Product Description: Written corrective feedback (CF) is a written response to a linguistic error that has been made in the writing of a text by a second language (L2) learner. This book aims to further our understanding of whether or not written CF has the potential to facilitate L2 development over time...read more

Landmark Essays on Tropes and Figures offers a thorough overview of the most influential essays on rhetorical tropes and figures, providing a solid foundation for understanding this area of study. The book is divided into two parts. The first part deals with essays on the development of the concepts, their definitions, and their decline; the second part deals with applications: how figures and tropes have been used in various disciplinary domains, from literary criticism, to politics, science, advertising, and music. This volumes spans writing from the early 20th century to contemporary work, providing readers with a historically grounded base for study. It brings together book chapters and journal articles that would otherwise be difficult to locate, providing a ready-made collection of readings on the topic of tropes and figures.

Product Description: This book develops a new framework for describing the structure of multimodal documents: how language, image, layout and other modes of communication work together to convey meaning. Building on recent research in multimodal analysis, functional linguistics and information design, the book examines the textual, visual, and spatial aspects of page-based multimodal documents and employs an analytical model to describe and interpret their structure using the concepts of semiotic modes, medium and genre...read more

PERSPECTIVES ON WRITING | Series Editor, Susan H. McLeod | "LITERATE ACTION, in its two volumes, makes an indispensable contribution to writing studies. Undertaken by one of the most learned and visionary scholars in the field, this work has a comprehensive and culminating quality to it, tracking major lines of insight into writing as a human practice and articulating the author's intellectual progress as a theorist and researcher across a career. | ABOUT VOLUME 2: "A THEORY OF LITERATE ACTION makes a significant contribution to the field and enriches and deepens our perspectives on writing by drawing together such varied and wide-ranging approaches from social theory and the social sciences-from psychology, to phenomenology, to pragmatics-and demonstrating their relevance to writing studies. While much has been made of the 'social turn' in the field of Rhetoric and Composition, the impact of social theory and social sciences on rhetorical theory and literacy studies has not been as fully explored-nor have these approaches been gathered together in one comprehensive text, to my knowledge." - MARY JO REIFF | "I have followed Charles Bazerman's thinking closely over the years, but seeing it all together allowed me to see what I had not seen in it: how cognitive psychology (even neurobiology) intersects with social psychology and then sociology; how attentional processes and motive/emotion relate to genre; the historical insights; all up and down, macro micro meso. This work leads in so many productive directions. I've taken pages of notes." - DAVID R. RUSSELL | CHARLES BAZERMAN, Professor of Education at the University of California, Santa Barbara, is the author of numerous research articles and books on the social role of writing, academic genres, and textual analysis, as well as textbooks on the teaching of writing.

Product Description: PERSPECTIVES ON WRITING | Series Editor, Susan H. McLeod | "LITERATE ACTION, in its two volumes, makes an indispensable contribution to writing studies. Undertaken by one of the most learned and visionary scholars in the field, this work has a comprehensive and culminating quality to it, tracking major lines of insight into writing as a human practice and articulating the author's intellectual progress as a theorist and researcher across a career...read more

Product Description: Fur die Analyse der geschriebenen Spracheist zu klaren, in welcher Beziehungsie zur gesprochenen Sprache steht.Fokus diesesBandesist der Einfluss der Morphologie auf die Gestalt von Schreibungen. Versammeltsind acht Beitrage u.a. zur historischen Entwicklung des deutschen und des niederlandischen Schriftsystems, zu Markierungsmoglichkeiten morphologischer Struktur in der Schreibung und zu Effekten solcher Markierungen fur den Leseprozess...read more

Product Description: In this first book-length treatment of collaborative writing in second language (L2) classrooms, Neomy Storch provides a theoretical, pedagogical and empirical rationale for the use of collaborative writing activities in L2 classes, as well as some guidelines about how to best implement such activities in both face-to-face and online mode...read more

Product Description: Communicative visuals, including written text, have a diverse range of forms and purposes. In this volume, the authors show that it is possible to both describe and explain the major properties of diverse visual-communication forms and purposes within a common theoretical framework of information design and ethics...read more

Product Description: This accessible guide to writing academically is based on the author's many years of experience helping students to improve their writing and get better marks in assignments. The advice works because it uses real examples of students' work to explain what tutors look for and how to get there...read more

Product Description: Compose, Design, Advocate is an innovative genre-based writing guide  that teaches  how to use both words and images, in writing and in speaking.  To be truly successful communicators in today’s world, people need to be fluent in multiple modes of communication: written, visual, and oral...read more

Social workers are required to communicate in writing for a range of purposes, and to write effectively for a range of audiences. This new edition of the best-selling Writing Skills for Social Workers aims to raise the profile of writing skills in social work practice. It encourages the development of writing techniques which will stand the reader in good stead throughout their professional career.Examples of the types of writing covered include:Case-notesReports ProposalsLiterature reviewsJournal articlesFunding applications

Product Description: This colourful book brings culture to life in every school and classroom. Children will learn how to write a book about their own familys culture or about the cultures of their friends.

Product Description: The aim of this pioneering volume is to advance our understanding of written language learning in instructed second/foreign languageacquisition (SLA). This is achieved through a collection of empirical studies in which the contribution of diverse theoretical perspectives to our understanding of L2 writing development is explored...read more

A guide to the fundamental aspects of reading covers such topics as why reading is natural and what is involved in learning to read.

Product Description: The theory of communication series is suggested as an alternative to discourse linguistics because it focuses not only on mass communications with reference to a thematic context, but examines every social communication including interpersonal communication between two persons or within a small group...read more