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Squeeze the Sponge: A No-Yawn Guide to College Writing

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Squeeze the Sponge uses Rhoda Janzen’s powerful, hilarious, and emotionally generous voice as a bestselling memoirist and award-winning professor to offer undergraduate students an inspirational writing guide. This indispensable textbook is replete with hands-on activities, seventy pages of grammar instruction, and memorable tips, examples, and analogies to help students refine their writing—in other words, “squeeze the sponge.” In Squeeze the Sponge , Janzen achieves something a textbook so lively and humorous that students will actually want to read it.

359 pages, Paperback

Published August 1, 2018

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Rhoda Janzen

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Rhoda Janzen is the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Mennonite in a Little Black Dress and the poetry collection Babel’s Stair. She teaches English and creative writing at Hope College in Holland, Michigan.

Rhoda Janzen holds a PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles, where she was the University of California Poet Laureate in 1994 and 1997. She is the author of Babel's Stair, a collection of poems, and her poems have also appeared in Poetry, The Yale Review, The Gettysburg Review, and The Southern Review.

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I had to read this for a class but I really enjoyed it! It is a lot different than a lot of other writing textbooks that I have had to read. Janzen really speaks to the reader and I actually learned a few things because I did not feel I was being lectured at.
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