Language Arts & Disciplines

This ground breaking book on the spoken, written and sung word for personal and social transformation emcompasses writing, storytelling, songs, drama, performance and other forms of the language arts as collective or personal tools for liberation. Whether through community storytelling for elders, individual journaling...

"This is a great book, no matter what stage of writing you're at "--The Writer Magazine"Here is a must-have for would-be writers. Put this on the shelf right beside Strunk and White."--Booklist"Addresses all the elements of successful writing."--Tampa Tribune"Advice on getting your work published...

20 Things You Must Know to Write a Great Screenplay is a practical, concrete, primer that teaches beginning through advanced screenwriters the skills necessary to write the most popular types of screenplays being produced in Hollywood today. It also includes a short, sample screenplay...

If you want to write fiction, then short stories are a great place to start. This book will help you to find ideas and teach you all the essential elements of short story writing. It covers plot and structure, conflict, dialogue, characterisation, settings, description,...

Learn To Read Rapidly With Phonics: Beginner Reader Book 6. A Fun, Colour In Phonic Reading SchemeGuinea Pig Education is proud to be launching an exciting, new revolutionary phonic reading scheme. Learn To Read With Phonics teaches reading rapidly, in as little as six...

Worlds Apart: A Dialogue of the 60's is a fictional conversation among eight people: a physicist, a biologist, a theologian, a philosopher, a psychiatrist, a teacher, a rocket scientist, and a lawyer. Energetic, wide-ranging and deeply penetrating, this brilliantly witty book points toward a...

This book has three essays, humorous and serious, relating to writing as Poe describes. How to Write a Blackwood's Article, The Philosophy of Composition, and X-ing a Paragraph. Poe himself investigated a variety of genres and styles of writing, from the erudite and abstruse...

Entertaining guide to sayings and expressions from an almost lost early rural culture. Helps explain some strange phraseology and other Midwestern talk. These sayings are colored with allusions from the past and touched with a bit of humor. Some may appear to be crude...

Have you ever wondered where your teachers or classmates came to learn such notions as "form and content" or "the writing process?" Zeigler demystifies writing pedagogy with this clear account of his teaching experiences. He shares the exercises he has used in the classroom...

Ziegler's classroom becomes a writing workshop where students are given direction, but where individual growth and personal interests are encouraged. The Writing Workshop: Volume 1 backs up numerous practical suggestions for teaching creative writing with discussions of the writing process and theory. Volume 2...

HIGHLIGHTS: This collaboration of Worsely and Mayer provides numerous fun approaches to the writing process-from note-taking to journal entries to essay completion. Many of the exercises use concepts like logic, basic math, permutations, the Fibonacci scale, and "Pascal's Triangle," as models on which to...

This edition of the seventh book of Lucan's De Bello Civili, also known as Pharsalia, was published by Cambridge University Press in 1960 and later reprinted by Bristol Classical Press. It is a revision by O.A.W. Dilke ofJ.P. Postgate's original 1896 edition. The introduction...

THE LEXICAL APPROACH develops current thinking, synthesizing the best insights of previous theory, corpus linguistics, discourse analysis, and modern approaches to grammar.Author: Michael LewisPublisher: Cengage LearningPublished: 01/01/1993Pages: 176Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 9.30h x 6.60w x 0.40dISBN: 9780906717998This title is only available via back order

Whether you are learning writing skills or teaching them, telling a life story can be a great beginning... We were all born with an authentic inner voice, one that spoke clearly when we were children. But most of us lose that pure, confident expression....

Swahili was once an obscure dialect of an East African Bantu language. Today more than one hundred million people use it: Swahili is to eastern and central Africa what English is to the world. From its embrace in the 1960s by the black freedom...

This is a dialectic and logic level course that prepares students for later academic pursuits. This 34-week course presents diverse writings, from Shakespeare to Jack London, Lewis Carroll to Longfellow, and Sir Walter Scott to C.S. Lewis. Students are taught to analyze key elements...

In The Decolonizing Poetics of Indigenous Literatures, Mareike Neuhaus uncovers residues of ancestral languages found in Indigenous uses of English. She shows how these remainders ground a reading strategy that enables us to approach Indigenous texts as literature, with its own discursive and rhetorical...

These seven tales are the traditional teaching stories of Nenapohs, the Saulteaux culture hero and trickster. Oral in origin, they have been passed on through generations by the traditional teachers, the Elders. For the first time, they are published and made available in Nahkawewin...

Auto/biography in Canada: Critical Directions widens the field of auto/biography studies with its sophisticated multidisciplinary perspectives on the theory, criticism, and practice of self, community, and representation. Rather than considering autobiography and biography as discrete genres with definable properties, and rather than focusing on...

Working from the premise that linguistics is not many disciplines, but one, this edition provides young scholars with an understanding of why and how the discipline is academically sustainable.Author: Albert WeidemanPublisher: Paideia Press / Reformational Publishing ProjPublished: 08/22/2011Pages: 192Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.64lbsSize: 9.02h x...