In (First Person)2, Day and Eodice offer one of the few book-length studies of co-authoring in academic fields since Lunsford and Ede published theirs over a decade ago. The central research here involves in-depth interviews with 10 successful academic collaborators from a range of disciplines and settings. The interviews explore the narratives of these informants' experience -- what brought them to collaborate, what cognitive and logistical processes were involved as they worked together, what is the status of collaborated work in their field, and so on -- and situate these informants within the broader discussion of collaboration theory and research as it has been articulated over the last 10 years
Research on humor is carried out in a number of areas in psychology, including the cognitive (What makes something funny?), developmental (when do we develop a sense of humor?), and social (how is humor used in social interactions?) Dr. Martin is one of the best known researchers in the area, and his research goes across subdisciplines in psychology to be of wide appeal. This is a singly authored monograph that provides in one source, a summary of information researchers might wish to know about research into the psychology of humor.
The Department of Education's Office of Educational Research and
Improvement (OERI) asked RAND to examine how OERI might improve the
quality and relevance of the education research it funds. The RAND
Reading Study Group was charged with developing a research agenda to
address the most pressing issues in literacy and the teaching of
reading.
Double Your Learning Power: Master the Techniques of Successful Memory and Recall
Do you have trouble remembering names, faces, telephone numbers or foreign words? This excellent guidebook provides short-cut techniques for essential memory skills: mnemonics, reading quickly while remembering more, tools for scoring well on examinations. Drawing on recent psychological research about the learning process, Dudley adapts these insights into a practical set of exercises that anyone can master.
This book is a comprehensive but accessible description of English as it is spoken in New Zealand. New Zealand English is one of the youngest native speaker varieties of English, and is the only variety of English where there is recorded evidence of its entire history. It shares some features with other Southern Hemisphere varieties of English such as Australian English and South African English, but is also clearly distinct from these.
