Instructional Writing in English

Acknowledgments
In honour of Risto Hiltunen
Bruce Mitchell
Tabula gratulatoria
Approaching instructional writing in English
Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen, Janne Skaffari and Matti Peikola
Teaching by stories: Ælfric's instructive narratives
Brita Wårvik
The WOMANual: Ancrene Wisse on instruction
Janne Skaffari
Vague language in the medieval recipes of the Forme of Cury
Ruth Carroll
Instructional aspects of the calendar in later medieval England, with special reference to The John Rylands University Library MS English 80
Matti Peikola
Authority and instruction in two sixteenth-century medical dialogues
Irma Taavitsainen
"Proper to their sex": Letter-writing instruction and epistolary model dialogues in Henry Care's The Female Secretary
Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen
(Un)Becoming conduct: Cotton Mather's Ornaments for the Daughters of Zion and the Salem witchcraft crisis
Kathleen L. Doty
"Instruction with delight": The narrator's voice in John Newbery's early English children's books
Lydia Kokkola
Doing what the doctor said: Constructing an authoritative voice in William Buchan's Domestic Medicine
Ellen Valle
Instructional writing on English: What guides the textbook writer?
Paivi Pietila, Leena Taanila-Hall and Sonja Vainio
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