Language Arts & Disciplines

This edited collection of seven critical essays is focused on the changing dynamics of academic librarianship through the lens of Canadian professionals responding to the corporatization of their scholarly workplaces and the erosion of their communities of practice. The contributors' underlying concern is the...

Developed as a companion to The Writer's Handbook for Social Work, the third edition of 12 Workshops for Writing in Social Work offers students a series of one-hour workshops, which can be completed individually or through group instruction. Each workshop builds upon the last...

Write About Now includes interviews with zombie whisperer Max Brooks, The Nightingale author Kristin Hannah, designer Betsey Johnson, #1 New York Times bestselling author David Grann and so much more.When Jonathan Small began interviewing bestselling writers for his podcast Write About Now, he didn't...

This book provides an original, full-scale, exploration in applying the principles and practices of Systemic-Functional Linguistics at the level of word phonology in English, German, Welsh and Tera (Nigeria). The relationship between lexicogrammar and word phonology is demonstrated, and the place of word phonology...

Weaving It Together helps learners build reading and writing skills through relevant readings and carefully structured writing exercises. By balancing these two necessary competencies, learners seamlessly develop both language and academic skills.Author: Milada BroukalPublisher: Heinle ELTPublished: 04/20/2015Pages: 288Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.30lbsSize: 9.90h x 7.90w...

Visual-Gestural Communication is a truly unique volume in non-language communication devoted to the study of universal gestures, facial expressions, body language, and pantomime. Readers develop the skill and confidence to interact -- sans shared language -- with individuals, 　such as someone who is deaf...

Today, transparency is a widely heralded value, and the U.S. Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) is often held up as one of the transparency movement's canonical achievements. Yet while many view the law as a powerful tool for journalists, activists, and ordinary citizens to...

En preskau ĉiu numero de La Brita Esperantisto inter 1991 kaj 1999 troviĝis anglalingva teksteto kun invito ĝin esperantigi. Tradukemaj legantoj sendis al William Auld siajn solvojn, kaj en la tuj posta numero la redaktoro prikomentis apartajn vortojn kaj esprimojn, aljuĝis premi-etojn kaj aperigis...

This book draws together the scientific research on how we process and interpret emoji. Most books on the subject of emoji explain how we use emoji and the functions they serve for the sender, but very do very little to address the receiver's perspective....

This book explores Margaret Atwood's distinctive use of language and style, across a selection of her prose texts, through reader-centred, cognitive stylistic analyses. It examines how strategies of misdirection, processes of doubling, and the creation of textual ambience play an essential role in Atwood's...

The Handbook of Academic Writing offers practical advice to busy academics who want, and are often required, to integrate writing into their working lives. It defines what academic writing is, and the process of getting started through to completion, covering topics such as: gaining...

Have you ever dreamed of speaking a foreign language with fluency and confidence? "The Fluent in 3 Months Challenge: How to Learn a New Language in Just 3 Months" is your passport to a world of linguistic adventure.In this comprehensive guide, you'll embark on...

The Erotic as Rhetorical Power offers a queer feminist history of rhetoric that recovers the civic contributions of women teachers in same-sex romantic friendships. Extending perspectives from ancient rhetoric to nineteenth-century progressivism, from Audre Lorde's Black lesbian feminist theory to its present-day uptakes, Pamela...

The Case for Critical Literacy explores the history of reading within writing studies and lays the foundation for understanding the impact of this critical, yet often untaught, skill. Every measure of students' reading comprehension, whether digital or analog, demonstrates that between 50 and 80...

For too long marginalized authors have been held captive by the struggling writer stereotype. The Authorpreneur Handbook dismantles this myth by following Dr. Yarber's three-part coaching method, empowering authors in Book Doula Writing, Book Diva Marketing, and Book DreamMaker Authorpreneurship. This method has helped...

In this book, scholar-practitioners offer alternatives to the five-chapter thesis crafted in the tradition of science reports. As authors of meritiorious and award-winning dissertations, they provide insights into the challenging process of conceptualizing interpretive methods of inquiry including narrative, heuristic, social cartography, grounded theory,...

In this book, scholar-practitioners offer alternatives to the traditional five-chapter thesis format. As authors of meritorious and award-winning dissertations, they provide insights into the challenging process of crafting interpretive methods of dissertation inquiry. In addition, they relate their struggles to claim for themselves the...

This book offers a wealth of ideas and activities to practise and develop writing skills. It introduces different approaches to teaching writing, managing writing lessons and giving feedback. It covers all language levels from A1 to C2 and explores a range of writing contexts...

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An engaging introduction to standards, the invisible infrastructure that shapes the built and digital environments of the modern world. Standards are the DNA of the built environment, encoded in nearly all objects that surround us in the modern world. In Standards, Jeffrey Pomerantz and...