Author: Stephen J. Pyne
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674054458
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
It has become commonplace these days to speak of “unpacking” texts. Voice and Vision is a book about packing that prose in the first place. While history is scholarship, it is also art—that is, literature. And while it has no need to emulate fiction, slump into memoir, or become self-referential text, its composition does need to be conscious and informed. Voice and Vision is for those who wish to understand the ways in which literary considerations can enhance nonfiction writing. At issue is not whether writing is scholarly or popular, narrative or analytical, but whether it is good. Fiction has guidebooks galore; journalism has shelves stocked with manuals; certain hybrids such as creative nonfiction and the new journalism have evolved standards, esthetics, and justifications for how to transfer the dominant modes of fiction to topics in nonfiction. But history and other serious or scholarly nonfiction have nothing comparable. Now this curious omission is addressed by Stephen Pyne as he analyzes and teaches the craft that undergirds whole realms of nonfiction and book-based academic disciplines. With eminent good sense concerning the unique problems posed by research-based writing and with a wealth of examples from accomplished writers, Pyne, an experienced and skilled writer himself, explores the many ways to understand what makes good nonfiction, and explains how to achieve it. His counsel and guidance will be invaluable to experts as well as novices in the art of writing serious and scholarly nonfiction.
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Discoveries: Reader's and Writer's Corner
Author: Gail Heald-Taylor
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780153328138
Category : Language arts (Elementary)
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780153328138
Category : Language arts (Elementary)
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
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The Informed Vision
Author: David Hawkins
Publisher: Algora Publishing
ISBN: 0875861717
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
An education classic is back in print. Fifteen seminal essays explore how children develop their understanding of the world around them.
Publisher: Algora Publishing
ISBN: 0875861717
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
An education classic is back in print. Fifteen seminal essays explore how children develop their understanding of the world around them.
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Language and Image in the Reading-Writing Classroom
Author: Kristie S. Fleckenstein
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135644861
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
Explores role of imagery in lang, thought & culture-specifically, the importance of imagery in meaning, & the connections between imagery & lang. Offers teachers specific, research & theory- based strategies for integrating imagery into the teaching of
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135644861
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
Explores role of imagery in lang, thought & culture-specifically, the importance of imagery in meaning, & the connections between imagery & lang. Offers teachers specific, research & theory- based strategies for integrating imagery into the teaching of
Making Crime Television
Author: Anita Lam
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134114451
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
This book employs actor-network theory in order to examine how representations of crime are produced for contemporary prime-time television dramas. As a unique examination of the production of contemporary crime television dramas, particularly their writing process, Making Crime Television: Producing Entertaining Representations of Crime for Television Broadcast examines not only the semiotic relations between ideas about crime, but the material conditions under which those meanings are formulated. Using ethnographic and interview data, Anita Lam considers how textual representations of crime are assembled by various people (including writers, directors, technical consultants, and network executives), technologies (screenwriting software and whiteboards), and texts (newspaper articles and rival crime dramas). The emerging analysis does not project but instead concretely examines what and how television writers and producers know about crime, law and policing. An adequate understanding of the representation of crime, it is maintained, cannot be limited to a content analysis that treats the representation as a final product. Rather, a television representation of crime must be seen as the result of a particular assemblage of logics, people, creative ideas, commercial interests, legal requirements, and broadcasting networks. A fascinating investigation into the relationship between television production, crime, and the law, this book is an accessible and well-researched resource for students and scholars of Law, Media, and Criminology.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134114451
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
This book employs actor-network theory in order to examine how representations of crime are produced for contemporary prime-time television dramas. As a unique examination of the production of contemporary crime television dramas, particularly their writing process, Making Crime Television: Producing Entertaining Representations of Crime for Television Broadcast examines not only the semiotic relations between ideas about crime, but the material conditions under which those meanings are formulated. Using ethnographic and interview data, Anita Lam considers how textual representations of crime are assembled by various people (including writers, directors, technical consultants, and network executives), technologies (screenwriting software and whiteboards), and texts (newspaper articles and rival crime dramas). The emerging analysis does not project but instead concretely examines what and how television writers and producers know about crime, law and policing. An adequate understanding of the representation of crime, it is maintained, cannot be limited to a content analysis that treats the representation as a final product. Rather, a television representation of crime must be seen as the result of a particular assemblage of logics, people, creative ideas, commercial interests, legal requirements, and broadcasting networks. A fascinating investigation into the relationship between television production, crime, and the law, this book is an accessible and well-researched resource for students and scholars of Law, Media, and Criminology.
Reading and Writing Across Content Areas
Author: Roberta L. Sejnost
Publisher: Corwin Press
ISBN: 1452209367
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
This invaluable guide offers step-by-step, research-based strategies that will help you increase your students' reading comprehension, strengthen writing skills, and build vocabulary across content areas.
Publisher: Corwin Press
ISBN: 1452209367
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
This invaluable guide offers step-by-step, research-based strategies that will help you increase your students' reading comprehension, strengthen writing skills, and build vocabulary across content areas.
Writing Lovers
Author: Méira Cook
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773572279
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
In writings by the French post-structuralists, rhetorical tropes such as speechlessness, fragmentation, and deflection testify to the writer's difficulty in broaching the subject of love. Similarly, Cook shows that love poetry proceeds out of a profound failure of language resulting from the opacity of discourse, its lack of neutrality, or the fugitive transparency of reference. Writing Lovers also explores race, ethnicity, age, and sexual identity within the context of the passionate excesses of amatory discourse.
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773572279
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
In writings by the French post-structuralists, rhetorical tropes such as speechlessness, fragmentation, and deflection testify to the writer's difficulty in broaching the subject of love. Similarly, Cook shows that love poetry proceeds out of a profound failure of language resulting from the opacity of discourse, its lack of neutrality, or the fugitive transparency of reference. Writing Lovers also explores race, ethnicity, age, and sexual identity within the context of the passionate excesses of amatory discourse.