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Offering a comparative analysis of "community-literacy studies," Community Literacy and the Rhetoric of Local Publics traces common values in diverse accounts of "ordinary people going public." Elenore Long offers a five-point theoretical framework. Used to review major community-literacy projects that have emerged in recent years, this local public framework uncovers profound differences, with significant consequence, within five formative perspectives:...
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The Best of the Independent Rhetoric and Composition Journals 2011 represents the result of a nationwide conversation-beginning with journal editors, but expanding to teachers, scholars and workers across the discipline of Rhetoric and Composition-to select essays that showcase the innovative and transformative work now being published in the field's independent journals.
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THE BEST OF THE INDEPENDENT RHETORIC AND COMPOSITION JOURNALS 2010 represents the result of a nationwide conversation-beginning with journal editors, but expanding to teachers, scholars and workers across the discipline of Rhetoric and Composition-to select essays that showcase the innovative and transformative work now being published in the field's independent journals. Representing both print and digital journals in the field, the essays featured...
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Academic Writing Instruction for Creole-Influenced Students embraces the interconnections of language use in society, language teaching in schools, and writing in higher education. In it, Vivette Milson-Whyte draws on discourse analysis of archival materials and data gathered from questionnaires and interviews with past and current writing specialists and on comparison/contrast analysis of Jamaican and US and UK teaching and scholarship in rhetoric...
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The editors and contributors to this collection explore what it means to adopt an "academic literacies" approach in policy and pedagogy. Transformative practice is illustrated through case studies and critical commentaries from teacher-researchers working in a range of higher education contexts-from undergraduate to postgraduate levels, across disciplines, and spanning geopolitical regions including Australia, Brazil, Canada, Cataluña, Finland, France,...
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Genre studies and genre approaches to literacy instruction continue to develop in many regions and from a widening variety of approaches. Genre has provided a key to understanding the varying literacy cultures of regions, disciplines, professions, and educational settings. GENRE IN A CHANGING WORLD provides a wide-ranging sampler of the remarkable variety of current work. The twenty-four chapters in this volume, reflecting the work of scholars in...
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Illustrates the widespread applications of the Framework for Success in Postsecondary Writing, especially the eight habits of mind, in helping students to be successful not only in postsecondary writing courses but also in four arenas of life: academic, professional, civic, and personal.
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Crónicas centroamericanas
Esta serie de crónicas escritas por el periodista salvadoreño Carlos Dada no son solo una selección del mejor periodismo que se ha hecho en español en la última década y que el autor viene desarrollando desde mucho antes. Son además un recorrido por una región, Centroamérica, a menudo olvidada y tan necesaria para entender todos los males y retos que encara cualquier sociedad. Son historias que cuentan países...
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Paradoxes est un exercice de style o l'on contraint l'idée dans son essor littéral en une forme complexe et synthétique, dont on ne peut détacher un seul membre sans dénaturer le sens, ou la rendre totalement inefficace.
Lorsqu'on s'écarte de l'exercice imposé, ce n'est qu'en apparence, pour le traduire dans une séduction onirique qui renversera l'effet de perspective sans l'annuler. La lecture automatique commence quand les yeux ont quitté...
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“The English / Finnish Phrasebook” is designed to be used by the English speaker to learn the basics of the Finnish language or for a Finnish speaker to learn the basics of English.
If you are intending to learn any new language, you'll need to get a phrasebook. The purpose of the phrasebook is to give you practice in real-life situations. Memorizing phrases ahead of time is the BEST way to use a phrasebook. Your grammar book, and sometimes even...
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