Unlike the myriad writing manuals that emphasize grammar, sentence structure, and other skills necessary for entry-level editing jobs, this engaging book adopts a broader view, beginning with the larger topics of audience, mission, and tone, and working its way down, layer by layer, to the smaller questions of grammar and punctuation.
Teaching ESL Composition: Purpose, Process, and Practice
This text for ESL writing teachers & prospective teachers blends current reviews of research with extensive coverage of practical topics related to the teaching of ESL writers in academic settings.
With more than 275 contributions, the Encyclopedia of Educational Psychologyopens up the broad discipline of educational psychology to a wide and general audience. Written by experts in each area, the entries in this far-reaching resource provide an overview and an explanation of the major topics in the field of human development. While the Encyclopediaincludes some technical topics related to educational psychology, for the most part, it focuses on those topics that evoke the interest of the everyday reader.
Key Features: * Addresses topics that are of particular interest to the general public such as vouchers, Head Start, divorce, learning communities and charter schools * Shares subjects that are rich, diverse, and deserving of closer inspection with an educated reader who may be uninformed about educational psychology * Draws from a variety of disciplines including psychology, anthropology, education, sociology, public health, school psychology, counseling, history, and philosophy * Presents many different topics all tied together by the theme of how the individual can best function in an educational setting, from pre-school through adult education
This rhetoric revives the classical strategies of ancient Greek and Roman rhetoricians and adapts them to the needs of contemporary writers and speakers. This is a fresh interpretation of the ancient canons of composing: invention, arrangement, style, memory, and delivery. It shows that rhetoric, as it was practiced and taught by the ancients, was an intrinsic part of daily life and of communal discourse about current events. This book gives special emphasis to classic strategies of invention, devoting separate chapters to stasis theory, common and special topics, formal topics, ethos, pathos, extrinsic proofs, and Aristotelian means of reasoning. The authors' engaging discussion and their many contemporary examples of ancient rhetorical principles present rhetoric as a set of flexible, situational practices. This practical history draws the most relevant and useful concepts from ancient rhetorics and discusses, updates, and offers them for use in the contemporary composition classroom.
