by Randall A. Wells (1998)
Like a physical workout, Stretch limbers up the writing joints. Its seven chapters each focus on one assignment: The Informal Essay, the Meditation, the Story, Technical Instructions, Other Exposition, Direct Persuasion, and Indirect Persuasion. This stimulating variety helps the student expand his or her range of motion as a writer. Each chapter provides a motivating introduction, a warm-up, a professional model of writing, two student models, practical instruction, abundant topic possibilities, hints for revision, a set of optional writing challenges, and a poem (or song lyrics) illustrating a major idea of the chapter in a striking way.
Wendell Johnson
One of the fundamental books on Semantics along with S.I.Hayakawa's Language in thought and action and Stuart Chase's Tyranny of Words, Folklore of Capitalizm and Science and Sanity. Must read for understanding of how language is used in understanding things, news, views, analsis etc
photographs by James Baker Hall
"A photo near the end of Tobacco Harvest: An Elegy shows a crew of workers, looking weary but satisfied, leaving the barn after another long day of harvesting tobacco. As Wendell Berry says in his essay, these Henry County, Kentucky, neighbors gathered together whenever any of them needed the help of the others. This time-honored practice of swapping work was, Berry writes, "a good way to get work done" and "a good way to live."" "A meditation on the shifting nature of humans' relationships with the land and with each other, Berry's essay laments the economic, political, and societal changes that have forever altered Kentucky's rich agricultural traditions. Berry also adds a deeply personal perspective to Hall's visual testimony. With a farm of his own nearby, Berry was a longtime friend and neighbor of the families shown in Hall's pictures and took part in their work swapping. In addition to detailing the repetitive, strenuous labor involved in harvesting a tobacco crop, he relates memories of stories told, laughs shared, meals savored, and brief moments of rest and refreshment well earned." "Hall's photographs illuminate the characters and events that Berry describes. During the 1973 harvest, he photographed the rows stretching toward the horizon while laborers cut a tobacco crop, one plant at a time, until the last row was cut, hauled, and housed in the barn. These photographs convey the physical experiences of a Kentucky tobacco harvest: the heat of the sun, the dirt, and the people hard at work."--BOOK JACKET.
Nicole Johns
Purge is a beautifully crafted memoir that has a Girl, Interrupted feel. In this raw and engaging account of her months in rehab, Nicole Johns documents her stay in a residential treatment facility for eating disorders. Her prose is lucid and vivid, as she seamlessly switches verb tenses and moves through time. She unearths several important themes: body image and sexuality, sexual assault and relationships, and the struggle to piece together one's path in life. While other books about eating disorders and treatment may sugarcoat the harsh realities of living with and recovering from an eating.
Annemarie Mol en Peter van Lieshout
Wijsgerig-historische studie over de geschiedenis van en veranderingen in het taalgebruik in de huisartsengeneeskunde en de geestelijke gezondheidszorg.