Writing in the Technical Fields: A Practical Guide (3rd Edition)
The most engaging, relatable, and practical text available for students in the technical disciplines learning how to communicate effectively. Writing in the Technical Fields is a concise guide to the practical elements of technical writing. Using clear, straightforward language and easy-to-follow principles, this third edition teaches students how to approach a wide range of fundamental concepts - including planning and editing documents, ethics in technical fields, and delivering engaging presentations - and helps them develop the skills and confidence they need to be effective technical writers and communicators.
TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science.
The Handbook of Literacy Studies offers a comprehensive view of the field of language and literacy studies. With forty-three chapters reflecting new research from leading scholars in the field, the handbook pushes at the boundaries of existing fields and combines with related fields and disciplines to develop a lens on contemporary scholarship and emergent fields of inquiry. The Handbook of Literacy Studies is an essential reference for undergraduate and postgraduate students and those researching and working in the areas of applied linguistics and language and literacy.
Our Land at War: A Portrait of Rural Britain 1939-45
On the outbreak of war, the countryside was invaded by service personnel and evacuee children by the thousands; land was taken arbitrarily for airfields, training grounds, and firing ranges, and whole communities were evicted. Prisoner-of-war camps brought captured enemy soldiers to close quarters, and as horses gave way to tractors and combines farmers were burdened with aggressive new restrictions on what they could and could not grow. Land Girls and Lumber Jills worked in fields and forests. Food - or the lack of it - was a major preoccupation, and rationing strictly enforced. And although rabbits were poached, apples scrumped, and mushrooms gathered, there was still not enough to eat.
