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This work comprises a collection of the writings of Ruqaiya Hasan,
an influential figure in the systemic functional linguistic
learning school. It discusses the relation between text and context
and the realization of context in language; the 'network', which is
outlined as analytic tool which can be applied at two strata of
language, the lexico-grammatical and the semantic; as well as
aspects of the social structure that are implicated in the way
cultures and subcultures express themselves.
This book offers an interdisciplinary approach to the teaching of
academic writing and information literacy in a new digital
dimension, drawing on recent trends towards project-based writing,
digital writing and multimodal writing in Education, and
synthesising theory with practice to provide a handy toolkit for
teachers and researchers. The author combines a practical
orientation to teaching academic writing and information literacy
with a grounding in current theories of writing instruction in the
digitalized era, and argue that as digital environments become more
universal in modern society - particularly in the aftermath of the
coronavirus pandemic - the lines between traditional academic
writing and multi-modal digital writing must necessary become
blurred. This book will be of use to teachers and instructors of
academic writing and information literacy, particularly within the
context of English for Academic Purposes (EAP), as well as students
and researchers in Applied Linguistics, Pedagogy and Digital
Writing.
In this exuberant book, the incomparable Ray Bradbury shares the
wisdom, experience, and excitement of a lifetime of writing. The
first thing a writer should be is - excited Author of the iconic
FAHRENHEIT 451, THE ILLUSTRATED MAN and THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES, Ray
Bradbury is one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century.
Part memoir, part masterclass, ZEN IN THE ART OF WRITING offers a
vivid and exuberant insight into the craft of writing. Bradbury
reveals how writers can each find their own unique path to
developing their voice and style. ZEN IN THE ART OF WRITING offers
a celebration of the act of writing that will delight, impassion,
and inspire.
This book is the "greatest hits" compilation of more than one
hundred Russian books, journals, papers, and articles. It contains
more than fifteen thousand key Russian economic, legal, medical,
military, political, scientific, and sociological terms and
colloquial phrases. It also contains important abbreviations. One
look will convince you, the student or interpreter, of the value of
this work
"The Psychology of Screenwriting "is more than an interesting book
on the theory and practice of screenwriting. It is also a
philosophical analysis of predetermination and freewill in the
context of writing and human life in our mediated world of
technology. Drawing on humanism, existentialism, Buddhism,
postmodernism and transhumanism, and diverse thinkers from Meister
Eckhart to Friedrich Nietzsche, Theodor Adorno, Jacques Derrida,
Jean Baudrillard and Gilles Deleuze, "The Psychology of
Screenwriting" will be of use to screenwriters, film students,
philosophers and all those interested in contemporary theory. This
book combines in-depth critical and cultural analysis with an
elaboration on practice in an innovative fashion. It explores how
people, such as those in the Dogme 95 movement, have tried to
overcome traditional screenwriting, looking in detail at the
psychology of writing and the practicalities of how to write well
for the screen. This is the first book to include high-theory with
screenwriting practice whilst incorporating the Enneagram for
character development. Numerous filmmakers and writers, including
David Lynch, Jim Jarmusch, David Cronenberg, Pedro Almodovar,
Darren Aronofsky, Sally Potter and Charlie Kaufman are explored.
"The Psychology of Screenwriting "is invaluable for those who want
to delve deeper into writingfor the screen.
This new, fully updated edition of The Crime Writer's Guide to
Police Practice and Procedure is the essential detective in your
pocket - something to reach for when your writing needs that short,
sharp shock of modern-day investigating. Every writer has paused at
some key point in the development of their story to wonder what
happens in real life. How would the murder in my story be
investigated by the police? How far can I go without leaving holes
in the plot? Can I use low count DNA to identify the killer? How
does a cop react to a bloated body or, even worse, just part of
one? Written with answers to these questions in mind, this is the
essential guide to police procedures and practice written
specifically for writers. A handy reference book to dip into, or a
textbook to guide you from the outset while you are still
developing your plot, this second edition of The Crime Writer's
Guide to Police Practice and Procedure will leave you confident
that you have covered all angles of your thriller. It would be a
crime not to read it!
Hospitality as a cultural trait has been associated with the South
for well over two centuries, but the origins of this association
and the reasons for its perseverance of ten seem unclear. Anthony
Szczesiul looks at how and why we have taken something so
particular as the social habit of hospitality which is exercised
among diverse individuals and is widely varied in its particular
practices and so generalized it as to make it a cultural trait of
an entire region of the country. Historians have offered a variety
of explanations of the origins and cultural practices of
hospitality in the antebellum South. Economic historians have at
times portrayed southern hospitality as evidence of conspicuous
consumption and competition among wealthy planters, while cultural
historians have treated it peripherally as a symptomatic expression
of the southern code of honor. Although historians have offered
different theories, they generally agree that the mythic dimensions
of southern hospitality eventually outstripped its actual
practices. Szczesiul examines why we have chosen to remember and
valorize this particular aspect of the South, and he raises
fundamental ethical questions that underlie both the concept of
hospitality and the cultural work of American memory, particularly
in light of the region's historical legacy of slavery and
segregation.
In this book, Hertha D. Sweet Wong examines the intersection of
writing and visual art in the autobiographical work of twentieth
and -twenty-first century American writers and artists each of whom
employ a mix of written and visual forms of self-narration.
Combining approaches from autobiography studies and visual studies,
Wong argues that grappling with the breakdown of stable definitions
of identity and unmediated representation, these writers-artists
experiment with hybrid autobiography in image and text to break
free of inherited visual-verbal regimes and revise painful
histories. These works provide an interart focus for examining the
possibilities of self-representation and self-narration, the
boundaries of life writing, and the relationship between image and
text. Wong considers eight writers-artists including comic-book
author Art Spiegelman; Faith Ringgold, known for her story quilts;
and celebrated Indigenous writer Leslie Marmon Silko. Wong shows
how her subjects formulate webs of intersubjectivity shaped by
historical trauma, geography, race, and gender as they envision new
possibilities of selfhood and fresh modes of self-narration in word
and image.
Across the eighteenth century in Britain, readers, writers, and
theater-goers were fascinated by women who dressed in men's
clothing from actresses on stage who showed their shapely legs to
advantage in men's breeches to stories of valiant female soldiers
and ruthless female pirates. Spanning genres from plays, novels,
and poetry to pamphlets and broadsides, the cross-dressing woman
came to signal more than female independence or unconventional
behaviors; she also came to signal an investment in female same-sex
intimacies and sapphic desires. Sapphic Crossings reveals how
various British texts from the period associate female
cross-dressing with the exciting possibility of intimate, embodied
same-sex relationships. Ula Lukszo Klein reconsiders the role of
lesbian desires and their structuring through cross-gender
embodiments as crucial not only to the history of sexuality but to
the rise of modern concepts of gender, sexuality, and desire. She
prompts readers to rethink the roots of lesbianism and transgender
identities today and introduces new ways of thinking about embodied
sexuality in the past.
This edited book addresses the complex topic of writing for
scholarly publication by early-career scholars. Drawing on
self-study and auto-ethnographic perspectives, a group of
international early-career researchers share their personal
histories, narratives and first-hand accounts of their scholarly
publication practices. The book helps paint a richer and more
nuanced picture of the experiences, success stories, failures, and
challenges that frame and shape academic trajectories of both
Anglophone and English as an additional language (EAL) scholars in
writing for publication. This book will be of particular interest
to scholars of Applied Linguistics, English for academic purposes
(EAP), and second language writing, but it will also be of use to
other early-career scholars embarking on their first attempts at
writing for publication.
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