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Teaching and Studying Transnational Composition - Paperback

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by Christiane Donahue (Editor), Bruce Horner (Editor)Essays exploring transnational composition as a site for engaging with difference.Transnational composition is a site for engaging with difference across populations, economies, languages, and borders and for asking how cultures, languages, and national imaginaries interanimate one another.Organized in three parts, the book addresses the transnational in composition in scholarship, teaching, and administration. It brings together contributi...

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MLA Guide to Digital Literacy - Paperback

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by Ellen C. Carillo (Author)Updated edition providing students with hands-on strategies for digital literacy.The second edition of this best-selling classroom guide helps students understand why digital literacy is a crucial skill for their education, future careers, and participation in democracy. Offering practical guidance for assessing information online, this guide provides students with the tools to locate reliable sources among the clickbait and viral videos that pervade the web. The g...

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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...

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Burn After Writing (Cowgirl) - Paperback

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Burn After Writing (Ice Cream Cats) - Paperback

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Burn After Writing (Magic Stars) - Paperback

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America's Top 30 Idioms and Their Origins: America's 30 Most Whacko Idioms - Hardcover

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by Fred Engh (Author), Todd Van Linda (Illustrator) Number of Pages: 90 Dimensions: 0.6 x 8.6 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: May 15, 2022

Re-Imagining Doctoral Writing - Paperback

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by Cecile Badenhorst (Author), Brittany Amell (Author), James Burford (Author)What imaginings of the doctoral writer circulate in the talk of doctoral researchers and their supervisors? How do institutional policies and the conventions of particular disciplines shape the ways in which doctoral writing is imagined? Why, and in what ways, has doctoral writing been re-imagined in the twenty-first century? What future imaginings of doctoral writing may be hovering on the horizon? This edited coll...

Time, Space, Matter in Translation - Paperback

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by Pamela Beattie (Editor), Simona Bertacco (Editor), Tatjana Soldat-Jaffe (Editor)Time, Space, Matter in Translation considers time, space, and materiality as legitimate habitats of translation. By offering a linked series of interdisciplinary case studies that show translation in action beyond languages and texts, this book provides a capacious and innovative understanding of what translation is, what it does, how, and where.The volume uses translation as a means through which to interrogat...

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Howdunit: A Masterclass in Crime Writing by Members of the Detection Club - Paperback

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by Martin Edwards (Editor)Winner of the H.R.F. Keating Award for best biographical/critical book related to crime fiction, and nominated for the Edgar Allen Poe and Macavity Awards for Best Critical/Biographical book. Ninety crime writers from the world's oldest and most famous crime writing network give tips and insights into successful crime and thriller fiction. Howdunit offers a fresh perspective on the craft of crime writing from leading exponents of the genre, past and present. The boo...

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Book Wars: The Digital Revolution in Publishing - Paperback

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by John B. Thompson (Author)This book tells the story of the turbulent decades when the book publishing industry collided with the great technological revolution of our time. From the surge of ebooks to the self-publishing explosion and the growing popularity of audiobooks, Book Wars provides a comprehensive and fine-grained account of technological disruption in one of our most important and successful creative industries. Like other sectors, publishing has been thrown into disarray by the d...

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by Amy D. Propen (Author)At Home in the Anthropocene brings together a set of wildlife stories focused on the question of what counts as "home" in an age of climate crisis and upheaval. Through stories of mountain lions displaced by wildfires, encounters with black bears in areas of significant human use, wildlife rehabilitation practices, and of the creation of wildlife corridors, Amy D. Propen highlights posthuman interventions into the lives of these at-risk species, with a focus on how su...

How Language Shapes Relationships in Professional Sports Teams: Power and Solidarity Dynamics in a New Zealand Rugby Team - Hardcover

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by Kieran File (Author)While the topic of relationships in professional sports teams is gaining greater attention from researchers and practitioners, the role that coach and athlete language plays in shaping these relationships remains largely unexplored. This book addresses this gap by examining how every day, authentic language patterns used by coaches, captains and players shape relationships in a professional New Zealand rugby team. More specifically, through a discourse analysis of taken...

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On Writing (and Writers): A Miscellany of Advice and Opinions - Hardcover

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by C. S. Lewis (Author)"While writing about writing is often deadly, Lewis is as delightful as he is wise." --The New York TimesA definitive collection of wisdom on every style of writing and a celebration of the transformative power of the written word from one of the most influential writers and thinkers of the modern age, C. S. Lewis, the beloved author of the Chronicles of Narnia series, Mere Christianity, The Screwtape Letters, and other revered classics.Featuring over one hundred excerp...

Forensic Linguistics. Prison Slang, Miranda Rights, and Online-Trolling - Paperback

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by Alexander Bärtl (Author)Document from the year 2021 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,3, Dresden Technical University (Institute of English and American Studies), course: Forensic Linguistics, language: English, abstract: This paper raises and discusses three selected questions on topics of forensics linguistics, i.e., prison slang, Miranda Rights, and the act of trolling online. Its idea, structure, and purpose are equal to term papers but in a...

African Multilingualisms: Rural Linguistic and Cultural Diversity - Paperback

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by Pierpaolo Di Carlo (Editor), Jeff Good (Editor), Pius W. Akumbu (Contribution by)African Multilingualisms is the first book dedicated to presenting case studies of small-scale multilingualism in rural Africa. Contributors present extensive new data on sociolinguistic patterns found in these contexts and consider new, more ethnographically sensitive methods for exploring multilingualism of this kind.Author BiographyPierpaolo Di Carlo is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Linguis...

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by Helen Sword (Author), Selina Tusitala Marsh (Illustrator)An essential guide to cultivating joy in your professional and personal writing Writing should be a pleasurable challenge, not a painful chore. Writing with Pleasure empowers academic, professional, and creative writers to reframe their negative emotions about writing and reclaim their positive ones. By learning how to cast light on the shadows, you will soon find yourself bringing passion and pleasure to everything you write. Acclai...

Español Académico Como Le/L2: Destrezas, Competencias Y Movilidad Universitaria - Paperback

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by Susana Pastor Cesteros (Author)Español académico como LE/L2: destrezas, competencias y movilidad universitaria ofrece una completa visión del área del español académico como LE/L2 en la educación superior. Escrito en español, este libro aborda las prácticas letradas académicas en el mundo hispánico tanto en el aula como en la investigación. Combina una orientación teórico-práctica, con pautas y herramientas para ayudar a los aprendices de español a comunicarse en contexto académico univers...

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Fight for Falklands Freedom: Reporting Live from Argentina and the Islands - Paperback

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by Harold Briley (Author)The world was told about the Falkland Islands invasion by radio, the shocking news sweeping across the globe. Historian and war correspondent Sir Max Hastings, reporting from the Falkland Islands front-line, called it 'the Radio Man's War' because it had a wider and quicker global reach. Harold Briley was the BBC 'radio man' in Buenos Aires. He broke the story on the BBC World Service and brought the Falklands saga to life. Previously the Falkland Islands were virtual...

Win Every Argument: The Art of Debating, Persuading, and Public Speaking - Hardcover

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by Mehdi Hasan (Author)NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Win Every Argument shows how anyone can communicate with confidence, rise above the tit for tats on social media, and triumph in a successful and productive debate in the real world. MSNBC's Mehdi Hasan isn't one to avoid arguments. He relishes them as the lifeblood of democracy and the only surefire way to establish the truth. Arguments help us solve problems, uncover new ideas we might not have considered, and nudge our disagreements toward m...

You Wrote It, Now Go Sell It - 2nd Edition: A Marketing and Promotions Guide For Authors In A Few Simple Steps - Paperback

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by Glenn R. Murray (Author)This easy to read, quick, no fluff guide gives writers over 30 helpful ideas to help promote their books including: Pre and Post Release Strategies Checklist of release action items Tactics to help build buzz and support for releases The Seven Streams of Income you can leverage from your book 25 things you can do now to promote your book Marketing on Clubhouse A must read for new authors or existing authors needing to revive book sales. Number of Pages: 32 Dimen...

Initial Language Teacher Education - Paperback

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by Gabriel Díaz Maggioli (Author)Initial Language Teacher Education provides language teacher researchers, as well as teachers of teachers, with an introduction to research on how language teachers learn to teach before they begin practicing.Theoretical work is organized into the author's original framework, which fosters the exploration of student teachers' experiences as learners, while helping them develop core concepts, practices, and dispositions that encourage excellence in teaching. Th...

Scripting Japan: Orthography, Variation, and the Creation of Meaning in Written Japanese - Paperback

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by Wesley C. Robertson (Author)Imagine this book was written in Comic Sans. Would this choice impact your image of me as an author, despite causing no literal change to the content within? Generally, discussions of how language variants influence interpretation of language acts/users have focused on variation in speech. But it is important to remember that specific ways of representing a language are also often perceived as linked to specific social actors. Nowhere is this fact more relevant ...

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Facilitating Youth-Led Book Clubs as Transformative and Inclusive Spaces - Paperback

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by Jody Polleck (Author)Learn how to integrate book clubs into secondary school communities for transformation and inclusion so as to enhance and nurture students' literacies along with their social and emotional development. Using her extensive experiences with culturally, neurologically, and linguistically diverse students, the author provides a rich resource that demonstrates how book clubs serve as critical places where adolescents can develop as readers while simultaneously working to bu...

De-Gendering Gendered Occupations: Analysing Professional Discourse - Paperback

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by Joanne McDowell (Author)De-Gendering Gendered Occupations brings together contributions from researchers on language and gender studies and workplace discourse to unpack and challenge hegemonic gendered norms encoded in what are traditionally considered female occupations. The volume integrates a range of theoretical frameworks, including conversation analysis, pragmatics, and interactional sociolinguistics, to analyse data from such professions as primary education, healthcare, and speech...

Library and Information Studies for Arctic Social Sciences and Humanities - Paperback

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by Spencer Acadia (Editor), Marthe Tolnes Fjellestad (Editor)Library and Information Studies for Arctic Social Sciences and Humanities serves as a key interdisciplinary title that links the social sciences and humanities with current issues, trends, and projects in library, archival, and information sciences within shared Arctic frameworks and geographies. Including contributions from professionals and academics working across and on the Arctic, the book presents recent research, theoretical ...

Our Body of Work: Embodied Administration and Teaching - Paperback

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by Melissa Nicolas (Editor), Anna Sicari (Editor)Our Body of Work invites administrators and teachers to consider how physical bodies inform everyday work and labor as well as research and administrative practices in writing programs. Combining academic and personal essays from a wide array of voices, it opens a meaningful discussion about the physicality of bodily experiences in the academy. Open exchanges enable complex and nuanced conversations about intersectionality and how racism, sexi...

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Martian: The Saint of Loneliness - Paperback

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by James Cagney (Author)Winner of the 2021 Academy of American Poets James Laughlin Award A 2022 Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist in Poetry A blistering exploration of America's legacy of anti-Black violence from an indispensable poet of our time American history got you down? Are you feeling alienated? Join poet James Cagney in his blistering second collection, Martian: The Saint of Loneliness, as he journeys through time, space, and memory with caustic, satirical beauty. Recall America...

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The Babel Message: A Love Letter to Language - Paperback

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by Keith Kahn-Harris (Author)"Quite simply, and quite ridiculously, one of the funniest and most illuminating books I have ever read. I thought I was obsessive, but Keith Kahn-Harris is playing a very different sport. He really has discovered the whole world in an egg." --Simon Garfield'There is a delicious humor implicit in every page . . . " -- Mark Forsyth, SpectatorA thrilling journey deep into the heart of language, from a rather unexpected starting point.Keith Kahn-Harris is a man obses...

Speech Freedom on Campus: Past, Present, and Future - Paperback

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by Joseph Russomanno (Editor), Erwin Chemerinsky (Foreword by), Ronald K. L. Collins (Contribution by)In this book, ten First Amendment scholars analyze various aspects and issues related to speech freedom on campus.Author BiographyJoseph Russomanno is professor at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University. Number of Pages: 308 Dimensions: 0.69 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: May 10, 2022

President Trump and the News Media: Moral Foundations, Framing, and the Nature of Press Bias in America - Paperback

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by Jim A. Kuypers (Author)In President Trump and the News Media Kuypers analyzes policy addresses by President Trump, comparing them with reporting through lenses of framing analysis and Moral Foundations Theory. Differences point to widespread journalistic bias. The effect of this bias on reportorial practices and the functioning of the American Republic is addressed.Author BiographyJim A. Kuypers is professor of communication at Virginia Tech. Number of Pages: 220 Dimensions: 0.46 x 9 x 6 I...

Language Creativity: A Semiotic Perspective - Paperback

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by Simone Casini (Author), Marcel Danesi (Foreword by), Frank Nuessel (Afterword by)This book considers the concept of linguistic creativity in relation to contact languages and language educational. The perspective proposed places semiotic creativity to the rank of first principle, by which languages are defined, function, and interact. Author BiographySimone Casini is assistant professor of Italian Linguistics at the University of Toronto Mississauga. Number of Pages: 192 Dimensions: 0.4 x ...