Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. In honour of Risto Hiltunen ix
5. Tabula gratulatoria xi
6. Approaching instructional writing in English 1
7. Teaching by stories: Ælfric's instructive narratives 13
8. The WOMANual: Ancrene Wisse on instruction 35
9. Vague language in the medieval recipes of the Forme of Cury 55
10. Instructional aspects of the calendar in later medieval England, with special reference to The John Rylands University Library MS English 80 83
11. Authority and instruction in two sixteenth-century medical dialogues 105
12. "Proper to their sex": Letter-writing instruction and epistolary model dialogues in Henry Care's The Female Secretary 125
13. (Un)Becoming conduct: Cotton Mather's Ornaments for the Daughters of Zion and the Salem witchcraft crisis 141
14. "Instruction with delight": The narrator's voice in John Newbery's early English children's books 161
15. Doing what the doctor said: Constructing an authoritative voice in William Buchan's Domestic Medicine 187
16. Instructional writing on English: What guides the textbook writer? 211
17. Index 233