Language Arts & Linguistics & Literacy

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Grammar by Diagram - Third Edition - Spiral

$119.07

by Cindy L. Vitto (Author)A substantially updated edition of Cindy Vitto's popular grammar diagraming textbook. Back JacketGrammar by Diagram is a book designed for anyone who wishes to improve grammatical understanding and skill. Using traditional sentence diagraming as a visual tool, the book explains how to expand ten basic patterns for simple sentences into compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences, and how to employ verbals (infinitives, gerunds, and participles), other specializ...

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$53.87

by K. J. Peters (Author)A very concise and affordable version of The Argument Handbook. Back JacketDrawing on the pedagogy, rhetorical theory, and student editor insights of The Argument Handbook, The Argument Toolbox is a very concise resource designed to help writing and composition students build persuasive arguments in various genres. Like the more comprehensive text, The Argument Toolbox is organized and designed so that students can zero in on the content they need to respond to an assi...

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$71.21

by Joyce Kinkead (Author)This unique book introduces students to academic writing through the material history of writing across cultures. Back JacketWriting is omnipresent in our lives, yet we too rarely stop and consider its history, tools, technologies, and mythologies. This volume introduces student readers to the development of writing across time and societies. The book incorporates autoethnography and asks readers to consider writing histories, influences, processes, and tools in their...

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Cómo Escribir Una Buena Historia - Paperback

$24.79

by Juan Arturo Sahagun Campos (Author)This book is based on a compelling idea: we can all be writers. Obviously, to get to work, we must develop our skills of observation, reading, dedication, and follow, step by step, certain teachings of great passionate writers who have preceded us. To the question, can anyone be a writer? There are only two possible answers and Juan Sahagún definitely opts for the following: everyone can... We can all be. We all have endless stories that we want and must ...

Burn After Writing (Purple with Cats) - Paperback

$14.00

by Sharon Jones (Author)The national bestseller. Write. Burn. Repeat. Now with new covers to match whatever mood you're in. "This book has made me laugh and cry, filled me with joy, and inspired me."-TikTok user camrynbanks Instagram, WhatsApp, Snapchat, TikTok, VSCO, YouTube...the world has not only become one giant feed, but also one giant confessional. Burn After Writing allows you to spend less time scrolling and more time self-reflecting. Through incisive questions and thought experiment...

The Role of Leadership in Building Inclusive Diversity in Public Relations - Paperback

$92.32

by Nilanjana Bardhan (Author), Karla Gower (Author)This book focuses on the relationship between leadership and diversity, inclusion and equity within the US public relations industry. The authors argue that there is ample research evidence that diversity and inclusion efforts cannot succeed without leadership support that commits to and assumes responsibility and accountability for the structural and cultural changes required. Drawing on literature from three different areas - public relatio...

Odilon Redon / by Walter Pach. - Paperback

$20.09

by Walter Pach (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduce...

Teaching to Exceed in the English Language Arts: A Justice, Inquiry, and Action Approach for 6-12 Classrooms - Paperback

$89.08

by Richard Beach (Author), Ashley S. Boyd (Author), Allen Webb (Author)Timely, thoughtful, and comprehensive, this text directly supports pre-service and in-service teachers in developing curriculum and instruction that both addresses and exceeds the requirements of English language arts standards. It demonstrates how the Common Core State Standards as well as other local and national standards' highest and best intentions for student success can be implemented from a critical, culturally rel...

Journalism's Racial Reckoning: The News Media's Pivot to Diversity and Inclusion - Hardcover

$111.76

by Brad Clark (Author)This book addresses endemic issues of racism in news media at what is a critical moment in time, as journalists around the world speak out en masse against the prejudice and inequality in the industry. As the events of 2020 - the death of George Floyd, the rise in prominence of the Black Lives Matter movement - have drawn new and focused attention to inequality, white supremacy, and systemic racism, including in the media, this volume chronicles this racial reckoning, re...

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Intermediate Japanese Textbook: An Integrated Approach to Language and Culture - Paperback

$29.99

by Michael L. Kluemper (Author), Lisa Berkson (Author)Boost your language skills with this time travel-themed book! Using an integrated set of multimedia tools, this book's exciting new approach to Japanese teaches you to speak, read and write the language naturally. Intermediate Japanese continues the story of Kiara, an American student who travels through time to exciting periods in Japan's past--learning to speak, read and write the language along the way. Her adventures allow her to meet ...

Reading & Writing Thai: A Workbook for Self-Study: A Beginner's Guide to the Thai Alphabet and Pronunciation (Free Online Audio and Printable Flash Ca - Paperback

$14.99

by Jintana Rattanakhemakorn (Author)Learn the basics of the Thai language quickly with this essential book! Reading & Writing Thai is the perfect way to begin learning the Thai language. It teaches you how to pronounce, read, and write all the sounds and letters, including the difficult tones. The book is specifically designed for beginners with no previous experience in studying or speaking Thai. This easy-to-use workbook shows you how to write and pronounce each letter correctly and the...

Learning Vietnamese: Learn to Speak, Read and Write Vietnamese Quickly! (Free Online Audio & Flash Cards) - Paperback

$15.99

by Bac Hoai Tran (Author)Dive into language learning with this comprehensive introduction to Vietnamese! This book teaches you to speak, read and write Vietnamese quickly through practical everyday conversations and concise notes on everything from pronunciation and tones to grammar. It also teaches you to read and write the language correctly. All Vietnamese words and sentences are given in the usual forms with phonetic equivalents for easy pronunciation, along with English meanings. Suitabl...

Grammar by Diagram: Workbook - Third Edition - Spiral

$66.83

by Cindy L. Vitto (Author)A substantially updated edition of Cindy Vitto's popular grammar diagraming workbook. Back JacketGrammar by Diagram is a book designed for anyone who wishes to improve grammatical understanding and skill. Using traditional sentence diagraming as a visual tool, the book explains how to expand ten basic patterns for simple sentences into compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences, and how to employ verbals (infinitives, gerunds, and participles), other specializ...

Elements of English Composition [microform] - Paperback

$35.93

by Tuley Francis 1870-1938 Huntington (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to ...

Jeff Herman's Guide to Book Publishers, Editors & Literary Agents, 29th Edition: Who They Are, What They Want, How to Win Them Over - Paperback

$34.95

by Jeff Herman (Author)If you want to get published, read this book! Jeff Herman's Guide unmasks nonsense, clears confusion, and unlocks secret doorways to success for new and veteran writers! This highly respected resource is used by publishing insiders everywhere and has been read by millions all over the world. Countless writers have turned to this book to figure out how to decipher the hidden codes to getting published. It reveals: - tools to discern and exploit the rapidly changing pub...

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Tuesdays in Jail: What I Learned Teaching Journaling to Inmates - Paperback

$17.95

by Tina Welling (Author)In 2011, novelist Tina Welling began teaching journaling workshops for the mostly male inmates at the Teton County Jail in Jackson, Wyoming. What began as a little-understood impulse on her part became a meaningful journey with surprising results. Welling was floored by how much she had in common with the incarcerated: "It's just that they had been arrested and I had not." They talked and wrote about self-esteem, anger, forgiveness, compassion, personal power, codepen...

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$24.99

by Joe Giampalmi (Author)Transform your next college essay into an A+ masterpiece Taking a 100-level English composition course? Just doing your best to get ready for the rigors of college-level writing? Then it's probably time you picked up College Writing For Dummies, the single greatest roadmap to writing high-quality essays, reports, and more! This book is the ideal companion for any introductory college writing course and tracks the curriculum of a typical English Composition, College Wr...

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More After the Break: A Reporter Returns to Ten Unforgettable News Stories - Hardcover

$26.95

by Jen Maxfield (Author)A reporter uncovers the rest of the story In More After the Break, Jen Maxfield revisits ten memorable stories from her career as a TV news reporter, describing in heart-pounding detail how the events unfolded and revealing what happened after the cameras went away. She introduces readers to unforgettable people who will inspire you with their hopefulness, even when confronting life's greatest heartbreaks: a young man who lost both legs in a ferry crash, an endurance a...

The Noise of Typewriters: Remembering Journalism - Hardcover

$27.99

by Lance Morrow (Author)W.H. Auden famously wrote: "Poetry makes nothing happen." Journalism is a different matter. In a brilliant study that is, in part, a memoir of his 40 years as an essayist and critic at TIME magazine, Lance Morrow returns to the Age of Typewriters and to the 20th century's extraordinary cast of characters--statesmen and dictators, saints and heroes, liars and monsters, and the reporters, editors, and publishers who interpreted their deeds. He shows how journalism has to...

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Bright Unbearable Reality: Essays - Paperback

$17.95

by Anna Badkhen (Author)2022 National Book Awards Longlist for Nonfiction Essays about migration, displacement, and the hope for connection in a time of emotional and geopolitical disruption by a Soviet-born writer and former war correspondent. Called a "chronicler of a world on the move" by The New York Review of Books, Anna Badkhen seeks what separates and binds us at a time when one in seven people has left their birthplace, while a pandemic dictates the direst season of rupture in humanki...

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$42.66

by Mark Yakich (Author)Poetry: A Survivor's Guide has earned high praise from students, teachers, and readers from around the globe for its playful sincerity and idiosyncratic humor and for its approach to a subject both loved and feared. Updated and expanded, including six new sections, the second edition probes a range of strategies for inspiring students and aspiring poets on the ways poetry relates to their own lives. These include the delights and pitfalls of individual meditation, the c...

India Misinformed: The True Story - Paperback

$14.04

by No Author (Author)The propaganda of misinformation and hoaxes disseminated through print, graphics, and social media has altered the social landscape of this nation. It has led to multiple cases of lynching, mob violence, defamation and riots, and continues to pose a serious threat to Indian democracy. India Misinformed: The True Story, written by the team of Alt News, a fact-checking website that debunks fake information - and edited by Pratik Sinha, Dr Sumaiya Shaikh and Arjun Sidharth -...

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Legal Interpreting: Teaching, Research, and Practice Volume 12 - Hardcover

$114.75

by Jeremy L. Brunson (Editor), Natalie Atlas (Contribution by), Michèle Berger (Contribution by)Linguistic minorities are often severely disadvantaged in legal events, with consequences that could impact one's very liberty. Training for interpreters to provide full access in legal settings is paramount. In this volume, Jeremy L. Brunson has gathered deaf and hearing scholars and practitioners from both signed and spoken language interpreting communities in the United States, Canada, and the U...

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Yosano Akiko and the Tale of Genji: Volume 28 - Paperback

$27.00

by Gaye Rowley (Author)Yosano Akiko (1878-1942) has long been recognized as one of the most important literary figures of prewar Japan. Her renown derives principally from the passion of her early poetry and from her contributions to 20th-century debates about women. This emphasis obscures a major part of her career, which was devoted to work on the Japanese classics and, in particular, the great Heian period text The Tale of Genji. Akiko herself felt that Genji was the bedrock upon which her...

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$13.48

by Brianna Kaiser (Author)Join Sesame Street characters to learn all about librarians. Librarians help people find information, check out books, and much more! This accessible approach shows how essential librarians are to every community. Number of Pages: 32 Dimensions: 0.26 x 7.96 x 9.74 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: August 01, 2022

Japanese Folktales for Language Learners: Bilingual Legends and Fables in Japanese and English (Free Online Audio Recording) - Paperback

$19.99

by Eriko Sato (Author), Anna Sato (Author), Anna Sato (Illustrator)Learn about Japanese culture while improving your language skills! Japanese Folktales for Language Learners presents 22 traditional stories in parallel Japanese and English versions on facing pages, with detailed notes and exercises aimed at beginning to intermediate learners. This book can be used as a language reader and will be of great interest to anyone wishing to learn more about Japanese culture and folklore. The storie...

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$17.99

by Jen Campbell (Author)Every bookshop has a story We're not talking about rooms that are just full of books. We're talking about bookshops in barns, disused factories, converted churches and underground car parks. Bookshops on boats, on buses, and in old run-down train stations. Fold-out bookshops, undercover bookshops, this-is-the-best-place-I've-ever-been-to-bookshops. Meet Sarah and her Book Barge sailing across the sea to France; meet Sebastien, in Mongolia, who sells books to herders of...

Fighting Falsehoods: Suspicion, Analysis, and Response - Paperback

$74.50

by Irene Rubin (Author)This book offers the reader tools to recognize, analyze, and fight back against the fake news, misinformation, and disinformation that come at us from every corner. This volume: Uses real, lively examples to help readers detect fake news, false claims, suspicious information/data, biased reporting, and hate speech; Demonstrates through case studies where to look for information, what to look for, how to analyze the logic/illogic involved, and uncover the truth value o...

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Signed Language Corpora: Volume 25 - Hardcover

$122.40

by Jordan Fenlon (Editor), Julie A. Hochgesang (Editor), Trevor Johnston (Foreword by)Jordan Fenlon and Julie A. Hochgesang present a revolutionary contribution to the field of signed language linguistics with Signed Language Corpora, the first volume to provide a comprehensive overview of the creation, development, and use of signed language corpora. This work will advance discussions on corpus linguistics as a methodology and its place in signed language linguistics research. The ability t...

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Written Chinese Made Easy: A Beginner's Guide to Learning 1,000 Chinese Characters (Online Audio) - Paperback

$16.99

by Michael L. Kluemper (Author), Kit-Yee Yam Nadeau (Author)This highly-visual book introduces an effective new method to learn over 1,000 Chinese characters using visual stimuli and pictographs. Learning the fundamental hanzi characters used to write Chinese can be challenging, but this book is designed to speed up learning by presenting the 1,000 most common characters using a mnemonic approach. In a fun and accessible way to learn Chinese, each character is associated with memorable visual...

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Felicitous Underspecification: Contextually Sensitive Expressions Lacking Unique Semantic Values in Context - Hardcover

$148.77

by King (Author)Felicitous uses of contextually sensitive expressions generally have unique semantic values in context. For example, a felicitous use of the singular pronoun 'she' generally has a single female as its unique semantic value in context. In the present work, Jeffrey C. King argues thatcontextually sensitive expressions have felicitous uses where they lack unique semantic values in context. He calls such uses instances of felicitous underspecification. In such cases, he says that ...

Korean Hangul Writing Practice Workbook: An Introduction to the Hangul Alphabet with 100 Pages of Blank Writing Practice Grids (Online Audio) - Paperback

$9.99

by Tuttle Studio (Editor)This is the ideal workbook for anyone who wants to learn to write the Korean Hangul script! It contains a basic introduction to the alphabet and all the sounds of the language, showing you how to write the letters and every possible syllable combination. This introduction is followed by over 100 pages of blank handwriting practice grids and lined paper for notes. This complete writing practice workbook includes: Guided writing exercises for Hangul letters, syllable...