August 27th, 2010
Category: Books
Tags: Family, Handbook, Literacy
Product Description
The emerging field of family literacy, which cuts across early childhood education, early literacy development, parent education, adult education, and parent-child literacy interactions, has never had a comprehensive volume that pulls together and integrates its many interacting components. That is the mission of this handbook. It provides scholars, students, policymakers, and practitioners (both inside and outside the field) with an invaluable snapshot of its current boundaries and rapidly growing content. With contributions from experts in each of its component fields, it provides an up-to-date picture of existing family literacy programs, of the research and theories that guide these programs,…
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August 23rd, 2010
Category: Books
Tags: Chapters, From, Handbook, Literacy, Methodology, Methods, Reading, Research, Volume
Product Description
In this volume, 10 reviews of significant reading research methodologies are reprinted from the Handbook of Reading Research, Volume III. The editors have judged that these specific methodologies have had great impact on reading research since the publication of Volume II in 1991. This text is especially well-suited for use in upper-level undergraduate and graduate-level reading research methods courses.
Methods of Literacy Research: The Methodology Chapters From the Handbook of Reading Research, Volume III
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July 6th, 2010
Category: Books
Tags: Book, College, Edition, English, Guide, Handbook, Reader., Research, Rhetoric, Students, update
Product Description
The Student’s Book of College English continues its tradition with sound instruction in the rhetorical strategies, strong professional and student readings, thorough coverage of argumentation and research, and a reference handbook with self-test exercises. This edition also features a new full color design, close attention to visual elements, updated discussions of Internet research and documentation, and a new chapter on critical reading.
Student’s Book of College English: Rhetoric, Reader, Research Guide, and Handbook, MLA Update Edition
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June 22nd, 2010
Category: Books
Tags: Cambridge, Handbook, Literacy
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This handbook marks the transformation of the topic of literacy from the narrower concerns with learning to read and write to an interdisciplinary enquiry into the various roles of writing and reading in the full range of social and psychological functions in both modern and developing societies. It does so by exploring the nature and development of writing systems, the relations between speech and writing, the history of the social uses of writing, the evolution of conventions of reading, the social and developmental dimensions of acquiring literate competencies, and, more generally, the conceptual and cognitive dimensions of literacy as…
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April 10th, 2010
Category: Books
Tags: Covering, English, english grammar, Essentials, Grammar, Handbook, Practical, Rules, Start, Style, Writing
- ISBN13: 9780764143168
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
Updated and expanded, this book fills a double purpose as both a useful classroom text and a practical style manual for writers. It reviews English grammar, sentence structure, punctuation, and correct word usage, and advises on adapting writing style to different formats, including both classroom assignments, business documents, and electronic communication. Readers will also find detailed instruction on essay writing, starting with outlining a subject, and going on to writing a draft and then editing and polishing it into a finished composition. New in this edition is a sample research…
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April 7th, 2010
Category: Books
Tags: Handbook, leadership, Literacies, Literacy, Research
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Situated at the intersection of two of the most important areas in educational research today — literacy and technology — this handbook draws on the potential of each while carving out important new territory. It provides leadership for this newly emerging field, directing scholars to the major issues, theoretical perspectives, and interdisciplinary research pertaining to new literacies. Reviews of research are organized into six sections:
- Methodologies
- Knowledge and Inquiry
- Communication
- Popular Culture, Community, and Citizenship: Everyday Literacies
- Instructional Practices and Assessment
- Multiple Perspectives on New Literacies Research
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- Brings together a diverse international team of editors and chapter authors
- Provides an extensive collection of research reviews in a…
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April 1st, 2010
Category: Books
Tags: English, english grammar, english grammer, Grammar, Handbook, REA's, Style, Writing
- ISBN13: 9780878915521
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
This easy-to-understand, straightforward English handbook does not use the hard-to-understand technical jargon usually found in English grammar books. Instead, this handbook provides hundreds of examples from which it is possible to easily see what is correct and what is incorrect in areas of English grammar and writing. The handbook covers the following in detail: nouns, verbs, adjectives, paragraphs, composition, punctuation, spelling, and much more.
REA’s Handbook of English Grammar, Style, and Writing
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