Language Arts & Disciplines

The lure of big data and analytics has produced new partnerships between news media and social media and consequently a fragmentation of digital journalism. The era is coupled with the rise in fake news and controversial data sharing. However, creative mobile reporting and civilian...

Lessons We Were Never Taught is author, Nikesha Elise Williams's first collection of storytelling through lyrical prose and spoken word pieces. Through poetic exploration, Lessons We Were Never Taught delves deep into topics on life, on love, and on healing.The lessons are named for...

La pr ctica de escritura a mano que aprenden los ni os peque os a medida que aprenden y crecen puede ayudar a mejorar sus habilidades motoras finas y su rendimiento visual-motor. Si queremos que los ni os aprendan a leer, debemos ense ar...

Drawing on insights from the modern "process" philosophy of Bergson, William James, and A. N. Whitehead, Christopher Hasty's Meter as Rhythm releases meter from its mechanistic connotations and recognizes it as a concrete, visceral agent of musical expression. Hasty reinterprets oppositions of law and...

La lectura mejora el vocabulario y las habilidades del lenguaje.Los ni os aprenden palabras b sicas de vista mientras leen. Inconscientemente, absorben informaci n sobre c mo estructurar oraciones y c mo usar palabras y otras caracter sticas del lenguaje de manera efectiva en...

La lettura migliora il vocabolario e le abilit linguistiche.I bambini imparano le parole di vista di base mentre leggono. Inconsciamente, assorbono informazioni su come strutturare le frasi e su come usare parole e altre caratteristiche linguistiche in modo efficace nella loro scrittura e conversazione....

Reading improves vocabulary and language skills.Children learn basic sight words as they read. Subconsciously, they absorb information on how to structure sentences and how to use words and other language features effectively in their writing and speaking. Reading promotes achievement in all subjects, not...

Reading improves vocabulary and language skills.Children learn basic sight words as they read. Subconsciously, they absorb information on how to structure sentences and how to use words and other language features effectively in their writing and speaking. Reading promotes achievement in all subjects, not...

What can we learn from contemporary writers about keeping public conversation compassionate, vigorous, faithful, and life-giving?Those who want to avoid simplistic partisan rhetoric and use words in a challenging, spirited way need practical strategies. This book offers a range of them. Drawing upon the...

Learn how to write in cursive This beginners cursive handwriting book will continue your cursive writing practice by helping you to learn how to write common letter blends to help you practice connecting letters. Letter blends are two and/or three letters that are commonly...

Lawrence Block's WRITING THE NOVEL remained continuously in print since 1978. But the world of publishing has changed, and Block has expanded and updated his original text, bringing each chapter up to date and adding new material on ebooks, self-publishing, and what perils and...

In the 1980s, Lawrence Block developed an interactional seminar that adapted elements of the human potential movement specifically for writers.For several years he and his wife, Lynne, traveled the country conducting seminars that focused on the inner game of writing, and designed to enable...

- The perfect notebook in which to risk imperfection- If you don't make mistakes you'll never create- Lay-flat, lined pages- Ribbon markerHoxton Mini Press set out to design the perfect notebook for creative thinkers: it had to lay flat, have beautiful paper and hard-wearing...

Global content in English doesn't get noticed. Localizing Employee Communications is a practical guide to ending conventional communication practices that stand in the way of effectively reaching employees around the world.Adapting for language and culture is critical to reach customers, and the same is...

How does a self-published author get his books into 85 libraries, including 7 of America's largest, in less than two years, and without paying for an expensive book review? Based on the article that generated 4,061 interactions, from readers in thirty countries not long...

The second edition of the definitive reference on contact studies and linguistic change--provides extensive new research and original case studies Language contact is a dynamic area of contemporary linguistic research that studies how language changes when speakers of different languages interact. Accessibly structured into...

An Easy Read for Intermediate French Students Learn about Parisian Life and Improve your French with this Intermediate French Reading Exercise Book By reading this French Reader, you will: Improve your French reading comprehension and French Grammar. The story has been made easier to...

Futurists predict that in the next ten years the profession of "lawyer" will splinter into job titles like "legal process analyst" or "legal knowledge engineer." And some in the field are already taking a proactive approach ⁠-- in fact, more than two dozen law...

This revised translation of the classic 1998 Une histoire de l'archivistique provides a wide-ranging international survey of developments in archival practices and management, from the ancient world to the present day. The volume has been substantially updated to incorporate recent scholarship and provide additional...

Language Isolates explores this fascinating group of languages that surprisingly comprise a third of the world's languages. Individual chapters written by experts on these languages examine the world's major language isolates by geographic regions, with up-to-date descriptions of many, including previously unrecorded language isolates....