Language Arts & Disciplines

Black & white print.Writing Guide with Handbook aligns to the goals, topics, and objectives of many first-year writing and composition courses. It is organized according to relevant genres, and focuses on the writing process, effective writing practices or strategies-including graphic organizers, writing frames, and...

A clear, accessible, and fun guide on everything it takes to land a job. Searching for a job can be hard and demoralizing work. In Why You, Why Me, Why Now, Rachel Toor delivers some good news. The most important thing is within your...

Have you always wanted to write a novel?Emily Winslow will help you develop the mindset and skills to get you started, keep you going, and see you through. Time to Write is a creative writing guide aimed at anyone who wants to write a...

Thrilling, stylish essays about everything from flying carpets and Doctor Zhivago to God and Shakespeare, by a rediscovered Italian writer.Christina Campo published only two short collections of essays in her lifetime: Fairy Tale and Mystery (1962) and The Flute and the Carpet (1971). The...

"Likely to be among the definitive works on library architecture, this book is exhaustive in covering what one needs to know when taking on a library construction project," raved Choice about the first edition. Now, with experienced library architect Huberty onboard to contribute his...

The Norton Field Guide lets instructors teach the way they want to teach, and helps students write in the way that works best for them. In the Sixth Edition, new coauthor Deborah Bertsch shows students how to adapt their writing to new rhetorical situations...

Wherever the same component appears in kanji (Chinese characters used in Japanese), its core meaning and/or sound is the same or closely related to every other kanji with the same component because they were derived from the same origins. This book explains those origins...

An adaptable guide for anyone who wants to communicate with compassion in a rapidly changing environment. Most of us want to choose inclusive, respectful, and empowering language when communicating with or about others. But language--and how we use it--continually evolves, along with cultural norms....

The first comprehensive guide to the business of writing for today's stage.Author: Dana SingerPublisher: Theatre Communications GroupPublished: 05/01/1996Pages: 192Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.11lbsSize: 9.03h x 6.03w x 0.83dISBN: 9781559361163

Grab your pencil and get ready to fill in the blanks to create a writing plan for your story that you can soon share with the world!Author: Mark Victor Hansen, Steve GottryPublisher: G&D MediaPublished: 11/16/2020Pages: 132Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.41lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.28dISBN:...

When did English become American? What distinctive qualities made it American? What role have America's democratizing impulses, and its vibrantly heterogeneous speakers, played in shaping our language and separating it from the mother tongue? A wide-ranging account of American English, Richard Bailey's Speaking American...

Learn how to speak Arabic the easy and fun way With the help of Tuty, the cheeky cockatoo, and Belle, the beautiful cat, children can learn to speak the fourth most spoken language in the world - and fast. You can use it even...

Regina Luttrell and Adrienne A. Wallace present an engaging introduction of social media's integration with modern society. Recognizing categories of relational, societal, and self while analyzing the social media environment, this introductory mass communications textbook establishes a framework for understanding how technology, culture, democracy,...

Whether a second language is learned as a child, teenager, or as an adult, second language acquisition research has noted certain patterns that can help ESL/EFL teachers prepare their lessons. Learn the three essential components of ESL/EFL students' learning and other factors that can...

New title in the Flame Tree Blank Notebook collection, combining beautiful art with high-quality production, with blank pages, a pocket at the back and two ribbon bookmarks. Perfect as a gift, or an essential personal choice for writers, note takers, artists and list makers....

In Revolution in Poetic Language, Julia Kristeva explicates her foundational distinction between the semiotic and the symbolic and explores their interrelationships. Linking the psychosomatic to the literary and the literary to a larger political horizon, she questions the premises of linguistic, psychoanalytic, philosophical, and...

Prepare your students to succeed on state tests! Test-prep made easy! Reading Comprehension: Paired Text grade 5 is an easy-to-use resource that includes 8 paired text units with everything you need to practice reading comprehension skills. Use Evan-Moor's grade 5 paired text units to...

"I never understood how much drama is used and how valuable it can be. The experience opened my eyes. Enormous wealth of knowledge--you have shared so much with us and we are forever grateful."--Courtney McBride, teacher, Washington, DCAuthor: Nick Newlin, William ShakespearePublisher: Nicolo Whimsey...

Fully updated for the thirteenth edition, the award-winning The Art of Public Speaking offers a time-tested approach that has made it the most widely used college textbook on its subject in the world. Seamlessly coordinated with Connect, McGraw-Hill Education's pathbreaking online program, it supplies...

The Pandemic and Covid-19 has turned education in the USA on it's head.Teachers who got into education because they wanted to make a difference in the lives of kids has been challenged with teaching from home virtually via zoom.In his new groundbreaking book, life-long...