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

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Series, Literacy, Culture, and Learning: Theory and Pra
• 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

Expanding Literacies

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, Literacy, Culture, and Learning: Theory and Pra
• Examines the escalating literacy demands of the new workplace, and makes suggestions for reshaping traditional English classes to better equip student... 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

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

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

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

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

Multicultural Literature and Literacies

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• Does literature serve a humanizing function? Can it achieve social transformation? What roles does literature play for defining self, creating communi... Lees meer

Language and Limits

Myron C Tuman

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• Presents a clear and forceful counter-statement about tensions and trends in contemporary English studies, offering at the same time a carefully reaso... Lees meer

Approaches to Computer Writing Classrooms

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• This text provides a variety of practical and theoretical approaches to computer classroom design. Pedagogical, ethical, and political issues are disc... 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

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

Reclaiming the Tacit Dimension

George Kalamaras

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• This book examines Eastern philosophies of meditative silence in the context of Western rhetoric and discourse theory, arguing that silence is an auth... Lees meer

Revisioning Writers' Talk

Mary Ann Cain

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, Literacy, Culture, and Learning: Theory and Pra
• Stressing the social dimensions of composing, this book inquires into the problems of interpreting and representing writers' talk in both academic and... Lees meer

Literacy Across Languages and Cultures

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• This book examines the linkage between literacy and linguistic diversity, embedding them in their social and cultural contexts. It illustrates that a ... 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. This book explores the invo... 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

Dramas of Solitude

Randall Roorda

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• Brings the insights of narrative theory to bear upon the genre of nature writing, to explore the social or ethical purposes of solitude in stories of ... Lees meer

The Resistant Writer

Charles Paine

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, Literacy, Culture, and Learning: Theory and Pra
• A cultural history of the origins of composition studies that sheds new light on contemporary debates regarding the role of rhetoric in student transf... 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

Magic, Rhetoric, and Literacy

William A Covino

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• This book presents a selective, introductory reading of key texts in the history of magic from antiquity forward, in order to construct a suggestive c... Lees meer

Shaping the Preschool Agenda

Anne McGill-Franzen

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• Making all children "ready to learn" is the first, and probably the most important, national education goal for the year 2000. What does it mean for c... Lees meer

Good Writing in Cross-Cultural Context

Xiao-Ming Li

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Series, Literacy, Culture, and Learning: Theory and Pra
• Writing comments on student papers is a time-honored and widely accepted practice in writing classrooms in most countries. Teachers offer text-specifi... Lees meer