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Rhetorical Realism responds to the surging interest in nonhumans across the humanities by exploring how realist commitments have historically accompanied understandings of rhetoric from antiquity to the present. For a discipline that often defines itself according to human speech and writing, the nonhuman turn poses a number of challenges and opportunities for rhetoric. To date, many of the responses to the nonhuman turn in rhetoric have sought to address rhetoric s compatibility with new conceptions of materiality. In Rhetorical Realism, Scot Barnett extends this work by...

Wie entwickle ich ein Forschungsdesign fur eine empirische Studie? Wie gliedere ich eine Seminararbeit? Was schreibe ich in der Einleitung? Wie viele Quellen soll ich verarbeiten? Wo verlauft die Grenze zwischen einem sinngemassen Zitat und einem Plagiat? Wie zitiere ich Texte aus dem Internet? Wer eine wissenschaftliche Arbeit verfassen mochte, muss wissen, wie man Erkenntnisse nach den Spielregeln der Wissenschaft" vermittelt. Nicht nur Forschende, auch Studierende mussen sich an die wissenschaftlichen Standards halten. Das vorliegende Lehrbuch fuhrt in die Grundlagen der...

"As a WPA who recently transitioned into being a department chair, I was pulled in from the first paragraph. . . . A Critical Look at Institutional Mission is a welcome gap-filler, focusing on the 'mission' as a fulcrum for academic writing/program-building activities. I think it's a critical collection that confronts the rhetorical power of institutional goals rather than connecting alignment to a more ethereal 'big bad.' . . . T]he book focuses on the mission statement as an artifact that offers insight into our institutional discussions about what we value, how we imagine learning to...

Want to add blood to your scenes without making a mess? Too many authors get squeamish or sloppy about including the red stuff in their stories. As a research guide, Blood Spatter presents an accurate and accessible gateway into the world of blood spatter and its analysis.

Written as a resource for the professional author, this "Forensics for Fiction" title provides user-friendly approaches to realistic details by covering:

• Terms and techniques of spatter analysis
• Patterns associated with different weapons
• Physical properties...

Writing Program Administration Series - Series Editors: Susan H. McLeod and Margot Soven

A RHETORIC FOR WRITING PROGRAM ADMINISTRATORS (2nd Edition) presents the major issues and questions in the field of writing program administration. The collection provides aspiring, new, and seasoned WPAs with the theoretical lenses, terminologies, historical contexts, and research they need to understand the nature, history, and complexities of their intellectual and administrative work. Each of the thirty-six chapters asks a direct question about an issue WPAs will need or want to answer,...

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CHILDREN'S PICTURE BOOK TO CHARM THE GENERATIONS

Kids and books--they just go together. Children's picture books are an addictive passion You love reading to kids and wish that you could read one of your own. Now, you can make that dream a reality.

Writing illustrated picture books for children can seem deceptively simple. You must tell a complete story in less than 1000 words, and less than 350 words is best. Characters grow and change and keep the reader emotionally invested, while also...