Wing Tang Wong

asin: 1602350507 binding: Paperback list price: $32.00 USD amazon price: $32.00 USD

Combining formal quantitative research with narrative-based scholarship, THE PROMISE AND PERILS OF WRITING PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION represents multiple voices from faculty balancing between the demands of teaching, writing, and administering writing programs in professional, ethical ways-often under circumstances that can be defined, at best, as difficult. In these pages, junior faculty tell their stories of triumph and trauma, while more firmly established composition scholars reflect upon the changing and challenging profession we all share.  read more »

author: Richard Johnson-Sheehan Sam Dragga asin: 0205326897 binding: Paperback list price: $64.40 USD amazon price: $57.96 USD

Writing Proposals offers a comprehensive approach to proposal development which is often not found in other books on the subject. Chapters place the steps for developing an effective proposal in a rhetorical context, building a coherent approach to persuasive writing. Offers readers visual thinking strategies, encouraging them to tap into their own abilities to visualize complex situations and imagine solutions. Provides strategies for using the Internet to collect information toward writing proposals, including key word and topic tree search techniques.  read more »

author: Jay Conrad Levinson Rick Frishman Michael Larsen asin: 089879983X binding: Paperback list price: $14.99 USD amazon price: $10.19 USD

There are writers who would be horrified at the tactics laid out in Guerrilla Marketing for Writers, perhaps because marketing oneself as one might a commodity is at odds with the artistic temperament. Alas, those writers are unlikely to find themselves at the helm of such publishing fleets as the Chicken Soup or, well, Guerrilla Marketing series. HarperCollins publishes 1,200 books a year, according to the authors of Guerrilla Marketing for Writers. Is there a snowball's chance in hell that their publicity department can adequately promote all of them?  read more »

On The Matter of "Cruft"

For those who know me, I have a habit of building out a sizable online footprint, then after a year or so, just retract them back, save for a handful, which I migrate or rebuild. Part of this exercise is due to hosting migrations, but part of it is to clear out "cruft" that builds up on my sites.

By cruft, I mean... posts which really don't add much value to the site, for me, or for people visiting and reading the site.

However, what survives has a tendency to be improved upon, even if it seems worse off at first.

This site is a new site. :) So thankfully, it has no bar by which it is being judged.

However, my other blogging sites do have a history.. and a good deal of "cruft".  read more »