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R. Nate / V. Gutsche: „Introduction" — O. Berezenska / A. L. Borgstedt / C. Engelhardt / P. Franz / E.-M. Kocher: "Europe - A Collective Identity?" — K. Farrell: "Beyond Multiculturalism" — K. Kazzazi: "On 'Right' and 'Wrong' Kinds of Multilingualism: The Influence of Language Prestige on Multilingual Identity" — K. Luttermann: "Languages in Dialogue for European Identity" — P. Ruspini: "The European Migration System and the Development...
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G. Stedman: Editorial - Cultural Studies. State of the Art — S. Berg: Locating the Political in Cultural Studies — R. Emig: Cultural Studies and Literary Studies. A Troubled Relation — J. Schwarzkopf: The Relationship of History to Cultural Studies — U. Göttlich: Media and Communication Science in Germany and its (Inter)relations with Media and Cultural Studies — Reviews: Monika Seidl, Roman Horak & Lawrence Grossberg, eds. (2010), About...
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Collins Easy Learning Writing is an easy-to-use guide on how to write good, clear and effective English. With simple explanations of everything from the basics of sentence and paragraph structure, to writing CVs, letters and essays, this e-book is a valuable guide for anyone who wants to improve their writing. Collins Easy Learning Writing is the helpful guide to good written style. Covering areas such as sentence structure, punctuation and page layout,...
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**I. Habermann: Introduction
**M. Gardiner: The British Reliance on Identity
**M. Tönnies: Northern Landscapes and Anti-Thatcherite Positioning British Colour Photography of the 1980s
**N. Böhm-Schnitker: There is no such thing as political memory! - The Iron Lady (2011) as 'psycho-geography'
**F. Hofmeister: A Fatal Attraction - Europe and the Failure of the English Regions
**B. Schaff: Killing Fields and Poppy Fields. Towards a Topography...
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English Common Core for 5th Grade is one of the most prominent English cores that students will go through. Students will learn how to properly use the English language with conjunctions, prepositions, injections and other basic fundamental tools. Students will also learn important things such as dissecting sentences and explaining the meaning of each individual word as well as the entire sentence put together. Sentence structure is a huge element...
6) Writing
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Collins Webster's Easy Learning Writing is an accessible guide to successful writing in the English language. With clear, concise explanations of everything from the basics of sentence and paragraph structure, to writing résumés, letters and essays, this e-book is an indispensable guide for the language learner. Collins Webster's Easy Learning Writing is the helpful guide to good written style. Covering areas such as sentence structure, punctuation...
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This collection explores decolonial shifts in composition and rhetoric informed by strategies for potentially decolonizing language and literacy practices, writing and rhetorical instruction, and research practices and methods.
The discipline of composition and rhetoric stands at a crossroad in its pedagogical, research, and public commitments. Decolonial ruptures in writing and rhetoric studies work to build new horizons, new histories, of local...
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Diana Fuss is the Louis W. Fairchild Class of '24 Professor of English at Princeton University. William A. Gleason is professor and chair of English at Princeton. Both Fuss and Gleason have led teaching seminars for graduate students and received Princeton's President's Award for Distinguished Teaching.
The first comprehensive collection of hands-on exercises that bring active learning to the literature classroom
This is the first comprehensive...
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The publication of Hugo Baetens Beardsmore's book Bilingualism: Basic Principles by Multilingual Matters in 1982 coincided with an unprecedented upsurge of interest in bilingualism. A major reason for this was the acknowledgement that bilingualism is far more common than was previously thought, and perhaps even the norm. The number of bilinguals at the turn of the third millennium is probably greater than ever before and will continue to grow as a...
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A menudo escuchamos, por boca de escritores, gramáticos y cargos públicos, entusiastas loas a la lengua española: su grandeza, su hermosura, su elegancia. Ante estos calificativos cabe preguntarse: ¿Atienden a motivos meramente lingüísticos o más bien laten en ellos implicaciones étnicas, culturales y políticas?
Autorretrato de un idioma presenta una serie de textos fundamentales en los que distintos estamentos han abordado algunas cuestiones...
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This book explores the effectiveness of the workshop in the Creative Writing classroom, and looks beyond the question of whether or not the workshop works to address the issue of what an altered pedagogical model might look like. In visualising what else is possible in the workshop space, the sixteen chapters collected in 'Does the Writing Workshop Still Work?' cover a range of theoretical and pedagogical topics and explore the inner workings and...
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The chapters in this book range across all three areas of its subtitle practice, research and pedagogy—testifying to the integrated nature of creative writing as a university discipline. Writers from the USA, the UK and Australia concentrate on the most critical issues facing this popular, fast-developing and sometimes embattled area of study: practice-led research in creative writing; the nature of higher degrees; the place of critical/theoretical...
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In “Nonfiction Writers Dig Deep”, some of today's most celebrated writers for children share essays that describe a critical part of the informational writing process that is often left out of classroom instruction.
To craft engaging nonfiction, professional writers choose topics that fascinate them and explore concepts and themes that reflect their passions, personalities, beliefs, and experiences in the world. By scrutinizing the information,...
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Este manual de lingüística pretende salir al paso de las exigencias que plantean las titulaciones universitarias en el marco de la integración europea. Las nuevas directrices sobre planes de estudios aconsejan la elaboración de textos que faciliten el trabajo autónomo del estudiante, y que sean capaces de ofrecer simultáneamente enfoques teóricos y aplicados de las disciplinas científicas. En este libro los autores aúnan los contenidos tradicionales...
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Esta colección incluye una rica variedad de enfoques a los complejos entendimientos de los sureños con el cambio y los avances reflejados en la literatura, la historia y la cultura de esta región tan característica. Los colaboradores de ambas partes del Atlántico abordan viajes introspectivos de peregrinación literaria, arrojan nueva luz sobre la historia del movimiento de los derechos civiles, así como su reflejo en la literatura, analizan...
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This first volume of “Special Issues: Trauma-Informed Teaching” gathers some of the most compelling and practical recent articles across NCTE journals, addressing the importance of trauma-informed teaching and its recent developments in the field.
We live in a time that requires attention to trauma. Educators and students are learning how to move forward in this precarious time, which in many ways has amplified preexisting health, racial, economic,...
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Key Issues in Creative Writing explores a range of important issues that inform the practice and understanding of creative writing. The collection considers creative writing learning and teaching as well as creative writing research. Contributors target debates that arise because of the nature of creative writing. These experts—from the UK, USA and Australia—specifically examine creative writing as a subject in universities and colleges and discuss...
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This year's anthology of finalists and winners of the National Magazine Awards includes Ta-Nehisi Coates's much-discussed and debated "The Case For Reparations" (The Atlantic), Amanda Hess's explosive report on Internet sexual harassment (Pacific Standard), John Jeremiah Sullivan's account of the intergenerational effort to solve one of American music's greatest mysteries (New York Times Magazine), and Pamela Colloff's haunting profile of the Texas...
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This collection includes a rich variety of approaches to Southerners' complex understandings of change and developments reflected in the literature, history, and culture of this distinctive region. Contributors from both sides of the Atlantic address introspective journeys of literary pilgrimage, shed new light on the history of the civil rights movement as well as its reflection in literature, analyse transactions from literature to film, trace religious...
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