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Max Hueber Verlag Deutsch uben: Wortschatz & Grammatik C1
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Cornelsen Verlag GmbH & Co Gezielt fordern 7./8. Schuljahr Arbeitsheft
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Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht Kreatives Und Therapeutisches Schreiben: Ein
Book SynopsisSchreiben ist eine wunderbare Methode, Gedanken zu ordnen und GefÃhle zu klÃren.
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Books on Demand Das Handbuch zu deinem Roman: Von der Idee bis in den Laden
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Brill U Schoningh Von Der Idee Zum Text: Eine Anleitung Zum
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Columbia University Press Brevity
Book SynopsisDavid Galef provides a guide to writing flash fiction, from tips on technique to samples by canonical and contemporary authors to provocative prompts that inspire powerful stories in a little space. Brevity is an indispensable resource for anyone working in this increasingly popular form.Trade ReviewIf I had to choose just one book for my class in writing flash fiction, it would be this one. Practical, direct, wonderful examples, fun to read-if this book doesn't energize your writing, nothing will. -- Robert Shapard, coeditor of Sudden Fiction: American Short-Short Stories Brevity represents a useful addition to the range of current creative writing texts, combining an anthology of flash fiction with an analysis of the subcategories within the form and writing exercises that will inspire students. Galef's witty, welcoming tone will appeal to beginning and intermediate writers. Often, I felt so inspired by the prompts that I wanted to sit down at my computer and try the exercises myself. -- Eileen Pollack, author of A Perfect Life: A Novel Brevity is a thorough introduction to the form, offering a variety of strategies for composition, as well as a wide-ranging, international anthology linked to each chapter's focus. A relentlessly generative, eclectic, instructive, entertaining, and motivational text. -- Michael Martone, author of The Flatness and Other Landscapes Galef is an excellent writer, and the book throughout is a delight-he makes the reader want to immediately start writing... He provides deft insights and suggestions on editing... and he suggests techniques that work well when applied to a small text. Best of all, each chapter provides examples of great flash fiction-from authors as different as Saki and Steve Martin-as well as ideas for readers to explore. Publishers WeeklyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments A Short Introduction Vignettes. Readings: Colette: "The Other Wife"; Isaac Babel: "An Incident on the Nevsky Prospekt" Character Sketches. Readings: L. E. Leone: "The Argument for a Shotgun"; Josefina Estrada: "The Extravagant Behavior of the Naked Woman" Letters. Readings: Yasunari Kawabata: "Canaries"; Phil Karasik: "Mickey the Dog Phones Home" Diary Entries. Readings: Will Stanton: "Barney"; Mark Budman: "The Diary of a Salaryman" Lists. Readings: Sei Shonagon: "Annoying Things"; Steve Martin: "Disgruntled Former Lexicographer" Fables. Readings: Anonymous: Untitled; Raphael Dagold: "The Two Rats and the BB Gun" Anecdotes. Reading: The peasant and the genie Prose Poems. Readings: Yusef Komunyakaa: "Nude Interrogation"; Len Kuntz: "Story Problems" Soliloquies, Rants, Riffs, and Themes. Readings: Christine Byl: "Hey, Jess McCafferty"; John Edgar Wideman: "Witness" Perfect Miniatures. Readings: John Collier: "The Chaser"; Jeffrey Whitmore: "Bedtime Story" Intermission: Cutting Down. Bruce Taylor: "Exercise" Surrealism. Readings: Richard Brautigan: "A Need for Gardens"; Donald Barthelme: "The Baby" What If? Readings: Wayland Hilton-Young: "The Choice"; Dicky Murphy: "The Magician's Umbrella" Genre. Readings: Roxane Gay: "The Mistress of Baby Breath"; Tara Orchard: "My Love" Setting. Readings: Bharati Mukherjee: "Courtly Vision"; Alice Walker: "The Flowers" Twists. Readings: Luisa Valenzuela: "Vision Out of the Corner of One Eye"; Saki: "The Open Window" Two Viewpoints. Readings: Robert Schipits: "Dialogue Between Two Teenagers, One Interested in Cars and One Not"; Ryan Ridge: "Shaky Hands & All" Mass Compression. Readings: Bruce Holland Rogers: "Dinosaur"; Susan O'Neill: "Memento Mori" Metafiction. Readings: Ptim Callan: "Story"; Jorge Luis Borges: "Borges and I" Vanishing Point. Readings: Merilee Faber: "We came around the corner"; Dean Clayton Edwards: "It was pretending"; Davian Aw: "She raised the glass"; Augusto Monterroso: "The Dinosaur" The Future Conclusion Bibliography Permissions Index
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Indiana University Press Sailing the Inland Sea On Writing Literature and
Book SynopsisCalling on the image of the Midwest's vanished inland sea, the author presents a collection of essays that ponder writing and the "landlocked imagination." The essays range from interviews with Indiana writers Kurt Vonnegut, Scott Sanders, Marguerite Young, and others, to discussions on techniques grounded in a Midwestern sensibility.Trade ReviewA native Hoosier, Neville celebrates place and her home state's considerable contributions to the literary world. The essays are eclectic, engaging, and entertaining. . . . Highly recommended for all libraries with large collections on creative writing and for all libraries in the Midwest. * Library Journal *Table of ContentsContentsIntroduction1. On the Banks of Lost River2. Where the Landscape Moved Like Waves: An Interview with Marguerite Young 3. River of Spirit: An Interview with Dan Wakefield 4. Sacred Space in Ordinary Time 5. Quaker Zen: On Jessamyn West's Friendly Persuasion 6. Vonnegut: An Interview with Kurt Vonnegut 7. Free Singers/Be: On Etheridge Knight 8. On Wildness and Domesticity: An Interview with Scott Russell Sanders 9. The Gospel According to Lish10. Imagination 11. On Being Fierce 12. Monopoly Houses: On John McPhee's In Search of Marvin Gardens 13. Sailing the Sea in New Harmony Indiana: On Digression in Creative Nonfiction 14. Driving Famous Writers Around I465 15. Leaping Across the Canyon: On Writing 16. Where's Iago? 17. Saturation: On Climate, Politics, and Sex in Magic Mountain and Snow Country (or the Ballad of the S.A.D. Café) 18. Time Capsules: On Time in Willa Cather's Death Comes for the Archbishop 19. The Apprenticeship of Flannery O'Connor 20. The Gift of Fire: A Meditation on Art and Madness 21. On Common Ground: Indiana Literature and the Land 22. The Economy of Peace
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Yale University Press A Writing Guide for Learners of Chinese Museum of
Book SynopsisAn accessible guide to writing Chinese at the intermediate levelTrade Review“A solid book for training students at intermediate and advanced-low levels to develop their writing skills in specific genres.”—Yang Wang, Brown University“The work is important and practical. Students will benefit from the models and the vocabulary introduced.”—Hong Li, Emory University"Learners of Chinese naturally accumulate vocabulary from the text models and draw practical tips from the templates and prompts before crafting their own writing, making this detailed guide truly user-friendly."—Rose Wang, Wheaton College
£28.50
WW Norton & Co FLASH
Book SynopsisAn engaging and frank guide to writing the very short story, full of sound advice, exemplary models and provocative exercises.Trade Review"FLASH! Writing the Very Short Story by John Dufresne identifies the qualities that make for excellent flash fiction and guides would-be writers with exercises and examples through the world of the very short story. A perfect guide for any writer interested in trying this popular form." -- Writers' Forum magazine
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John Wiley & Sons Inc The Complete Guide to Writing Producing
Book SynopsisA step-by-step guide through the entire process of preparing andpublishing high-quality technical manuals The Complete Guide to Writing and Producing Technical Manuals showsthe reader how to create clear, well-organized technical manualsfor any equipment, simple or complex. Requiring no specializedbackground knowledge, this unique guide lays out all the aspects ofthe job--from initial concept to final publication. The authordraws on more than twenty-five years'' experience as a technicianand technical writer to provide authoritative, easy-to-followinstructions on how to organize detailed technical information intoa finished, high-quality technical manual. Major topics include: * Planning procedures for technical manuals * Manual types and arrangements, including operation manuals,maintenance and repair instructions, illustrated parts lists, andmore * Layout and format, including sample page layouts * Writing style and technical editing techniques *Table of ContentsTechnical Writing as a Career. Technical Manuals and Handbooks. Planning a Technical Manual. Publishing Systems. Layout and Format. Manual Writing Style. Preparing a Manual Specification. Front Matter and Introductory Material. Illustrations. Table Preparation. Operation. Maintenance and Repair Instructions. Illustrated Parts Breakdown. Appendixes and Addenda. Amending Manuals. Preparing Camera-Ready Copy. Printing and Binding. The Technical Editor. A Technical Handbook Department--From Concept to Operation. Appendices. Glossary of Technical Terms. Bibliography. Index.
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Writing Reports to Get Results
Book SynopsisThe professional''s quick-reference handbook for writing business and technical reports Professionals in business, government, and technical fields often need help in organizing and writing reports for associates, clients, and managers. This simple tutorial handbook offers expert tips and useful ideas for organizing ideas, structuring reports, and adding spice to technical papers. Writing Reports to Get Results offers in-depth guidance for writing: short, informal reports, such as job progress reports and inspection reports semiformal reports, such as laboratory and medium-length investigation and evaluation reports formal reports, such as analytical and feasibility studies and major investigations technical and business proposals of varying complexity The authors use a simple pyramid method to help writers organize their information into the most convenient and simplest structure for any type of documTrade Review"...designed for people who work in a business or technical environment and have to write reports...plans are designed to assist managers, business administrators, researchers, supervisors, scientists, and students in writing more readily and...easily." (Clinical Leadership & Management Review, January/February 2002)Table of ContentsPreface xi Part I A Practical Approach to Report Writing 1 1 How to Use These Guidelines 2 2 The Report Writer’s Pyramid 4 Getting Started 4 Identifying the Reader 5 Identifying the Message 6 Using the Pyramid Method 7 Focusing the Message 8 Developing the Details 10 Expanding the Details Section 13 Part 2 Informal Reports 17 3 Incident, Field Trip, and Inspection Reports 18 Incident Reports 18 Incident Report: Reporting a Project Delay 20 Field Trip Reports 22 Trip Report No. 1: Reporting an Installation 24 Trip Report No. 2: Reporting a Site Evaluation 26 Reporting Conference Attendance 26 Inspection Reports 28 Inspection Report No. 1: Inspecting a Contractor’s Work 32 Inspection Report No. 2: Inspecting Electronic Equipment 34 4 Progress Reports, Project Completion Reports, and Short Investigation Reports 38 Progress Reports 38 Occasional Progress Report 40 Progress Report No. 1: Occasional Progress Report 42 Periodic Progress Report 44 Progress Report No. 2: Periodic Progress Report 45 Headings and Paragraph Numbering 49 Project Completion Report 49 Project Completion Report: Reporting a Project Is Finished 50 Short Investigation Reports 52 Short Investigation Report: Correcting an Electrical Problem 53 Part 3 Semiformal Reports and Proposals 55 5 Test and Laboratory Reports 56 Industrial Laboratory Reports 56 Industrial Laboratory Report: Testing a Water Stage Manometer and Digital Recorder 58 Academic Laboratory Reports 67 6 Investigation and Evaluation Reports 69 Semiformal Investigation Report: Study of High Gas Consumption 70 Comparison between Semiformal and Letter-Form Investigation Reports 80 7 Suggestions and Proposals 84 Informal Suggestions 85 Informal Suggestion: Proposal for a Study 86 Semiformal Proposals 86 Proposals That Present an Idea 88 Semiformal Proposal No, 1: Proposal to Install Videoconference Facilities in Three Capilano Group Divisions 90 Proposals That Offer a Service 105 Semiformal Proposal No. 2: Offering to Provide a Service 106 The Formal Proposal 117 Letter of Transmittal 119 Summary 119 Introduction 119 Description of Work, Problem, and Situation 119 Approach to Doing Work, Resolving Problem, or Improving Situation 119 Organization and Planning 119 Exceptions 120 Price Proposal 120 Experience 120 Appendixes 120 Proposal Appearance 120 Part 4 Formal Reports 121 8 The Formal Report 122 Traditional Arrangement of Report Parts 122 Alternative Arrangement of Report Parts 124 Analysis of a Formal Report 125 Cover Letter 125 Title Page 128 Summary 130 Table of Contents 132 Introduction 134 Discussion 136 Conclusions 146 Recommendations 148 References/Bibliography 148 Appendix 150 Dan Rogerson’s Report Writing Sequence 154 Part 5 Report Writing Techniques and Methods 155 9 Appearance and Format of Memorandum, Letter, and Semiformal Reports 156 Sample Reports 158 Notes about Figures 9‒2 and 9‒3 158 Notes about Figure 9‒4 161 Improving the Body of the Report 162 Redesigning the Page 162 Choosing a Font 162 Justifying Text Only on the Left 164 Avoiding All Caps 164 Using Tables to Display Information 164 10 Developing a Writing Style 166 Get the Focus Right 166 Identify the Reader 167 Identify the Purpose 167 Write to Inform 168 Write to Persuade 168 Be Direct 168 Use the Pyramid Structure 169 Write in the First Person 170 Use the Active Voice 172 Avoid “Clutter” 174 Use Simple Words 174 Remove Words of Low Information Content 175 Eliminate Overworked Expressions 177 Avoiding Gender-specific Language 178 Be Consistent When Referring to Men and Women 178 11 Whiting a List of References or a Bibliography 180 How to Write References 181 Bibliographies 186 Footnotes 187 Planning for Reference/Bibliography Entries 189 12 Inserting Illustrations into Reports 190 Some General Guidelines 191 Using Computer Software to Produce Graphics 191 Tables 192 Graphs 193 Bar Charts 197 Histograms 199 Surface Charts 200 Pie Charts 201 Flowcharts, Site Plans, and Line Diagrams 202 Photographs 204 The Size and Position of Illustrations 204 13 Guidelines for Spelling and Handling Abbreviations and Numbers 206 Spelling 206 Abbreviations 207 Numbers 208 Metric (SI) Units 209 References 209 14 The Report Writing Process 210 Preparing to Write 210 Organizing the Information 212 Writing the Words (Draft) 214 Editing the Information 216 Initial Proofreading 216 Detailed Editing 217 Revising the Text 220 Doing a Second (or Subsequent) Edit 220 Obtaining an Objective Opinion 220 15 Guidelines for Working with a Report Production Team 222 Working with Management 223 Working with Other Writers 223 Using Email to Communicate with Others 225 Working with Illustrators, Draftspersons, and Graphic Artists 226 Working with a Printer 227 Index 229
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Psychological Reports A Guide to Report Writing
Book SynopsisProvides a systematic approach to writing psychological reports for optimal clarity, thoroughness, and impact A clinical report should have all the clarity and precision of a military dispatch. Unfortunately, as anyone who deals with psychological reports knows, this is almost never the case.Table of ContentsResearch on Reports. The Implicit Contract Between Reader and Writer. The Expository Process Model. Reporting Models and Linguistic Styles. The Report in Context. Organization and Content of the Report. Special Problems in the Specialties. Existing Research and Future Needs. Appendices. Glossary. References. Index.
£89.06
John Wiley & Sons Inc The Consultants Guide to Proprosal Writing How to
Book SynopsisThe essential guide to proposal writing for business consultants just got better. It has been updated and revised to include up-to-the-minute information on writing the most effective proposals. New to this edition are chapters on marketing on the Internet, which includes tips on using e-mail and web sites, and a chapter on desktop publishing.Table of ContentsAn Orientation in Proposals. What It Takes to Write a Good Proposal. The Development of Effective Strategies. Some Basics of Sales and Marketing. Gathering Market Intelligence. In the Beginning. Program Design. Writing, Communication, and Persuasion. Special Presentation Guides and Strategies. Graphics. The Executive Summary (and Other Front Matter). Common Problems and Ideas for Solutions. Miscellaneous Important Information for Proposal Writing. Index.
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Writing and Speaking in the Technology
Book SynopsisAn updated edition of the classic guide to technical communication Consider that 20 to 50 percent of a technology professional's time is spent communicating with others. Whether writing a memo, preparing a set of procedures, or making an oral presentation, effective communication is vital to your professional success.Trade Review"I wish I had known of this publication years ago. It would have made the growth of a professional career less chaotic and better organized...highly recommended to all professionals..." (Journal of Veterinary and Human Toxicology, Vol. 45, No. 5, October 2003)Table of ContentsPreface xiii PART I Getting Started: Writing the First Drafts Can Engineers Write? 3 IEEE Trans. Prof. Comm. PC-27(1) March 1984 Joan Knapp Preparing to Write the Document: A Worksheet for Situational Analysis in the Workplace 7 IEEE Trans. Prof. Comm. PC-27(1) March 1990 Ronald J. Nelson Issue Trees: A Tool to Aid the Engineering Writer 12 IEEE Trans. Prof. Comm. PC-37(2) June 1994 Joan Temple Dennett and Michael Hseih Ready, Aim—Write! 21 IEEE Trans. Prof. Comm. PC-31(1) March 1988 Ruth C. Savakinas Beginnings and Endings: Keys to Better Engineering Technical Writing 24 IEEE Trans. Prof. Comm. PC-40(4) December 1997 Marcia Martens Pierson and Bion L. Pierson Could You Be Clearer? An Examination of the Multiple Perspectives of Clarity 30 IEEE Trans. Prof. Comm. PC-35(2) June 1992 Ronald E. Dulek The Grammar Instinct 34 IEEE Trans. Prof. Comm. PC-45(2) June 2002 Alan D. Manning Comparing the Two Cultures in Technical Writing 39 IEEE Trans. Prof. Comm. PC-34(2) June 1991 Don Bush PART II Construction and Content: Putting Documents Together Creating a Doc Spec 45 IEEE Trans. Prof. Comm. PC-42(2) June 1999 Liz Wing Write a Good Technical Report 49 IEEE Trans. Prof. Comm. PC-27(1) March 1984 Gael D. Ulrich How to Avoid the Transitional Ax in Indirect Bad News Messages 55 IEEE Trans. Prof. Comm. PC-34(1) March 1991 Thomas L.Wiseman Job Hunting: Sharpening Your Competitive Edge 5 IEEE Trans. Prof. Comm. PC-27(4) December 1984 Ron S. Blicq How to Write a Recommendation 6 IEEE Trans. Prof. Comm. PC-27(4) December 1984 Alan D. Wilcox Some Guidance on Preparing Technical Articles for Publication 7 IEEE Trans. Prof. Comm. PC-32(1) March 1989 Richard Manley, Judith Graham, and Ralph Baxter Today’s Style Guide:Trusted Tool with Added Potential 8 IEEE Trans. Prof. Comm. PC-41(1) March 1998 Jane Perkins and Cassandra Maloney “Professional Communication” and the “Odor of Mendacity”: The Persistent Suspicion that Skillful Writing is Successful Lying 8 IEEE Trans. Prof. Comm. PC-38(3) September 1995 Edmond H. Weiss PART III Text and Graphics: Presenting Information Visually Editing Visual Media 97 IEEE Trans. Prof. Comm. PC-41(1) March 1998 Thomas R. Williams and Deborah A. Harkus Visual Discriminability of Headings in Text 110 IEEE Trans. Prof. Comm. PC-35(2) June 1992 Thomas R. Williams and Jan H. Spyridakis Choosing the Right Graph 117 IEEE Trans. Prof. Comm. PC-45(1) March 2002 Jean-Luc Doumont and Philippe Vandenbroek Table Construction: Do’s and Don’ts 123 IEEE Trans. Prof. Comm. PC-32(1) March 1989 Eva Dukes Safety Labels: What to Put in Them, How to Write Them, and Where to Place Them 128 IEEE Trans. Prof. Comm. PC-30(3) September 1987 Christopher Velotta Editing Math: What to Do with the Symbols 134 IEEE Trans. Prof. Comm. PC-33(3) June 1990 Barry W. Burton Displaying Scientific Graphics on Computer 138 IEEE Trans. Prof. Comm. PC-40(2) June 1997 Janet E. Lincoln and Donald L. Monk PART IV Manuals and Procedures: Giving Directions that Work Designing and Writing Operating Manuals 155 IEEE Trans. Prof. Comm. PC-27(1) March 1984 Lidia Lopinto Manual Dexterity—What Makes Instructional Manuals Usable 158 IEEE Trans. Prof. Comm. PC-27(2) June 1984 James P. Gleason and Joan P. Wackerman Selecting and Switching: Some Advantages of Diagrams Over Tables and Lists for Presenting Instructions 161 IEEE Trans. Prof. Comm. PC-41(4) December 1998 Angelique Boekelder and Michael Steehouder Using a Structured Design Analysis To Simplify Complex In-House Computer Manuals 174 IEEE Trans. Prof. Comm. PC-35(1) March 1992 John S. Craig Single-Source Manuals 180 IEEE Trans. Prof. Comm. PC-37(2) June 1994 Gary Bist The Effects of Screen Captures in Manuals: A Textual and Two Visual Manuals Compared 187 IEEE Trans. Prof. Comm. PC-42(2) June 1999 Mark Gellevij, Hans van der Meij, Ton deJong, and Jules Pieters The User Edit: Making Manuals Easier to Use 202 IEEE Trans. Prof. Comm. PC-24(1) March 1981 Marshall A. Atlas PART V Proposals: Writing to Win the Customer Fifteen Questions to Help You Write Winning Proposals 207 IEEE Trans. Prof. Comm. PC-26(2) June 1983 T. M. Georges The Short Proposal:Versatile Tool for Communicating Corporate Culture in Competitive Climates 208 IEEE Trans. Prof. Comm. PC-32(2) June 1989 Bernard E. Budish and Richard L. Sandhusen Technical Writing and Illustrating Strategies for Winning Government Contracts 213 IEEE Trans. Prof. Comm. PC-28(2) June 1992 Robert B. Greenly Storyboarding Can Help Your Proposal 219 IEEE Trans. Prof. Comm. PC-32(1) March 1989 Robert A. Barakat Developing Winning Proposal Strategies 225 IEEE Trans. Prof. Comm. PC-34(3) September 1991 Robert A. Barakat Clarification Questions That Work 235 IEEE Trans. Prof. Comm. PC-31(2) June 1988 Annette D. Reilly Proposals: Write to Win 238 IEEE Trans. Prof. Comm. PC-26(2) June 1983 Clark E. Beck Broadening Employment Horizons:Transferring Proposal Writing Skills from For-Profit to Nonprofit Organizations 240 IEEE Trans. Prof. Comm. PC-39(2) June 1996 Sherry Shebley Hamilton PART VI Revising and Editing: Refining Your Documents Theory and Practice of Editing Processes in Technical Communication 247 IEEE Trans. Prof. Comm. PC-28(1) March 1985 Roger E. Masse When the Basics Aren’t Enough: Finding a Comprehensive Editor 256 IEEE Trans. Prof. Comm. PC-37(3) September 1994 Laurel K. Grove Collaborative Writing in the Workplace 260 IEEE Trans. Prof. Comm. PC-32(3) September 1989 Charles R. Stratton Reverse Engineering: The Outline As Document Restructuring Tool 265 IEEE Trans. Prof. Comm. PC-29(3) September 1986 Dietrich Rathjens How Writing Helps R&D Work 271 IEEE Trans. Prof. Comm. PC-30(2) June 1987 Herbert B. Michaelson The Paradox of Revision: A Study of Writing as a Product in the Revision of Manuals 271 IEEE Trans. Prof. Comm. PC-39(1) March 1996 Alice I. Philbin and Melissa M. Spirek Online Editing: Mark-Up Models and the Workplace Lives of Editors and Writers 279 IEEE Trans. Prof. Comm. PC-38(3) June 1995 David K. Farkas and Steven E. Poltrock PART VII Oral Presentations: Speaking Effectively to Groups A Quick and Easy Strategy for Organizing a Speech 289 IEEE Trans. Prof. Comm. PC-33(3) September 1990 Richard A. Lindeborg A Good Speech is Worth a Thousand (Written) Words 293 IEEE Trans. Prof. Comm. PC-27(1) March 1984 Bert Decker The Engineering Presentation—Some Ideas on How to Approach and Present It 296 IEEE Trans. Prof. Comm. PC-26(4) December 1983 Ronald C. Rosenburg Authenticity Beats Eloquence 299 IEEE Trans. Prof. Comm. PC-30(2) June 1987 Susan Dressel and Joe Chew Handling a Hostile Audience—With Your Eyes 301 IEEE Trans. Prof. Comm. PC-32(1) March 1989 Gilda Carle Improving Oral Marketing Presentations in the Technology-Based Company 304 IEEE Trans. Prof. Comm. PC-31(2) June 1988 Michael F. Warlum Illustrations in Oral Presentations: Photographs 308 IEEE Trans. Prof. Comm. PC-41(3) September 1998 Thomas Walsh Producing a Video on a Technical Subject: A Guide 312 IEEE Trans. Prof. Comm. PC-36(2) June 1993 Danny Dowhal, Gary Bist, Peter Kohlman, Stan Musker, and Heather Rogers PART VIII Listening, Meeting, and Teamwork:Working with Others to Get Results You Haven’t Heard a Word I Said: Getting Managers to Listen 323 IEEE Trans. Prof. Comm. PC-37(1) March 1994 Jo Procter Becoming an Effective Listener 326 IEEE Trans. Prof. Comm. PC-23(2) June 1980 Marion E. Haynes Toward Better Meetings: A Psychologist’s View 330 IEEE Trans. Prof. Comm. PC-24(3) September 1981 Eugene Raudsepp Presenting the Successful Technical Seminar 333 IEEE Trans. Prof. Comm. PC-26(1) March 1983 Thomas Ealey Project Characteristics and Group Communication: An Investigation 336 IEEE Trans. Prof. Comm. PC-45(2) June 2002 Tom L. Roberts, Paul H. Cheney, and Paul D. Sweeney Between Silence and Voice: Communicating in Cross-Functional Project Teams 351 IEEE Trans. Prof. Comm. PC-34(1) March 1991 Linda Loehr A Dialogue Technique to Enhance Electronic Communication in Virtual Teams 357 IEEE Trans. Prof. Comm. PC-43(2) June 2000 Bernard C. Y. Tan, Kwok-Kee Wei, Wayne W. Huang, and Guet-Ngoh Ng Videoconferencing as a Communication Tool 370 IEEE Trans. Prof. Comm. PC-40(1) March 1997 Jan A. Sprey PART IX Global Communication: Conveying Meaning Internationally World Language Status Does Not Ensure World Class Usage 379 IEEE Trans. Prof. Comm. PC-35(1) March 1992 Joann T. Dennett English Language Education for Specific Professional Needs 380 IEEE Trans. Prof. Comm. PC-44(3) September 2001 Thomas Orr When Culture and Rhetoric Contrast: Examining English as the International Language of Technical Communication 385 IEEE Trans. Prof. Comm. PC-42(4) December 1999 Kirk St. Amant The Organization of Japanese Expository Passages 389 IEEE Trans. Prof. Comm. PC-42(3) September 1999 Waka Fukuoka and Jan H. Spyridakis Measuring the Translatability of Simplified English in Procedural Documents 398 IEEE Trans. Prof. Comm. PC-40(1) March 1997 Jan H. Spyridakis, Heather Holmback, and Serena K. Shubert Babel in Document Design: The Evaluation of Multilingual Texts 407 IEEE Trans. Prof. Comm. PC-43(3) September 2000 Leo Lentz and Jacquelin Hulst Aligning International Editing Efforts with Global Business Strategies 417 IEEE Trans. Prof. Comm. PC-35(2) June 1992 Carol Leininger and Rue Yuan Tackling the Needs of Foreign Academic Writers: A Case Study 425 IEEE Trans. Prof. Comm. PC-40(1) March 1997 Shimona Kushner PART X The Internet: Making the Most of Cyberspace Stylistic Guidelines for E-Mail 433 IEEE Trans. Prof. Comm. PC-77(4) December 1994 Renee B. Horowitz and Marian G. Barchilon “Who’s Reading My E-Mail?” A Study of Professionals’ E-Mail Usage and Privacy Perceptions in the Workplace 439 IEEE Trans. Prof. Comm. PC-40(1) March 1997 Patricia A. Chociey Customer Partnering: Data Gathering For Complex On-Line Documentation 446 IEEE Trans. Prof. Comm. PC-40(2) June 1997 JoAnn T. Hackos, Molly Hammar, and Arthur Elser Challenges in Developing Research-Based Web Design Guidelines 455 IEEE Trans. Prof. Comm. PC-43(3) September 2000 Mary B. Evans The Web and Corporate Communication: Potentials and Pitfalls 466 IEEE Trans. Prof. Comm. PC-39(1) March 1996 Gary Ritzenthaler and David H. Ostroff Editing A Web Site: Extending the Levels of Edit 473 IEEE Trans. Prof. Comm. PC-41(1) March 1998 Steven L. Anderson, Charles P. Campbell, Nancy Hindle, Jonathan Price, and Randall Scasny Web Accessibility for People with Disabilities: An Introduction for Web Developers 484 IEEE Trans. Prof. Comm. PC-44(4) December 2001 Jeff Carter and Mike Markel A Conceptual Framework for International Web Design 493 IEEE Trans. Prof. Comm. PC-44(2) June 2001 Fatemah M. Zahedi, William V. Van Pelt, and Jaeki Song Index 515 About the Editor 519
£77.36
The University of Michigan Press Academic Interactions
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£18.95
The University of Michigan Press The ESL Writers Handbook 2nd Ed.
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£23.70
LUP - University of Michigan Press GenreBased Writing
Book SynopsisDefines genre and genre-based writing instruction and the five principles of a genre-based pedagogy. By discussing the genre-related practices and social and rhetorical aspects of genre, Christine Tardy is able to outline strategies for exploring rhetorical moves and playing with genre form in the classroom.
£12.95
Princeton University Press The Imaginative Argument
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Particularly helpful [and] offers sound suggestions. . . . [These] are pointers all writers can use."---Erika Dreifus, The Writer
£19.80
Princeton University Press Sacred Rhetoric The Christian Grand Style in the
Book Synopsis"There are no studies of a sacred grand style in the English Renaissance," writes Debora Shuger, "because even according to its practitioners it was not supposed to exist." Yet the grand style forms the unacknowledged center of traditional rhetorical theory. In this first history of the grand style, Professor Shuger explores the growth of a ChristiTable of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. vii*ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, pg. ix*INTRODUCTION, pg. 1*CHAPTER ONE. THE CHARACTERS OF STYLE FROM ANTIQUITY THROUGH THE MIDDLE AGES, pg. 14*CHAPTER TWO. THE HISTORY OF SACRED RHETORIC IN THE RENAISSANCE, pg. 55*CHAPTER THREE. RHETORIC, SOPHISTIC, AND PHILOSOPHY: THE LEGITIMATION OF PASSIONATE DISCOURSE, pg. 118*CHAPTER FOUR. HELLENISM AND HEBRAISM: THE DEVELOPMENT OF A NON-CICERONIAN GRAND STYLE, pg. 154*CHAPTER FIVE. GOD, SELF, AND PSYCHE: THE THEOLOGICAL BASES OF THE GRAND STYLE, pg. 193*CONCLUSION, pg. 241*APPENDIX. THE SEVEN IDEAS OF HERMOGENES, pg. 259*GLOSSARY OF RHETORICAL TERMS, pg. 261*BIBLIOGRAPHY, pg. 265*INDEX, pg. 283
£36.00
Princeton University Press Poetic and Legal Fiction in the Aristotelian
Book SynopsisWhen Philip Sidney defends poetry by defending the methods used by poets and lawyers alike, he relies on the traditional association between fiction and legal procedure--an association that begins with Aristotle. In this study Kathy Eden offers a new understanding of this tradition, from its origins in Aristotle's Poetics and De Anima, through itsTable of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. vii*Acknowledgments, pg. ix*Introduction, pg. 1*One. Legal Proof and Tragic Recognition: The Aristotelian Grounds of Discovery, pg. 7*Two. Poetry and Equity: Aristotle's Defense of Fiction, pg. 25*Three. Rhetoric and Psychology: The Aristotelian Foundations of the Poetic Image, pg. 62*Four. Image and Imitation: Aristotle's Contribution to a Christian Literary Theory, pg. 112*Appendix. Hamlet and the Reaches of Aristotelian Tragedy, pg. 176*Index, pg. 185
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John Wiley & Sons Inc AZ of Medical Writing
Book SynopsisThe purpose of this book is to help doctors and health professionals with their writing problems. It consists of several hundred topics, from the process of writing to authorship, and from the use of semi-colons to the law of late literals. These are arranged alphabetically with cross referencing.Trade Review"To conclude, having this volume to hand is essential if you want to revise your writing skills in those idle moments and be amused at the same time." (Sultan Qaboos University Medical Journal, December 2010)
£37.00
John Wiley & Sons Inc Scientific Writing
Book SynopsisThis comprehensive and practical book covers the basics of grammar as well as the broad brush issues such as writing a grant application and selling to your potential audience. The clear explanations are expanded and lightened with helpful examples and telling quotes from the giants of good writing. These experienced writers and teachers make scientific writing enjoyable.Table of ContentsIntroduction. Skinny writing. How to get into quadrant two and stay there. Back to basics. abstracts - getting it write! Journal articles. Report writing. Grantsmanship. References - what to cite and how to do it. Teaching writing skills.
£40.80
John Wiley & Sons Inc Because Writing Matters
Book SynopsisThis updated edition of the best-selling book Because Writing Matters reflects the most recent research and reports on the need for teaching writing, and it includes new sections on writing and English language learners, technology, and the writing process.Table of ContentsPreface ix The Authors xi INTRODUCTION Why Writing Matters 1 ONE Improving Student Writing: Challenges and Expectations 9 TWO Learning to Write 19 THREE Writing to Learn 43 FOUR Professional Development 57 FIVE Standards and Assessments for Writing 71 SIX What Administrators Can Do to Create Effective Writing Programs 87 Notes 105 Bibliography 115 Index 123
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MJ - Ohio University Press The Memoir and the Memoirist Reading and Writing
Book SynopsisThe memoir is the most popular and expressive literary form of our time. Writers embrace the memoir and readers devour it, propelling many memoirs by relative unknowns to the top of the best-seller list. Writing programs challenge authors to disclose themselves in personal narrative.Trade Review“Larson applies his methods to some of the finest examples of the form, with exhilarating analyses of works by writers as diverse as Virginia Woolf, Frank McCourt, Mary Karr, Mark Doty, Dave Eggers, Andrew Hudgins, Maxine Hong Kingston, and Rick Bragg. The result is a book that deserves the attention of literary scholars and anyone attempting to add his or her own contribution to the genre.” * Ploughshares *“Indispensable…arguably one of the two or three best references for those who teach and write nonfiction.” * Brevity *“Larson shines as a reader. His always lucid style, wide-ranging and perceptively analyzed examples, and thorough bibliography of memoirs make the book a valuable reference source as well as a good read.” * Biography *“I’ve never met Thomas Larson, but from reading The Memoir and the Memoirist, I’ve concluded that I’d love to talk to him.... He draws on long experience as a reader, writer, and teacher to describe and embrace the modern memoir before it becomes fussed over and codified by academics.” * Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction *“An invaluable aid for the would-be memoirist, the book is highly recommended.” * The Midwest Book Review *“An established memoirist in his own right, Larson delves into nitty-gritty analyses of memoirs and those who write them.… This is a valuable book for anyone who contemplates writing a memoir, or who simply enjoys reading them.” * American Society of Journalists & Authors *“A particularly enlightening book for memoir writers and teachers. Larson has a readable style, writes intelligently and openly about what makes an authentic piece of life writing. He includes an invaluable number of memoirs worth reading as well as references to books on memoir. Highly recommended.”“Written with clarity, Larson’s contribution to the analysis of both what drives writers to deliver to a hungry audience the intimate details of their lives, and his opinions about the reason why we keep reading, makes for an enlightening book.”“This thoughtfully reasoned and lucidly written book delves further into the dynamics of the new memoir than anything I know of, and is sure to spark discussion, help guide would-be practitioners, and bring much–needed illumination to a vexed subject.” * author of The Art of the Personal Essay *“What makes the book particularly valuable is Larson’s obvious familiarity with and discussion of some of the biggest titles in the field.” * Bookslut *“Thomas Larson’s The Memoir and the Memoirist is much more than another how–to book. With great depth and clarity, Larson examines that which drives writers to cast their lot with truth and celebrates the myriad ways writers ’reassemble’ themselves while seeking and shaping their stories.” * author of Fault Line and Between Revolutions: An American Romance with Russia *“Absorbing and eclectic.”“In this provocative guide to the art of memoir writing, Larson examines the complex nature of the self in search of itself and demonstrates how the subtle art of remembering gives birth to that anomaly we call the memoirist. The Memoir and the Memoirist is a must read for every writer and reader of this dynamic literary genre.” * author of Unreliable Truth: On Memoir and Memory *“Thomas Larson thoroughly explores the genre from a place of love and critical thinking. He dives headfirst into a sea of human stories, explaining and comparing, bringing readers a better understanding of the uniqueness of the niche.… An enlightening book.”
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Ohio University Press The Memoir and the Memoirist Reading and Writing
Book SynopsisThe memoir is the most popular and expressive literary form of our time. Writers embrace the memoir and readers devour it, propelling many memoirs by relative unknowns to the top of the best-seller list. Writing programs challenge authors to disclose themselves in personal narrative.Trade Review“Larson applies his methods to some of the finest examples of the form, with exhilarating analyses of works by writers as diverse as Virginia Woolf, Frank McCourt, Mary Karr, Mark Doty, Dave Eggers, Andrew Hudgins, Maxine Hong Kingston, and Rick Bragg. The result is a book that deserves the attention of literary scholars and anyone attempting to add his or her own contribution to the genre.” * Ploughshares *“Indispensable…arguably one of the two or three best references for those who teach and write nonfiction.” * Brevity *“Larson shines as a reader. His always lucid style, wide-ranging and perceptively analyzed examples, and thorough bibliography of memoirs make the book a valuable reference source as well as a good read.” * Biography *“I’ve never met Thomas Larson, but from reading The Memoir and the Memoirist, I’ve concluded that I’d love to talk to him.... He draws on long experience as a reader, writer, and teacher to describe and embrace the modern memoir before it becomes fussed over and codified by academics.” * Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction *“An invaluable aid for the would-be memoirist, the book is highly recommended.” * The Midwest Book Review *“An established memoirist in his own right, Larson delves into nitty-gritty analyses of memoirs and those who write them.… This is a valuable book for anyone who contemplates writing a memoir, or who simply enjoys reading them.” * American Society of Journalists & Authors *“A particularly enlightening book for memoir writers and teachers. Larson has a readable style, writes intelligently and openly about what makes an authentic piece of life writing. He includes an invaluable number of memoirs worth reading as well as references to books on memoir. Highly recommended.”“Written with clarity, Larson’s contribution to the analysis of both what drives writers to deliver to a hungry audience the intimate details of their lives, and his opinions about the reason why we keep reading, makes for an enlightening book.”“This thoughtfully reasoned and lucidly written book delves further into the dynamics of the new memoir than anything I know of, and is sure to spark discussion, help guide would-be practitioners, and bring much–needed illumination to a vexed subject.” * author of The Art of the Personal Essay *“What makes the book particularly valuable is Larson’s obvious familiarity with and discussion of some of the biggest titles in the field.” * Bookslut *“Thomas Larson’s The Memoir and the Memoirist is much more than another how–to book. With great depth and clarity, Larson examines that which drives writers to cast their lot with truth and celebrates the myriad ways writers ’reassemble’ themselves while seeking and shaping their stories.” * author of Fault Line and Between Revolutions: An American Romance with Russia *“Absorbing and eclectic.”“In this provocative guide to the art of memoir writing, Larson examines the complex nature of the self in search of itself and demonstrates how the subtle art of remembering gives birth to that anomaly we call the memoirist. The Memoir and the Memoirist is a must read for every writer and reader of this dynamic literary genre.” * author of Unreliable Truth: On Memoir and Memory *“Thomas Larson thoroughly explores the genre from a place of love and critical thinking. He dives headfirst into a sea of human stories, explaining and comparing, bringing readers a better understanding of the uniqueness of the niche.… An enlightening book.”
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Ohio University Press Spirituality and the Writer
Book SynopsisIn a book-length essay on the evolving, improvisatory world of spiritual literature, Thomas Larson surveys authors old and new who have shaped religious autobiography and spiritual memoir. He shows just how the writer’s craft must prevail to capture the fleeting and personal truths of the spirit in an important addition to nonfiction craft studies.Trade Review"(S)uperb…. (Spirituality and the Writer’s) erudite analysis of texts and expansive concern for the human condition is both inspiring and reassuring, creating a kinship between the writers Larson discusses and the reader.“ * Rain Taxi *“In Spirituality and the Writer, Thomas Larson offers an astute examination of the craft and artistry needed to successfully render faith, doubt, and transcendent experience onto the page. From Thomas Merton to Annie Dillard, Cheryl Strayed to Mother Teresa, Larson defines the genre of spiritual memoir broadly, creating a powerful resource for writers, teachers, students, and anyone with an interest in spirit-seeking literature. Larson’s captivating book is both a toolbox and an inspiration.”“Thomas Larson is a first-rate scholar and writer. Spirituality and the Writer is a book for anyone interested in spiritual writing, as well as for anyone wishing to live a well-considered life.”“Reading Spirituality and the Writer is like dream-walking in the tracks of a master guide to the sublime. Larson’s inquiry into the realm of authentic spiritual writing creates a tableau of the erudite, the creative, and the spiritual. Not only will I return to this book but to every work that Larson plumbs through his expansive lens of the spiritual writer and the unmoored soul.”Praise for The Memoir and the Memoirist: “This thoughtfully reasoned and lucidly written book delves further into the dynamics of the new memoir than anything I know of, and is sure to spark discussion, help guide would-be practitioners, and bring much–needed illumination to a vexed subject.”Praise for The Memoir and the Memoirist: “Indispensable … arguably one of the two or three best references for those who teach and write nonfiction.” * Brevity *
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John Wiley & Sons A Students Guide to Academic and Professional
Book SynopsisThis handbook will help educators write for the rhetorical situations they will face as students of education and practicing teachers. It provides clear and helpful advice for responding to the varying contexts, audiences, and purposes that arise in four written categories in education: classroom, research, credential, and stakeholder writing.
£28.76
University of Minnesota Press Neatness Counts Essays on the Writers Desk
Book SynopsisReflects on the poetics of the desk - rolltop or bureau-plat, cluttered or bare, the schematic desk, the dramatic desk, the dramatic lack of any such furniture. This work offers a series of meditations on how orderliness, chaos, and other physical states correspond with both the exhilaration of production and the desperation of writer's block.
£14.24
John Wiley & Sons Inc Guidelines for Writing Effective Operating and
Book SynopsisGood written procedures can reduce the number of accidents caused by human error. This book shows how to remedy this problem through selecting and implementing actions that promote safe, efficient operations and maintenance, improve quality and cost control. It also includes practical samples of procedure formats, checklists and many references.Table of ContentsPreface. Acknowledgments. Glossary. Chapter 1. Introduction to Effective Procedure Writing. 1.1. Why Was This Book Written? 1.2. Book Objectives. 1.3. The Current Worldwide Trend Toward Procedures. 1.4. Who Should Use This Book? 1.5. Where Do You Go From Here? Chapter 2. Process Safety Environmental, and Quality Considerations. 2.1. Purpose. 2.2. Understanding the Guidelines and Regulations. 2.3. Voluntary Guidelines. 2.4. Governmental Regulations. 2.5. Quality Considerations. 2.6. Some Elements of Effective Procedures and Procedure. Management Systems. 2.7. Additional Considerations. 2.8. Conclusion. Endnotes. Chapter 3. How to Design An Operating and Maintenance Procedure Management System. 3.1. Purpose. 3.2. The Importance of Written Procedures. 3.3. Elements of a Comprehensive Procedure Management System. 3.4. Determining Procedure Management System Requirements. 3.5. Evaluating Your Current Practices. 3.6. Identifying Your Resources. 3.7. Designing and Implementing Your Procedures Management System. 3.8. How to Determine Which Procedures to Write. 3.9. Implementing a Procedure Project. 3.10. Procedure Training. 3.11. Maintaining and Improving Your Procedure Management System. 3.12. Conclusion. Chapter 4. Writing Operating and Maintenance Procedures. 4.1. Purpose. 4.2. What Resources Do You Need Before You Begin Writing? 4.3. What Do We Know About the Procedure. 4.4. Considerations for Effective Procedures. 4.5. Importance of Procedure Format. 4.6. Introductory Sections. 4.7. Procedure Steps Section. 4.8. Drafting the Procedure. 4.9. The Procedure Review and Approval Cycle. 4.10. Special Considerations for Maintenance Procedures. 4.11. Batch Process Considerations. Chapter 5. Elements of Effective Procedures. 5.1. Purpose. 5.2. Importance of Procedure Evaluation Criteria. 5.3. Who Will Use the Procedure Evaluation Criteria? 5.4. Procedure Checklists Elements. Endnotes. Chapter 6. Writing Emergency Operating Procedures. 6.1. Purpose. 6.2. Defining Events Requiring Emergency Operating Procedures. 6.3. Identifying Emergency Situations. 6.4. Developing and Writing Emergency Operating Procedures. 6.5. Directing the User to the Correct Emergency Operating Procedure. 6.6. Incorporating Human Factors in Emergency Operating Procedures. 6.7. using Decision Aids. 6.8. How Emergency Operating Procedures Link to the Emergency Response Plan. Endnotes. Chapter 7. Procedure Control. 7.1. Purpose. 7.2. What Is Procedure Control? 7.3. Controlling Procedure Revisions and Development. 7.4. Who Should Review the Procedures? 7.5. Procedure Approval. 7.6. Evaluating Procedures In Use. 7.7. Electronic Document Control. Chapter 8. Procedure Development Costs and Benefits. 8.1. Purpose. 8.2. reasons for Procedure Development. 8.3. Procedure Development Costs. 8.4. Return on Investment: Improvements You Can Expect from Effective Procedures. Endnotes. Appendix A. Selected Procedure Initiatives, Consensus Codes, and Regulations Affecting Procedures. Appendix B. Common Points of API, OSHA, and EPA. Appendix C. How to Determine the Tasks That Require Written Procedures. Appendix D. Procedure Performance Evaluation. Appendix E. Procedure Criteria Checklist. Appendix F. Sample Procedure Formats. Appendix G. Sample Formats of Operating Limits Tables. General References. Index.
£125.96
Duke University Press Strange Gourmets
Book SynopsisTheoretically sophisticated: How often has this term been used to distinguish a work of contemporary criticism and what, exactly, does it mean? This book shows how the politics of sophistication pervades contemporary culture both in the mainstream and at the academic margins.Trade Review“Litvak has taken taste out of the closet and shows us why so many—especially those who consider themselves to be centered in cultural studies—do not like the taste of taste. This book is as smart as it is strangely delicious.”—Carol Mavor, author of Pleasures Taken"One can hardly call Strange Gourmets a sophisticated book, since on the embarrassing subject of itself sophistication has always been too cool for words. No, one must call it a wildly sophisticated book, uncultivated enough, for all its fine intelligence, to speak whereof it knows. Like some brilliant chef who incorporates weeds into highly composed salads, the author means not to disown, but to parade the intimacy between sophistication (his own included) and rawer forms of taste, disgust, perversity. If his richly inventive cookery is more satisfying than sociological unmaskings that are as endless as they are futile, this is not least because, unlike them, it accords sophistication the respect owed to an appetite."—D. A. Miller
£22.79
Duke University Press Autobiographical Writing Across the Disciplines
Book SynopsisAn anthology of the personal/autobiographical essays of scholars who have made the life story an important part of their disciplinary research. This book represents various disciplines, including mathematics, sociology, psychology, literature, religion and legal history. It also chronicles the origins of autobiographical criticism.Trade Review“This anthology of autobiographical writing by scholars with a range of ties to the academy, this mosaic of brave, graceful, and compassionate voices, skillfully edited by Diane P. Freedman and Olivia Frey, bears testimony to the strength of an intellectual movement that is changing the way scholarship is being done. . . . [T]his book asserts the importance of a common project, a shared commitment to a way of knowing as well as a way of telling.”—Ruth Behar, from the foreword“This collection brings a new kind of scholarship into focus: research that has a human face and speaks with a human voice. In these essays, knowledge comes alive for the reader because it has sprung from the lived experience of the investigator. The contributors are pioneers in their fields, blazing trails for future work in their disciplines.”—Jane Tompkins, author of A Life in School: What the Teacher LearnedTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Foreword / Ruth Behar xiii Self/Discipline: An Introduction / Diane P. Freedman and Olivia Frey 1 Language and Literature Finding the Right Word: Self-Inclusion and Self-Inscription / David Bleich 41 Gender Tragedies: East Texas Cockfighting and Hamlet / Carlos L. Dews 68 Three Readings of the Wife of Bath / Merrill Black 85 Listening to the Images: My Sightless Insights into Yeats's Plays / David Richman 96 Activist Academic: Memoir of an Ethnic Lit Professor / Bonnie Tusmith 114 Following the Voice of the Draft / Donald M. Murray 129 Notes of a Native Daughter: Reflections on Identity and Writing / Carla L. Peterson 138 History Tribute to Robert D. Marcus / David Bleich 159 Journey/man: Hi/s/tory / Robert D. Marcus 161 Religion From God of the Oppressed / James Cone 189 Philosophy Beyond Holocaust Theology: Extending a Hand across the Abyss / Laura Duhan Kaplan 205 Maternal Thinking / Sara Ruddick 216 Africana Studies Altered States / Kwame Anthony Appiah 233 Art History History of an Encounter / Eunice Lipton 257 Music Devouring Music: Ruminations of a Composer Who Cooks / Peter Hamlin 265 Film When the Body Is Your Own: Feminist Film Criticism and the Horror Genre / Julie Tharp 281 Filming Point of View / Deborah Lefkowitz 292 Anthropology From The Broken Cord / Michael Dorris 311 Juban America / Ruth Behar 331 Close Encounters with a CSA: The Reflections of a Bruised and Somewhat Wiser Anthropologist / Laura B. Delind 349 Law The Death of the Profane (a commentary on the genre of legal writing) / Patricia J. Williams 365 English Education My Father/ My Censor: English Education, Politics, and Status / Brenda Daly 375 Research Psychology Adventures of a Woman in Science / Naomi Weisstein 397 Biology Through the Looking Glass: A Feminist's Life in Biology / Muriel Lederman 417 Medicine That Disorder: An Introduction / Alice Wexler 435 A Textbook Pregnancy / Perri Klass 444 Math, Psychology, and Science Education Personal Thinking / Seymour Papert 455 Selected Bibliography 467 Contributors 483
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University of Pittsburgh Press Politics Of Remediation
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University of Pittsburgh Press The Formation of College English Rhetoric and Belles Lettres in the British Cultural Provinces Pittsburgh Series in Composition Literacy and Culture
Book SynopsisCo-Winner of the 1998 Mina P. Shaughnessy Prize for outstanding research publication in the field of teaching English language, literature, rhetoric and composition, The Formation of College English reexamines the civic concerns of rhetoric and the politics that have shaped and continue to shape college English.
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University of Pittsburgh Press Composition In The University
Book SynopsisComposition in the University examines the required introductory course in composition within American colleges and universities.
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University of Pittsburgh Press A Geopolitics Of Academic Writing
Book SynopsisOffers a critique of current scholarly publishing practices, exposing the inequalities in the way academic knowledge is constructed and legitimized. Winner of the 2002 JAC Gary A. Olson AwardTrade Review“A welcome intervention in such fields as English studies, rhetoric, liguistics, postcolonial theory, and of western knowledge construction in general, and the publishing practices of academia in particular.” —Rocky Mountain Review
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University of Pittsburgh Press CounterHistory of Composition A
Book SynopsisA Counter-History of Composition contests the foundational disciplinary assumption that vitalism and contemporary rhetoric represent opposing, disconnected poles in the writing tradition.Trade ReviewHawk's remapping of the field's histories is complicated and ambitious. He takes a romp through histories of invention, vitalism, method, and dialectic from Aristotle forward, providing, among other things, a much-needed counter-history to James Berlin and a rich reading of Coleridge's method that breathes life into complex vitalisms that the field has worked at erasing. - Dr. Sherrie Gradin, Ohio University ""In this original and important contribution to composition scholarship, Byron Hawk sets out to correct a crucial misunderstanding that has plagued theory and historiography for three decades: a mischaracterization of vitalism. By providing a nuanced analysis of this crucial concept, Hawk effectively rewrites our intellectual history. A must read!"" - Gary A. Olson, Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, Illinois State University
£42.75
University of Pittsburgh Press Practicing Writing
Book SynopsisThomas Masters examines a pivotal era—the years following arrival of former soldiers on college campuses thanks to the GI Bill—in the history of the most ubiquitous and most problematic course offered in America: freshman English.
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University of Pittsburgh Press Writing on the Move
Book SynopsisWinner of the 2019 CCCC Outstanding Book Award.In this book, Rebecca Lorimer Leonard shows how multilingual migrant women both succeed and struggle in their writing contexts.Trade ReviewHow is literacy revalued as it moves across borders and boundaries? What forms does literate mobility take? What functions does the process of literate valuation perform? Refreshingly insightful and profoundly original, Writing on the Move offers an indispensable framework for theorizing about these questions and for understanding how competing social and economic forces shape, recognize, and regulate migrant literate lives."" - LuMing Mao, Miami University""Writing on the Move is an important contribution to transnational literacy studies. It not only complicates our understanding of literate repertoires performed in everyday life by migrant women with rich and resonant lives; it also extends our vocabulary of motive by critically examining how fixity, friction, and fluidity inform their literate values. A must-read in a time of great peril for immigrants in the U.S."" - Juan C. Guerra, University of Washington at Seattle
£37.00
Johns Hopkins University Press Why They Cant Write
Book SynopsisAn important challenge to what currently masquerades as conventional wisdom regarding the teaching of writing. There seems to be widespread agreement thatwhen it comes to the writing skills of college studentswe are in the midst of a crisis. In Why They Can't Write, John Warner, who taught writing at the college level for two decades, argues that the problem isn't caused by a lack of rigor, or smartphones, or some generational character defect. Instead, he asserts, we're teaching writing wrong. Warner blames this on decades of educational reform rooted in standardization, assessments, and accountability. We have done no more, Warner argues, than conditioned students to perform writing-related simulations, which pass temporary muster but do little to help students develop their writing abilities. This style of teaching has made students passive and disengaged. Worse yet, it hasn't prepared them for writing in the college classroom. Rather than making choices and thinking critically, aTrade ReviewThat title sounds as if it will be a grumpy polemic, but it's actually an inspiring exploration of what learning to write could be, framed by an analysis of why it so often is soul-destroying for both students and their teachers.—Barbara Fister, Inside Higher EdArticulates a set of humanist values that could generate rich new classroom practices and, one hopes, encourage teachers, parents, and policymakers to rethink the whole idea of School and why it matters to a society. Warner is pragmatic, not programmatic, and hopeful without being naïve . . . I hope teachers, parents, and administrators across the United States read his trenchant book. We are the reformers we have been waiting for.—Ryan Boyd, University of Southern California, LA Review of BooksWhy They Can't Write dissects the underlying causes of why so much writing instruction fails in the American system and it provides tested, practical solutions for doing better. The book is more than a how-to-teach guide, however. It diagnoses several important structural problems in American education, including standardized testing, the allure of educational fads, the abuses of technology-driven solutions, and cruel working conditions for teachers.—Danny Anderson, Sectarian ReviewI wanted direction on how to better teach writing, and I got it—sample assignments that I can tweak to fit my classroom and discipline in marvelous ways. But I got so much more. I closed the book feeling energized and motivated to go back to the classroom and make changes. In fact my first reaction, as I finished, was 'I have to go write about this!' Which so perfectly encapsulates so much of what John would like to see us do as learners that I couldn't help but laugh.—Cate Denial, Director, Bright Institute, Knox CollegeWhat is to blame for students' bad writing? According to Warner, the entire context in which it is taught. He rails against school systems that privilege shallow "achievement" over curiosity and learning, a culture of "surveillance and compliance" (including apps that track students' behaviour and report it to parents in real time), an obsession with standardized testing that is fundamentally inimical to thoughtful reading and writing, and a love of faddish psychological theories and worthless digital learning projects.—Irina Dumitrescu, University of Bonn, Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsPart I: IntroductionOur Writing "Crisis"Johnny Could Never WriteThe Writer's PracticeThe Five-Paragraph EssayPart II: The Other NecessitiesThe Problem of AtmosphereThe Problem of SurveillanceThe Problem of Assessment and StandardizationThe Problem of Educational FadsThe Problem of Technology HypeThe Problem of FolkloreThe Problem of PrecarityPart III: A New FrameworkWhy School?Increasing RigorThe Writer's PracticeMaking Writing Meaningful by Making Meaningful WritingWriting ExperiencesIncreasing ChallengesPart IV: Unanswered QuestionsWhat about Academics?What about Grammar?What about Grades?What about the Children?What about the Teachers?In ConclusionAcknowledgmentsAppendixNotesIndexAbout the Author
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Duke University Press Every Day I Write the Book
Book SynopsisAmitava Kumar''s Every Day I Write the Book is for academic writers what Annie Dillard''s The Writing Lifeand Stephen King''s On Writing are for creative writers. Alongside Kumar''s interviews with an array of scholars whose distinct writing offers inspiring examples for students and academics alike, the book''s pages are full of practical advice about everything from how to write criticism to making use of a kitchen timer. Communication, engagement, honesty: these are the aims and sources of good writing. Storytelling, attention to organization, solid work habits: these are its tools. Kumar''s own voice is present in his essays about the writing process and in his perceptive and witty observations on the academic world. A writing manual as well as a manifesto, Every Day I Write the Book will interest and guide aspiring writers everywhere.Trade Review“Every Day I Write the Book is a persuasive instance of the sort of rare nonfiction performance Amitava Kumar invokes within its pages; he at once defines and exemplifies a vital modern nonfiction tradition. Full of pragmatic analyses and recommendations, this enthralling, important book will prove to be compelling and useful across many audiences.” -- Robert Polito“Amitava Kumar's Every Day I Write the Book compels a cluster of adjectives—eclectic, ruminative, associative, probing, and personal—all of which, taken together, only begin to describe this unique writing sensibility. Turning the pages we find ourselves riding shotgun through the reading and writing life of a true cosmopolitan intellectual. Kumar instructs and inspires, running on all cylinders.” -- Sven Birkerts"A guide for academic writers that is also relevant to anyone who cares about fine prose. . . . An engaging, perceptive companion for all writers." * Kirkus Reviews *"An inventive essay collection . . . a celebration of 'the value, the ease, and also the excitement of crafting writing that hasn’t been produced to please a committee.' Grad students and tenure seekers will appreciate the support Kumar’s insightful and intellectually nimble book offers, even as they buckle down to the task at hand—satisfying that committee of readers." * Publishers Weekly *"Too often lively writing is taken as a sign of dilettantism. Things don’t have to be this way, and Kumar, who is himself both a critic and a novelist, insists that scholarship should argue and inform but also surprise and delight. . . . The best way to argue that academic books can be formally inventive is to write a formally inventive academic book. That’s what Kumar does here." -- Anthony Domestico * Commonweal *"Kumar’s writing guide/commonplace book is a salve. Reading his newest is like having office hours—no, better; a drink and bookish conversation, in a bar—with your smartest, kindest teacher, or friend." -- John Francisconi * Grandlife *"Kumar sets out to do for the academic writer what writers like Annie Dillard, Ursula Le Guin, Anne Lamott, and Stephen King do for the creative writer in their accounts of their own writing lives. . . . This book will interest scholars in search of alternative models for presenting their ideas and those seeking insight into an academic’s writing life. Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty." -- A. M. Laflen * Choice *"An entertaining ramble through his years of analyzing his own writing process and that of many, many other authors. . . . The most amazing feature of this book is the sheer number of authors and ideas on writing that are collected in what Kumar calls, 'The 90-Day Book.'" -- Gretchen Webster * Publishing Research Quarterly *"Kumar’s work effuses creative associations. Ostensibly a how-to writing guide for scholars, this book is from a different mould, one aligned with the daring and the bold: that is, with the creative. . . . In Every Day I Write the Book, you see a writer and thinker in communion with other writers and thinkers: that is, in communion with the world of ideas." -- Steven E. Gumb * Journal of Scholarly Publishing *Table of ContentsIntroduction. The 90-Day Book 1 Part I. Self-Help Misery 5 Good Sentences 6 Read No Secondary Literature 7 Read Junk 9 Failure 10 Running 12 Sleep 15 Kitchen Timer 16 Self-Help 17 Part II. Writing a Book: A Brief History Rules of Writing 23 In Memory of 24 Out of Place 26 Eyes on the Ground 28 The End of the Line 30 Creative Criticism 31 How to Throw Your Body 36 I'm Feeling Myself 38 Creative Writing 39 Part III. Credos Declarations of Independence 47 In Praise of Nonfiction 54 There Is No Single Way 56 How Proust Can Ruin Your Life 57 Reality Hunger 58 Depend on Your Dumbness 60 Blackness (Unmitigated) 62 Rage on the Page 63 On Training 68 Part IV. Form Light Years 71 Neither/Nor 72 Criticism by Other Means 75 Paranoid Theory 77 Erotic Style 80 I Blame the Topic Sentence 82 The Sound of the Fury 83 In Defense of the Fragment 86 Kids 88 Part V. Academic Interest Diana Studies 91 Examined Life 95 Occupy Writing 96 Academic Sentence 98 Dissertation Blah 100 Your Job Is to Know a Lot 102 Terminology 103 Anti-Anti Jargon 104 Monograph 107 Part VI. Style But Life 111 Sugared Violets 112 Voice 113 Wikileaks Manual of Style 117 Detecting Style 118 Strunk and White 120 A Clean English Sentence 122 Trade 126 Recommendation Letter 128 Part VII. Exercises Bad Writing 137 Prompt 139 Post-Its 141 Revising 142 Editing 144 Performing It 146 Rituals 149 For Graduate Students 152 Not Writing 161 Part VIII. The Groves of Academe Academe 165 Stoner 167 Common Sense 169 Titles 170 Campus Criticism 172 Farther Away 176 Accountability 177 Tenure Files 179 Journals 182 Part IX. Materials Photographs, etc. 187 "Who's Got the Address?" (a Collaboration with Teju Cole) 190 Acknowledgments 197 Appendix A. Ten Rules of Writing 201 Appendix B. PEN Ten Interview 207 Notes 211 Index 231
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University of Nebraska Press Telling Stories
Book SynopsisA prolific and award-winning writer, Lee Martin has put pen to paper to offer his wisdom, honed during thirty years of teaching the oh-so-elusive art of writing. Telling Stories is intended for anyone interested in thinking more about the elements of storytelling in short stories, novels, and memoirs. Martin clearly delineates helpful and practical techniques for demystifying the writing process and providestools for perfecting the art of the scene, characterization, detail, point of view, language, and revisionin short, the art of writing. His discussion of the craft in his own life draws from experiences, memories, and stories to provide a more personal perspective on the elements of writing. Martin provides encouragement by sharing what he's learned from his journey through frustrations, challenges, and successes. Most important, Telling Stories emphasizes that you are not alone on this journey and that writers must remain focused on what they love: the process of moving words onTrade Review"[Martin's] own sentences are like bright sun-polished bones on a beach: sparse outlines nevertheless telling their own devastating story. No doubt aspiring writers will appreciate this honesty, and may find many of the writing prompts here helpful, particularly to unclog a blockage. But it is Martin's own literary journey that is most compelling."—Sara Lonsdale, Times Literary Supplement"Martin combines writing tips with examples from literature and his own life and teachings. It's a clever, warm-hearted book for writers of fiction or creative nonfiction. It could be used in creative writing classes or kept on the desk for those days one needs a little shot of inspiration."—Debbie Hagan, Brevity“‘Why shouldn’t good writing be hard? It’s our attempt at salvation,’ Lee Martin says in this exceptional book. Martin, through craft lessons, exercises, and literary examples, helps writers discover salvation one carefully selected word at a time.”—Sue William Silverman, author of Fearless Confessions: A Writer’s Guide to Memoir “Lee Martin has long been one of my favorite writers of fiction and memoir, and now he’s one of my favorite writers of advice about the writer’s craft. Everyone who writes, or wants to, should read this wise and inspiring book.”—David Jauss, author of On Writing FictionTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Part 1. Structure: Once upon a Time Writing the Opening of a Short Story Juggling Balls: An Exercise for Opening a Short Story Using Mystery to Open Your Story Trouble? I’ve Seen Trouble Making a Scene The Inevitable Surprise Framing the Story Character and Incident I Didn’t Expect That One Way to Structure a Memoir Organizing the Memoir The Layers of Memoir I Was Wearing Them the Day: Touchstone Moments and Details for the Fiction Writer Yogi Berra and the Art of Flash Nonfiction Mad Libs for Creative Nonfiction Enough about Me, Tell Me What You Think about Me Shrinking a Novel Preparing the Final Scene by Avoiding Conflict Here We Are at the End Taking Care at the End: The Art of Misdirection Part 2. Characterization: There Were Three Little Pigs On a Mother’s Birthday, a Writer Loves the World Tightening the Screws: Putting Pressure on Our Characters Contradictory Characters Odd Couples: The Writer as Matchmaker Characterization in the Personal Essay Creating Richer Characters The Art of the Snark Part 3. Detail: A House of Straw, a House of Sticks, a House of Bricks My Mother Gives Me a Writing Lesson Get the Particulars Right Know Your Place That Kind of Place: An Argument for Nostalgia Nostalgia and the Memoirist A Detail and All It Can Do The Places We Know: What Richard Ford Taught Me Daydreaming Your Memoir The Heart’s Field: Place in Fiction Oh, Those Pesky Facts: What’s a Memoir Writer to Do? Memoir and the Work of Resurrection Using Photos in Memoir Ordinary Details in Memoir Connecting Particulars Context Part 4. Point of View: “Little Pig, Little Pig, Let Me Come In” Your Point of View Choice Creates the Effect of the Story The Inner Story of the Writer’s Thinking Finding a Different Lens Memoir and the Future Living Full: Avoiding Sentimentality in Memoir Into the Fire Part 5. Language: “Not by the Hair of My Chinny Chin Chin” Stylin’ The Value of a Beautiful Sentence The Art of the Twerk: Writing the Miley Cyrus Way Communal and Personal Voices Voice in Creative Nonfiction Personae and Tone in Fiction Paying Attention to Form in Flash Nonfiction The Kite The Thing Said: Ten Thoughts on Writing Dialogue in Memoir Alligators and Marshmallows: A Lesson in Humor Comedy in Fiction Part 6. Revision: And the Third Little Pig Lived Happily Ever After Taking Flight: First Drafts Felt Sense: Focusing on Revision More Revision Activities The Doorway between Memoir and Fiction Proverbs for Revising a Novel Part 7. The Writing Life: The Two Little Pigs Now Felt Sorry for Having Been So Lazy and Built Their Houses with Bricks My Mother’s Gifts to Me My Aunt among the Rocks Five Ways We Keep Ourselves from Writing Five Things All Writers Can Control Reading Like a Writer Writing to Preserve Travel and the Writer Slowing Down Our Quiet Places What Fills Us The Books and the Boys of Summer A Writer Writes: A Lifelong Apprenticeship Defeating Writer’s Block Ten Thoughts on the Writing Life Keep Facing the Blank Page
£15.19
University of Nebraska Press Voice First
Book SynopsisThough it is foundational to the craft of writing, the concept of voice is a mystery to many authors, and teachers of writing do not have a good working definition of it for use in the classroom. Written to address the vague and problematic advice given to writers to “find their voice,” Voice First: A Writer’s Manifesto recasts the term in the plural to give writers options, movement, and a way to understand the development of voice over time. By redefining “voice,” Sonya Huber offers writers an opportunity not only to engage their voices but to understand and experience how developing their range of voices strengthens their writing. Weaving together in-depth discussions of various concepts of voice and stories from the author’s writing life, Voice First offers a personal view of struggles with voice as influenced and shaped by gender, place of origin, privilege, race, ethnicity, and other factors, reframing and updating theTrade Review"A great resource—writers of all strokes will appreciate this spirited look at the craft."—Publishers Weekly"Through essays and writing prompts, Huber helps writers identify, develop, and experience the many voices used when writing."—Poets & Writers“Voice First is an intellectual tour de force and a work of great generosity. Huber dismantles the myth of a writer’s ‘authentic voice,’ acknowledging instead that all writers have multiple voices, no one more or less authentic than any other, freeing us from an insistence on sameness and opening up for every writer a universe of possibility.”—Sarah Einstein, author of Mot: A Memoir“Sonya Huber brilliantly illuminates the intricate paths writers can take to shape their voices on the page. Huber’s own voice is packed with joy, fire, wisdom, and spirit, and her manifesto offers both indispensable advice and valuable prompts. Voice First is an inclusive, compassionate, and necessary book for writers and anyone teaching the art of writing.”—Dinty W. Moore, author of Crafting the Personal Essay“Huber’s book is a class in itself—a workshop on naming and finding the glorious, the cantankerous, the jubilant, the apprehensive, the mischievous, and the assiduous voices within. . . . I cannot wait to share Voice First with educators teaching in diverse, inclusive settings and their writing students.”—Bryan Ripley Crandall, director of the Connecticut Writing Project and associate professor of English education at Fairfield UniversityTable of ContentsNote to the Reader 1. Listening to Voices 2. The Voice Lineage 3. Voices Live in the Body 4. Mind Is the Source of Voice 5. Time and Place Grow Voices 6. Voices of Challenge and Change 7. Detail Is the Seed of Voice 8. Embodied Voices, Racialized Lives 9. Voices of Joy 10. Voices with Fire 11. A Whisper of a Voice 12. The Voice of Spirit 13. Editing and Revising with Voices A Few Final Words Gratitude Notes Works Cited Index
£18.04
Cornell University Press Collaborative Anthropology Today
Book SynopsisAs multisited research has become mainstream in anthropology, collaboration has gained new relevance and traction as a critical infrastructure of both fieldwork and theory, enabling more ambitious research designs, forms of communication, and analysis. Collaborative Anthropology Today is the outcome of a 2017 workshop held at the Center for Ethnography, University of California, Irvine. This book is the latest in a trilogy that includes Fieldwork Is Not What It Used to Be and Theory Can Be More Than It Used to Be. Dominic Boyer and George E. Marcus assemble several notable ventures in collaborative anthropology and put them in dialogue with one another as a way of exploring the recent surge of interest in creating new kinds of ethnographic and theoretical partnerships, especially in the domains of art, media, and information. Contributors highlight projects in which collaboration has generated new possibilities of expression and conceptualizations of anthropologTable of ContentsIntroduction, by Dominic Boyer and George E. Marcus 1. How Do We Collaborate? An Updated Manifesto, by Douglas R. Holmes and George E. Marcus 2. Imagination, Improvisation, and Letting Go, by Keith M. Murphy 3. Ethnographic Reentanglements in the Collaborative Ecologies of Film and Contact Improvisation, by Christine Hegel-Cantarella and Luke Cantarella 4. Variations in the Ways That Collaborations Surround and Effect Ethnographic Research Projects: Addendum to Chapters 1–3, by George E. Marcus 5. Function and Form: The Ethnographic Terminalia Collective between Art and Anthropology, by Trudi Lynn Smith, Kate Hennessy, Stephanie Takaragawa, Fiona P. McDonald, and Craig Campbell 6. Limn: Experimenting with Collaboration, by Stephen Collier, Christopher Kelty, Andrew Lakoff, and Martin Høyem 7. What's So Funny 'bout PECE, TAF, and Data Sharing?, by Michael Fortun, Lindsay Poirier, Alli Morgan, Brian Callahan, and Kim Fortun 8. A Collaborative Ethnography of Transnational Capitalism, by Sylvia Yanagisako and Lisa Rofel 9. Hypernormalization, Collaborative Analytics, and the Making of "American Stiob", by Alexei Yurchak and Dominic Boyer 10. An Account of the Cultures of Energy Podcast as Collaboration—Offered in Podcast Form, Of Course, by Dominic Boyer and Cymene Howe 11. Crafting Lissa, an Ethno-Graphic Story: A Collaboration in Four Parts, by Sherine Hamdy and A. Coleman Nye Afterword: A Conversation on the History of Anthropological Collaboration with Rebecca Lemov
£20.39
John Wiley & Sons Inc Successful Dissertations and Theses: A Guide to
Book SynopsisMadsen's book should be welcome both to graduate students about toundertake dissertations and to faculty needing to learn the role ofthesis adviser. . . . Madsen tells how to propose, outline, write,defAnd, and possibly publish a dissertation, information whichshould save graduate students years, pain, and money. --Library JournalTrade Review"Madsen's book should be welcome both to graduate students about to undertake dissertations and to faculty needing to learn the role of thesis adviser. . . . Madsen tells how to propose, outline, write, defAnd, and possibly publish a dissertation, information which should save graduate students years, pain, and money."Table of Contents1. Starting and Completing the Dissertation. 2. Working with the Research Adviser and Advisory Committee. 3. Selecting and Shaping the Research Topic. 4. Preparing the Research Proposal. 5. Employing Basic Research Sources and Techniques. 6. Using the Library and Locating Essential Resources. 7. Organizing, Outlining, and Writing. 8. DefAnding the Thesis. 9. Adapting the Thesis for Publication and Presentation. Resources: Sample Proposals and Manuscript Pages A. SampleProposal: Historical Approach B. Sample Proposal: ExperimentalApproach C. Sample Pages.
£32.29
Watson-Guptill Publications Art of Plotting, The
Book SynopsisPlot must be as much about the emotions of the characters as it is about the events of the story. This book gives this message and teaches screenwriters how to integrate plot, characterisation and exposition to make stories compelling. Using examples from movies, it demonstrates how the plot springs naturally from the characters.
£14.44
Information Age Publishing Teaching Writing as Journey, Not Destination:
Book SynopsisAmerican author Kurt Vonnegut has famously declared that writing is unteachable, yet formal education persists in that task. Teaching Writing as Journey, Not Destination is the culmination of P.L. Thomas’s experiences as both a writer and a teacher of writing reaching into the fourth decade of struggling with both.This volume collects essays that examine the enduring and contemporary questions facing writing teachers, including grammar instruction, authentic practices in high-stakes environments, student choice, citation and plagiarism, the five-paragraph essay, grading, and the intersections of being a writer and teaching writing. Thomas offers concrete classroom experiences drawn from teaching high school ELA, first-year composition, and a wide range of undergraduate and graduate courses. Ultimately, however, the essays are a reflection of Thomas’s journey and a concession to both writing and teaching writing as journeys without ultimate destinations.Table of Contents Section I: Accountability, Standards, And Highstakes Testing Of Writing Section II: Being A Writing Teacher Section III: Being A Writer Section IV: Choice Section V: Citation And Research Papers Section VI: Creative Writing Section VII: Diagramming Sentences Section VIII: Direct Instruction Section IX: Disciplinary Writing Section X: First-Year Composition Section XI: Five-Paragraph Essay Section XII: Genre Awareness Section XIII: Grading Section XIV: Grammar Section XV: Labrant, Lou Section XVI: Literacy And The Literary Technique Hunt Section XVII: Plagiarism Section XVIII: Poetry Section XIX: Public Intellectual (Writing For The Public) Section XX: Publishing Section XXI: Reading Like A Writer Section XXII: Rubrics Section XXIII: Teaching English Section XXIV: Writing Process
£49.95
Information Age Publishing Teaching Writing as Journey, Not Destination:
Book SynopsisAmerican author Kurt Vonnegut has famously declared that writing is unteachable, yet formal education persists in that task. Teaching Writing as Journey, Not Destination is the culmination of P.L. Thomas’s experiences as both a writer and a teacher of writing reaching into the fourth decade of struggling with both.This volume collects essays that examine the enduring and contemporary questions facing writing teachers, including grammar instruction, authentic practices in high-stakes environments, student choice, citation and plagiarism, the five-paragraph essay, grading, and the intersections of being a writer and teaching writing. Thomas offers concrete classroom experiences drawn from teaching high school ELA, first-year composition, and a wide range of undergraduate and graduate courses. Ultimately, however, the essays are a reflection of Thomas’s journey and a concession to both writing and teaching writing as journeys without ultimate destinations.Table of Contents Section I: Accountability, Standards, And Highstakes Testing Of Writing Section II: Being A Writing Teacher Section III: Being A Writer Section IV: Choice Section V: Citation And Research Papers Section VI: Creative Writing Section VII: Diagramming Sentences Section VIII: Direct Instruction Section IX: Disciplinary Writing Section X: First-Year Composition Section XI: Five-Paragraph Essay Section XII: Genre Awareness Section XIII: Grading Section XIV: Grammar Section XV: Labrant, Lou Section XVI: Literacy And The Literary Technique Hunt Section XVII: Plagiarism Section XVIII: Poetry Section XIX: Public Intellectual (Writing For The Public) Section XX: Publishing Section XXI: Reading Like A Writer Section XXII: Rubrics Section XXIII: Teaching English Section XXIV: Writing Process
£87.40
Information Age Publishing Liberating Scholarly Writing: The Power of
Book SynopsisThis book provides an alternative to the more conventional modes of qualitative and quantitative inquiry currently used in professional training programs, particularly in education. It features a very accessible presentation that combines application, rationale, critique, and inspiration—and is itself an example of this kind of writing.It teaches students how to use personal writing in order to analyse, explicate, and advance their ideas. And it encourages minority students, women, and others to find and express their authentic voices by teaching them to use their own lives as primary resources for their scholarship.
£44.96
