, Writing
Series: Writers on Writing

An accessible and personable guide to writing creative nonfiction

Writing Workflows

Beyond Word Processing

By Tim Lockridge & Derek Van Ittersum
Subjects: Writing, Media Studies, New Media
Series: Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative

A study of how writing tools and the writing process shape each other

Rhetorical Code Studies

Discovering Arguments in and around Code

By Kevin Brock
Subjects: Writing, Composition, Digital Projects
Series: Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative

An exploration of software code as meaningful communication through which amateur and professional software developers construct arguments—Winner of the 2017 DRC Book Prize!

Developing Writers in Higher Education

A Longitudinal Study

By Anne Ruggles Gere
Subjects: Education, Higher Education, Composition, Digital Projects, Writing
Series: Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative

A comprehensive study offers new perspectives on college students’ writerly development across their undergraduate years

A Player and a Gentleman

The Diary of Harry Watkins, Nineteenth-Century U.S. American Actor

Edited by Amy E. Hughes & Naomi J. Stubbs
Subjects: Theater and Performance, History, American History, Biography, Writing

Recaptures antebellum history by tracing the journey of actor and prodigious journal-keeper Harry Watkins

Making Space

Writing Instruction, Infrastructure, and Multiliteracies

By James P. Purdy & Dànielle Nicole DeVoss
Subjects: Digital Projects, Writing
Series: Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative

An inventive collection that explores how the design of spaces —physical, digital, infrastructural, and pedagogical—affects writing research and writing instruction

The Fanfiction Reader

Folk Tales for the Digital Age

By Francesca Coppa
Subjects: Media Studies, Writing, Literary Studies, Gender Studies, Race and Ethnicity

The first ever fanfiction reader framed to emphasize fanfiction's unique transformative nature and continuity with other storytelling traditions.

Rhizcomics

Rhetoric, Technology, and New Media Composition

By Jason Helms
Subjects: Digital Projects, Writing
Series: Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative

An exploration of presymbolic rhetoricity across comics and other media in an innovative, interactive form

Web Writing

Why and How for Liberal Arts Teaching and Learning

Edited by Jack Dougherty & Tennyson O'Donnell
Subjects: Writing, Digital Projects
Series: Digital Humanities

Teaching writing across the curriculum with online tools

Dear Wizard

The Letters of Nicholas Delbanco and Jon Manchip White

By Nicholas Delbanco
Subjects: Memoir, Literary Studies, Writing

A belletristic personal correspondence and contest of extravagant and amusing letterhead

Yes, There Will Be Singing

By Marilyn Krysl
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Writing, Memoir
Series: Poets on Poetry

A powerful collection of essays that ruminates on poetry’s profound spiritual and healing possibilities

Making News at The New York Times

By Nikki Usher
Subjects: Writing, Cultural Studies, Media Studies, Journalism, New Media
Series: The New Media World

An ethnographic study of The New York Times’ business desk provides a unique vantage point to see the future for news in the digital age

The Rag-Picker's Guide to Poetry

Poems, Poets, Process

Edited by Eleanor Wilner & Maurice Manning
Subjects: Writing, Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism

A collection of essays and poems by 35 distinguished poets, illuminating the processes of conceiving, drafting, and revising their work

A Poet's Ear

A Handbook of Meter and Form

By Annie Ridley Crane Finch
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Writing

An in-depth handbook for the advanced student of poetry

Hacking the Academy

New Approaches to Scholarship and Teaching from Digital Humanities

By Daniel J. Cohen & Joseph Thomas Scheinfeldt
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Writing, Media Studies, New Media
Series: Digital Humanities

An exploration of ongoing efforts to rebuild scholarly infrastructure

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