The Well-Crafted Argument
The Well-Crafted Argument

Author: Simone J. Billings

Publisher: Cengage Learning

Published: 2011-12

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9781133308706

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Equips [readers] with the skills to construct meaningful and powerful arguments in various course areas. As it guides you through the process of writing effective arguments, the book covers critical reading strategies, writing, researching, and documenting a topic. You'll find information on drafting and revising arguments, and a variety of composition strategies including freewriting, outlining, and shared reading -- from cover.

Noise From The Writing Center
Noise From The Writing Center

Author: Elizabeth Boquet

Publisher:

Published: 2002-03

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13:

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In Noise from the Writing Center, Boquet develops a theory of "noise" and excess as an important element of difference between the pedagogy of writing centers and the academy in general. Addressing administrative issues, Boquet strains against the bean-counting anxiety that seems to drive so much of writing center administration. Pedagogically, she urges a more courageous practice, developed via metaphors of music and improvisation, and argues for "noise," excess, and performance as uniquely appropriate to the education of writers and tutors in the center. Personal, even irreverent in style, Boquet is also theoretically sophisticated, and she draws from an eclectic range of work in academic and popular culture-from Foucault to Attali to Jimi Hendrix. She includes, as well, the voices of writing center tutors with whom she conducted research, and she finds some of her most inspiring moments in the words and work of those tutors.

Foundational Practices of Online Writing Instruction
Foundational Practices of Online Writing Instruction

Author: Beth L. Hewett

Publisher: Parlor Press LLC

Published: 2015-04-15

Total Pages: 350

ISBN-13: 1602356688

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Foundational Practices in Online Writing Instruction addresses administrators’ and instructors’ questions for developing online writing programs and courses. Written by experts in the field, this book uniquely attends to issues of inclusive and accessible online writing instruction in technology-enhanced settings, as well as teaching with mobile technologies and multimodal compositions.

Food Discourse of Celebrity Chefs of Food Network
Food Discourse of Celebrity Chefs of Food Network

Author: Kelsi Matwick

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2019-12-02

Total Pages: 199

ISBN-13: 3030314308

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Food Discourse explores a fascinating, yet virtually unexplored research area: the language of food used on television cooking shows. It shows how the discourse of television cooking shows on the American television channel Food Network conveys a pseudo-relationship between the celebrity chef host and viewers. Excerpts are drawn from a variety of cooking show genres (how-to, travel, reality, talk, competition), providing the data for this qualitative investigation. Richly interdisciplinary, the study draws upon discourse analysis, narrative, social semiotics, and media communication in order to analyze four key linguistic features – recipe telling, storytelling, evaluations, and humor – in connection with the themes of performance, authenticity, and expertise, essential components in the making of celebrity chefs. Given its scope, the book will be of interest to scholars of linguistics, media communication, and American popular culture. Further, in light of the international reach and influence of American television and celebrity chefs, it has a global appeal.

Shaping the University of the Future
Shaping the University of the Future

Author: Stephen James Marshall

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-01-02

Total Pages: 592

ISBN-13: 9811076200

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This book focuses on developing an understanding of the complex interplay of forces acting on individual universities and higher education systems to enable leaders and practitioners to take purposeful and strategic action. It explores the challenging landscape of higher education and the pressures that are reshaping the university as a societal institution, describing the complex interplay of technological, sociological, political and economic forces driving change. The issues analysed are global in scope, reflecting the diversity of contexts, but also the common nature of the challenges facing institutions individually and collectively. The analysis draws on the lessons learnt and evidence from over fifty organisational case studies undertaken by the author over the past decade, exploring organisational change in higher education institutions in New Zealand, Australia, the United States and the United Kingdom, and on his engagement as president of the ACODE organisation with colleagues responsible for learning technological change in Australasia. The book helps institutions respond to technological change purposefully, in ways that build upon a clear understanding of the complex nature of the existing institution, its students and the organisational context.