Language Arts & Disciplines

How to Conduct Communication Research: Qualitative and Quantitative Methods features 48 short, digestible chapters that cover the most essential and practical information students need to know to better understand various approaches and methods for conducting research. Students learn how to use tools from both...

I was born a BASTARD of southwest Philadelphia and raised in a rundown row house in one of America's most notorious GHETTOS, Camden, New Jersey. My upbringing was marked by a resilient mother, an inconsistent father, and the harsh realities of a city that...

Author: Ryusuke Yoneda, Kazuko Fujii, Mie ShigenoPublisher: 3a CorporationPublished: 09/15/2006Pages: 145Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.10lbsSize: 10.08h x 7.09w x 0.71dISBN: 9784883194018Language: Japanese

My China in Tang Poetry is a personal celebration of the genius of the Golden Age of Chinese poetry. Susan Wan Dolling, writer, teacher and storyteller provides a feast of new translations and readings of the poetry with consummate knowledge, understanding and an enthusiasm...

Firsthand is an exploration--both suspenseful and comic--of the creative process in research writing. The book takes the reader through the ins and outs of a specific research journey, from combing through libraries and archives to the intellectual challenges involved with processing information that contradicts...

Exploring Public Speaking in its original ebook form is a usable, zero-cost textbook for college-level basic public speaking courses or courses that include basic public speaking skills as one of their primary learning outcomes. This print version contains the same material found in an...

To make grammar memorable, you need some rubber chickens. On the day that I decide to insert the first grammar mini-lesson of the year, one of my rubber chickens makes its first appearance. I visibly hold it, playing with it a bit, so that...

Deaf Mobility Studies revolutionizes how we think about deaf people's international experiences. Equipped with a common theoretical framework, a team of five deaf ethnographers journeyed alongside their participants to delve into a rich array of experiences -- ranging from career advancements and marriages to...

El curso de escritura creativa que Brandon Sanderson lleva casi dos décadas impartiendo en la universidad, por primera vez en formato libro. Curso de escritura creativa convierte en libro las clases que Brandon Sanderson lleva 16 años impartiendo anualmente en la Universidad Brigham Young,...

In Created in the Image of God, a missionary to the Ch?cobo brings the Gospel to a dying tribe in Bolivia, South America. In the process, Gil Prost restores God's transcendence rooted in the husband-wife covenantal relationship.Can this miraculous transformation among God's imagers be...

A comprehensive, inclusive, and practical guide to preventing and managing every common source of conflict and dispute at work, whether involving leaders, managers, employees, customers, vendors, or regulators.Author: Susan S. RainesPublisher: Rlpg/GalleysPublished: 10/01/2023Pages: 494Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 2.35lbsSize: 10.00h x 7.00w x 1.06dISBN: 9781538177969About the...

A must-have for any teacher transitioning to the Common Core State Standards to ensure their lesson plans meet the new standard's requirements. Use this handy guide for correlating existing lesson plans to the new standards, for new lesson plans, or as a quick reference...

Discover the 60-year history of the National Catholic Reporter Publishing Company, sustaining NCR's commitment to covering the nation, the world, the Catholic Church, and the Catholic faith. From the Second Vatican Council through the era of Pope Francis, this nonprofit has served as the...

A Sanskrit Grammar Including Both the Classical Language and the Older Dialects, of Veda and Brahmana by William Dwight Whitney is a comprehensive and authoritative guide to the Sanskrit language, offering readers a deep understanding of its classical form as well as its historical...

Unsparingly honest writings about America and raceOne of the most important American authors and public intellectuals of the twentieth century, Ralph Ellison had a keen and unsentimental understanding of the relationship between race, art, and activism in American life. He contended with other writers...

Take your novel to the next level.You've finished a few manuscripts, read books and articles on writing, taken some classes, attended conferences. But you still struggle with plot, or suspect that your plotting needs work.This book can help."Advanced Plotting is helping me to be...

The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of Henry James presents here a revision of his Literary Biography expanded with six further essays illuminating what he calls the New Biography--an approach that draws on the resources of psychoanalysis, the biographer's own subjectivity, and the skills of the...

Voice/Over: A Memoir Breakout in 7 Movies opens in the rural American west, following Faith Adiele's whimsical coming of age as the only multiracial girl in a Nordic immigrant family obsessed with movies and voting. Set on one particular infamous election day, the formally-inventive...

A concise and practical manual on developing reading, writing, and critical thinking skills in tandem For college students learning how to write on scholarly subjects, writing and critical thinking go hand in hand. And yet most books on these topics are categorized separately: writing...

A definitive study compiled from essays written by many noted authors on the various facets of the art of the novel, Theory of the Novel is Philip Stevick's latest collection of impressive works. A comprehensive anthology contain 53 commentaries on the various facets of...