TY - BOOK AU - Wallack,Nicole B. TI - Crafting presence: the American essay and the future of writing studies SN - 9781607325345 (softcover : alk. paper) AV - PE1471 .W35 2017 U1 - 808.4 23 PY - 2017///] CY - Logan PB - Utah State University Press KW - Essay KW - Authorship KW - Study and teaching (Higher) KW - English language KW - Rhetoric N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-219) 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 N2 - "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 ER -