If at First You Don't Succeed?: Writing, Rhetoric, and the Question of Failure

Contributor(s): Corbett, Steven J (Editor)

ISBN: 9781646427352

Publisher: University Press of Colorado

Binding Types:

Paperback

$28.95

Digicover (1-4 copies)

$41.90 (Final Price)

Readerbound (5-99 copies)

$40.70 (100+ copies: $39.95)

List/retail price:

$28.95

Pub Date: October 15, 2025

Dewey: 808

LCCN: 2025000007

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Bibliography, Price on Product

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 0.55" H x 9.00" L x 6.00" W ( 0.73 lbs) 244 pages

BISAC Categories:

Language Arts and Disciplines | Rhetoric | Writing | Composition

Descriptions, Reviews, etc.

Description: What does it mean to fail at an important performance, to be a failure, or to fail someone at something? Failure is a universal concept widely applicable to every aspect of writing studies.

Review Quotes:

"An important and timely reminder that writing instruction cannot be, nor should it be, divorced from human feeling."

--Writing on the Edge

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