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Authority and authorship in medieval and seventeenth century women's visionar…
In medieval and early modern times, female visionary writers used the mode of prophecy to voice their concerns and ideas, against the backdrop of cultural restrictions and negative stereotypes. In this book, Deborah Frick analyses medieval visionary writings by Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe in comparison to seventeenth-century visionary writings by authors such as Anna Trapnel, Mary Cary,…
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- 9783839456897
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- 153 p.
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- 421 FRI a
How we read : tales, fury, Nothing, sound
What do we do when we read? Reading can be an act of consumption or an act of creation. Our “work reading” overlaps with our “pleasure reading,” and yet these two modes of reading engage with different parts of the self. It is sometimes passive, sometimes active, and can even be an embodied form. The contributors to this volume share their own histories of reading in order to reveal the…
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- 9781950192311
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- 186 p.; 22cm.
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- 028.9 HEL h
Oregon writes open writing text : a project of Oregon writes
This textbook guides students through rhetorical and assignment analysis, the writing process, researching, citing, rhetorical modes, and critical reading. Using accessible but rigorous readings by professionals throughout the college composition field, the Oregon Writes Writing Textbook aligns directly to the statewide writing outcomes for English Composition courses in Oregon. Created thro…
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- 228p. : ill.
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- 808.066 KEP o
How we write : thirteen ways of looking at a blank page
The contributors range from graduate students and recent PhDs to senior scholars working in the fields of medieval studies, art history, English literature, poetics, early modern studies, musicology, and geography. All are engaged in academic writing, but some of the contributors also publish in other genres, includes poetry and fiction. Several contributors maintain a very active online presen…
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- 9780692519332
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- 182 p.
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- 808.02 CON h
The academic book of the future
edited by Rebecca E. Lyons, Research Associate, University College London, UK and Samantha J. Rayner, Senior Lecturer in Publishing, University College London, UK.
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- 9781137595775
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- xii, 120 pages ; 23 cm
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- 791.4
The writing system of scribe Zhou : evidence from late pre-imperial Chinese m…
This book investigates the nature of regional variation in the early Chinese writing system through bamboo manuscripts and inscriptions dating from the late pre-imperial China (5th-3rd centuries BCE). Diachronic and synchronic comparisons of graphic details show that none of the well-recognized regional varieties developed independently from one another. Furthermore, differences in graphic comp…
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- 9783110459302
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- XIV, 328 p.
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- Studies in Manuscript Cultures, 4
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- 495.11109 PAR w
Metagestures
"What kinds of knowledge and understandings of the world can be generated – and shared – when we use para-academic techniques and sensibilities to decode or respond to relatively orthodox intellectual objects? And what worlds might be possible if we practiced scholarly work from a place of collaboration and pleasure, as joyful fellow explorers? In Metagestures, presented in a playful tête-…
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- 1st edition.
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- 9781950192267
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- x, 221p.:
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- 813.6 NAP m
The Importance of art in children’s writing education
“We have a huge vested interest in education because it is education that’s meant to take us into this future that we can’t grasp” (Robinson, 2006). This statement made by Sir Ken Robinson points to what should be a universal concern to make education our most important societal coping strategy. He highlights especially the need for arts education if we are to nurture the creative and c…
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- 9789463510479
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- 371.102 BRE i
Write here, right now: an interactive introduction to academic writing and re…
Write Here, Right Now: An interactive Introduction to Academic Writing and Research utilizes PressBooks to create and host a writing e-textbook for first year university students that would effectively integrate into the flipped classroom model. The textbook could also be used for non-flipped classroom designs, as the embedded videos, diagrams and linked modules would act as an all-in-one mul…
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- 366p. : ill.
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Bad ideas about writing
We intend this work to be less a bestiary of bad ideas about writing than an effort to name bad ideas and suggest better ones. Some of those bad ideas are quite old, such as the archetype of the inspired genius author, the five-paragraph essay, or the abuse of adjunct writing teachers. Others are much newer, such as computerized essay scoring or gamification. Some ideas, such as the supposed de…
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- 9780998882000
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- 370p. : ill.
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- 808.02 BAD b
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