Book Description
An interactive, multimedia text that introduces students to reading and writing at the college level.
Author : Carol Burnell
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 50,86 MB
Release : 2020
Category :
ISBN : 9781636350288
An interactive, multimedia text that introduces students to reading and writing at the college level.
Author : Annie Proulx
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 12,10 MB
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0743519809
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Annie Proulx’s The Shipping News is a vigorous, darkly comic, and at times magical portrait of the contemporary North American family. Quoyle, a third-rate newspaper hack, with a “head shaped like a crenshaw, no neck, reddish hair...features as bunched as kissed fingertips,” is wrenched violently out of his workaday life when his two-timing wife meets her just desserts. An aunt convinces Quoyle and his two emotionally disturbed daughters to return with her to the starkly beautiful coastal landscape of their ancestral home in Newfoundland. Here, on desolate Quoyle’s Point, in a house empty except for a few mementos of the family’s unsavory past, the battered members of three generations try to cobble up new lives. Newfoundland is a country of coast and cove where the mercury rarely rises above seventy degrees, the local culinary delicacy is cod cheeks, and it’s easier to travel by boat and snowmobile than on anything with wheels. In this harsh place of cruel storms, a collapsing fishery, and chronic unemployment, the aunt sets up as a yacht upholsterer in nearby Killick-Claw, and Quoyle finds a job reporting the shipping news for the local weekly, the Gammy Bird (a paper that specializes in sexual-abuse stories and grisly photos of car accidents). As the long winter closes its jaws of ice, each of the Quoyles confronts private demons, reels from catastrophe to minor triumph—in the company of the obsequious Mavis Bangs; Diddy Shovel the strongman; drowned Herald Prowse; cane-twirling Beety; Nutbeem, who steals foreign news from the radio; a demented cousin the aunt refuses to recognize; the much-zippered Alvin Yark; silent Wavey; and old Billy Pretty, with his bag of secrets. By the time of the spring storms Quoyle has learned how to gut cod, to escape from a pickle jar, and to tie a true lover’s knot.
Author : Charles Lipson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 31,10 MB
Release : 2011-05-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0226484645
In his bestselling guide, Doing Honest Work in College: How to Prepare Citations, Avoid Plagiarism, and Achieve Real Academic Success, veteran teacher Charles Lipson brought welcome clarity to the principles of academic honesty as well as to the often murky issues surrounding plagiarism in the digital age. Thousands of students have turned to Lipson for no-nonsense advice on how to cite sources properly—and avoid plagiarism—when writing their research papers. With his latest book, Cite Right, Lipson once again provides much-needed counsel in a concise and affordable handbook for students and researchers. Building on Doing Honest Work in College, Lipson’s new book offers a wealth of information on an even greater range of citation styles and details the intricacies of many additional kinds of sources. Lipson’s introductory essay, Why Cite, explains the reasons it is so important to use citations—and to present them accurately—in research writing. In subsequent chapters, Lipson explains the main citation styles students and researchers are likely to encounter in their academic work: Chicago; MLA; APA; CSE (biological sciences); AMA (medical sciences); ACS (chemistry, mathematics, and computer science); physics, astrophysics, and astronomy; Bluebook and ALWD (law); and AAA (anthropology and ethnography). His discussions of these styles are presented simply and clearly with examples drawn from a wide range of source types crossing all disciplines, from the arts and humanities to science, law, and medicine. Based on deep experience in the academic trenches, Cite Right is an accessible, one-stop resource—a must-have guide for students and researchers alike who need to prepare citations in any of the major disciplines and professional studies.
Author : Patrick Dunleavy
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 13,5 MB
Release : 2017-04-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 0230802087
This engaging and highly regarded book takes readers through the key stages of their PhD research journey, from the initial ideas through to successful completion and publication. It gives helpful guidance on forming research questions, organising ideas, pulling together a final draft, handling the viva and getting published. Each chapter contains a wealth of practical suggestions and tips for readers to try out and adapt to their own research needs and disciplinary style. This text will be essential reading for PhD students and their supervisors in humanities, arts, social sciences, business, law, health and related disciplines.
Author : Geoffrey K. Pullum
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 15,65 MB
Release : 1991-07-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0226685349
Contains a collection of twenty-three essays originally appearing in the journal "Natural Language and Linguistic Theory."
Author : Danica G. Hays
Publisher :
Page : 668 pages
File Size : 33,22 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Cross-cultural counseling
ISBN : 9780134523804
A comprehensive, innovative, evidence-based approach to ensuring multicultural competence in counseling. Designed to help students and new counselors acquire multicultural counseling competence, this book includes self-development opportunities for fostering awareness, knowledge, and the skills necessary for understanding cultural makeup, understanding others of diverse identities and experiences, and engaging in facilitative counseling relationships. Expanding on the features that made the first two editions widely popular, this revision provides a closer look at how to apply the information in practice through an expanded number of case studies and "Voices from the Field" features. The new edition includes additional information on ethics in multicultural counseling and operationalization of the 2015 multicultural and social justice counseling competencies; increases the focus on international and refugee populations and immigration issues; and provides additional coverage on alternative counseling approaches with multicultural competencies. Expanding on the features that made the first two editions widely popular, this revision provides: A closer look at how to apply the information in practice through an expanded number of case studies and "Voices from the Field." Additional information on ethics in multicultural counseling and operationalization of the 2015 multicultural and social justice counseling competencies. Greater attention focused on international and refugee populations and immigration issues. Increased discussion on alternative counseling approaches with multicultural competencies. Updated references and statistics related to theory, research, and practice with multicultural populations. Also available with MyLab Counseling This title is also available with MyLab(TM) Counseling--an online homework, tutorial, and assessment program designed to work with the text to engage students and improve results. Within its structured environment, students see key concepts demonstrated through video clips, practice what they learn, test their understanding, and receive feedback to guide their learning and ensure they master key learning outcomes.
Author : Mike Bunn
Publisher : The Saylor Foundation
Page : 17 pages
File Size : 29,64 MB
Release :
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN :
When you Read Like a Writer (RLW) you work to identify some of the choices the author made so that you can better understand how such choices might arise in your own writing. The idea is to carefully examine the things you read, looking at the writerly techniques in the text in order to decide if you might want to adopt similar (or the same) techniques in your writing. You are reading to learn about writing. Instead of reading for content or to better understand the ideas in the writing (which you will automatically do to some degree anyway), you are trying to understand how the piece of writing was put together by the author and what you can learn about writing by reading a particular text. As you read in this way, you think about how the choices the author made and the techniques that he/she used are influencing your own responses as a reader. What is it about the way this text is written that makes you feel and respond the way you do?
Author : Gordon Harvey
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 89 pages
File Size : 35,93 MB
Release : 2008-09-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1603844848
Developed for Harvard University's Expository Writing Program, Writing with Sources describes the main principles and methods of integrating and citing sources in scholarly work, and provides cogent guidance on avoiding the misuse of sources. The second edition of Writing with Sources is updated throughout, and includes new material on the roles sources play in argument, on assessing the reliability of sources, and on attitudes about writing that can lead to plagiarism.
Author : Richard Pears
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 36,60 MB
Release : 2010-08-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780230272316
This book is renowned as the most comprehensive yet easy-to-use guide to referencing available. Tutors rely on the advice to guide their students in the skills of identifying and referencing information sources and avoiding plagiarism. This new edition has new and expanded content, especially in relation to latest electronic sources.
Author : Joseph Gibaldi
Publisher :
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 13,78 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Academic writing
ISBN :
Since its publication in 1985, the "MLA Style Manual" has been the standard guide for graduate students, teachers, and scholars in the humanities and for professional writers in many fields. Extensively reorganized and revised, the new edition contains several added sections and updated guidelines on citing electronic works--including materials found on the World Wide Web.