Crafting presence the American essay and the future of writing studies /
Nicole B. Wallack.
- Logan : Utah State University Press, (c)2016.
- 1 online resource
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
"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 publisher.
9781607325352
English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching (Higher) Essay--Authorship--Study and teaching (Higher)