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Saved from Oblivion: Documenting the Daily from Diaries to Web Cams
ISBN: 9780820461953 / Angielski / Miękka / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What lies behind our need to rigorously document the thoughts, deeds, images, and sounds of everyday life? And more curiously, why would anyone want to spend time going over such material? At any given point someone is using a pen, a camera, a web cam, or a computer to document with varying degrees of detail, personal thoughts, observations, or glimpses of private space and life. And for each of these, there is usually at least one person reading, watching, and even responding. Saved from Oblivion is a comparative analysis of how individuals have used various media technologies to...
What lies behind our need to rigorously document the thoughts, deeds, images, and sounds of everyday life? And more curiously, why would anyone want t...
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Methods for Teaching Travel Literature and Writing: Exploring the World and Self
ISBN: 9780820470863 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The contributors to Methods for Teaching Travel Literature and Writing: Exploring the World and Self discuss how and why they have integrated travel literature and writing into their courses. Subjects range from the study of travel literature granting insight into how travel authors, such as Bill Bryson and Paul Theroux, convince readers to -buy into- their worlds and reflect the readers positions in society, to contemplating the meanings of the words -traveler- and -tourist-. Other chapters examine how actual traveling can shape students writing and vice versa, whereas still others...
The contributors to Methods for Teaching Travel Literature and Writing: Exploring the World and Self discuss how and why they have integrated t...
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The Use of English in Institutional and Business Settings: An Intercultural Perspective
ISBN: 9783039108893 / Angielski / Miękka / 382 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Composition Studies Through a Feminist Lens
ISBN: 9781602354142 / Angielski / Miękka / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. LENSES ON COMPOSITION STUDIES Edited by Sheryl I. Fontaine and Steve Westbrook COMPOSITION STUDIES THROUGH A FEMINIST LENS offers students a lucid and engaging introduction to the discipline's history, struggles, and accomplishments through the lens of feminism. By illuminating a vast array of feminist contributions to the rhetorical tradition, writing theory, and classroom pedagogy, Shari J. Stenberg shows how feminist scholars have made Composition Studies a more inclusive and innovative field. Stenberg introduces Composition Studies through three of its origin stories-the Harvard exam, the...
LENSES ON COMPOSITION STUDIES Edited by Sheryl I. Fontaine and Steve Westbrook COMPOSITION STUDIES THROUGH A FEMINIST LENS offers students a lucid and...
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The Best of the Independent Rhetoric and Composition Journals 2011
ISBN: 9781602353121 / Angielski / Miękka / 362 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. THE BEST OF THE INDEPENDENT RHETORIC AND COMPOSITION JOURNALS 2011 represents the result of a nationwide conversation-beginning with journal editors, but expanding to teachers, scholars and workers across the discipline of Rhetoric and Composition-to select essays that showcase the innovative and transformative work now being published in the field's independent journals. Representing both print and digital journals in Rhetoric and Composition, the essays featured here explore issues ranging from classroom practice to writing in global and digital contexts, from writing workshops to community...
THE BEST OF THE INDEPENDENT RHETORIC AND COMPOSITION JOURNALS 2011 represents the result of a nationwide conversation-beginning with journal editors, ...
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The Pursuit of Perfection: And How It Harms Writers
ISBN: 9780615774282 / Angielski / Miękka / 62 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this WMG Writer's Guide, international bestselling author Kristine Kathryn Rusch discusses the destructive ways peer workshops and the quest for perfection derail many writers' careers. Listening to critics and academics-amateur and professional-often strips out the joy of writing. And a failure to recognize writing as a business furthers the potential damage. But Rusch offers hope for writers who have suffered at the hands of critique-external and internal-and outlines a path to healing.
In this WMG Writer's Guide, international bestselling author Kristine Kathryn Rusch discusses the destructive ways peer workshops and the quest for pe...
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Story Building Solutions: A Guide to Rolling the Writing Blocks Idea Dice
ISBN: 9781482326451 / Angielski / Miękka / 48 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Writing Blocks Idea Dice(r) were invented as a fun, easy to use tool that will spark your creativity and help you reconnect with your imagination. Each of the Blocks have a specific purpose and theme and multiple functions. "Story Builidng Solutions," the 48-page companion guidebook for the Writing Blocks Idea Dice(r), explores the many ways to create a story, spark plot ideas, improve the sagging middle of your manuscript, and to work through writer's block. Includes jumpstarts, worksheets, and dozens of movie examples. "The Story Building Solutions guide alone is a great tool for...
The Writing Blocks Idea Dice(r) were invented as a fun, easy to use tool that will spark your creativity and help you reconnect with your imagination....
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Home Ground: A Guide to the American Landscape
ISBN: 9781595341754 / Angielski / Miękka / 578 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hailed by book reviewers as a "masterpiece," "gorgeous and fascinating," and "sheer pleasure," Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape was published in fall 2006 in hardcover. It was met with outstanding reviews and strong sales, going into three printings. A language-lover's dream, this visionary reference revitalized a descriptive language for the American landscape by combining geography, literature, and folklore in one volume. This is a totally redesigned, near-pocket-sized field guide edition of the best-selling hardcover. Home Ground brings together 45 poets and writers to...
Hailed by book reviewers as a "masterpiece," "gorgeous and fascinating," and "sheer pleasure," Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape was pub...
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How the Light Gets in: Writing as a Spiritual Practice
ISBN: 9780199933983 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "When I begin to write, I open myself and wait. And when I turn toward an inner spiritual awareness, I open myself and wait." With that insight, Pat Schneider invites readers to contemplate their lives and deepest questions through writing. In seventeen concise thematic chapters that include meditations on topics such as fear, freedom, tradition in writing and in religions, forgiveness, joy, social justice, and death, How the Light Gets In gracefully guides readers through the artistic and spiritual questions that life offers to everyone.
Praised as a "fuse lighter" by author Julia... "When I begin to write, I open myself and wait. And when I turn toward an inner spiritual awareness, I open myself and wait." With that insight, Pat S...
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The Mythic Guide to Characters: Writing Characters Who Enchant and Inspire
ISBN: 9780615752310 / Angielski / Miękka / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How do you create characters who are so compelling that they hook readers from the start? As a professor, writer, and philosopher, Dr. Antonio del Drago has immersed himself in the literary and mythological traditions of the world. His search for answers led him to uncover the common elements behind all great myths and stories. Applying this knowledge to the writing of characters, he has developed a layered approach to character creation. In this guide, you will discover: The secret to writing multidimensional characters How to develop your character's unconscious motivations Four... How do you create characters who are so compelling that they hook readers from the start? As a professor, writer, and philosopher, Dr. Antonio d... |
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Mapping the Line: Poets on Teaching
ISBN: 9780972947817 / Angielski / Miękka / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Here are twenty classroom-tested exercises that really work, written and used by some of America's best teachers and writers of poetry. Meant for the student and teacher alike, Mapping the Line is also meant for those who have never been in a poetry writing class but have, perhaps, been writing on their own or have been wanting to. This collection is a good place to begin, and to continue.
Here are twenty classroom-tested exercises that really work, written and used by some of America's best teachers and writers of poetry. Meant for the ...
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The Writer's Passage: a journey to the sources of creativity
ISBN: 9780980293111 / Angielski / Miękka / 398 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Writer's Passage is a journey through time in which writers engage with all the vital stages in the history of world literature. In this course of thirty-five lessons, millennia of human experience is turned by way of the alchemy of story into fuel for new creative writing. The journey begins in the childhood of language - in nursery rhyme, fable and fairy tale and then turns to the powerful myths of creation. Myths bestow a powerful charge - simply to hear them can be salutary. To engage with them through creative writing intensifies the experience exponentially, bringing them fully...
The Writer's Passage is a journey through time in which writers engage with all the vital stages in the history of world literature. In this course of...
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The Creative Writing Workbook: The practical way to improve your writing skills
ISBN: 9781444185768 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Are you inspired to write a novel, short story or your life story, but don't know where to start? Do you want to improve your writing skills when using social media and blogging, or do you have an aspiration to become a freelance writer?This new Teach Yourself Workbook, written by a successful published author, accompanies you every step of your way to becoming a writer, with insider tips and techniques, guided, accessible exercises to get you writing, case studies drawn from published works and many more features ideal for budding writers who want to develop their ability through a...
Are you inspired to write a novel, short story or your life story, but don't know where to start? Do you want to improve your writing skills when usin...
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Here I Am a Writer
ISBN: 9781481876650 / Angielski / Miękka / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Here I Am a Writer contains poems and stories produced by teacher Christopher "Kit" McIlroy's Native American students involved in the school ArtsReach program in Arizona. A decade or more after these intensive writing sessions took place, McIlroy went in search of the young writers who'd opened their hearts in his classes, to see how they'd fared in the intervening years and if they were still writing at all. What he chronicles is as much his journey of discovery as theirs. While the unifying focus of the book is writing, how these amateur writers' talents were uncovered, how they touched...
Here I Am a Writer contains poems and stories produced by teacher Christopher "Kit" McIlroy's Native American students involved in the school ArtsReac...
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How to Sound Clever: Master the 600 English words you pretend to understand...when you don't
ISBN: 9781408194560 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How to Sound Clever explains the etymology of 600 key words you really ought to know, but haven't had the time to look up in the dictionary. Each entry features an etymological description as well as useful example phrases so that readers can quickly see the correct context for each word. Anecdotes and witty illustrations appear throughout to make a book that is entertaining and will help the reader to boost their vocabulary. An ideal gift and a useful book for everyone have to hand when they come across a word you should know, but don't. Colin Dexter has described How to... How to Sound Clever explains the etymology of 600 key words you really ought to know, but haven't had the time to look up in the dictionary.... |
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Cultivating Ecologies for Digital Media Work: The Case of English Studies
ISBN: 9780809332960 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The onslaught of the digital age has rapidly redefined the parameters of virtually every aspect of daily life, and the world of academic scholarship is no exception. In English departments across American institutions of higher education, faculty members face an uphill battle in the struggle for professional recognition of their digital works. In "Cultivating Ecologies for Digital Media Work," author Catherine C. Braun calls for a shift in thinking about the professional methods and digital goals of the English studies discipline and its central texts.
Braun s in-depth study documents... The onslaught of the digital age has rapidly redefined the parameters of virtually every aspect of daily life, and the world of academic scholarship i...
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Adapting Novel to Screenplay: Everything In Its Path
ISBN: 9781484010228 / Angielski / Miękka / 314 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When Steve Alcorn, the author of the novel Everything In Its Path, decided to adapt his story for the big screen, he turned to screenwriter Dani Alcorn for guidance. Nineteen drafts later, what emerged was a screenplay with depth, conflict and historical significance, but one very different from the novel. Characters had aged, a love story had been added, and the fates of the players had changed. This reference incorporates the original text of the novel, plus two versions of the script, along with notes on the development process and reasoning behind the changes. Also included are the...
When Steve Alcorn, the author of the novel Everything In Its Path, decided to adapt his story for the big screen, he turned to screenwriter Dani Alcor...
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Composition Studies 41.1 (Spring 2013)
ISBN: 9781602354388 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. CONTENTS OF COMPOSITION STUDIES 41.1(Spring 2013) ARTICLES "Institutionalizing Normal: Rethinking Composition's Precedence in Normal Schools" by Ryan Skinnell "Transitioning Writers across the Composition Threshold: What We Can Learn from Dual Enrollment Partnerships" by Christine Denecker "Truth, Memory, Selectivity: Understanding Historical Work by Writing Personal Histories" by Duncan Koerber Where Professional Writing Meets Social Change: The Grant Proposal as a Site of Hospitality" by Kenna Barrett "The Historical Problem of Vertical Coherence: Writing, Research, and Legitimacy in Early...
CONTENTS OF COMPOSITION STUDIES 41.1(Spring 2013) ARTICLES "Institutionalizing Normal: Rethinking Composition's Precedence in Normal Schools" by Ryan ...
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Poetry: Tools & Techniques: A Practical Guide to Writing Engaging Poetry
ISBN: 9780986965722 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Want to improve your craft? Then this is a good place to start. Poems do not simply happen, they are made - Poetry: Tools & Techniques shows how to make them. In plain, straight-forward language, this practical guide introduces the devices and techniques used by successful poets. Poetry: Tools & Techniques is a starting point for writers to find their own direction rather than a definitive textbook on how to write in the proper and approved manner. Poetry: Tools & Techniques investigates the structure of language and how it conveys meaning - and from that shows how to create and use a poetic,...
Want to improve your craft? Then this is a good place to start. Poems do not simply happen, they are made - Poetry: Tools & Techniques shows how to ma...
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What's Next for This Beginning Writer? Revision: Mini-Lessons That Take Writing from Scribbles to Script
ISBN: 9781551382746 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Organized to meet the needs of teachers, the revised edition puts even more emphasis on the natural stages that children move through in their journey to becoming writers. Based on the work of real K-2 students, What's Next for This Beginning Writer shows teachers how to interpret student work, identify what they know, and build naturally on the writing strengths their work displays. A series of Writing Workshop lessons show teachers how to talk with students to celebrate their work, extend their learning, and set goals for their next piece of writing. This comprehensive book includes...
Organized to meet the needs of teachers, the revised edition puts even more emphasis on the natural stages that children move through in their journey...
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