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Character, Scene, and Story

New Tools from the Dramatic Writer's Companion

Will Dunne

University of Chicago Press, 2017

Will Dunne first brought the workshop experience down to the desk level with The Dramatic Writer’s Companion, offering practical exercises to help playwrights and screenwriters work through the problems that arise in developing their scripts. Now writers looking to further enhance their storytelling process can turn to Character, Scene, and Story.

Featuring forty-two new workshop-tested exercises, this sequel to The Dramatic Writer’s Companion allows writers to dig deeper into their scripts by fleshing out images, exploring characters from an emotional perspective, tapping the power of color and sense memory to trigger ideas, and trying other visceral techniques. The guide also includes a troubleshooting section to help tackle problem scenes. Writers with scripts already in progress will find they can think deeper about their characters and stories. And those who are just beginning to write will find the guidance they need to discover their best starting point. The guide is filled with hundreds of examples, many of which have been developed as both plays and films.

Character, Scene, and Story is fully aligned with the new edition of The Dramatic Writer’s Companion, with cross-references between related exercises so that writers have the option to explore a given topic in more depth. While both guides can stand alone, together they give writers more than one hundred tools to develop more vivid characters and craft stronger scripts.

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Clear Grammar 2, 2nd Edition

Keys to Grammar for English Language Learners

Keith S. Folse

University of Michigan Press, 2012

Clear Grammaris a four-level grammar series that features a unique combination of useful grammar information written in clear language with activities that promote more accurate and fluent vocabulary usage, writing, speaking, and reading.

Important features of all four new editions of Clear Grammarinclude:

More user-friendly charts to accompany grammar explanations
High-frequency, corpus-based vocabulary related to each grammar point
Grammar discovery tasks using students’ inductive learning skills
A greater variety and increased number of activities, including more practice online
Many more activities at the longer discourse level
The addition of reading practice at the end of the unit, as well a critical-reading task
More writing practice, including one on editing student writing and another for original student writing
Two vocabulary practice activities, including a focus on collocations, in each unit, as well as many one-minute mini lessons showing the connection between grammar and vocabulary
More speaking practice, with activities that require students to speak and listen to each other while using the target grammar

Support for teachers in the form of indicators that reference how to teach the grammar points in the Clear Grammar series from Keys to Teaching Grammar for English Language Learners by Keith S. Folse (978-0-472-03220-4).

Clear Grammar 2offers students and teachers a solid introduction to low-intermediate grammar.
Clear Grammar 2, 2nd Ed., includes

* Articles

* Past tense of irregular verbs

* Present perfect tense

* Adverbs of frequency

* Nouns used as adjectives

* Object pronouns

* Past progressive tense

* One and Other

* Possessives
*Comparatives and superlatives
*Modals

The book's companion website includes the additional grammar/vocabulary activities that are referenced in the textbook.

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Clear Grammar 4, 2nd Edition

Keys to Advanced ESL Grammar

Keith S. Folse, Deborah Mitchell, Barbara Smith-Palinkas, and Donna Tortorella

University of Michigan Press, 2013

Clear Grammar 4 introduces advanced grammar. Clear Grammar 4, 2nd Ed., includes

Subject-verb agreement
Word forms
Past perfect tense
Conditionals
Adverb clauses
Noun clauses
Reduction of adjective and adverb clauses (including appositives)
Past modals
Review of verb tenses

Clear Grammar 4 concludes with a review of this volume’s contents of advanced grammar points.

Clear Grammar is a four-level grammar series that features a unique combination of useful grammar information written in clear language with activities that promote more accurate and fluent writing, speaking, reading, and vocabulary usage. Important features of the new editions of Clear Grammar include:

More user-friendly charts to accompany grammar explanations
High-frequency, corpus-informed vocabulary related to each grammar point
Grammar discovery tasks using students’ inductive learning skills
A greater variety and more activities, including practice online (www.press.umich.edu/esl/compsite/cleargrammar/)
Many more activities at the longer discourse level
The addition of reading practice at the end, plus a critical-reading task
More writing practice, including one on editing student writing and another for original student writing
Two vocabulary practice activities per unit, with one on collocations; plus many one-minute lessons showing the connection between grammar and vocabulary
More speaking practice, with activities that require students to speak and listen to each other while using the target grammar
Support for teachers in the form of indicators that reference how to teach the grammar points in the Clear Grammar series from Keys to Teaching Grammar for English Language Learners by Keith S. Folse (978-0-472-03220-4).

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Commentary for Academic Writing for Graduate Students, 2d ed.

Essential Tasks and Skills

John M. Swales and Christine B. Feak

University of Michigan Press, 2004

The second edition of this successful guide to writing for graduate-and undergraduate-students has been modified to include updates and replacements of older data sets; an increased range of disciplines with tasks such as nursing, marketing, and art history; discussions of discourse analysis; a broader discussion of e-mail use that includes current e-mail practices.

Like its predecessor, this edition of Academic Writing for Graduate Students
"explains understanding the intended audience, the purpose of the paper, and academic genres.
"includes the use of task-based methodology, analytic group discussion, and genre consciousness-raising.
"shows how to write summaries and critiques.
"features "language focus" sections that address linguistic elements as they affect the wider rhetorical objectives.
"helps students position themselves as junior scholars in their academic communities.

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Commentary for Academic Writing for Graduate Students, 3rd Ed.

Essential Tasks and Skills

John M. Swales & Christine B. Feak

University of Michigan Press, 2012

The Commentary for the third edition of this successful guide to writing has been revised and expanded in many ways to provide more support for instructors; this includes additional tasks for Units Two and Four to supplement the main text. However, the collegial tone established in previous Commentaries between Swales & Feak and instructors has been retained.

This volume contains commentaries on each of the eight units plus the two appendixes. The format for each unit includes

a summary of the main points of the unit along with a list of topics covered.
a synopsis of activities, divided into Language Focus sections and description of tasks.
some general notes designed to capture the character of the unit, to indicate alternative activities, or to anticipate problems that may arise.
detailed commentary and discussion of individual tasks, including model or sample answers where possible.

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Crafting Compositions

Tools for Today's Writers

Janet Giannotti

University of Michigan Press, 2004

Crafting Compositions guides students through the entire writing process, with exercises in planning, drafting, responding and revising, and polishing. In addition to completing free writing exercises, keeping a journal of informal responses, and revising sample compositions, students will draft, revise, and edit one composition per chapter.

The textbook features:
"Authentic readings to foster vocabulary development, show successful techniques, and serve as a jumping-off point for free writing.
"A "learning log" in which students write to practice the writing lessons and tips presented.
"A two-track system in which students simultaneously work with the writing of other students as they work on their own compositions.
"Toolbox mini-lessons to review common grammar trouble spots.

This mid-level writing text is appropriate for high school, community college, or university course

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Creating Contexts

Writing Introductions across Genres

Christine B. Feak & John M. Swales

University of Michigan Press, 2011

Research article introductions are central to Creating Contexts: Writing across Genres with the CaRS (creating a research space) model used as a starting point. This volume focuses on introductions for other kinds of texts that are also part of the graduate student writing experience such as course papers and critiques, proposals, and dissertations.

This volume represents a revision and expansion of the material on introductions that appeared in English in Today's Research World.

The material presented in this volume is appropriate for graduate students and others already working in their chosen academic fields. The material has, in fact, been used with each of these groups in both writing courses and writing workshops. We believe that the material would also be suitable for those wishing to pursue a course of self-study. To target these different possible uses, we have included a variety of topics and tasks that we hope will deepen users’ understanding of how to create a writing context for their work. Tasks range from evaluating text commentaries to open-ended questions and have been designed to generate lively classroom or workshop discussion as well as thoughtful consideration by an individual user.

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