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A guide to the modes and methods of Creative Writing research, designed to be invaluable to university staff and students in formulating research ideas, and in selecting appropriate strategies. Creative writing researchers from around the globe offer a selection of models that readers can explore and on which they can build.

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A groundbreaking guide to research methods in interpreting, full of questions and examples.

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This provides sufficient background to enable those coming new to SFL to make productive, critical use of the research reviewed, studies described and advice on project design provided in the following chapters.

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This book is dedicated to Zoltan Dornyei for his 60th birthday.

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This book is dedicated to Zoltan Dornyei for his 60th birthday.

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Explores the complex nature of idiomaticity by bringing together a quantitative corpus-linguistic approach and judgement data. Adopting a usage-based perspective, this study addresses the question 'which factors do speakers rely upon when assessing the idiomaticity of a construction'.

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Explores the complex nature of idiomaticity, by bringing a quantitative corpus-linguistic approach and judgement data. Adopting a usage-based perspective, this study addresses the question: Which factors do speakers rely upon when assessing the idiomaticity of a construction

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Links fields such as linguistics, anthropology, sociolinguistics and education to illustrate how the problem of literacy is embedded in a social and cultural context. Most of the essays are based on primary research and highlight important concerns about the political nature of literacy.

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Links fields such as linguistics, anthropology, sociolinguistics and education to illustrate how the problem of literacy is embedded in a social and cultural context. Most of the essays are based on primary research and highlight important concerns about the political nature of literacy.

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Introduces a scheme of machine aesthetics, including classical industrial machines, high technology, and decaying machines, and then explores the rhetorical uses of these aesthetics.

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It courts ambiguity and complexity and revels in difficulty in its examination of ethical issues in the realm of the Internet, the World Wide Web, electronic mail, and the networked classroom, in the rapidly expanding writing space of internetworked writing.

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An examination of the history of the narrowness of goals, social structures, and methodologies associated with the field of technical communication in the second half of the 20th century. It shows how an Isocratean rhetoric can broaden and therefore improve our approaches to decision-making.

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An examination of the history of the narrowness of goals, social structures, and methodologies associated with the field of technical communication in the second half of the 20th century. It shows how an Isocratean rhetoric can broaden and therefore improve our approaches to decision-making.

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Bring out the poet in your students! Poetry is a wonderful catalyst for helping students understand and appreciate written and oral language. And this book includes a variety of activities and poetry types to reinforce language elements such as the alphabet, syllables, words, and phrases.

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This text presents a new model of conversation based on time, in this case referring both to the rhythmic organization of conversation, the tempo, and to the right time or timing. These two notions of time correspond to two major systems governing conversation: the turn taking system and the rapport system.

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Aims to help parents and teachers identify children's reading difficulties and then suggest ways to deal with them. This book contains practical solutions, showing there are many ways to improve your child's reading and stimulate a love of books.

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Advancing the application of Carl Rogers' ideas, this book presents new theoretical and practical views of Rogerian influences on rhetorical theory, the teaching of writing, and pragmatic discourse.