Translating Controversial Texts in East Asian Contexts
This book focuses on the broad concept of 'controversy' and issues pertaining to the translation of politically and historically controversial texts in East Asia.
Teaching Children’s Literature
This indispensable text offers a critical perspective on how to integrate children's literature into the curriculum in effective, purposeful ways. The book is rich with real examples of teachers implementing critical pedagogy and tools to support students' development as enthusiastic readers and thinkers.
Soundtracked Books from the Acoustic Era to the Digital Age
Offering both a short history and a theoretical framework, this book is the first extended study of the soundtracked book as a media form.
Writing Children's Books for Dummies
Create the next very hungry caterpillar, big red dog, or cat in the hat with a hand from this trusted guide In Writing Children's Books For Dummies, you'll learn what to write between "Once upon a time . . ." and "The End" as you dive into chapters about getting started writing, how to build great characters, and how to design a dramatic plot. On top of the technical writing advice, you'll discover how talented illustrators work and how to find an agent. The newest edition of this popular For Dummies title even shows you how to choose a publisher--or self-publish--and how to use social media and other marketing and PR to get the word out about your new masterpiece. In the book, you'll learn about: The fundamentals of writing for children, including common book formats and genres, and the structure of the children's book market Creating a spellbinding story with scene description, engaging dialogue, and a child-friendly tone Polishing your story to a radiant shine with careful editing and rewriting Making the choice between a traditional publisher, a hybrid publisher, or self-publishing Using the most-effective marketing and publicity techniques to get your book noticed Perfect for anyone who's ever dreamed of creating the next Ferdinand the Bull or Grinch, Writing Children's Books For Dummies is an essential, easy-to-read guide for budding children's authors everywhere.
The Printing and the Printers of the Book of Common Prayer, 1549-1561
Bibliographers have been notoriously 'hesitant to deal with liturgies', and this volume bridges an important gap with its authoritative examination of how the Book of Common Prayer came into being. The first edition of 1549, the first Grafton edition of 1552 and the first quarto edition of 1559 are now correctly identified, while Peter W. M. Blayney shows that the first two editions of 1559 were probably finished on the same day. Through relentless scrutiny of the evidence, he reveals that the contents of the 1549 version continued to evolve both during and after the printing of the first edition, and that changes were still being made to the Elizabethan revision weeks after the Act of Uniformity was passed. His bold reconstruction is transformative for the early Anglican liturgy, and thus for the wider history of the Church of England. This major, revisionist work is a remarkable book about a remarkable book.
The Routledge Guide to Teaching Translation and Interpreting Online
Routledge Guides to Teaching Translation and Interpreting is a series of practical guides to key areas of translation and interpreting for instructors, lecturers, and course designers. The Routledge Guide to Teaching Translation and Interpreting Online is for educators of translation and interpreting teaching online in a variety of curricular combinations: fully online, partially online, hybrid, multimodal, or face-to-face with online components. Offering suggestions for the development of curriculum and course design in addition to online tools that can be used in skill-building activities, and adaptable to specific instructional needs, this textbook is suitable for both multilingual and language-specific classes. Fully comprehensive, the book addresses the tenets and importance of process-oriented pedagogy for students of translation and interpreting, best practices in online curriculum and course design, instructor online presence, detailed illustrations of specific online assignments, the importance of regular and timely feedback, and teaching across the online translation and interpreting (T&I) curriculum. Written by two experienced translators, interpreters, and scholars who have been teaching online for many years and in various settings, this book is an essential guide for all instructors of translation and interpreting as professional activities and academic disciplines.
365 Must-Know Talks of All Time
Berglund gives practical insights and guidance for building confidence with public speaking, tips for enhancing presentation skills and extensive analysis of the world's best speeches in history.Forget the concept that only a chosen few are natural born public speakers. 365 Must-Know Talks of All Timeis a guide for anyone wanting to create and deliver amazeballs talks. Yes, even you!365 Must-Know Talks of All Time blossomed from a little idea Caroline Berglund had to blog every day fora year on a topic that scares the pants off most people-public speaking. For many, the mere thought ofspeaking in front of an audience induces anxiety, sweaty palms and the need for a defibrillator to be chargedup within arm's reach.This second edition is based on an extensive analysis of some of the world's best speakers living, dead andfictional. 365 talks were curated, watched, read, and analyzed. Berglund answers the questions of what SteveJobs, Socrates, Martin Luther King Jr, Simon Sinek, Abraham Lincoln and more do and say in their talks thatmake us continue to discuss, revisit, and remember them so many years later.So, what makes a talk memorable? Is it the content, ideas, body language, the character of the speaker or isthere some other secret ingredient? In 365 Must-Know Talks of All Time, Berglund runs the gamut of history, philosophy, social media, and the written and spoken word to unearth some of the most significant talks evergiven. The entries are thought-provoking and provide remarkable tales, practical insights and powerful tips foranyone looking to build the confidence to get up in front of a crowd and enhance their presentation prowess.This book is for anyone that wants to reap the benefits of evolving into a speaker that creates buzz and doesso in way that is thought provoking, fun and filled with remarkable tales and practical insights.
Drawing on Students’ Worlds in the Ela Classroom
This book approaches English instruction through the lens of "figured worlds," which recognizes and spotlights how students are actively engaged in constructing their own school, peer group, extracurricular, and community worlds.
Literacies, Power and Identities in Figured Worlds in Malawi
This book is based on an in-depth ethnographic study of the National Adult Literacy Programme (NALP) in Malawi. It highlights the significance of exploring power and identity in literacy studies. Employing the concept of 'figured worlds' to study literacy as a social practice, the book focuses on understanding power relationships and identities in literacy practices. It illustrates how literacy identities and power relationships of some local community members continuously vary from one context to another and, in some cases, even within the same context. Using notions such as agency, artefact, resistance, shame and positioning, the book demonstrates the potential of the concept of figured worlds to address some of the questions raised within the New Literacy Studies - especially those concerning power and identity. The book also illustrates the value of an ethnographic approach in adult literacy studies, by exploring the challenges faced by the researcher in gaining access to community members' activities, and the opportunity to experience first-hand what instructors go through in facilitating adult literacy lessons.
Publishing in Wales
The creation of texts preserves culture, literature, myth, and society, and provides invaluable insights into history. Yet we still have much to learn about the history of how those texts were produced and how the production of texts has influenced modern societies, particularly in smaller nations like Wales. The story of publishing in Wales is closely connected to the story of Wales itself. Wales, the Welsh people, and the Welsh language have survived invasion, migration, oppression, revolt, resistance, religious and social upheaval, and economic depression. The books of Wales chronicle this story and the Welsh people's endurance over centuries of challenges. Ancient law-books, medieval manuscripts, legends and myths, secretly printed religious works, poetry, song, social commentary, and modern novels tell a story of a tiny nation, its hardy people, and an enduring literary legacy that has an outsized influence on culture and literature far beyond the Welsh borders.
Tell the Story Journal
Writing is therapy and good for the soul, write down and pour out your heart down on paper. Pour out all your thoughts and worries in your Journal.
Rhetorical Public Speaking
This textbook offers an innovative approach to public speaking by employing the rhetorical canon as a means of constructing artful speech in a multi-mediated environment. By stressing how contemporary public speaking continues the classical art of persuasion, this book provides a foundation to guide students in constructing and delivering messages that address matters of concern and interest to their audience. This edition features contemporary as well as historical examples to highlight key concepts and show how rhetoric works in practice. It not only emphasizes the traditional skills of face-to-face oratory, but it also includes a chapter solely dedicated to highlighting the techniques and tactics of digital social influencing that adapts public speaking to online platforms. Each chapter includes speech excerpts, summaries, and exercises for review and retention. This textbook for courses in public speaking and rhetoric will particularly appeal to instructors wishing to foreground speaking as engaged citizens on public and political issues. Online resources include an instructor's manual with discussion and test questions, video links, and sample materials.
Sierra Mandala journal
Paperback blank lined journal or notebook 5.5 x 8.5 in (13.97 x 21.59 cm) Mandala design is hand-drawn and hand-painted Includes 120 cream-colored pages
Stylistic Deceptions in Online News
This open access book demonstrates the central role played by the stylistic features of online news in constructing meaning and shaping cultural representations of people and places - in particular, France and Muslims/Islam. Taking the 2016 violent attack in Nice, France as a case study, Ashley Riggs analyses online news coverage of the attack from the UK, Spain, and Switzerland, three distinct linguistic and cultural spaces. An innovative mixed-methods approach, including content analysis and elements of translation criticism and comparative stylistics, is used to analyse this corpus, revealing the frequency and influence of stylistic devices found in online news and exploring how they help to shape reader interpretations. Drawing conclusions about journalistic practices by place and interrogating the notions of 'European identity' and 'European journalism', Stylistic Deceptions in Online News reveals how stylistic features may vary according to both political leanings and national and regional contexts, and the influence these features have upon readers. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 Licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation.
Toast
Discover the secret to toasting with confidence and write the perfect speech with this complete, no-nonsense guide to toasting!With a short, snappy, and straightforward speechwriting system, this practical handbook is your all-in-one guide for nailing the perfect toast, arming you with a comprehensive overview of the full speechwriting process. Built on a simple 7-day brainstorming system, you'll uncover how you can brainstorm clever speech ideas, structure your speech with humor and storytelling, and overcome your fear of public speaking with a tried-and-tested plan.Whether you need to give a wedding toast as a best man or maid of honor, a retirement speech, an award or promotion speech, or any other kind of toast, this handbook offers you a done-for-you blueprint to help you organize your thoughts and turn giving a toast into a painless, stress-free process. As a clear, concise, and no-fluff book that you can read in just a weekend or less, Toast: Short Speeches, Big Impact is an invaluable tool for anybody scared of public speaking - or short on ideas.Plus, inside you'll also discover a collection of over 10 solid example speeches to spark your inspiration, as well as specific exercises and rehearsal techniques so that you can free yourself from fear and feel confident in your toasting skills.Here's just a little of what you'll discover inside: A Step-By-Step Approach For Brainstorming and Designing The Perfect SpeechCreative Ways To Nail Your Toast's Structure To Incorporate Humor and StorytellingPractical Exercises and Rehearsal Techniques To Confront Your Fear of Public Speaking and Help You Find Your Inner ConfidenceThe Complete 7 Days To a Toast System To Make Toast Writing a Stress-Free ExperienceAnd over 10 Real-Life Examples of Speeches For Weddings, Promotions, Retirement, Awards, Birthdays, Commemorations and More!Written from the perspective of a professional speechwriter, this handy guidebook will answer all of your most pressing questions, giving you peace of mind and taking the stress out of speechwriting. If you feel stumped for ideas, or if giving a toast feels daunting or anxiety-inducing, Toast: Short Speeches, Big Impact is your complete companion book for toasting with success!Are you ready to start giving toasts with confidence?
The Marshall Plan for Novel Writing
Imagine writing with the skill of a published author, the knowledge of a seasoned editor and the savvy of a New York literary agent....you'd have all the know-how it takes to transform your story idea into a novel worthy of praise and publication.In this unique guide, agent, editor and novelist Evan Marshall does give you everything it takes to write your novel. Drawing on his extensive experience, Marshall has perfected a simple and methodical approach to novel writing. His clear-cut, 16-step Marshall Plan breaks down the complex novel-writing process into a series of parts you put together one piece at a time. You'll have your whole story planned and plotted before you actually begin writing, so there's no chance of working yourself in a corner or making critical mistakes in pacing and plot.In short, The Marshall Plan for Novel Writing works. Use it, and watch your story masterfully develop into a completed manuscript ready to get the full attention of readers, agents and editors alike.
Editing Scientific and Medical Research Articles
CIEP guides provide a short, basic introduction to the various skills and knowledge needed to work as an editorial professional. They are intended for copyeditors and proofreaders, both practising and potential, and will also prove useful to others involved in publishing content, including businesses, organisations, agencies, students and authors. Scientific research articles present complicated results and ideas. However, it is often the writing rather than the science that makes these articles difficult to read. Language editors can help scientists communicate their important findings clearly and effectively.This guide tells the editor all they need to know to help scientists navigate the publication process and get their research papers ready for publication. It explains how a research article should be structured and gives a step-by-step guide to editing each section, including tables and figures. The elements of scientific style are also explained together with common problems the editor may encounter and how to solve them.
Self Publish Worldwide
Self Publish Worldwide has been a best seller for many years, and now in this fully updated 5th Edition, it's better than ever.It's the go-to book for beginner and seasonal self publishers alike. It contains everything you need including links to companies you can use to publish every book you write, so that your books will be available from all online book stores. You'll also discover a simple way to make your book available to libraries all over the world.This book has everything you need (including a quick-start guide) so you can start your self publishing empire from home today.I've been a successful self-published author for over 10 years and now you can do it too.
Blood From Your Own Pen
It's more than just red ink in that editing pen, and you know it. You will never find anyone else in the writing world whose blood is less precious or expensive, or more invested, than your own.From simple punctuation to Pro-Tips on writing, this guide is a compilation of tips and concepts for beginning authors to keep in mind when they sit down to self-edit.2nd Edition updated with more of everything, including an all new section on self-publishing.
HOW TO SPEAK IN PUBLIC Public Speaking
What if you could overcome your fear to speak in public? A lot of people is afraid to speak in public, in particular when it comes to perform in front of a big audience.But that's really a pity and you know why? Because being a good public speaker can enhance your reputation, boost your self-confidence, and open up countless opportunities in various field of your life such as work, relationships and others. However, while good skills can open doors, poor ones can close them Luckily speaking in public is a learnable skill. As such, to become a better speaker and presenter, you can use the following strategies contained in this book: Here's what you're going to find inside of the book: - why public speaking is so important today- efficiency through change of pitch, change of pace or inflection- how to do audience analysis- important things about selection- making conversation effective...and much more! The more you push yourself to speak in front of others, the better you'll become, and the more confidence you'll have.
How Young Adult Literature Gets Taught
A manual for teaching Young Adult Literature, this textbook presents perspectives and methods on how to organize and teach literature in engaging and inclusive ways that meet specific educational and programmatic goals. Each chapter is written by an expert and offers a rich and nuanced approach to teaching YA Literature through a distinct lens. The effective and creative ways to construct a course explored in this book include multimodal, historical, social justice, place-based approaches, and more. The broad spectrum of topics covered in the text gives pre-service teachers and students a toolbox to select and apply methods of their choosing that support effective reading and writing instruction in their own contexts, motivate students, and foster meaningful conversations in the classroom. Chapters feature consistent sections for theory and practice, course structure, suggestions for activities and assessments, and takeaways for further discussion to facilitate easy implementation in the classroom. This book is an essential text for pre-service teachers of English as well as professors and scholars of Young Adult Literature.
The Writer's Cookbook
This book was created for writers both just starting out and those who are experienced. It includes such subjects as Writing tips, Descriptions from crying to how to describe hair, Grammar, Genres, Screenwriting, Worldbuilding tips, Medical Knowledge, Government Knowledge, Supernatural creatures, Parts of a story, General Knowledge, and Publishing information, plus much much more. This Book is complete with index.
The Nature and Practice of Science
This publication, written for grades for grades 5-8, is designed to offer educators science content articles that support the learning of the Nature of Science as well as support reading comprehension skills. All 11 articles align with Common Core ELA Standards and are designed with text complexity in mind. Included are suggested hands-on inquiry activities that will engage students in the rigors of the scientific process. The ultimate goal behind this endeavor is to provide a resource for students to become both literate and scientifically literate.
Creative Writing Workbook 8
Dedication to your writing habit need not wane due to a lack of direction. Provided here are Word Prompts, Character Traits, Action-Consequences possibilities and more, to help with your writing frequency goals. 8.5 x 11 in. Workbook.
Creative Writing Workbook 7
Dedication to your writing habit need not wane due to a lack of direction. Provided, are Word Prompts, Character Traits and Action-Consequences possibilities to help you stick to your goals. 8.5 x 11 in. Workbook.
A Guide to Creative Writing and the Imagination
Teaching creative writing for the multicultural, global, and digital generation, this volume offers a fresh approach for enhancing core writing skills in the major forms of Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, and Drama. A Guide to Creative Writing and the Imagination aims to provide students with organic, active learning through imitation and examples which not only emphasize writing and reading but look to other art forms for inspiration. This volume's key features include: - Strengthening key underlying capabilities of what we mean by imagination: physical and mental alertness, clarity of perception, listening skills, attention to detail, sustained concentration, lateral thinking, and enhanced memory. - Taking direction from other art forms such as African American musical improvisation, Brancusi's sculptural idea of "finding form," key ideas from drawing such as foreground, background, and negative space--and some of the great lessons learned from National Geographic photography. - Incorporating techniques drawn from unusual sources such as advertising, military intelligence, ESL, working with the blind, stage magic, and oral traditions of remote indigenous cultures in Oceania and Africa. The work is intended for a global English market as a core or supplementary text at the undergraduate level and as a supporting frame at the M.F.A. level.
The Translation of Irony
Verbal irony is a common phenomenon in communication, but its convoluted nature makes it difficult to translate. This book expands on previous studies of the translation of irony by examining the mechanisms of verbal irony in its translation from Catalan and Spanish into English and providing guidelines for the effective translation of irony.
Creative Writing Workbook 6
Your Writing Sessions made easier with Character Traits, Word Prompts, Actions - Consequences. Room for additional thoughts to be pursued later. 8.5 x 11 in. workbook.
Creative Writing Workbook 5
Make your writing sessions easier with provided resources - Character Traits, Word Prompts, Actions-Consequences. 8.5 x 11 in.
Translanguaging in Translation
This book brings applied linguistics and translation studies together through an analysis of literary texts in Chinese, Hindi, Japanese and Korean and their translations. It brings a new dimension to the burgeoning field of translanguaging studies and highlights the role of translation in the development of languages.
Creative Writing Workbook 4
Resources provided to make your writing journey easier: Character Traits, Word Prompts, Reaction-Consequences scenarios. 8.5 x 11 in. Workbook.
Speaking Across Generations
Different generations communicate differently. With fresh research from the Barna Group on how generations communicate, Darrell Hall sheds light on how each generation receives verbal messages, from Boomers and Xers to millennials and Gen Z. Discover how generational science can bridge the gap between speaker and listener so people of all generations can hear clearly.
Pre-Web Digital Publishing and the Lore of Electronic Literature
This Element examines a watershed moment in the recent history of digital publishing through a case study of the pre-web, serious hypertext periodical, the Eastgate Quarterly Review of Hypertext (1994-1995). Early hypertext writing relied on standalone, mainframe computers and specialized authoring software. With the Web launching as a mass distribution platform, EQRH faced a fast-evolving technological landscape, paired with an emergent gift and open access economy. Its non-linear writing experiments afford key insights into historical, medium-specific authoring practices. Access constraints have left EQRH under-researched and threatened by obsolescence. To address this challenge, this study offers platform-specific analyses of all the EQRH's cross-media materials, including works that have hitherto escaped scholarly attention. It deploys a form of conceptually oral ethno-historiography: the lore of electronic literature. The Element deepens our understanding of the North American publishing industry's history and contributes to the overdue preservation of early digital writing.
Translation studies
The main aim of this paper is to review some of the most useful Slavic and Estonian contributions to translation studies in the last century.
Handbook for Academic Authors
Whether you are a faculty member, a librarian, an independent scholar, the junior member of a research team, or a writer outside academia, Handbook for Academic Authors will help you select the right publisher, submit a winning proposal, negotiate a favorable contract, and work with your editor to ensure your research reaches the largest possible audience. The book provides advice on writing for different audiences and managing the mechanics of authorship, including manuscript preparation, acquiring illustrations, proofreading, and indexing. To address the major changes in scholarly publishing over the last decade, the sixth edition has been revised and updated to include discussions about open access and digital publishing, the use of social media as a marketing tool, changes within academia, and concerns of new entrants into academia. Written in a personalized, accessible style, Handbook for Academic Authors offers sound advice and encouragement to a wide range of aspiring academic authors.
Handbook for Academic Authors
Whether you are a faculty member, a librarian, an independent scholar, the junior member of a research team, or a writer outside academia, Handbook for Academic Authors will help you select the right publisher, submit a winning proposal, negotiate a favorable contract, and work with your editor to ensure your research reaches the largest possible audience. The book provides advice on writing for different audiences and managing the mechanics of authorship, including manuscript preparation, acquiring illustrations, proofreading, and indexing. To address the major changes in scholarly publishing over the last decade, the sixth edition has been revised and updated to include discussions about open access and digital publishing, the use of social media as a marketing tool, changes within academia, and concerns of new entrants into academia. Written in a personalized, accessible style, Handbook for Academic Authors offers sound advice and encouragement to a wide range of aspiring academic authors.
The Side Job Toolbox - How to
The author of the best-selling books, Insider's Guide to Security Clearances and How to Get U.S. Government Contracts shows you how to launch a profitable side job. In fact, you can start immediately.For many, the thought starting a side job is what their entrepreneurial spirit is screaming. However, the idea of creating a side job may be scary or they just may not know how to get started. They have questions about how good their idea is, will people care, will others criticize, or what credentials do they have that others should listen. Besides, they already have a full time job; isn't that good enough?Not if you are dealing with an entrepreneurial mindset. You know, the one that says you can do things better or have a solution and no one else has been successful in pursuing it. But what if you do have a fantastic way to meet a niche need and resolve problems while earning additional sources of income? Then let's get started.Jeff Bennett has dealt with both self-doubts and critics to launch his very own side businesses. He has overcome the "imposter syndrome" to confidently launch books, training, and consult in the security industry, all the while holding down a regular job. Even better, he eventually created a full time opportunity allowing him to quit his job, all from one idea.Jeff was there. He always wanted to start his own business but didn't know where to begin. He was also interested in becoming a published author. After the "accidental" success of his first book, he discovered where his focus should be. The more he marketed his book, the more he realized it was the natural progression to a side job and eventually his full time business.A book is a great way to start a business, develop a business or market a business. Many entrepreneurs struggle with what focus. They wonder which business idea will work, how to develop and market their idea, where to start, and how to grow. Perhaps this is your journey.Formerly titled Get Rich in a Niche, The Side Job Tool Box helps you get a solid start on business and book writing by focusing on the niche topic.Jeff writes in plain English how to create a new opportunity, market that side job business idea, and gain trust and credibility to become the go to expert. Jeff recommends using a book to either create a business or increase success of the current side job. Jeff started with a book and launched a business from the book. It's easier than you may think and maybe that is a good first step for you.This book shows you how to create a side job with products and services that: Help your niche market discover your products and services, even if you haven't started yetLeave customers wanting to learn moreKeep current customers as repeat customersDevelop deep and trusting relationships with customers as you also lead them to success.Create a side job with a reliable additional paycheck with these steps: Become the go to personCreate a dependency for your expertiseBuild influence in your nicheCreate spin-off business opportunitiesGrow your business with a bookThe Side Job Tool Box is perfect for those who: Want to start a businessHave little to no money up frontHave lower risk toleranceWant to grow an existing business
Writing Journal
Include the 20 Words Provided, Into Your Story, and Practice Writing. Character Traits Also Provided. 8.5x11 in.
Writing Sci-Fi, Fantasy, & Horror for Dummies
Take your shot at becoming the next Tolkien, Asimov, or King with this simple roadmap to transforming your fiction into works of art Writing Sci-Fi, Fantasy, & Horror For Dummies is your skeleton key to creating the kind of fiction that grips readers and compels them to keep turning pages (even if it's well past their bedtime!) You'll start with the basics of creative writing--including character, plot, and scene--and strategies for creating engaging stories in different forms, such as novels, short stories, scripts, and video games. After that, get beginner-friendly and straightforward advice on worldbuilding, before diving headfirst into genre-specific guidance for science fiction, horror, and fantasy writing. This book also offers: Strategies for editing and revising your next work to get it into tip-top shape for your audience Ways to seek out second opinions from editors, experts, and even sensitivity readers Techniques for marketing and publication, working with agents, and advice for writers going the self-publishing route The perfect beginner's guide for aspiring writers with an interest in horror, fantasy, or science fiction, Writing Sci-Fi, Fantasy, & Horror For Dummies is the first and last resource you need before you start building your next story about faraway lands, aliens, and fantastic adventures.
Creative Writing Workbook 2
Adhere to your writing routine with 50 Word Prompts and 3 Character Traits. 8.5x11 in. Workbook.
Creative Writing Workbook 3
Adhere to your writing schedule. Your practice sessions made easier with 50 Word Prompts and 3 Character Traits. 8.5 x 11 in. Workbook.
Critical and Creative Thinking
Critical and Creative Thinking is a vital resource that expands how we think and employ the basic skills involved in the identification and evaluation of an argument. It provides a basic foundation for teaching and learning critical and creative thinking.The text provides readers with the fundamental skills they need to approach ideas and opinions on current social issues. The selected readings have been carefully chosen for their ability to bring a wide range of perspectives and importance to the critical and creative thinking approach in the text.The first section explores approaches to critical and creative thinking, followed by readings for application, and then additional learning activities and resources. Specific topics include gender, education, race and immigration, inequality, and family. This new edition includes updated content and activities, as well as new and relevant readings that deal with current day issues (e.g., online learning and microaggressions).Critical and Creative Thinking is an ideal primary text for courses in critical thinking, social problems, social work, and sociology. It can also serve as a supplementary text for English courses, especially those with emphasis on critical and creative thinking.
Time, Space, Matter in Translation
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 interrogate processes of knowledge transfer and creation, interpretation and reading, communication and relationship building-but it does so in ways that refuse to privilege one discipline over another, denying any one of them an entitled perspective. The result is a book that is grounded in the disciplines of the authors and simultaneously groundbreaking in how its contributors incorporate translation studies into their work. This is key reading for students in comparative literature-and in the humanities at large-and for scholars interested in seeing how expanding intellectual conversations can develop beyond traditional questions and methods.
Learning Words from Reading
An increasingly popular approach to second and foreign language education, this book focuses on incidental learning: how students learn words from reading. Despite its popularity, some researchers have questioned this theory that students can learn new words by inferring meanings based on a text they are reading. So, why does the incidental method not work for some students? What are the conditions for naturalistic learning to occur? What do students need to be able to do while reading in order to learn words successfully? Tackling these questions head-on, this book provides researchers and educators with a more specific account of the processes behind the seemingly naturalistic method. Clarifying the connection between reading and word learning processes, Megumi Hamada proposes a new model, the Cognitive Model of Word-Meaning Inference, to describe how we obtain and use word-form and contextual information for learning words and the pedagogical applications of this. A significant new contribution to research in the field, Learning Words from Reading provides a cognitive perspective on how students learn new words from reading in a second or foreign language.
Creative Writing Workbook
Make starting your writing practice more comfortable with the resources provided. 50 Word Prompts and 3 Character Traits. 8.5x11 in.
Creative Writing Notebook
Writing Practice made easier with 50 Word Prompts and 3 Character Traits. 8.5x11 in.
