Language Arts & Disciplines
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Visual Grammar: Design Foundations for EditorsDesign awareness is increasingly important in the quick-publishing models embraced by web publishers and rapid-release book publishers eager to create reader-ready documents. These models often condense the number of trained professionals who touch a piece before it's published. Freelance editors become more valuable to...
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French Immersion Ideologies in CanadaIn French Immersion Ideologies in Canada, Sylvie Roy gives voice to people who have experiences with French immersion programs in Alberta, Canada. Using a sociolinguistics for change approach, she interprets questions related to language ideologies, as well as reasons people learn French as an...
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Enter, Enlighten, and ExitA simple guide to creating clear, concise and convincing presentations. The Enter, Enlighten & Exit system outlined in this book will show you how to "make an entrance" (enter) into your subject matter, enlighten your audience with the end goal in mind, and exit...
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Collection Management in the Cloud: A Guide for Using Cloud Computing Technologies in LibrariesAs remote work has become routine, cloud-based technology tools have become increasingly necessary to communicate with other library staff and with faculty and staff to continue providing seamless and uninterrupted access to library resources and collections for our campus community. Cloud-based technology tools such...
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De-Whitening Intersectionality: Race, Intercultural Communication, and PoliticsDe-Whitening Intersectionality: Race, Intercultural Communication, and Politics re-evaluates how the logic of color-blindness as whiteness is at play in the current scope of intersectional research on race, intercultural communication, and politics. Calling for a re-centering of difference by exploring the emergence and inception of...
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International Perspectives on Creative Writing in Second Language Education: Supporting Language Learners' Proficiency, Identity, and Creative ExpressThis volume explores the instructional use of creative writing in secondary and post-secondary contexts to enhance students' language proficiency and expression in English as a second or foreign language (ESL/EFL).Offering a diverse range of perspectives from scholars and practitioners involved in English language teaching...
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Building Students' Historical Literacies: Learning to Read and Reason With Historical Texts and EvidenceHow can teachers incorporate the richness of historical resources into classrooms in ways that are true to the discipline of history and are pedagogically sound? Now in its second edition, this book explores the notion of historical literacy, adopts a research-supported stance on literacy...
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Linguistic Landscapes in South-East Asia: The Politics of Language and Public SignageAnchored within current issues and debates in the field of Linguistic Landscape (LL) scholarship, this edited volume is concerned with politics of language and the semiotic construction of space in multilingual and multi-ethnic Asian countries. Spanning Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam, Indonesia, the Philippines, Hong Kong,...
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A Century of Repression: The Espionage ACT and Freedom of the PressA Century of Repression offers an unprecedented and panoramic history of the use of the Espionage Act of 1917 as the most important yet least understood law threatening freedom of the press in modern American history. It details government use of the Act to...
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Language and Legal Interpretation in International LawInternational law is usually communicated in more than one language and reflects common norms that lawyers and adjudicators across national legal cultures agree on and develop together. As a result, the negotiation of the wording and meaning of international legislative texts is an integralpart...
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Navigating Copyright for Libraries: Purpose and ScopeInformation is a critical resource for personal, economic and social development. Libraries and archives are the primary access point to information for individuals and communities with much of the information protected by copyright or licence terms. In this complex legal environment, librarians and information...
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Help a Thief!: And Other Misadventures in PunctuationCaroline Taggart brings her usual gently humorous approach to punctuation, pointing out what really matters and what doesn't.The trouble with punctuation - well, one of the troubles, anyway - is that too many of the experts suggest leaving it to the writer's judgement. What...
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Alma de loboWhat happens when reality overcomes fiction? Then you have a story like ALMA DE LOBO.This novella is the true story of Marcos Rodríguez Pantoja. His is the only documented case in Spain of a feral child.SUMMARY: At the age of seven, Marcos was sold...
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Suburban Dreams: Imagining and Building the Good Life2016 Choice Outstanding Academic Title and Jane Jacobs Urban Communication Book Award finalist Starting with the premise that suburban films, residential neighborhoods, chain restaurants, malls, and megachurches are compelling forms (topos) that shape and materialize the everyday lives of residents and visitors, Greg Dickinson's...
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Rhetoric, Inc.: Ford's Filmmaking and the Rise of CorporatismIn 1914, the Ford Motor Company opened its Motion Picture Laboratory, an in-house operation that produced motion pictures to educate its workforce and promote its products. Just six years later, Ford films had found their way into schools and newsreels, travelogues, and even feature...
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The Enthymeme: Syllogism, Reasoning, and Narrative in Ancient Greek RhetoricCentral to rhetorical theory, the enthymeme is most often defined as a truncated syllogism. Suppressing a premise that the audience already knows, this rhetorical device relies on the audience to fill in the missing information, thereby making the argument more persuasive. James Fredal argues...
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I Came All This Way to Meet You: Writing Myself HomeFrom New York Times bestselling author Jami Attenberg comes a dazzling memoir about unlocking and embracing her creativity--and how it saved her life. In this brilliant, fierce, and funny memoir of transformation, Jami Attenberg--described as a master of modern fiction (Entertainment Weekly) and the...
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Power, Media and the Covid-19 Pandemic: Framing Public DiscourseThis edited collection provides an in-depth, interdisciplinary critique of the acts of public communication disseminated during a major global crisis. Encompassing contributions from academics working in the fields of politics, environmentalism, citizens' rights, state theory, cultural studies, journalism, and discourse/rhetoric, the book offers an...
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The Settling of the Manor of Tara: a dual language translationThe Settling of the Manor of Tara tells the story of how Ireland's provinces were dived up along with vivid descriptions of the qualities of each. It also contains detailed information about Ireland throughout a series of pseudo-historical and mythic time periods up until...
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Third Parties, Outsiders, and Renegades: Modern Challenges to the Two-Party System in Presidential ElectionsThird Parties, Outsiders, and Renegades analyzes 10 third-party, outsider, or renegade presidential candidates and explores each one's impact on the political process. The list of modern outsider candidates who have attracted the public's attention is fairly long, but most of the time the candidates...
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