Public Speaking category: 1264 books
Game Work
Language, Power, and Computer Game Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2008
Video and computer games in their cultural contexts.
As the popularity of computer games has exploded over the past decade, both scholars and game industry professionals have recognized the necessity of treating games less as frivolous entertainment and more as artifacts of culture worthy of...
Professional Communication and Network Interaction
A Rhetorical and Ethical Approach
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2017
Digital technologies and social media have changed the processes, products, and interactions of professional communication, reshaping how, when, with whom, and where business professionals communicate. This book examines these changes by asking: How does rhetorical theory need to adapt and develop...
Ecologies of Writing Programs
Program Profiles in Context
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
Ecologies of Writing Programs: Profiles of Writing Programs in Context features profiles of exemplary and innovative writing programs across varied institutions. Situated within an ecological framework, the book explores the dynamic inter-relationships as well as the complex rhetorical and material...
Survivance, Sovereignty, and Story
Teaching American Indian Rhetorics
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Focusing on the importance of discussions about sovereignty and of the diversity of Native American communities, Survivance, Sovereignty, and Story offers a variety of ways to teach and write about indigenous North American rhetorics.
These essays introduce indigenous rhetorics, framing both...
The Aboutness of Writing Center Talk
A Corpus-Driven and Discourse Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2016
Writing centers in universities and colleges aim to help student writers develop practices that will make them better writers in the long term and that will improve their draft papers in the short term. The tutors who work in writing centers accomplish such goals through one-to-one talk about writing....
Turn Knowledge to Profit
The Six Secrets of Successful Speakers, Coaches and Authors
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
Turn Knowledge to Profit: The Six Secrets of Successful Speakers, Coaches and Authors brings together the insights of more than 30 successful entrepreneurs, providing the reader with knowledge and ideas they can immediately apply to their business.
The publishing authors produce and host a...
by Jana Kozubíková Šandová
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2015
This book offers a pragma-semantic analysis of linguistic means expressing speaker involvement in the genre of political interview. The research is based on an analysis of 40 interviews with British and American politicians. The aim of this work is to confirm or reject the claim that the genre of...
The Rhetorical Nature of XML
Constructing Knowledge in Networked Environments
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
The Rhetorical Nature of XML is the first volume to combine rhetoric, XML, and knowledge management in a substantive manner. It serves as a primer on XML and XML-related technologies, illustrating how the naming of XML elements can be understood as a rhetorical act, and detailing the essentials of...
by Derek Mueller, Andrea Williams
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2017
Cross-Border Networks in Writing Studies coordinates mixed methods approaches to survey, interview, and case study data to study Canadian writing studies scholars. The authors argue for networked disciplinarity, the notion that ideas arise and flow through intellectual networks that connect scholars...
Cognition and the Symbolic Processes
Applied and Ecological Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
This volume is a festschrift dedicated to James J. Jenkins, a pioneer in many areas of experimental psychology. It has three major goals: to provide a forum for debate on current theoretical issues in cognitive psychology, to capture the "state of the art" in reviews of research methods...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
First published in 1987. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Writing Postindustrial Places
Technoculture amid the Cornfields
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Exploring the relationship between postindustrial writing and developments in energy production, manufacturing, and agriculture, Michael J. Salvo shows how technological and industrial innovation relies on communicative and organizational suppleness. Through representative case studies, Salvo demonstrates...
Closing the Gap
English Educators Address the Tensions Between Teacher Preparation and Teaching Writing in Secondary Schools
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2007
Without contraries there is no progression. William Blake This is a book about reality and hope. Its chapters reframe the concept of gap, acknowledging distances (for example, acknowledging old insights and theory while also honoring teacher discovery). However, it refuses to bow under the weight...
Scientific Discourse in Sociohistorical Context
The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, 1675-1975
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1998
Scientific Discourse in Sociohistorical Context represents the intersection of knowledge and method, examined from the perspective of three distinct disciplines: linguistics, rhetoric-composition, and history. Herein, Dwight Atkinson describes the written language and rhetoric of the Royal Society...