About the Authors

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. Acknowledgments xv
5. Moving Forward With Style 3
6. Style Mediates Relationships
7. Cans of Worms 23
8. “Here’s What I Would Like For You To Know” 37
9. “Clarity” Really Means Rhythm 53
10. Erasmus in The Professional Writing Classroom 66
11. Style Conveys Identity
12. The Stylized Portrayal of the Writing Life in Spike Jonze’s Her 85
13. Stance As Style 89
14. Looking Forward to a Nice, Stupid, Future Style. R U? 114
15. Metaphorical Translingualisms 133
16. Style Forms Strategy
17. Expectations of Exaltation 147
18. Civil Style 160
19. Applied Legal Storytelling 173
20. What Style Can Add to Genre 185
21. Style Creates and Transcends Boundaries
22. Point of Departures 199
23. The Danger of Using Style to Determine Authorship 213
24. Words, Words, Words, or Leveraging Lexis for A Pedagogy of Style 227
25. About the Authors 245
26. Index 247