A Writer's Reference
Author: Diana Hacker
Publisher: Bedford/st Martins
Published: 2006-11-23
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ISBN-13: 9780312467845
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The Film Experience
Author: Timothy Corrigan
Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
Published: 2008-12-29
Total Pages: 608
ISBN-13: 9780312445850
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Film Experience is a comprehensive introduction to film that treats students as the avid movie fans they are while surpassing all other texts in helping them understand the art form’s full scope, breadth, and depth. Like other introductory texts, it offers strong coverage of film’s formal elements, but goes further by situating this formal knowledge in the larger cultural contexts that inform the ways that we all view film. The authors’ rich narrative integrates the cultural history of film throughout and demonstrates how the elements, practices, economics, and history of the medium contribute to a film’s many possible meanings. The outstanding art program — now in full color — visually reinforces all the key concepts and techniques discussed in the text.
A Pocket Guide to Public Speaking
Author: Dan O'Hair
Publisher: Macmillan Higher Education
Published: 2015-11-27
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 1319019714
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis best-selling brief introduction to public speaking offers practical coverage of every topic typically covered in a full-sized text, from invention, research and organization, practice and delivery, to the different speech types. Its concise, inexpensive format makes it perfect not only for the public speaking course, but also for any setting across the curriculum, on the job, or in the community. This newly redesigned full-color edition offers even stronger coverage of the fundamentals of speechmaking, while also addressing the changing realities of public speaking in a digital world. It features fully updated chapters on online presentations and using presentation software, and a streamlined chapter on research in print and online.
A Pocket Style Manual
Author: Diana Hacker
Publisher: Bedford Books
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780312406844
DOWNLOAD EBOOKClarity, grammar, punctuation and mechanics, research sources, MLA, APA, Chicago, and usage/grammatical terms.
Focus on Reading and Writing
Author: Laurie G. Kirszner
Publisher: Macmillan Higher Education
Published: 2019-02-20
Total Pages: 1244
ISBN-13: 1319131905
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFocus on Reading and Writing: Essays provides thorough, integrated instruction on reading and writing essays and includes many effective features to help students make the connection between the reading and writing processes, including TEST—Kirszner and Mandell’s simple and effective reading and writing tool designed to help students gauge their progress. Kirszner and Mandell believe that students learn best when they try their hand at a new concept first with their own work. That’s why they designed the Focus on Reading and Writing strand throughout each chapter. The strand first prompts students to read and write, then learn essential concepts, and ultimately apply those concepts while re-reading and revising. With a complete grammar guide, supplementary online grammar practice through LaunchPad Solo for Readers and Writers, and 23 professional reading selections, this comprehensive text gets students reading, writing, and thinking critically in preparation for academic, career, and life success. The Second Edition strengthens and further integrates reading coverage throughout, helping improve students’ comprehension and ability to think critically as they read. An updated TEST feature now applies equally to understanding and analyzing readings as well as developing, drafting, and revising essays, a new annotated model has been added in Chapter 1, and new information has been added on identifying and formulating implied main ideas.
News Reporting and Writing
Author: Melvin Mencher
Publisher: WCB/McGraw-Hill
Published: 1977
Total Pages: 464
ISBN-13: 9780697043085
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNWR Nine is the 25th Anniversary Edition of this classic text. Teaching by example, with vivid writing, Mr. Mencher teaches students the fundamentals of reporting and writing news.
Working with Words
Author: Brian S. Brooks
Publisher: Macmillan Higher Education
Published: 2013-01-07
Total Pages: 436
ISBN-13: 1457639092
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNo matter what the medium, from print to broadcast to digital, Working with Words presents the best writing advice for journalists. It is designed to help students gain the grammatical and stylistic skills they need and then serve as a reference throughout their careers. Written by working journalists, with parts devoted to grammar and mechanics as well as journalistic style and writing for different media, it offers coverage the Associated Press Stylebook does not — and it’s affordably priced at 30-50% less than competing texts. The new edition contains tools that make it even easier to navigate, tackles the unique issues inherent to writing for online media, and offers improved grammar and writing instruction.
Rules for Writers
Author: Diana Hacker
Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
Published: 2007-10-03
Total Pages: 626
ISBN-13: 9780312452766
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRules for Writers succeeds because it has always been grounded in classroom experience. By looking at her own students' needs, Diana Hacker created an affordable and practical classroom tool that doubles as a quick reference. Developed with the help of instructors from two- and four-year schools, the sixth edition gives students quick access to the information they need to solve writing problems in any college course. In the Hacker tradition, the new contributing authors -- Nancy Sommers, Tom Jehn, Jane Rosenzweig, and Marcy Carbajal Van Horn -- have crafted solutions for the writing problems of today's college students. Together they give us a new edition that provides more help with academic writing and research and one that works better for a wider range of multilingual students. Flexible content options -- in print and online -- allow students to get more than they pay for.
The Disappearing Spoon
Author: Sam Kean
Publisher: Little, Brown
Published: 2010-07-12
Total Pages: 333
ISBN-13: 0316089087
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean comes incredible stories of science, history, finance, mythology, the arts, medicine, and more, as told by the Periodic Table. Why did Gandhi hate iodine (I, 53)? How did radium (Ra, 88) nearly ruin Marie Curie's reputation? And why is gallium (Ga, 31) the go-to element for laboratory pranksters? The Periodic Table is a crowning scientific achievement, but it's also a treasure trove of adventure, betrayal, and obsession. These fascinating tales follow every element on the table as they play out their parts in human history, and in the lives of the (frequently) mad scientists who discovered them. The Disappearing Spoon masterfully fuses science with the classic lore of invention, investigation, and discovery -- from the Big Bang through the end of time. Though solid at room temperature, gallium is a moldable metal that melts at 84 degrees Fahrenheit. A classic science prank is to mold gallium spoons, serve them with tea, and watch guests recoil as their utensils disappear.
The Structure of Argument
Author: Annette T. Rottenberg
Publisher: Macmillan Higher Education
Published: 2014-10-10
Total Pages: 532
ISBN-13: 1457691388
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Structure of Argument covers critical thinking, reading, writing, and research. Concise but thorough, it includes questions, exercises, writing assignments, and a full semester’s worth of readings—everything students need in an affordable, compact format. Presenting Aristotelian and Rogerian as well as Toulmin argument, The Structure of Argument has been totally revised, with more than three-quarters of the readings new (including many multimodal selections available online at no extra charge), new coverage of multimodal argument, expanded treatment of key rhetorical concepts, a fresh new design, and additional support for research. Its emphasis on Toulmin argument makes Structure highly teachable, since the approach fits with the goals of the composition course.
