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Learn how to plan, draft, revise, format and produce professional
documents and graphics in today's global workplace with Kolin's
SUCCESSFUL WRITING AT WORK, 12E. This inviting, easy-to-read
approach provides detailed writing guidelines using numerous real
examples. Revisions ensure a diverse and inclusive approach to
writing, while new coverage examines the impact of COVID-19 on
workplace communication and highlights social media and audience
analysis. This edition begins by discussing the writing process and
collaboration, whether it's in-person or remote. You then examine
basic business communication, including resumes and other job
search materials. You learn to conduct research and document
sources using the latest MLA or APA guidelines. You also master
advanced tasks, such as preparing visuals, websites, proposals and
presentations. Each assignment strengthens your abilities to solve
problems and select the best communication technologies to further
your goals.
This collection of interviews offers unprecedented insight into the
plays and creative works of Suzan-Lori Parks, as well as being an
important commentary on contemporary theater and playwriting, from
jazz and opera to politics and cultural memory. Suzan-Lori Parks in
Person contains 18 interviews, some previously untranscribed or
specially undertaken for this book, plus commentaries on her work
by major directors and critics, including Liz Diamond, Richard
Foreman, Bonnie Metzgar and Beth Schachter. These contributions
combine to honor the first African American woman to receive the
Pulitzer Prize in drama, and explore her ideas about theater,
history, race, and gender. Material from a wide range of sources
chronologically charts Parks's career from the 1990s to the
present. This is a major collection with immediate relevance to
students of American/African-American theater, literature and
culture. Parks's engaging voice is brought to the fore, making the
book essential for undergraduates as well as scholars.
This collection of interviews offers unprecedented insight into the
plays and creative works of Suzan-Lori Parks, as well as being an
important commentary on contemporary theater and playwriting, from
jazz and opera to politics and cultural memory. Suzan-Lori Parks in
Person contains 18 interviews, some previously untranscribed or
specially undertaken for this book, plus commentaries on her work
by major directors and critics, including Liz Diamond, Richard
Foreman, Bonnie Metzgar and Beth Schachter. These contributions
combine to honor the first African American woman to receive the
Pulitzer Prize in drama, and explore her ideas about theater,
history, race, and gender. Material from a wide range of sources
chronologically charts Parks's career from the 1990s to the
present. This is a major collection with immediate relevance to
students of American/African-American theater, literature and
culture. Parks's engaging voice is brought to the fore, making the
book essential for undergraduates as well as scholars.
Including twenty-one groundbreaking chapters that examine one of
Shakespeare's most complex tragedies. Othello:Critical Essays
explores issues of friendship and fealty, love and betrayal, race
and gender issues, and much more.
Othello: Critical Essays includes twenty-one groundbreaking chapters that examine one of Shakespeare's most complex tragedies, exploring issues of friendship and fealty, love and betrayal, race and gender issues, and much more.
This respected market-leading text offers students a comprehensive,
practical introduction to workplace writing to prepare them for a
range of communication tasks. SUCCESSFUL WRITING AT WORK, 10E,
International Edition features an abundance of real-world examples
and problems as well as an accessible writing style and detailed
guidelines for planning, drafting, revising, editing, and producing
professional documents and graphics. Students are presented with
topics in four logically sequenced sections, beginning with basic
business communications and proceeding to conducting research,
documenting sources, and handling more advanced tasks such as
reports, proposals, and oral presentations. With each new task,
students learn to become effective problem solvers at work, to
understand their audience, and to select the best communication
tools to accomplish their goals.
Packed with real-world examples, SUCCESSFUL WRITING AT WORK:
CONCISE, 4e delivers a practical yet succinct introduction to
effective workplace writing for a variety of communication tasks.
Based on the market-leading SUCCESSFUL WRITING AT WORK, 10e, the
CONCISE edition covers the most essential skills for effective
workplace communication. The text begins with writing basics,
emphasizing the characteristics of effective writing, the writing
process, ethics, and the importance of audience. It covers basic
business correspondence, walks students through formatting letters
for a variety of business situations, and features a step-by-step
chapter on getting a job. More advanced chapters focus on document
design and visuals, writing instructions and procedures, writing
reports, proposals, and making business presentations. The Fourth
Edition emphasizes ethical considerations throughout as well as
integrates guidelines for greening the workplace.
A Student Handbook to the Plays of Tennessee Williams provides the
essential guide to Williams' most studied and revived dramas.
Authored by a team of leading scholars, it offers students a clear
analysis and detailed commentary on four of Williams' plays: The
Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
and Sweet Bird of Youth. A consistent framework of analysis ensures
that whether readers are wanting a summary of the play, a
commentary on the themes or characters, or a discussion of the work
in performance, they can readily find what they need to develop
their understanding and aid their appreciation of Williams'
artistry. A chronology of the writer's life and work helps to
situate all his works in context and the introduction reinforces
this by providing a clear overview of Williams' writing, its
recurrent themes and concerns and how these are intertwined with
his life and times. For each play the author provides a summary of
the plot, followed by commentary on: * The context * Themes *
Characters * Structure and language * The play in production (both
on stage and screen adaptations) Questions for study, and notes on
words and phrases in the text are also supplied to aid the reader.
The wealth of authoritative and clear commentary on each play,
together with further questions that encourage comparison across
Williams' work and related plays by other leading writers, ensures
that this is the clearest and fullest guide to Williams' greatest
plays.
A Student Handbook to the Plays of Tennessee Williams provides the
essential guide to Williams' most studied and revived dramas.
Authored by a team of leading scholars, it offers students a clear
analysis and detailed commentary on four of Williams' plays: The
Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
and Sweet Bird of Youth. A consistent framework of analysis ensures
that whether readers are wanting a summary of the play, a
commentary on the themes or characters, or a discussion of the work
in performance, they can readily find what they need to develop
their understanding and aid their appreciation of Williams'
artistry. A chronology of the writer's life and work helps to
situate all his works in context and the introduction reinforces
this by providing a clear overview of Williams' writing, its
recurrent themes and concerns and how these are intertwined with
his life and times. For each play the author provides a summary of
the plot, followed by commentary on: * The context * Themes *
Characters * Structure and language * The play in production (both
on stage and screen adaptations) Questions for study, and notes on
words and phrases in the text are also supplied to aid the reader.
The wealth of authoritative and clear commentary on each play,
together with further questions that encourage comparison across
Williams' work and related plays by other leading writers, ensures
that this is the clearest and fullest guide to Williams' greatest
plays.
The plays of Tennessee Williams are some of the greatest triumphs
of the American theatre. If Williams is not the most important
American playwright, he surely is one of the two or three most
celebrated, rivaled only by Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller. In a
career that spanned almost five decades, he created an extensive
canon of more than 70 plays. His contributions to the American
theatre are inestimable and revolutionary. The Glass Menagerie
(1945) introduced poetic realism to the American stage; A Streetcar
Named Desire (1947) explored sexual and psychological issues that
had never before been portrayed in American culture; Cat on a Hot
Tin Roof (1955) dared to challenge the political and sexual mores
of the Eisenhower era; and his plays of the 1970s are among the
most innovative works produced on the American stage. But Williams
was far more than a gifted and prolific playwright. He created two
collections of poetry, two novels, four collections of stories,
memoirs, and scores of essays. Because of his towering presence in
American drama, Williams has attracted the attention of some of the
most insightful scholars and critics of the twentieth century. The
1990s in particular ushered in a renaissance of Williams research,
including a definitive biography, a descriptive bibliography, and
numerous books and scholarly articles. This reference book
synthesizes the vast body of research on Tennessee Williams and
offers a performance history of his works. Under the guidance of
one of the leading authorities on Williams, expert contributors
have written chapters on each of Williams' works or clusters of
works. Each chapter includes a discussion of the biographical
context of a work orgroup of writings; a survey of the
bibliographic history; an analysis of major critical approaches,
which looks at themes, characters, symbols, and plots; a
consideration of the major critical problems posed by the work; an
overview of chief productions and film and television versions; a
concluding interpretation; and a bibliography of secondary sources.
The volume concludes with a selected, general bibliography and a
comprehensive index.
Fifteen distinguished scholars contribute original essays that
analyze A Streetcar Named Desire, one of the most significant plays
in modern theatre, from various critical or cultural stances,
methods, or modalities. Represented as individual points of view or
touched upon in the analysis are the theories of Lacan and Foucault
and the tenets of Marxism; the approaches of Feminism, Reader
Response Criticism, Deconstructionism, Chaos and Anti-Chaos Theory,
Translation Theory, Formalism, Mythology, Perception Theory, and
Gender Theory; and the perceptions of Popular Culture, Film History
and Theory, Southern Letters, and assorted cultural and regional
studies. The volume introduction charts the course of Streetcar
criticism from its inception to the present. Each essay begins by
articulating the theoretical principles and methods behind the
critical approach pursued, then applies these to readings from
Streetcar, utilizing and documenting relevant major research.
Insightful and challenging, the readings, individually and
collectively, advance the study of the play and Tennessee
Williams's canon and reputation generally. Each essay offers a
fresh, provocative view of a play that has long been discussed in
simplistic and dichotomized terms: Blanche as victim/Stanley as
predator; Streetcar as a play about a failed southern belle meeting
a brutish Pole; or Streetcar as a work of Southern literature.
Viewing the play through the lenses of cultural and critical
pluralism, the contributors open up the script and expand our
awareness of the problems and possibilities offered by this great
modern classic.
This user-friendly, compact text emphasizes the most necessary,
useful skills and strategies for successful workplace writing.
Based on the successful parent text, Successful Writing at Work,
7/e, the Concise edition maintains a practical approach, an
abundance of realistic situations and problems, real-world
examples, and detailed guidelines for drafting, editing, and
producing professional documents and graphics.
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