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Conscious Writing: Discover Your True Voice Through Mindfulness and More
By Julia McCutcheon. 2015
Conscious Writing is an original approach to deep creative awakening that leads you to discover your true self and express…
your true voice - on the page and in the world It s a journey of self-realization conscious and self-expression creativity that can be applied to any and all types of writing and fluently blends soul with craft to reveal your richest insights and ideas Whether you dream of writing but haven t started yet or are an experienced author Julia McCutchen will guide you through this tried and tested step-by-step process for releasing your fears and writing what you are truly here to write Drawing on an inspiring mix of perennial wisdom psychological research and modern neuroscience Julia teaches how to Apply the seven Core Principles for personal experience of transpersonal Truth and emerge transformed and ready to write Align all aspects of yourself - body emotions mind and soul - to bring your whole self to the creative writing process Dive into deep creative flow and play with possibilities in the quantum realm of infinite potential Visit the Conscious Writing Sanctuary a powerful inner space out of which timeless words flow freely Realize your full potential and effortlessly stand out from the crowd as you express yourself consciously and creatively as an author in the worldVariation in the Input
By Kristine Bentzen, Marit Westergaard, Merete Anderssen. 2010
The topic of variation in language has received considerable attention in the field of general linguistics in recent years. This…
includes research on linguistic micro-variation that is dependent on fine distinctions in syntax and information structure. However, relatively little work has been done on how this variation is acquired. This book focuses on how different types of variation are expressed in the input and how this is acquired by young children. The collection of papers includes studies of the acquisition of variation in a number of different languages, including English, German, Greek, Italian, Korean, Norwegian, Swiss German, Ukrainian, and American Sign Language. Different kinds of linguistic variation are considered, ranging from pure word order variation to optionally doubly filled COMPs and the resolution of scopal ambiguities. In addition, papers in the volume deal with the extreme case of variation found in bilingual acquisition.Production-oriented and Comprehension-based Grammar Teaching in the Foreign Language Classroom
By Mirosław Pawlak, Anna Mystkowska-Wiertelak. 2011
The book addresses one of the key controversies in teaching foreign language grammar, which is the utility of production-oriented instruction,…
as exemplified in the PPP sequence, and comprehension-based teaching, as implemented in interpretation tasks and processing instruction. It provides a thorough overview of issues related to learning and teaching grammar, with a particular focus on input-oriented approaches, and reports the findings of four studies which sought to compare their effects with instruction based on different forms of output practice. The findings serve as a basis for guidelines on how the two options can be successfully combined in the classroomChanges: Readings for Writers
By Jean Withrow, Gay Brookes, Martha Clark Cummings. 1998
Tabloid Love: Looking for Mr. Right in All the Wrong Places
By Bridget Harrison. 2006
Dubbed one of the summer’s hottest beach reads by People, Glamour, Cosmo, and the Weekend Today” show, Tabloid Love introduces…
Bridget Harrison, an almost thirty-year-old Brit and rookie reporter for the New York Post. While her London friends begin to marry, Bridget chases her dream of becoming a hard-news journalist. But just as she perfects the art of interviewing strangers about ghoulish crimes, she discovers that finding a mate seems impossible in the ultimate singles city. Then Bridget lands her very own Post dating column, and half a million New Yorkers read about her weekly romantic disasters. Whether covering celebrity parties in the Hamptons or struggling to hide her inter-office crush, Bridget retains such humor and humility you’ll not only root for her, you’ll wish she were your best friend. ” (Harper’s Bazaar)Computer-Assisted Reporting: A Practical Guide (4th Edition)
By Brant Houston. 2015
This straightforward and effective how-to guide provides the basics for any journalist or student beginning to use data for news…
stories. It has step-by-step instructions on how to do basic data analysis in journalism while addressing why these digital tools should be an integral part of reporting in the 21st century. The book pays particular attention to the need for accuracy in computer-assisted reporting and to both the potential and pitfalls in utilizing large datasets in journalism. An ideal core text for courses on data-driven journalism or computer-assisted reporting, Houston pushes back on current trends by helping current and future journalists become more accountable for the accuracy and relevance of the data they acquire and share. Online instructor's materials are available to adopting professors, and additional exercises are available free online to students at the below address: http://ire.org/carbook/username: carbookpassword: carbook4Been There, Done That: School Dazed
By Mike Winchell, Eglantine Ceulemans. 2016
School is in session as celebrated authors share their real-life academic experiences and turn them into fiction!To some kids, school…
means homework, bus rides, or band practice. To others it means bullies, tough teachers, or pranking the substitute. In this second collection in the Been There, Done That series, authors describe a standout story from their school days. As with the first anthology, each author will contribute a narrative nonfiction account that serves as the inspiration for an original fictional short story. The contributing award-winning and best-selling middle-grade authors include Holly Goldberg Sloan, Kelly Starling Lyons, Tommy Greenwald, Wendy Mass, Bruce Hale, Jacqueline West, Ellen Yeomans, Vince Evans, Nate Evans, Sarah Prineas, Steve Sheinkin, Shaun David Hutchinson, Don Tate, Varian Johnson, Howard Cruse, Meg Medina, C. Alexander London, and Bruce Coville.From the Hardcover edition.Locality Domains in the Spanish Determiner Phrase
By M. Emma Ticio. 2009
Examining its subject from a generative perspective, this highly detailed text deals with the syntax of nominal expressions. It focuses…
on empirical data taken from the Spanish language, though the author goes further to draw conclusions of wider theoretical interest from material culled from other languages too. The book considers crucial phenomena in the nominal domain, such as extraction out of nominal phrases and ellipsis in these phrases, as well as their modification. In doing so it provides the reader with a unified explanation of a number of phenomena that have not previously been analyzed under a single basic account. In particular, Ticio explores how economy notions interact with a number of functional categories, with the length and type of movements allowed, and with the existence of three internal domains within nominal expressions. She uses these observations to inform her analysis of the structure of arguments and adjuncts in nominal expressions, and of the potential these elements have for extraction. To test the empirical adequacy of her analysis, she employs phenomena such as the properties of attributive adjectives, partial cliticization and nominal elision in Spanish nominal phrases.Research on Old French: The State of the Art
By Deborah L Arteaga. 2012
The present volume presents scholarly study into Old French as it is practiced today, in all of its forms, within…
a variety of theoretical frameworks, from Optimality Theory to Minimalism to Discourse Analysis. Many of the chapters are corpus-based, reflecting a new trend in the field, as more electronic corpora become available. The chapters contribute to our understanding of both the synchronic state and diachronic evolution, not only of Old French, but of language in general. Its breadth is extensive in that contributors pursue research on a wide variety of topics in Old French focusing on the various subsystems of language. All examples are carefully glossed and the relevant characteristics of Old French are clearly explained, which makes it uniquely accessible to non-specialists and linguists at all levels of training.The Bang-Bang Club: Snapshots From a Hidden War
By Greg Marinovich, Joao Silva, Archbishop Desmond Tutu. 2000
News: The Politics of Illusion, Tenth Edition
By W. Lance Bennett. 2016
For over thirty years, News: The Politics of Illusion has not simply reflected the political communication field--it has played a…
major role in shaping it. Today, the familiar news organizations of the legacy press are operating in a fragmenting and expanding mediaverse that resembles a big bang of proliferating online competitors that are challenging the very definition of news itself. Audience-powered sites such as the Huffington Post and Vox blend conventional political reporting with opinion blogs, celebrity gossip, and other ephemera aimed at getting clicks and shares. At the same time, the rise of serious investigative organizations such as ProPublica presents yet a different challenge to legacy journalism. Lance Bennett's thoroughly revised tenth edition offers the most up-to-date guide to understanding how and why the media and news landscapes are being transformed. It explains the mix of old and new, and points to possible outcomes. Where areas of change are clearly established, key concepts from earlier editions have been revised. There are new case studies, updates on old favorites, and insightful analyses of how the new media system and novel kinds of information and engagement are affecting our politics. As always, News presents fresh evidence and arguments that invite new ways of thinking about the political information system and its place in democracy.Winston Churchill Reporting: Adventures of a Young War Correspondent
By Simon Read. 2015
Combat, cigars, and whiskey--from the jungles of Cuba and the mountains of the Northwest Frontier, to the banks of the…
Nile and the plains of South Africa, comes this action-packed tale of Winston Churchill's adventures as a war correspondent in the Age of Empire.Studies in the Composition and Decomposition of Event Predicates
By Boban Arsenijević, Berit Gehrke, Rafael Marín. 2012
This detailed, perceptive addition to the linguistics literature analyzes the semantic components of event predicates, exploring their fine-grained elements as…
well as their agency in linguistic processing. The papers go beyond pure semantics to consider their varying influences of event predicates on argument structure, aspect, scalarity, and event structure. The volume shows how advances in the linguistic theory of event predicates, which have spawned Davidsonian and neo-Davidsonian notions of event arguments, in addition to 'event structure' frameworks and mereological models for the eventuality domain, have sidelined research on specific sets of entailments that support a typology of event predicates. Addressing this imbalance in the literature, the work also presents evidence indicating a more complex role for scalar structures than currently assumed. It will enrich the work of semanticists, psycholinguists, and syntacticians with a decompositional approach to verb phrase structure.Dynamic Antisymmetry and the Syntax of Noun Incorporation
By Michael Barrie. 2010
This innovative analysis of noun incorporation and related linguistic phenomena does more than just give readers an insightful exploration of…
its subject. The author re-evaluates--and forges links between--two influential theories of phrase structure: Chomsky's Bare Phrase Structure and Richard Kayne's Antisymmetry. The text details how the two linguistic paradigms interact to cause differing patterns of noun incorporation across world languages. With a solid empirical foundation in its close reading of Northern Iroquoian languages especially, Barrie argues that noun incorporation needs no special mechanism, but results from a symmetry-breaking operation. Drawing additional data from English, German, Persian, Tamil and the Polynesian language Niuean, this synthesis has major implications for our understanding of the formation of the verbal complex and the intra-position (roll-up) movement. It will be priority reading for students of phrase structure, as well as Iroquoian language scholars.The Grammar of French Quantification
By Lena Baunaz. 2010
This book is the first extensive study on French Quantification in the field of Syntax. It provides a typology of…
four main quantified noun phrases in French (existential, universal, negative and wh-), detailing their syntactic, semantic and prosodic behaviors and showing that they can be reduced to two classes--Split-DP structures or Floating quantification. Relying on syntax and semantics, the book establishes a three-way structural typology of wh in-situ phrases and extends it to existentials. It pays special attention to the prosodic properties associated with their different readings and proposes an analysis of the distribution of subextraction and pied-piping. Similarly based on semantic and syntactic tests, the book reveals N(egative) words to be universal Quantifiers. It proposes a new structure of N-words in terms of constituent negation and includes a detailed analysis of the difference between not an N and not all the N in French.George Alfred Townsend and Gathland: A Journalist and His Western Maryland Estate
By Dianne Wiebe. 2014
The youngest correspondent to cover the Civil War and a pioneer in newspaper syndication, George Alfred Townsend came from modest…
circumstances. Using the pen name of GATH, he rose to fame and fortune after the war, and his career brought him into contact with sitting presidents and luminaries such as Mark Twain. Though almost forgotten today in the canon of Maryland authors, GATH left a lasting legacy of literature and a most unique monument. He created a lavish summer estate near Boonsboro, Maryland, named Gapland--now called Gathland. He also famously erected the War Correspondents Memorial Arch, a monument to fellow wartime journalists. Today, GATH's estate is preserved and interpreted by a state park and its museums. His commanding arch remains a bold reminder of the creative genius of George Alfred Townsend.Generation Vet
By Lisa Lanstraat, Sue Doe. 2014
Institutions of higher education are experiencing the largest influx of enrolled veterans since World War II, and these student veterans…
are transforming post-secondary classroom dynamics. While many campus divisions like admissions and student services are actively moving to accommodate the rise in this demographic, little research about this population and their educational needs is available, and academic departments have been slower to adjust. In Generation Vet, fifteen chapters offer well-researched, pedagogically savvy recommendations for curricular and programmatic responses to student veterans for English and writing studies departments.In work with veterans in writing-intensive courses and community contexts, questions of citizenship, disability, activism, community-campus relationships, and retention come to the fore. Moreover, writing-intensive courses can be sites of significant cultural exchanges--even clashes--as veterans bring military values, rhetorical traditions, and communication styles that may challenge the values, beliefs, and assumptions of traditional college students and faculty.This classroom-oriented text addresses a wide range of issues concerning veterans, pedagogy, rhetoric, and writing program administration. Written by diverse scholar-teachers and written in diverse genres, the essays in this collection promise to enhance our understanding of student veterans, composition pedagogy and administration, and the post-9/11 university.Creative Writing and the Radical: Teaching and Learning the Fiction of the Future
By Nigel Krauth. 2016
The rise of digital publishing and the ebook has opened up an array of possibilities for the writer working with…
innovation in mind. Creative Writing and the Radical uses an examination of how experimental writers in the past have explored the possibilities of multimodal writing to theorise the nature of writing fiction in the future. It is clear that experimental writers rehearsed for technological advances long before they were invented. Through an in-depth study of writers and their motivations, challenges and solutions, the author explores the shifts creative writing teachers and students will need to make in order to adapt to a new era of fiction writing and reading.Assignments across the Curriculum
By Dan Melzer. 2014
In Assignments across the Curriculum, Dan Melzer analyzes the rhetorical features and genres of writing assignments through the writing-to-learn and…
writing-in-the-disciplines perspectives. Presenting the results of his study of 2,101 writing assignments from undergraduate courses in the natural sciences, social sciences, business, and humanities in 100 postsecondary institutions in the United States, Assignments across the Curriculum is unique in its cross-institutional breadth and its focus on writing assignments.The results provide a panoramic view of college writing in the United States. Melzer's framework begins with the rhetorical situations of the assignments--the purposes and audiences--and broadens to include the assignments' genres and discourse community contexts. Among his conclusions is that courses connected to a writing-across-the-curriculum (WAC) initiative ask students to write more often, in a greater variety of genres, and for a greater variety of purposes and audiences than non-WAC courses do, making a compelling case for the influence of the WAC movement.Melzer's work also reveals patterns in the rhetorical situations, genres, and discourse communities of college writing in the United States. These larger patterns are of interest to WAC practitioners working with faculty across disciplines, to writing center coordinators and tutors working with students who bring assignments from a variety of fields, to composition program administrators, to first-year writing instructors interested in preparing students for college writing, and to high school teachers attempting to bridge the gap between high school and college writing.Your Story: How To Write It So Others Will Want To Read It
By Joanne Fedler. 2017
We either think our lives are so special that everyone should be interested in what s happened to…
us or so ordinary that we can t imagine anyone would care The truth lies somewhere in between yes we are all special and no people will not care unless we write with them in mind Joanne Fedler a beloved writing teacher and mentor has written Your Story to help all people even those who don t necessarily identify as writers value their life stories and write them in such a way that they transcend the personal and speak into a universal story She shows how to write from your life but for the benefit of others Filled with practical wisdom and tools this book tackles mind-set issues that prevent us from writing ways to develop trust in yourself the process the mystery triggers or prompts to elicit our own stories Joanne s original techniques for lifewriting developed over a decade of teaching and mentoring and much more Joanne understands the writer s loneliness says one such writer whose life she s touched the award-winning author Nava Semel In this book she has created a menu of encouraging possibilities on how to overcome our fears and dig deep into our souls so that our true voice can emerge