Lazy Virtues: Teaching Writing in the Age of Wikipedia

Focusing largely on the controversial website Wikipedia, the author explores the challenges confronting teachers of college writing in the increasingly electronic and networked writing environments their students use every day. Rather than praising or condemning that site for its role as an encyclopedia, Cummings instead sees it as a site for online collaboration between writers and a way to garner audience for student writing.

Wiki Writing: Collaborative Learning in the College Classroom

The editors of Wiki Writing: Collaborative Learning in the College Classroom, Robert E. Cummings and Matt Barton, have assembled a collection of essays that challenges this common misconception, providing an engaging and helpful array of perspectives on the many pressing theoretical and practical issues that wikis raise. Written in an engaging and accessible manner that will appeal to specialists and novices alike, Wiki Writing draws on a wealth of practical classroom experiences with wikis to offer a series of richly detailed and concrete suggestions to help educators realize the potential of these new writing environments.

Publishing Pedagogies for the Doctorate and Beyond

Within a context of rapid growth and diversification in higher degree research programs, there is increasing pressure for the results of doctoral research to be made public. Doctoral students are now being encouraged to publish not only after completion of the doctorate, but also during, and even as part of their research program. For many this is a new and challenging feature of their experience of doctoral education. Publishing Pedagogies for the Doctorate and Beyond is a timely and informative collection of practical and theorised examples of innovative pedagogies that encourage doctoral student publishing.

English for Banking & Finance SB

English for Banking&Finance is part of the Vocational English series. It is designed for students in vocational education and for company employees in training at work. Written by industry practitioners, it combines a strong grammar syllabus with the specialist vocabulary and skills that  learners need for success in their chosen field.

English for Banking & Finance CD-ROM

English for Banking&Finance is part of the Vocational English series. It is designed for students in vocational education and for company employees in training at work. Written by industry practitioners, it combiens a strong grammar syllabus with the specialist vocabulary and skills that  learners need to succeed in their chosen field.

A student CD-ROM with interactive glossaries in both British and American English and full course book audio in MP3 format