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| Author | : Roy Harris |
| Publisher | : A&C Black |
| Total Pages | : 271 |
| Release | : 2005-03-01 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1847140998 |
The traditional Western view of writing, from Aristotle down to the present day, has treated the written word as a visual substitute for the spoken word. The eminent Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913) was the first to provide this traditional assumption with a reasoned basis by incorporating it into a more general theory of signs. In the wake of Saussure's work, modern linguistics has ignored or marginalized writing in favour of the study of speech. In all literate societies, however, speech in turn is interpreted by reference to the culturally dominant writing system. This puts in place a system of educational values which ensures that the more literate members of society maintain superiority over the less literate, and at the same time establishes a hierarchy among literate societies which favours the local product (alphabetic scripts in the Western Case). Roy Harris shows that the theory of writing adopted in modern linguistics is deeply flawed. Reversing the orthodox priorities, the author argues that writing is a far more powerful mode of linguistic communication than speech could ever be. His book is a major contribution to current debates about human communication written and spoken.
| Author | : Shelley Harwayne |
| Publisher | : Heinemann Educational Books |
| Total Pages | : 444 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : |
In Writing Through Childhood, Shelley dares us to rethink our beliefs about how we design writing workshops, use writer's notebooks, choose appropriate genres, and teach spelling.
| Author | : Virginia Mitchell Scott |
| Publisher | : Heinle & Heinle Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 204 |
| Release | : 1996 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : |
Reviews the research of foreign language and ESL writing pedagogy and suggest new teaching methods for college and high school instructors based on recent developments in the field. Includes a comprehensive review of the literature, specific sugestions for activities and recommendations on integrating software into the writing curriculum.
| Author | : Ruth Culham |
| Publisher | : Stenhouse Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 251 |
| Release | : 2018 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 1625311184 |
Ask great writers what the key to writing well is and they will tell you revision. Author Ruth Culham, both a successful writer and writing teacher, understands the challenges elementary teachers face when teaching writing and revision and now shares her knowledge in Teach Writing Well: How to Assess Writing, Invigorate Instruction, and Rethink Revision. Divided into two parts, Culham's book provides ways to teach that are both accessible to the teacher and student. You will find techniques to assess writing that are practical, and results driven. Inside you'll discover: Culham's "traits of writing" and how to use them to read and assess student work Ways to guide revision decisions using these traits as common language How to address challenges students may face within the different modes of writing (narrative, expository, and persuasive) Strategic lessons to teach the writer that scaffold students towards making their own craft decisions A chapter on mentor texts which can be used to model traits and key qualities for your students Teach Writing Well pulls best practices together and shows writing with fresh eyes.
| Author | : Jeff Anderson |
| Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
| Total Pages | : 234 |
| Release | : 2023-10-10 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 1003842364 |
Revision is often a confusing and difficult process for students, but it's also the most important part of the writing process. If students leave our classrooms not knowing how to move a piece of writing forward, we've failed them. Revision Decisions: Talking Through Sentences and Beyond will help teachers develop the skills students need in an ever-evolving writing, language, and reading world. Jeff Anderson and Deborah Dean have written a book that engages writers in the tinkering, playing, and thinking that are essential to clarify and elevate writing. Focusing on sentences, the authors use mentor texts to show the myriad possibilities that exist for revision. Essential to their process is the concept of classroom talk. Readers will be shown how revision lessons can be discussed in a generative way, and how each student can benefit from talking through the revision process as a group. Revision Decisions focuses on developing both the writing and the writer. The easy-to-follow lessons make clear and accessible the rigorous thinking and the challenging process of making writing work. Narratives, setup lessons, templates, and details about how to move students toward independence round out this essential book. Additionally, the authors weave the language, reading, and writing goals of the Common Core and other standards into an integrated and connected practice. The noted language arts teacher James Britton once said that good writing floats on a sea of talk. Revision Decisions supports those genuine conversations we naturally have as readers and writers, leading the way to the essential goal of making meaning.
| Author | : David Jauss |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 289 |
| Release | : 2011-06-02 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1440320837 |
The pieces of a satisfying novel or story seem to fit together so effortlessly, so seamlessly, that it's easy to find yourself wondering, "How on earth did the author do this?" The answer is simple: He sat alone at his desk, considered an array of options, and made smart, careful choices. In On Writing Fiction, award-winning author and respected creative writing professor David Jauss offers practical information and advice that will help you make smart creative and technical decisions about such topics as: • Writing prose with syntax and rhythm to create a "soundtrack" for the narrative • Choosing the right point of view to create the appropriate degree of "distance" between your characters and the reader • Harnessing the power of contradiction in the creative process In one thought-provoking essay after another, Jauss sorts through unique fiction-writing conundrums, including how to create those exquisite intersections between truth and fabrication that make all great works of fiction so much more resonant than fiction that follows the "write what you know" approach that's so often used.
| Author | : Linda Christensen |
| Publisher | : Rethinking Schools |
| Total Pages | : 203 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 0942961250 |
Give students the power of language by using the inspiring ideas in this very readable book.
| Author | : Mohit Rajhans |
| Publisher | : Think Start Inc. |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : |
We are having a content crisis! Our attention isn't the same anymore and we the 'content' people have to rethink our approach. We've spent over a decade feeding these massive companies with content and it's more important than ever to own your content footprint. My goal with this book is to bring new life, ideas and synergies to people who've wanted to get back to understanding the value of content in their organization, vertical or for their brand. What soon became clear to me after March 2020 was that it will never be the content that we create that is actually king, it will always be the connection. Platforms, trends, channels, apps, services and groups will always evolve into many forms, but your hard value will be your only factor that you can control. I've worked in content from beta tape to cloud AI Strategy, from Big brands to local brands, and the only thing I see consistently is a plea for a content strategy solution. I've struggled with the idea of content strategy for a while. I find it to be an umbrella term for multiple inputs which leaves a lot of un accountabilityContent doesn't live and die on social platforms and in marketing campaigns, it is often a purpose-driven initiative that we've lost sight of, simply because we often don't take the time to evaluate what our multiple KPIs are. It's time for the worlds of creators, brand managers and producers to stop to consider where the real value is coming from. Content doesn't live and die on social platforms and in marketing campaigns, it is often a purpose-driven initiative that we've lost sight of, simply because we often don't take the time to evaluate what our multiple KPIs are. It's time for the worlds of creators, brand managers and producers to stop to consider where the real value is coming from. Let's start to Rethink this.
| Author | : Rebecca Faye Smith Galli |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 328 |
| Release | : 2017-06-13 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1631522213 |
Becky Galli was born into a family that valued the power of having a plan. With a pastor father and a stay-at-home mother, her 1960s southern upbringing was bucolic—even enviable. But when her brother, only seventeen, died in a waterskiing accident, the slow unraveling of her perfect family began. Though grief overwhelmed the family, twenty-year-old Galli forged onward with her life plans—marriage, career, and raising a family of her own—one she hoped would be as idyllic as the family she once knew. But life had less than ideal plans in store. There was her son’s degenerative, undiagnosed disease and subsequent death; followed by her daughter’s autism diagnosis; her separation; and then, nine days after the divorce was final, the onset of the transverse myelitis that would leave Galli paralyzed from the waist down. Despite such unspeakable tragedy, Galli maintained her belief in family, in faith, in loving unconditionally, and in learning to not only accept, but also embrace a life that had veered down a path far different from the one she had envisioned. At once heartbreaking and inspiring, Rethinking Possible is a story about the power of love over loss and the choices we all make that shape our lives —especially when forced to confront the unimaginable.
| Author | : Matthew Salesses |
| Publisher | : Catapult |
| Total Pages | : 139 |
| Release | : 2021-01-19 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1948226812 |
This national bestseller is "a significant contribution to discussions of the art of fiction and a necessary challenge to received views about whose stories are told, how they are told and for whom they are intended" (Laila Lalami, The New York Times Book Review). The traditional writing workshop was established with white male writers in mind; what we call craft is informed by their cultural values. In this bold and original examination of elements of writing—including plot, character, conflict, structure, and believability—and aspects of workshop—including the silenced writer and the imagined reader—Matthew Salesses asks questions to invigorate these familiar concepts. He upends Western notions of how a story must progress. How can we rethink craft, and the teaching of it, to better reach writers with diverse backgrounds? How can we invite diverse storytelling traditions into literary spaces? Drawing from examples including One Thousand and One Nights, Curious George, Ursula K. Le Guin's A Wizard of Earthsea, and the Asian American classic No-No Boy, Salesses asks us to reimagine craft and the workshop. In the pages of exercises included here, teachers will find suggestions for building syllabi, grading, and introducing new methods to the classroom; students will find revision and editing guidance, as well as a new lens for reading their work. Salesses shows that we need to interrogate the lack of diversity at the core of published fiction: how we teach and write it. After all, as he reminds us, "When we write fiction, we write the world."
