Good Writing in Cross-Cultural Context

Xiao-Ming Li

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• Xiao-ming Li is Assistant Professor of English at Long Island University. Lees meer

Time to Write

John Sylvester Lofty

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• Teaching on an island off the Maine coast, John Sylvester Lofty encountered students whose resistance to writing was grounded in the tension between t... Lees meer

Dramas of Solitude

Randall Roorda

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• What do stories of nature tell us about the social or ethical purposes of solitude? And what do stories of solitude reveal of the "character" of nonhu... Lees meer

The Resistant Writer

Charles Paine

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• The Resistant Writer integrates two lively sub-fields in rhetoric and composition: nineteenth-century composition history and contemporary issues abou... Lees meer

Expanding Literacies

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• Jerald Wallulis is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of South Carolina. He is coeditor of Changing Social Science:... Lees meer

Changing Work, Changing Workers

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• Changing Work, Changing Workers looks at U.S. factories and workplace education programs to see what is expected currently of workers. The studies rep... Lees meer

Literacy for Citizenship

Nelly P Stromquist

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• Describes the experiences of a group of adult Brazilian women in a literacy program with explicit emancipatory objectives. Lees meer

Understanding Language Acquisition

Christina E Erneling

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• How is language acquisition possible? How is it that humans, within a few years of birth, can speak and understand language, transcending both its lim... Lees meer

The Idea of Difficulty in Literature

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• Alan C. Purves is Director of the Center for Writing and Literacy, and Professor of English and Humanities at the State University of New York at Alba... Lees meer

Changing Work, Changing Workers

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• Glynda Hull is Associate Professor of Education, University of California, Berkeley, and is Director of Berkeley's College Writing Programs. Lees meer

Gender and the Journal

Cinthia Gannett

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• This book explores the gendered historical and social contexts and discursive traditions that have characterized journals and diaries in academic disc... Lees meer

Multicultural Literature and Literacies

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• Suzanne M. Miller is Assistant Professor in the School of Education at the State University of New York, Albany. Barbara McCaskill is Assistant Profes... Lees meer

Literate Systems and Individual Lives

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• This book raises important questions concerning the "shame" of illiteracy. What does it mean to students to be drawn into a world where family and fri... Lees meer

On Literacy and Its Teaching

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• This book recognizes and embraces the complexities of modern English teaching. It presents English teachers and teacher educators with a critical view... Lees meer

Language and Limits

Myron C Tuman

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• Myron C. Tuman is Professor of English at the University of Alabama. He has written several books, including Word Perfect: Literacy in the Computer Ag... Lees meer

Approaches to Computer Writing Classrooms

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• Linda Myers teaches computer-assisted composition and literature courses at Lehigh University, utilizing networks, hypertext, and multi-media formats. Lees meer

Understanding Language Acquisition

Christina E Erneling

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• Christina Erneling is Professor of Philosophy at York University, Toronto. Lees meer

Writing Students

Marguerite H Helmers

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• Marguerite H. Helmers is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh. Lees meer

Expanding Literacies

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• Expanding Literacies presents eighteen fresh essays that explore how English teaching at both secondary and post-secondary levels can be made more wor... Lees meer

Writing Students

Marguerite H Helmers

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• This is a book about the usual teacher-student relationship in composition courses. It disrupts and rewrites the commonplace conception of the relatio... Lees meer

Literacy as Social Exchange

Maureen M Hourigan

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• Literacy as Social Exchange examines the intersection of culture and literacy education. In particular, it explores the roles that class, race, ethnic... Lees meer

Reclaiming the Tacit Dimension

George Kalamaras

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• George Kalamaras is Assistant Professor of English and Associate Director of Writing at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne. His articles ... Lees meer

Revisioning Writers' Talk

Mary Ann Cain

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• Stressing the social dimensions of composing, this book inquires into the problems of interpreting and representing writers' talk in both academic and... Lees meer

Language and Limits

Myron C Tuman

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• What could be more commonsensical than the notion that students need to become more critical readers and writers, subjecting the ideas, beliefs, and a... Lees meer