This reference handbook surveys research on the central issue associated with the teaching of unprepared writers. Though basic writing has only been recognized as a distinct area of teaching and research since 1975, the existing bibliographic texts already seem limited due to their age or lack of annotation. This volume provides current and extensive bibliographic essays and will help to define this new field of study for teachers and researchers.

Following an introduction that summarizes the origins and significant texts in basic writing, the book is divided into three sections, Social Science Perspectives, Linguistic Perspectives, and Pedagogical Perspectives. The first section, which contains three essays, views the field through the lens of social, psychological, and political issues. The second section, also containing three essays, examines contributions made from studies of grammar, dialects, and second-language acquisition. The third section, in its four essays, focuses on the design, development, administration, and evaluation of basic writing courses, the use of computers in basic writing classrooms, the role of the writing lab, and the preparation of basic writing teachers. An appendix that reviews current textbooks for basic writing courses is also included, as well as an index. This book will be a valuable resource for teachers of basic writing, in education courses and workshops that train teachers and tutors, and in fields such as linguistics, technical writing, and Teaching English as a Second Language. It will also be an important addition to public and university libraries and many education programs.

Richard M. Weaver (1910-1963) was one of the leading rhetoricians of the 1950s, whose philosophical and pedagogical writings helped revitalize interest in rhetoric. His rhetorical contributions are difficult to separate from his conservative stances on social and political issues; and, indeed, he espoused the cultural role of rhetoric, conceiving of his intellectual task as one of reinventing a philosophical conservatism and employing rhetorical theory to oppose liberalism and modernism. Today, his politics would be viewed as extreme by liberals, feminists, and civil libertarians; on the other hand, his theories laid the philosophical groundwork for contemporary American political conservatism, and his argumentation on a number of social issues remains pertinent. This first full-length study of Weaver examines the relationship between his rhetorical theory and his cultural views, focusing on the rhetorical insights---for instance, his conception of language as sermonic, its function being to influence others to think and act according to the speaker's moral precepts and, ideally, to convey the abiding truth of a culture. Authors Duffy and Jacobi advance the idea that Weaver was at his best as an epideictic rhetor, engaged in the celebration of abstract values, and at his worst as a forensic rhetor, pleading conservative causes with no more than the pretense of impartiality. Based largely on primary materials but with adroit application of previous criticism, this work will be valuable for a wide range of research specialties in rhetoric and public address.

The mountains of Caucasia lie between the Black and Caspian Seas and on the boundary between Europe and Asia. They include the highest, most dramatic, least spoiled and least known mountain ranges of the northern hemisphere after the Himalayas and Rockies. The area supports about 6,400 species of vascular plant of which a quarter occur nowhere else (i.e. they are endemic to the region), and about 850 species of vertebrate animal of which some 120 are endemic. This is the highest percentage of endemism in the temperate world, and makes Caucasia one of the most important hotspots of biodiversity on Earth. Mountain Flowers & Trees of Caucasia describes and illustrates in full colour nearly all the wild flowers, trees and shrubs that can be found over 1,000 metres above sea level - 1,009 species. The authors hope that this field guide will encourage you to visit the mountains of Caucasia to delight in their unique and spectacular assemblage of flowering plants, and so contribute to its conservation. The authors include an overview of vegetation in Caucasia, along with a key to families, and keys to genera of selected families. This second edition has increased the number of species described to over a thousand, and adopted the modern systematic order of Plant Families described by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group to show evolutionary relationships. The order of genera within each Family generally follows that of Flora Europaea. To ease the problem of synonyms, Mountain Flowers not only makes use of The Plant List (tPL), which is easily accessible on line, but gives a substantial list of other synonyms not included in tPL. Each species has a unique number which allows its description, photograph, synonyms and index entry to be easily linked.

Dieses Buch ist das Ergebnis meiner zehnjahrigen Berufspraxis als Managementtrainer und Leiter der Aus-und Weiterbildung bei der Deutschen Shell AG. Ich habe wiederholt folgende kri- tische Punkte beobachten k6nnen: - Intuitive Sicht-und Verhaltensweisen, die bei jungen Men- schen noch m6glich sind, werden im Laufe des Berufslebens, insbesondere in der GroBindustrie, stark zuruckgedrangt. - Fuhrungsnachwuchskrafte werden hinsichtlich ihrer Mana- gerqualitaten nicht intensiv genug beraten, betreut und indi- viduell gef()rdert, urn fUr sich selbst ein klares und realisti- sches Bild uber ihre Starken und S hwachen zu gewinnen. - Vorgesetzte werden in der Regel zu spat durch Personal- entwicklungsmaBnahmen und Fuhrungsseminare in ihrer Arbeit und Vorbildfunktion unterstutzt. - Fuhrungskrafte mit langjahriger Erfahrung verhalten sich haufig im Berufsalltag anders, als sie sich in Gesprachssitua- tionen uber das Problem "Besser fUhren" auBern. - Bei internationalen Managementseminaren und -symposien wird die europaische Fuhrungskompetenz im Vergleich zu amerikanischen, und japanischen Ansatzen nicht eindeutig genug vertreten. Es ist daher an der Zeit, neue Wege fUr die Entwicklung des Managers von morgen aufzuzeigen. Je mehr junge Menschen in Europa sich bereits zu Beginn ihres Berufslebens mit der Frage "Kann und will ich ein guter Manager von morgen sein?" auseinandersetzen, desto besser wird die Qualitat der Fuhrung von morgen werden. Das neue Europa braucht mehr 5 geistige Fiihrung und ein eigenstandiges ManagementbewuBt- sein.

IV daB es einen Gegensatz zwischen theoretischel' Medizin und Reil- kunst nicht gibt, daB vielmehr das Verstandnis des Experimentes eins der unbedingt notwendigen Rilfsmittel ist, welcher der Arzt fiir die kunstgerechte Ausiibung seiner schwierigen Aufgabe bedarf. Natiirlich darf man die Zeit des Studierenden und ebensowenig die knappen Stunden, die dem Arzt fiir seine Fortbildung bleiben, nicht zu sehr in Anspruch nehmen. Darum war Kiirze angebracht, die sich auch ohne Opferung wertvollen Materials erreiehen lieB. Immer war ieh darauf bedacht, den Zusammenhang mit del' Praxis zu betonen. Experimentelle Therapie ist durchaus geeignet, im wahrsten Sinne praktische Dienste zu leisten. Rier lernt der Arzt, was naturwissenschaftlich feststeht. Wer experimentelle Therapie stu- diert hat, ist befahigt zu unterseheiden, ob eine neu empfohlene Heilmethode saehlieh fundiert ist oder ob eiil. dilettantiseher Irr- weg eingesehlagen wurde, dessen Beschreiten fiir den arztlichen Stand ebenso sehadlieh ist wie fiir die kranken Menschen. Hier _gehen die Aufgaben der experimentellen Therapie durehaus mit der altbewahrten Pharmakologie parallel. Wenn auch die neue Auflage dazu beitragen wird, zum kri- tisehen Optimismus zu erziehen, so wird das Buch weiterhin seinen Zweck erfiillen. Berlin, September 1919. Martin Jacoby. Inhaltsverzeic hnis.

Every two seconds five more babies are born than people die. That's about the population of London or New York every five weeks. The United Nations Charter of Human Rights requires that everyone have an adequate standard of living. This means that we must build the equivalent of a new London or New York every five weeks before we can start helping the 11/2 billion people already living in poverty. Madness. It can't be done. So what shall we do? THE HUMAN POPULATION TSUNAMI is about facts: facts and the deductions that can be drawn from them by logical thought. It is not about emotions or rules, though it looks at how both influence our thinking. The book's basic premise is that there are no mysteries - only things we don't yet understand. With this in mind, concepts like individuality, morality and immortality become surprisingly simple. We need to understand what they really are if we are to make rational decisions about our future. To overcome the mental barriers we throw up to protect ourselves against painful reality, this book describes how they evolved and what were their original survival values. To do this, it outlines the chain of events that led from Big Bang (if such an event ever occurred) to your consciousness as you read these lines. There is no evidence for a break in that sequence of physico-chemical changes. Such a notion gives confidence in proposing how we could manage the fast-approaching population tsunami. Though these measures are unacceptable to feelings and rule-books such as holy texts, they make sense when thought about clearly in the light of modern knowledge and understanding. During our children's lives, about a billion people will die. Either they can die full of years and under the rule of law or messily, many while still young, as governments collapse or go rogue and war-lords scramble for diminishing resources. Where reality comes to rest between these two extreme scenarios depends on the laws we persuade our politicians to pass now. We have no choice other than to act within the law; the difficulty lies in persuading people to pass laws that are effective. It's no good praying for some plague or benign dictator to spare us the responsibility of making harsh decisions. It is up to us now, however much our feelings hurt and the ancient texts disagree. Our first step is to start talking about the disaster facing us, and to push those conversations upwards to government - as is the way of English Common Law. The solution is simple: we change the purpose of punishment from correction to population reduction. That's awful; but it must also be lawful. All people are united by being of one genetic species and by sharing Planet Earth. Since we have begun to speciate on behavioural rather than genetic grounds, it will unite our behaviour if we can agree on a common purpose. This book argues tautly the case for aiming at preserving our understanding of the Earth rather than turning its fast-diminishing and fragile beauty into yet more human waste. Even though the solar system will pass away and the Universe eventually suffer heat-death, the Epilogue casts a shade of doubt on Keynes's pessimistic cry 'in long run we are all dead'. We really do need Pandora's mosquit

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