Crafting presence [electronic resource] : the American essay and the future of writing studies / Nicole B. Wallack.

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"Wallack illuminates the most important quality of the essay as a literary form: the writer's 'presence'. She demonstrates how accounting for presence provides a flexible and rigorous heuristic for reading that can help teach students not just writing skills, but writing practices"--Provided by publ...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Wallack, Nicole B. (Author)
Language:	English
Published:	Logan : Utah State University Press, [2017]
Subjects:	Essay > Authorship > Study and teaching (Higher) English language > Rhetoric > Study and teaching (Higher)
Online Access:	EBSCO eBooks: 2016 (EBSCO) eBook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost) – North America: 2016 (EBSCO)
Variant Title:	Crafting Presence: The American Essay and the Future of Writing Studies
Format:	Electronic eBook

Contents:

The genre of presence
Historical thinking in essays : crafting presence in the company of ghosts
Error and illumination : crafting reading presences
Crafting a self made of images in essay
Learning the essay.