Writers Without Borders: Writing and Teaching Writing in Troubled Times

Lynn Z. Bloom Lauer Series in Rhetoric and Composition Edited by Thomas Rickert and Jennifer Bay Information and Pricing978-1-60235-059-5 (paperback; $27.00 ); 978-1-60235-060-1 (hardcover; $55.00); 978-1-60235-061-8 (PDF, $9.99), © 2008 by Parlor Press. 244 pages with notes, appendices, bibliography, and index Bookstores: Order by fax, mail, or phone. See our "Sales and Ordering Page" for details. About This Book In Writers Without Borders: Writing and Teaching Writing in Troubled Times, Lynn Z. Bloom presents groundbreaking research on the nature of essays and on the political, philosophical, ethical, and pragmatic considerations that influence how we read, write, and teach them in times troubled by terrorism, transgressive students, and uses and abuses of the Internet. Writers Without Borders reinforces Bloom’s reputation for presenting innovative and sophisticated research with a writer’s art and a teacher’s heart. Each of the eleven essays addresses in its own way the essay itse