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Writing Anthropology: Essays on Craft and Commitment - Paperback

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by Carole McGranahan (Editor)In Writing Anthropology, fifty-two anthropologists reflect on scholarly writing as both craft and commitment. These short essays cover a wide range of territory, from ethnography, genre, and the politics of writing to affect, storytelling, authorship, and scholarly responsibility. Anthropological writing is more than just communicating findings: anthropologists write to tell stories that matter, to be accountable to the communities in which they do their research,...

The Logic of Academic Writing - Hardcover

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by Fabrizio Macagno (Author), Chrysi Rapanta (Author)The Logic of Academic Writing was developed from a practical educational need, namely teaching early-year Ph.D. students some basic ideas on how they can structure their arguments in ways that may make sense for an academic paper to be written and consequently published. The authors' research expertise is in argumentation studies: the discipline that analyzes how arguments are produced, evaluated, and addressed, considering the pragmatic, l...

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Tuttle Pocket Indonesian Dictionary: Indonesian-English English-Indonesian - Paperback

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by Katherine Davidsen (Author)Users requiring a quick and handy reference work for Indonesian, particularly when they are out and about, need look no further than the Tuttle Pocket Indonesian Dictionary. This dictionary has been specially designed for foreigners working or traveling in Indonesia. It is equally useful for Indonesians who live abroad or in an English-speaking environment. No knowledge of Indonesian grammar or word formation is necessary to use this helpful dictionary--simply l...

TOEFL Vocabulary Advanced Masterclass - Paperback

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by Marc Roche (Author)"TOEFL Vocabulary Advanced Masterclass. Master TOEFL Essay Vocabulary, Summary Vocabulary & Speaking Vocabulary for Quick TOEFL Test Revision. Essential TOEFL IBT Book", from the Essential TOEFL IBT Test Book Series, is a complete TOEFL self-study book which focuses on practical English usage and vocabulary for the official TOEFL Test.The writing part of the TOEFL test is often the most intimidating for many students, and this TOEFL vocabulary book, is a full self-st...

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Lost in Media: Migrant Perspectives and the Public Sphere - Paperback

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by Ismail Einashe (Editor), Thomas Roueché (Editor)How can migrants represent themselves in public debate? Lost in Media argues for new terms of participationThis volume gathers critical responses to the representations of migrants in the media in Europe through nine essays by prominent writers, artists and journalists. The starting point is the assertion that migrants may have entered European countries, but they have not yet entered the public sphere. When they do, it is as characters in ot...

Struggle for a Multilingual Future: Youth and Education in Sri Lanka - Paperback

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by Christina P. Davis (Author)In The Struggle for a Multilingual Future, Christina Davis examines the tension between ethnic conflict and multilingual education policy in the linguistic and social practices of Sri Lankan minority youth. Facing a legacy of post-independence language and education policies that were among the complex causes of the Sri Lankan civil war (1983 - 2009), the government has recently sought to promote interethnic integration through trilingual language policies in Sin...

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Stolen Sharpie Revolution: A DIY Zine Resource - Paperback

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by Alex Wrekk (Author)Since 2002, Stolen Sharpie Revolution: a DIY Resource for Zines and Zine Culture has been the go-to guide for all things zine related. This little red book is stuffed with information about zines. Things you may know, stuff you don't know and even stuff you didn't know you didn't know Stolen Sharpie Revolution contains a cornucopia of information about zines and zine culture for everyone from the zine newbie to the experienced zinester to the academic researcher. Number...

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Writing to Persuade: How to Bring People Over to Your Side - Paperback

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by Trish Hall (Author)In the tradition of The Elements of Style comes Trish Hall's essential new work on writing well--a sparkling instructional guide to persuading (almost) anyone, on (nearly) anything. As the person in charge of the Op-Ed page for the New York Times, Hall spent years immersed in argument, passion, and trendsetting ideas--but also in tangled sentences, migraine-inducing jargon, and dull-as-dishwater writing. Drawing on her vast experience editing everyone from Nobel Prize wi...

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Story Power: Secrets to Creating, Crafting, and Telling Memorable Stories (Verbal Communication, Presentations, Relationships, How to Influence People - Paperback

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by Kate Farrell (Author), Susan Wittig Albert (Foreword by)In today's noisy, techie, automated world, storytelling is not only relevant, it's vital. Story Power provides techniques for creating and framing personal stories and effective tips for telling them in any setting. Number of Pages: 272 Dimensions: 0.87 x 8.43 x 5.43 IN Publication Date: June 16, 2020

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Sounds Appealing: The Passionate Story of English Pronunciation - Paperback

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by David Crystal (Author)It's not what you say, it's the way that you say it ... There have long been debates about 'correct' pronunciation in the English language, and Britain's most distinguished linguistic expert, David Crystal, is here to set the record straight. Sounds Appealing tells us exactly why, and how, we pronounce words as we do. Pronunciation is integral to communication, and is tailored to meet the demands of the two main forces behind language: intelligibility and identity. Eq...

Contemporary Publishing and the Culture of Books - Paperback

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by Alison Baverstock (Editor), Richard Bradford (Editor), Madelena Gonzalez (Editor)Contemporary Publishing and the Culture of Books is a comprehensive resource that builds bridges between the traditional focus and methodologies of literary studies and the actualities of modern and contemporary literature, including the realities of professional writing, the conventions and practicalities of the publishing world, and its connections between literary publishing and other media. Focusing on the...

Making Sense of People and Place in Linguistic Landscapes - Paperback

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by Amiena Peck (Editor), Tommaso M. Milani (Editor), Christopher Stroud (Editor)This volume offers comprehensive analyses of how we live continuously in a multiplicity and simultaneity of 'places'. It explores what it means to be in place, the variety of ways in which meanings of place are made and how relationships to others are mediated through the linguistic and material semiotics of place. Drawing on examples of linguistic landscapes (LL) over the world, such as gentrified landscapes in J...

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by Anja Mittelstedt (Author)Seminar paper from the year 2018 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1.0, University of Potsdam, course: Chicana Life Writing, language: English, abstract: The title of the book "The House on Mango Street" raises expectations and creates questions of its content and intent. Will it be the story of a family in the south, where Mangos grow? Will we meet different characters who inhabit the same house one after another? Or will the house be one-of-its...

John Donne's Metaphysical Love Poetry: The Unity of Souls as Self-Deception or Superiority in Donne's Poem

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by Sabine Strebel (Author)Seminar paper from the year 2018 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: 2,0, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, language: English, abstract: Most people would think of Shakespeare if they were asked for the most famous poet of the Elizabethan era. He invented the "Shakespearean Sonnet" after all, which is probably the only type of Renaissance poem German students have to read during their school career. However, Shakespeare was...

The Dualism of Ecocentrism and Anthropocentrism in T.C. Boyle's

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by Ann-Kathrin Latter (Author)Seminar paper from the year 2019 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, language: English, abstract: Since our very beginnings as a species, we human beings have always struggled to improve the painful conditions of our existence. But, as we discovered more technologies which helped us live safer lives, this strive for well-being and progress has also led us further and further away from our natural origins,...

TESOL Certification: Introducing the main requirements of a Cert TESOL course - Paperback

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by Paul Rogers (Author)This book provides a general introduction to TESOL certificate courses. Number of Pages: 152 Dimensions: 0.35 x 9.02 x 5.98 IN Publication Date: September 28, 2019

Sound structure and sound change - Hardcover

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by Rebecca Morley (Author)Research in linguistics, as in most other scientific domains, is usually approached in a modular way - narrowing the domain of inquiry in order to allow for increased depth of study. This is necessary and productive for a topic as wide-ranging and complex as human language. However, precisely because language is a complex system, tied to perception, learning, memory, and social organization, the assumption of modularity can also be an obstacle to understanding langua...

Makerspace and Collaborative Technologies: A LITA Guide - Paperback

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by Beth Thomsett-Scott (Editor)This book explores how patrons are using innovative technologies utilizing real-life case studies from a variety of academic institutions. Discover which technologies they are using, how they are using them, and the purposes of use. Authors include best practices on designing space, marketing the technology, and collaborating to enhance the use.Author BiographyBeth Thomsett-Scott is the Head of the Engineering Library at Penn State. She is the liaison to the Col...

More Justice, More Peace: When Peacemakers Are Advocates - Hardcover

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by Susanne Terry (Editor)More Justice, More Peace: When Peacemakers are Advocates is an attempt to broaden the vision of those practitioners with a passion for bringing about necessary change in our society who also work to bring people together to explore issues, solve problems, and overcome differences.Author BiographySusanne Terry is a pioneer in mediation and conflict education. She was one of the first mediators and conflict educators in the state of Vermont and was instrumental in writi...

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Grief's Country: A Memoir in Pieces - Paperback

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by Gail Griffin (Author)Gail Griffin had only been married for four months when her husband's body was found in the Manistee River, just a few yards from their cabin door. The terrain of memoir is full of stories of grief, though Grief's Country: A Memoir in Pieces is less concerned with the biography of a love affair than with the lived phenomenon of grief itself-what it does to the mind, heart, and body; how it functions almost as an organism. The book's intimacy is at times nearly disarmin...

Embodiment, Relation, Community: A Continental Philosophy of Communication - Paperback

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by Garnet C. Butchart (Author)Integrates the perspectives of Giorgio Agamben, Roberto Esposito, Jean-Luc Nancy, and Lacanian psychoanalysis to distinguish communication theory from the philosophy of communication. Author Biography Garnet C. Butchart is Assistant Professor of Communication and Rhetorical Studies at Duquesne University. Number of Pages: 208 Dimensions: 0.48 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: March 06, 2020

Handbook of Communication Disorders: Theoretical, Empirical, and Applied Linguistic Perspectives - Paperback

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by Amalia Bar-On (Editor), Dorit Ravid (Editor)The domain of Communication Disorders has grown exponentially in the last two decades and has come to encompass much more than audiology, speech impediments and early language impairment. The realization that most developmental and learning disorders are language-based or language-related has brought insights from theoretical and empirical linguistics and its clinical applications to the forefront of Communication Disorders science. The current h...

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Why They Can't Write: Killing the Five-Paragraph Essay and Other Necessities - Paperback

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by John Warner (Author)An important challenge to what currently masquerades as conventional wisdom regarding the teaching of writing.There seems to be widespread agreement that--when it comes to the writing skills of college students--we are in the midst of a crisis. In Why They Can't Write, John Warner, who taught writing at the college level for two decades, argues that the problem isn't caused by a lack of rigor, or smartphones, or some generational character defect. Instead, he asserts, w...

Best of the Journals in Rhetoric and Composition 2019 - Paperback

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by Jessica Pauszek (Editor), Kristi Girdharry (Editor), Charles Lesh (Editor)Edited by Jessica Pauszek, Kristi Girdharry, Charles Lesh, David Blakesley, and Steve ParksBest of the Journals in Rhetoric and Composition Series Edited by Jessica Pauszek, Kristi Girdharry, and Charles LeshBest of the Journals in Rhetoric and Composition 2019 represents the result of a nationwide conversation--beginning with journal editors, but expanding to teachers, scholars and workers across the discipline of R...

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Joel Sartore: Saving Endangered Animals - Paperback

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by National Geographic Learning (Author)Joel Sartore is a National Geographic photographer and founder of the Photo Ark. This project raises awareness of all animals. Joel wants people to care for, fall in love with, and take action to help save these animals. Dimensions: 0.2 x 10.5 x 8.1 IN Publication Date: October 14, 2019

Captivating French Short Stories for A2 Level + AUDIO: Improve your French Reading and Listening Comprehension Skills with 29 Short Stories - Paperback

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by Eugene Gotye (Author)David and Robert decided to work for the police. They have to deal with crimes now. But all those crimes have something in common. They are, as well as the other stories in this book, either happened in a silly way or finished unpredictably, making readers smile and reread each story to better understand it. The stories are equipped with vocabulary lists and parallel translation. The audio tracks are available online inclusive. Number of Pages: 148 Dimensions: 0.32 x 1...

How to Build a Story . . . Or, the Big What If - Hardcover

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by Frances O'Roark Dowell (Author), Stacy Ebert (Illustrator)From bestselling author Frances O'Roark Dowell comes a fresh and accessible guide to storytelling that breaks down the sometimes-daunting writing process into straightforward, doable steps, just right for budding writers If you've written anything, ever, you're already a writer--so, congratulations As many aspiring authors know, though, telling an actual, complete story is, well, a different story. As unfinished drafts pile up and...

Grasping the World: The Idea of the Museum - Paperback

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by Donald Preziosi (Editor), Claire Farago (Editor)First published in 2004, this volume recognises that there is much more to museums than the documenting, monumentalizing, or theme-parking of identity, history and heritage. This landmark anthology aims to make strange the very existence of museums and to plot a critical, historical and ethical understanding of their origins and history. A radical selection of key texts introduces the reader to the intense investigation of the modern European...

Black Feelings: Race and Affect in the Long Sixties - Hardcover

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by Lisa M. Corrigan (Author)In the 1969 issue of Negro Digest, a young Black Arts Movement poet then-named Ameer (Amiri) Baraka published "We Are Our Feeling: The Black Aesthetic." Baraka's emphasis on the importance of feelings in black selfhood expressed a touchstone for how the black liberation movement grappled with emotions in response to the politics and racial violence of the era.In her latest book, award-winning author Lisa M. Corrigan suggests that Black Power provided a significant ...

Recent Perspectives on Task-Based Language Learning and Teaching - Paperback

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by Mohammad Ahmadian (Editor), María del Pilar García Mayo (Editor)The last three decades have witnessed a growth of interest in research on tasks from various perspectives and numerous books and collections of articles have been published focusing on the notion of task and its utility in different contexts. Nevertheless, what is lacking is a multi-faceted examination of tasks from different important perspectives. This edited volume, with four sections of three chapters each, views tasks and...

Cognitive Pragmatics: Mindreading, Inferences, Consciousness - Paperback

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by Marco Mazzone (Author)Cognitive pragmatics is a mature field of research, characterized by robust theories and a growing amount of experimental work. In particular, Relevance Theory has provided a rich framework for research in the field. However, this theory makes a number of assumptions that are rooted in a modular view of cognition. This book provides a detailed analysis of such assumptions, arguing for an alternative model which has, however, some support in ideas explored by relevance...

The Lexical Phonology of Sekani - Paperback

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by Sharon Hargus (Author)First published in 1988. This title explores the phonology of Sekani, a northern Athabaskan language, within the framework of Lexical Phonology. After providing an overview of the language of Sekani and the theory of Lexical Phonology, the author goes on to explore various issues in the application of this theory. This title will be of interest to students of language and linguistics. Author BiographySharon Hargus is currently involved in several projects related to t...