Language Arts & Linguistics & Literacy

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Punctuation at Work: Simple Principles for Achieving Clarity and Good Style - Paperback

$14.99

by Richard Lauchman (Author)Through his company the Lauchman Group, author Richard Lauchman has trained professionals in the area of business writing for over thirty years. Now, in this essential guide, he reveals how good punctuation is the key to clear written communication and to emphasizing ideas without the help of vocal tone or facial cues. Using eighteen common-sense grammar principles to live by, he teaches readers how to improve their business writing and provides them with the tools...

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Business Is Good: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Professional Writer - Hardcover

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by James L. W. West III (Author)Widely regarded as one of America's great authors, F. Scott Fitzgerald led a life of drama and extravagance that often overshadowed his writing career. This book refocuses attention on how Fitzgerald viewed and approached the business of writing. Fitzgerald scholar James L. W. West III explores the writer's professional life through personal letters, manuscripts, his business ledger, editions of his novels, and even a "seven-year plan." In assessing these diver...

Writing Short Stories: The Most Practical Guide - Paperback

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by William Phillips (Author)Drawing on years of classroom experience, the author provides guidance for several types of writers: beginners, writers with works in progress, those seeking other writers for critiques, and students in introductory and intermediate writing courses. A special section features three original stories by former students of the author. How does one translate experience into fiction? This work includes specific and practical guidance on the art, craft, and business of w...

The Madness of Art: Interviews with Poets and Writers - Hardcover

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by Robert Phillips (Author)Robert Phillips's conversational yet penetrating approach yields self-assessments that read like new essays by the writers themselves. Conducted over the course of twenty years, many of these pieces were first published in the Paris Review. Taken from a passage by Henry James, the title speaks to the "madness" that drives our greatest works of creativity. Phillips's interviews bring out this "madness" in its most important sense: the writers are seers and visionarie...

Starting Your Television Writing Career: The Warner Bros. Television Writers Workshop Guide - Paperback

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by Abby Finer (Author), Deborah Pearlman (Author)In this essential guide, Abby Finer and Deborah Pearlman of the Warner Bros. Television Writers Workshop reveal insider tips and tricks aimed at paving the way to better scripts by new writers. The book focuses on all aspects of writing for television, from the definition and importance of sample material to what it takes to be a successful TV writer. In particular, the authors provide instruction on troubleshooting scripts--with a do and don't...

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by Nathan Crick (Editor), Patrick D. Anderson (Contribution by), Rya Butterfield (Contribution by)Highlights the persuasive devices most common to fascist appeals Fascism has resurfaced as one of the most pressing problems of our time. The rise of extremist parties and candidates in Europe, the United States, and around the globe has led even mainstream political commentators to begin using the term "fascism" to describe dangerous movements that have revived and repackaged many of the strate...

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by Douglas Walton (Author)A study of the role of abductive inference in everyday argumentation and legal evidence Examines three areas in which abductive reasoning is especially important: medicine, science, and law. The reader is introduced to abduction and shown how it has evolved historically into the framework of conventional wisdom in logic. Discussions draw upon recent techniques used in artificial intelligence, particularly in the areas of multi-agent systems and plan recognition, to ...

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Duped: Truth-Default Theory and the Social Science of Lying and Deception - Paperback

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by Timothy R. Levine (Author)A scrupulous account that overturns many commonplace notions about how we can best detect lies and falsehoods From the advent of fake news to climate-science denial and Bernie Madoff's appeal to investors, people can be astonishingly gullible. Some people appear authentic and sincere even when the facts discredit them, and many people fall victim to conspiracy theories and economic scams that should be dismissed as obviously ludicrous. This happens because of a n...

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Reciprocities in the Nonfiction Novel - Hardcover

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by John Russell (Author), Neil Isaacs (Foreword by)Nonfiction novels have usually been associated with the "new journalism" writers of the 1960s such as Tom Wolfe, Norman Mailer, and Truman Capote. Yet this form has long commanded a key position in the literary canon, as John Russell now reveals. Russell identifies eleven major works not usually thought of as nonfiction novels, such as Isak Dinesen's Out of Africa and E. E. Cummings's The Enormous Room, to create a new definition of the genre...

John Stuart Mill and the Writing of Character - Paperback

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by Janice Carlisle (Author)In his essay On Liberty, John Stuart Mill writes that a person "whose desires and impulses are not his own, has no character, no more than a steamengine has a character." Although Mill never devoted an essay or treatise solely to character, Janice Carlisle argues that the subject was central to his writings on politics, philosophy, science, literature, sociology, and psychology. This interdisciplinary study proposes a comprehensive reevaluation of the links between ...

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The Facts on File Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins, Fourth Edition - Hardcover

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by Robert Hendrickson (Author)The most comprehensive single-volume reference of its kind, the encyclopedia has been updated and expanded and now contains definitions and origins of over 15,000 words and expressions. Number of Pages: 948 Dimensions: 2 x 11 x 8.7 IN Publication Date: October 01, 2008

Citizens' Media against Armed Conflict: Disrupting Violence in Colombia - Paperback

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by Clemencia Rodríguez (Author)For two years, Clemencia Rodríguez did fieldwork in regions of Colombia where leftist guerillas, right-wing paramilitary groups, the army, and drug traffickers made their presence felt in the lives of unarmed civilians. Here, Rodríguez tells the story of the ways in which people living in the shadow of these armed intruders use community radio, television, video, digital photography, and the Internet to shield their communities from armed violence's negative imp...

The Myth of the Liberal Media: An Edward Herman Reader - Paperback

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by Sut Jhally (Other), Justin Lewis (Other), Edward S. Herman (Author)Using a propaganda model, The Myth of the Liberal Media contends that the mainstream media are parts of a market system, are shaped primarily by proprietor/owner and advertiser interests, and protect and propagandize for the corporate system.Author BiographyEdward S. Herman is Professor Emeritus of Finance, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, Berk...

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Brooding: Arias, Choruses, Lullabies, Follies, Dirges, and a Duet - Paperback

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by Michael Martone (Author)This collection of more than twenty-five essays, both meditative and formally inventive, considers all kinds of subjects: everyday objects such as keys and hats, plus concepts of time and place; the memoir; writing; the essay itself; and Michael Martone's friendship with the writers David Foster Wallace, Jonathan Franzen, and Kurt Vonnegut. Throughout the essays, Martone's style expands with the incorporation of new technological platforms. Several of the pieces wer...

The Metamorphosis of Heads: Textual Struggles, Education, and Land in the Andes - Paperback

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by Denise Y. Arnold (Author)Since the days of the Spanish Conquest, the indigenous populations of Andean Bolivia have struggled to preserve their textile-based writings. This struggle continues today, both in schools and within the larger culture. The Metamorphosis of Heads explores the history and cultural significance of Andean textile writings--weavings and kipus (knotted cords), and their extreme contrasts in form and production from European alphabet-based texts. Denise Arnold examines t...

Human Rights, Inc.: The World Novel, Narrative Form, and International Law - Hardcover

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by Joseph R. Slaughter (Author)In this timely study of the historical, ideological, and formal interdependencies of the novel and human rights, Joseph Slaughter demonstrates that the twentieth-century rise of world literatureand international human rights law are related phenomena. Slaughter argues that international law shares with the modern novel a particular conception of the human individual. The Bildungsroman, the novel of coming of age, fills out this image, offering a conceptual vocab...

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Stan Lee's How to Write Comics: From the Legendary Co-Creator of Spider-Man, the Incredible Hulk, Fantastic Four, X-Men, and Iron Man - Paperback

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by Stan Lee (Author), Steve Ditko (Illustrator), Gil Kane (Illustrator)Comics icon Stan Lee, creator of the Mighty Marvel Universe, has set about to teach everything he knows about writing and creating comic book characters. In these pages, aspiring comics writers will learn everything they need to know about how to write their own comic book stories, complete with easy to understand instruction, tips of the trade, and invaluable advice even for more advance writers. From the secrets to creat...

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Managing Crises in the Academic Library: Past, Present, and Future - Paperback

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by Doris Van Kampen-Breit (Editor)When a crisis occurs, it is the employees who determine an organization's resiliency and effectiveness. It is their response, ability to plan for contingencies, and capacity for creating solutions that means the difference between organizational success and failure. In 29 chapters from authors in all institution types and sizes, Managing Crises in the Academic Library can help library workers learn from the crises of the past and prepare for the next unexpec...

Language Learning Motivation: Pathways to the New Century - Paperback

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by Rebecca L. Oxford (Editor)Back JacketThis volume chronicles a revolution in our thinking about what makes students want to learn languages and what causes them to persist in that difficult and rewarding adventure. Topics in this book include the internal structures of and external connections with foreign language motivation; exploring adult language learning motivation, self-efficacy, and anxiety; comparing the motivation and learning strategies of students of Japanese and Spanish; and en...

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Integrated Korean Workbook: Intermediate 1, Second Edition - Paperback

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by Mee-Jeong Park (Author), Sang-Suk Oh (Author), Joowon Suh (Author)This workbook accompanies the thoroughly revised edition of Integrated Korean: Intermediate 1, the third volume of the best-selling series developed collaboratively by leading classroom teachers and linguists of Korean. All series' volumes have been developed in accordance with performance-based principles and methodology--contextualization, learner-centeredness, use of authentic materials, usage-orientedness, balance betwee...

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Remembering Simplified Hanzi 2: How Not to Forget the Meaning and Writing of Chinese Characters - Paperback

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by James W. Heisig (Author), Timothy W. Richardson (Author)This book is the second of two volumes designed to help students learn the meaning and writing of the 3,000 most frequently used simplified Chinese characters. (A parallel set of volumes has been prepared for traditional characters.) The 1,500 characters introduced in Book 1 include the top 1,000 by frequency, plus another 500 best learned at an early stage. Book 2 adds the remaining 1,500 characters to complete the set. The lessons o...

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by Kelly Getz (Editor), Meryl Brodsky (Editor)Today's students create and are confronted with many kinds of data in multiple formats. Data literacy enables students and researchers to access, interpret, critically assess, manage, handle, and ethically use data. The Data Literacy Cookbook includes a variety of approaches to and lesson plans for teaching data literacy, from simple activities to self-paced learning modules to for-credit and discipline-specific courses. Sixty-five recipes are org...

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The Art of Spiritual Writing: How to Craft Prose That Engages and Inspires Your Readers - Paperback

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by Vinita Hampton Wright (Author)There's a constant hunger in the world for books that explore the spiritual aspects of life, but writing about spirituality is far more complex than simply sharing personal reflections about God and the life of faith. Editors and publishers who specialize in spiritual writing find that what is important to work out for yourself on paper may not always be the best way to connect to readers. Because of its personal nature, it can be difficult to find the balance...

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by American Library Association (Author) Number of Pages: 101 Dimensions: 0.24 x 8.95 x 6.12 IN Publication Date: January 30, 2009

Librarians as Community Partners: An Outreach Handbook - Paperback

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by Carol Smallwood (Author)Including 64 focused snapshots of outreach in action, this resource reflects the creative solutions of librarians searching for new and innovative ways to build programs that meet customer needs while expanding the librarys scope into the community. Number of Pages: 204 Dimensions: 0.6 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: January 17, 2010

Preservation and Conservation for Libraries and Archives: Reissued - Paperback

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by Nelly Balloffet (Author), Jenny Hille (Author)When materials aren't available due to deterioration, missing pages, disconnected covers, or other problems, it can be frustrating for users and librarians alike. The answer is to provide appropriate care for the collection from the outset, while also guiding staff on making needed repairs. In Preservation and Conservation for Libraries and Archives, two experts show optimal collection preservation techniques, what it takes to set up a conserva...

Writing Reviews for Readers' Advisory - Paperback

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by Brad Hooper (Author)Reviews are an important resource for readers' advisory and collection development. They are also a helpful promotional tool, introducing patrons to what is new on the shelf. This work offers: tips for writing relevant reviews; different ways reviews can be used to promote your library; and, a chapter covering the how-tos of reviewing audiobooks. Number of Pages: 112 Dimensions: 0.4 x 8.8 x 5.9 IN Publication Date: February 01, 2010

Libraries Got Game: Aligned Learning Through Modern Board Games - Paperback

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by Brian Mayer (Author), Christopher Harris (Author)A much-talked-about topic gets thorough consideration from two educator-librarians, who explain exactly how designer board gameswhich are worlds apart from games produced strictly for the educational market can become curricular staples for students young and old. Number of Pages: 144 Dimensions: 0.4 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: January 01, 2009

Countdown to a New Library: Managing the Building Project, Second Edition - Paperback

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by Jeannette Woodward (Author)Using hands-on tools and real-life insider stories from librarians around the country, this is a must-have crash course in planning and building todays libraries! Number of Pages: 282 Dimensions: 0.6 x 10.9 x 8.4 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: November 01, 2009

Coaching in the Library: A Management Strategy for Achieving Excellence - Paperback

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by Ruth F. Metz (Author)Outlines a focused and results-oriented plan for achieving the best results from library staff through a coaching style of management. Real-world examples and coaching scenarios specific to library work demonstrate how to be both a coach and a player; utilize the abilities and talents of staff at all levels; encourage innovation, flexibility, and problem-solving; and spotlight the big-win opportunities. Number of Pages: 122 Dimensions: 0.26 x 11.02 x 8.27 IN Publicatio...

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by Betsy Diamant-Cohen (Editor)Co-author of the popular titles Booktalking Bonanza and The Early Literacy Kit, Diament-Cohen brings together 18 examples of successful outreach partnerships that children's librarians and administrators can adapt to their own situations. Contributors from the U.S. and Canada explain how they partnered with schools, community organizations, museums, businesses, and other agencies to create novel experiences for children across the children's services spectrum (p...

The Readers' Advisory Handbook - Paperback

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by Jessica E. Moyer (Author), Kaite Mediatore Stover (Author)Covering everything from getting to know a library's materials to marketing and promoting RA, this practical handbook will help you expand services immediately without adding costs or training time. You will find a trove of solid guidance, including how to advise patrons on all kinds of media, from fiction and nonfiction to audiobooks, graphic novels, and reference materials. Also *How to provide services to senior citizens, tenns, ...