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Academic Interactions

Communicating on Campus

By: Christine Feak,Susan M. Reinhart,Theresa N. Rohlck

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Academic Interactions

Communicating on Campus

By: Christine Feak,Susan M. Reinhart,Theresa N. Rohlck

This version of the book matches 9780472033324 except it is not packaged with a DVD. All references to the DVD in the text have been replaced with "videos." Video access sold separately on Vitalsource, here: https://www.vitalsource.com/products/videos-to-accompany-academic-interactions-christine-b-feak-susan-m-v9780472003631?term=9780472003631. The ability to understand and be understood when communicating with professors and with native speakers is crucial to academic success. Academic Interactions focuses on actual academic speaking events, particularly classroom interactions and office hours, and gives students practice improving the ways that they communicate in a college/university setting. Academic Interactions addresses skills like using names and names of locations correctly on campus, giving directions, understanding instructors and their expectations, interacting during office hours, participating in class and in seminars, and delivering formal and informal presentations. In addition, advice is provided for communicating via email with professors and working in groups with native speakers (including negotiating tasks in groups). The text uses transcripts from MICASE (the Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English) to ensure that students learn the vocabulary and communication strategies that will be most effective in their academic pursuits. Units also feature language use issues like ellipsis, hedging, and apologies.

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University of Michigan Press ELT

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0472033425

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During the Dissertation

A Textual Mentor for Doctoral Students in the Process of Writing

By: Christine Pearson Casanave

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During the Dissertation

A Textual Mentor for Doctoral Students in the Process of Writing

By: Christine Pearson Casanave

A textual mentor like During the Dissertation can fill a void in writers’ lives at a time of solitude, uncertainty, and anxiety. Keep it under your pillow.” This volume is a sequel to Casanave’s popular Before the Dissertation. Like that volume, this book is designed as a companion for doctoral dissertation writers of qualitative or mixed methods work in fields related to language education. It could also benefit those writing master’s theses and those writing in other social science fields. It is meant to be consulted once the writing has begun—once students have settled on a topic, designed the project, or collected the data—because this is the time when they are analyzing, drafting, revising, polishing, and probably fretting, deleting, reconstructing, and even losing sleep. Also, like its predecessor, it is not designed to teach anyone how to write a dissertation as there are plenty of those available elsewhere. For most doctoral students, writing will happen at different stages of the project. Strategies for timing of these kinds of writing differ across students, and also across supervisors and advisers. If dissertation writers do not know by the time they start writing which strategies and issues pertain to them, this book can help them craft some approaches to suit their own personalities, preferred practices, and individual goals and visions, as well as help them figure out how dissertation writing might fit into the real-life intrusions of work and family. Issues covered in the book are: starting to write, envisioning the project as a whole, relationships with supervisors, perfectionism and other maladies, health, low- and high-IQ days, loneliness and isolation, distractions and interruptions, revising, and knowing when to stop.

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University of Michigan Press ELT

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0472037900

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9780472037902

Building Genre Knowledge

By: Christine Tardy

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Building Genre Knowledge

By: Christine Tardy

Adopting an interdisciplinary perspective, BUILDING GENRE KNOWLEDGE provides a unique look into the processes of building genre knowledge while offering a dynamic theory of those processes that is inclusive of both monolingual and multilingual writers—a necessary move in today’s linguistically diverse classrooms. It will therefore be of great interest to researchers and practitioners in both first and second language writing studies.

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Parlor Press LLC

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1602355150

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9781602355156

Genre Explained

Frequently Asked Questions and Answers about Genre-Based Instruction

By: Christine Tardy,Nigel A. Caplan,Ann Johns

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Genre Explained

Frequently Asked Questions and Answers about Genre-Based Instruction

By: Christine Tardy,Nigel A. Caplan,Ann Johns

Genre Explained presents accessible, research-grounded answers to 40 questions that teachers frequently have about genre-based writing instruction

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University of Michigan Press

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0472039342

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9780472039340

Genre-Based Writing

What Every ESL Teacher Needs to Know

By: Christine Tardy

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Genre-Based Writing

What Every ESL Teacher Needs to Know

By: Christine Tardy

In Genre-Based Writing, author Christine Tardy defines genre and genre-based writing instruction and the five principles of a genre-based pedagogy. She then explains how to design genre-based writing activities. By discussing the genre-related practices and social and rhetorical aspects of genre, she is able to outline strategies for exploring rhetorical moves and playing with genre form in the classroom. In addition, the book provides general tips for bringing a genre approach into the writing classroom as well as several application activities and specific suggestions for classroom tasks.

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047203958X

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Writing Games

Multicultural Case Studies of Academic Literacy Practices in Higher Education

By: Christine Pears Casanave

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Writing Games

Multicultural Case Studies of Academic Literacy Practices in Higher Education

By: Christine Pears Casanave

This work explores how writers from several different cultures learn to write in their academic settings, and how their writing practices intersect with their evolving identities as students and professionals in academic environments.

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Routledge

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1135660190

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Before the Dissertation

A Textual Mentor for Doctoral Students at Early Stages of a Research Project

By: Christine Pearson Casanave,John M. Swales

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Before the Dissertation

A Textual Mentor for Doctoral Students at Early Stages of a Research Project

By: Christine Pearson Casanave,John M. Swales

“This very readable book is what every graduate student needs as they start their program. I wish my own MA and PhD students, during my 40 years of supervising, could have been demystified by having Casanave's ‘textual mentor' as a companion." --Merrill Swain, Professor Emerita, OISE, University of Toronto “Before the Dissertation is an insightful, relevant, and accessible resource for doctoral students at any stage. Full of reflections and advice not found in other books, it serves as an indispensable guide for students and their supervisors. And the dispelling of myths is a superb idea!” --Robert Kohls, PhD candidate, University of Toronto Unlike other books on doctoral dissertation writing, Before the Dissertation is designed for students in the social sciences who are still in the early stages of doctoral study or for master's-level students considering entering doctoral programs. It addresses concerns pertinent to both first and second language users of English. It focuses on purposes for doctoral dissertation writing, topic choice and development, choosing and working with advisers, reading and informal writing, and quality-of-life issues. Faculty advisers who wish to reduce student attrition are also urged to read this book and to work with students at early stages of dissertation projects. Each of the nine chapters begins with a common myth about advanced academic work that is then dispelled. The chapters also pose questions that connect issues directly with individual readers so as to help them make sensible decisions about their doctoral work. The book could be used in graduate classes on issues in doctoral study or dissertation planning, and it can be a companion (textual mentor) to individual students who wish to reflect on their decision to pursue doctoral study/doctoral project. This book may also help instructors and advisers understand the kinds of obstacles faced by students that tend to impede or halt progress.

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University of Michigan Press

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0472036009

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9780472036004

We Fought the Road

By: Christine McClure,Dennis McClure

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We Fought the Road

By: Christine McClure,Dennis McClure

We Fought the Road is the story of the building of the Alaska-Canada Highway during World War II. More than one third of the 10,607 builders were black; thought to be incapable of performing on a war front by many of their white commanding officers. Their task--which required punching through wilderness on a route blocked by the Rocky Mountains and deadly permafrost during the worst winter on record--has been likened to the building of the Panama Canal. Unlike most accounts that focus on the road's military planners, We Fought the Road is boots-on-the-ground and often personal, based in part on letters from the "Three Cent Romance," the successful courtship via mail discovered in the authors' family papers

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Epicenter Press

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1935347888

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Report Writing for Readers with Little Time

By: Rien Elling,Bas A. Andeweg,Christine Swankhuizen,Jaap de Jong,Kim van der Linden

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Report Writing for Readers with Little Time

By: Rien Elling,Bas A. Andeweg,Christine Swankhuizen,Jaap de Jong,Kim van der Linden

Writing reports is a vital skill in many professions and roles across every sector. Despite this, the majority of reports generated in organizations tend to be difficult to read, dull and do not make the impact they should - either for the content or for the author. In this book, you will learn how to write in a convincing way for a variety of different audiences. Fundamentals covered include structure, graphic presentation, plagiarism and oral presentation. The authors include a useful section on writing under pressure (by writing as a team, for example) as well as material on pitfalls to avoid when writing in English as a second language. This simple, effective book is a great tool for readers across the globe who wish to improve their report-writing skills.

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Routledge

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1000035875

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Commentary for Academic Writing for Graduate Students

Essential Tasks and Skills

By: John M. Swales,Christine B. Feak

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Commentary for Academic Writing for Graduate Students

Essential Tasks and Skills

By: John M. Swales,Christine B. Feak

The Commentary for the third edition of this successful guide to writing has been revised and expanded in many ways to provide more support for instructors; this includes additional tasks for Units Two and Four to supplement the main text. However, the collegial tone established in previous Commentaries between Swales & Feak and instructors has been retained. This volume contains commentaries on each of the eight units plus the two appendixes. The format for each unit includes a summary of the main points of the unit along with a list of topics covered. a synopsis of activities, divided into Language Focus sections and description of tasks. some general notes designed to capture the character of the unit, to indicate alternative activities, or to anticipate problems that may arise. detailed commentary and discussion of individual tasks, including model or sample answers where possible.

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0472035061

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Academic Interactions

Communicating on Campus

By: Christine Feak,Susan M. Reinhart,Theresa N. Rohlck

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Communicating on Campus

By: Christine Feak,Susan M. Reinhart,Theresa N. Rohlck

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Telling a Research Story

Writing a Literature Review

By: Christine B. Feak,John M. Swales

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Telling a Research Story

Writing a Literature Review

By: Christine B. Feak,John M. Swales

Telling a Research Story: Writing a Literature Review is concerned with the writing of a literature review and is not designed to address any of the preliminary processes leading up to the actual writing of the literature review. This volume represents a revision and expansion of the material on writing literature reviews that appeared in English in Today's Research World. This volume progresses from general to specific issues in the writing of literature reviews. It opens with some orientations that raise awareness of the issues that surround the telling of a research story. Issues of structure and matters of language, style, and rhetoric are then discussed. Sections on metadiscourse, citation, and paraphrasing and summarizing are included.

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We Remember

An Oral History and Genealogy of the Feak and Jensen Families, Including Information about the Allen, Benson, Billings, Blair, Braaten, Brophy, Frazier and Nohre Families

By: Della (Feak) Berg,Christine (Berg) Prucha

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We Remember

An Oral History and Genealogy of the Feak and Jensen Families, Including Information about the Allen, Benson, Billings, Blair, Braaten, Brophy, Frazier and Nohre Families

By: Della (Feak) Berg,Christine (Berg) Prucha

This book is an oral history and genealogy of the Jensen and Feak families. It includes information and genealogy of related families, including, Allen, Benson/Braaten, Billings, Blair, Brophy, Frazier and Nohre families.

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Academic Interactions

Academic Interactions

During the Dissertation

During the Dissertation

Building Genre Knowledge

Building Genre Knowledge

Genre Explained

Genre Explained

Genre-Based Writing

Genre-Based Writing

Writing Games

Writing Games

Before the Dissertation

Before the Dissertation

We Fought the Road

We Fought the Road

Report Writing for Readers with Little Time

Report Writing for Readers with Little Time

Commentary for Academic Writing for Graduate Students

Commentary for Academic Writing for Graduate Students

Academic Interactions

Academic Interactions

Telling a Research Story

Telling a Research Story

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We Remember

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