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The Distance to China: Twentieth-Century Italian Travel Narratives of Patriot…
«As Italy tends to be studied increasingly in transnational and transcultural perspective, there is an ever-greater need for studies that explore the country's relationship with other geographical areas and cultural configurations. Linetto Basilone's work is an important contribution to research of this kind. The work provides a panoramic view of how journalists and travel writers from the lat…
- Edition
- 42
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781789975116
- Collation
- 336p
- Series Title
- Italian Modernities
- Call Number
- 850.9 LIN
Travel writings on Asia : curiosity, identities, and knowledge across the Eas…
This open access book provides an analysis of human actors and their capacity to explore and conceptualise their own agency by being curious, gathering knowledge, and shaping identities in their travel reflections on Asia. Thus, the actors open windows across time to present a profound overview of diverse descriptions and constructions of Asia. It is demonstrated that international and transnat…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789811901249
- Collation
- XIV, 310 p
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 808 CHR t
Go online! : reconfiguring writing courses for the new, virtual world
COVID-19’s impacts revealed that teaching writing online was no longer merely an issue of convenience or economic necessity—it was critical to public health and equity concerns as well. Now higher education faces one of its greatest historical challenges, expanding online offerings to fully engage and support students around the world. Gathering together educators who teach writing at colle…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781433187971
- Collation
- ix, 226p ; ill.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 808.0420785 GRA g
Overwhelmed by overflows? : How people and organizations create and manage ex…
This transdisciplinary volume investigates the ways in which people and organisations deal with the overflow of information, goods or choices. It explores two main themes: the emergence of overflows and the management of overflows, in the sense of either controlling or coping with them. Individual chapters show the management of overflows taking place in various social settings, periods and pol…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789198469813
- Collation
- xi, 212p : ill.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 658.403 CZA o
Scientific communication : practices, theories, and pedagogies
This book addresses the roles and challenges of people who communicate science, who work with scientists, and who teach STEM majors how to write. In terms of practice and theory, chapters address themes encountered by scientists and communicators, including ethical challenges, visual displays, and communication with publics, as well as changed and changing contexts and genres. The pedagogy sect…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781315160191
- Collation
- vi, 333 p. ; ill
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 808.0665 NOR s
Script effects as the hidden drive of the mind, cognition, and culture
This open access volume reveals the hidden power of the script we read in and how it shapes and drives our minds, ways of thinking, and cultures. Expanding on the Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis (i.e., the idea that language affects the way we think), this volume proposes the “Script Relativity Hypothesis” (i.e., the idea that the script in which we read affects the way we think) by offeri…
- Edition
- Literacy Studies, 21
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030551520
- Collation
- 251 p.: ill.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 411.019 PAE s
Script and society : the social context of writing practices in late Bronze A…
By the 13th century BC, the Syrian city of Ugarit hosted an extremely diverse range of writing practices. As well as two main scripts – alphabetic and logographic cuneiform - the site has also produced inscriptions in a wide range of scripts and languages, including Hurrian, Sumerian, Hittite, Egyptian hieroglyphs, Luwian hieroglyphs and Cypro-Minoan. This variety in script and language is ac…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781789255843
- Collation
- viii, 308 p . : ill.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 411.70939433 BOY s
Writing and publishing scientific papers : a primer for the non-English speaker
Gábor Lövei’s scientific communication course for students and scientists explores the intricacies involved in publishing primary scientific papers, and has been taught in more than twenty countries. Writing and Publishing Scientific Papers is the distillation of Lövei’s lecture notes and experience gathered over two decades; it is the coursebook many have been waiting for. The book…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781800640917
- Collation
- xi, 198 p. ; ill
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 808.1 LOV w
How to avoid plagiarism : student handbook
In this handbook you’ll learn: – how to formulate your own ideas – how to correctly reference different sources – what exactly constitutes plagiarism – how to avoid various forms of plagiarism – examples of (in)famous cases of plagiarism – three tips against plagiarism – and finally, some advice for avoiding time pressure.
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9788024648163
- Collation
- 42 p.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 808.025 HOW h
How to prevent plagiarism in student work : a handbook for academic staf
This handbook provide clear yet sufficiently comprehensive guidelines for situations that may arise in connection with plagiarism in the day-to-day academic routine. The handbook offers the opportunity to consider not only the aspects of originality in student work and how to explain the importance of source referencing to students and forms of plagiarism, but also how to recognise plagiarism a…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9788024648170
- Collation
- 34 p.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 808.025 HOW h
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