Language Arts & Disciplines

Race/Gender/Class/Media considers diversity in the mass media in three main settings: Audiences, Content, and Production.It brings together 53 readings--most are newly commissioned for this edition--by scholars representing a variety of social science and humanities disciplines. Together, these readings provide a multifaceted and often intersectional...

Language is an essential part of what makes us human. Where did it come from? How did it develop into the complex system we know today? And what can an evolutionary perspective tell us about the nature of language and communication? Drawing on a...

This is an invaluable, concise, all-in-one guide for carrying out student research and writing a paper, adaptable to course use and suitable for use by students independently, it successfully guides students along every step of the way. Allows students to better manage their research...

An accessible yet in-depth introductory textbook on the basic concepts of phonetics, fully updated and revised This broad, interdisciplinary textbook investigates how speech can be written down, how speech is produced, its acoustic characteristics, and how listeners perceive speech. Phonetics: Transcription, Production, Acoustics, and...

This book is an indispensable guide to how to write articles, choose journals, and deal with revisions or rejection. Each chapter is written by a highly experienced journal editor - people who have actually made decisions on manuscripts and publication, as well as being...

In 1979 Elizabeth Eisenstein provided the first full-scale treatment of the fifteenth-century printing revolution in the West in her monumental two-volume work, The Printing Press as an Agent of Change. This abridged edition, after summarising the initial changes introduced by the establishment of printing...

The adults in a child's life play a significant role in helping a child learn new words. Through everyday conversations and interactions caregivers use this 600 Basic Words Cartoons Flash Cards and talk about what words mean which helps expand a child's vocabulary. You...

Latinas Poderosas is a book that highlights 50 powerful and influential women. These women are Latinas who are making a difference in the community by redefining the meaning of leadership and changing lives at the same time. Latina Poderosas es un libro sobre 50...

How to Write a Winning WhodunitDo you want to write a cozy mystery but don't have a clue where to start? Or are you in the middle of a story and stuck on the plot? Perhaps you're already writing a series, and you need...

Is the alphabet about to disappear? How will we communicate without it? Are there any indications of new, emergent codes? Is human communication going through a mutation? These are only some of the provocative questions posed by Vil m Flusser in Into Immaterial Culture....

"Genesis in Ancient China: The Creation Story in China's Earliest Script" reveals how the Creation account, as written in the Book of Genesis, is embedded in China's 3500 year old pictographic characters. By way of their pictographic formations, these ancient character graphs utilized similar...

Technical and academic writing share one thing in common: they present focused information to a targeted audience to accomplish a specific purpose. Technical and academic writing can be, and need to be, good writing. By presenting the principles of good writing, strategies for clear...

How do you write a book? Stuart Horwitz helps you do it in three drafts. Three drafts: that's all you need. - The messy draft: which is all about getting it down. - The method draft: which is all about making sense. - The...

Fifteen successful Midwestern authors have contributed essays on the basics of writing mystery novels to this book. Writing Murder shares their insights on fiction elements: setting, characters, point of view, dialogue, plot, and research. In addition, they offer insight on the genre, how to...

Companion to Chapter One of English is Crazy, a revolutionary pronunciation manual for both teachers and students of English as a second Language. No one can learn to speak English from reading it. The English Phonetic Alphabet (EPA) is a simple, logical pronunciation tool...

This book offers students a tool to gain a good grounding in the Manchu language. Instead of having to depend on a formal Manchu class -- Manchu courses are only rarely taught at universities anywhere -- students are able study Manchu on their own...

Recommended by writing instructors and award-winning authors. Whereas Volume I of this series investigates the overall structure of children's picture storybooks at the macro level, this volume, Volume II, investigates the very building blocks of picture storybooks at the micro level: the word, the...

More than fifteen years ago, Constance Weaver's Grammar for Teachers (NCTE, 1979) broke new ground by responding to widespread concern about the place of grammar in the curriculum. Suggesting that teachers need to know key aspects of grammar in order to teach writing more...

Running a successful freelance writing business requires an understanding of a host of critical details. This handbook looks at how to find markets, make contacts, get inside information, deliver work - and get paid promptly.'Author: Michael PerryPublisher: McGraw-Hill CompaniesPublished: 06/01/1998Pages: 224Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.79lbsSize:...

Distilling hard fought wisdom gleaned from hundreds of successful library construction projects they've supervised or coordinated, the authors present this definitive resource on library architecture. With a special emphasis on avoiding common problems in library design, in a down-to-earth manner they address a range...