Rhetoric
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Don Quijote de la Mancha
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus
You can write a mystery
Arguments in rhetoric against Quintilian
A Brief Guide to Writing from Readings
Smart Thinking
The language of composition
Heracles' Bow
Effective reading and writing for COMM 170 and beyond
Writing Fiction
Refining composition skills
Reading and writing for civic literacy
A complete dictionary of the English language
The Grammar of Empire in Eighteenth-Century British Writing
Storytelling in Northern Zambia
Style
Fields of Reading
English Matters
"They Say / I Say"--third edition
The English studies book
Creating writers
Reading writing
Συμπόσιον / Φαῖδρος
The anatomy of the novel
Microstyle
Dreams and inward journeys
Darwin's pharmacy
Write to be read
Body talk
Revising prose
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