This work shares with the research student - especially the doctoral student - a sense of the author's struggle in working through an emerging and continually evolving research dissertation.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This collection examines how usability is defined, how rhetorical theories and principles affect our understanding of usability, and how usability can affect our perspectives on writing and writing instruction.
The contributions to this volume are part of a collaborative, interdisciplinary attempt to clarify, expand, and discover integrative patterns within conceptual foundations for research and practice in fields pertaining to creative ...
This book explores how multimodal rhetoric may prompt foundational changes in writing centers, which have proven themselves, over the last several decades, to be a highly effective means of providing peer-based support for writers.
Each of the essays in this collection builds on the scholarship or ideas of Walter J. Ong, S.J., and, in so doing, suggests avenues of exploration for contemporary scholars.
This book introduces a unique form of education - communication activism pedagogy - that teaches students how to use their communication knowledge and skills to promote social justice.
A collection of essays that explains how the underlying philosophical and cultural contexts that shape the life experiences of women in Asia are reflected in the media portrayals, especially in advertising.
Brings together researchers analyzing a wide variety of communication media - blogs, email, fax, IRC, chat, IM, text messaging (SMS), loveletters, post- and e-cards, telephone, radio, television, and website literacies such as homepage ...
Explores what representation of women says about their positions in society, the factors that shape representation, and the roles that gender, race, class, ethnicity and sexual orientation play within the mediated portrayal of women.
This book culls from the pages of The Chronicles - not the action, adventure or drama, but the politics, religion and communicology of em>Dune, the underlying philosophy that motivates the characters to action.
This is written for teachers, researchers, and students at all levels of experience.
Faculty in Higher education face a multitude of demands and challenges in their work. Not least among these is the need to use technology in ways that will be meaningful and useful.
This text provides a qualitative inquiry into the politics and practice of feminist teaching.
This includes both a rise in concern with diversity of the work force and a perceived right of competitive groups to participate in decision making.
This volume offers a dialogue across the great divide of science and spirit, describing the education of shamanic abilities within the Native American tradition.
The book is a rich tapestry of fundamental questions, innovative methodological approaches, well-reasoned arguments, insightful findings, and grounded suggestions for improving communication during medical interviews.
The authors in this book share three convictions. First, our communicative efforts should reflect a genuine love for humankind. Second, all human beings reflect values for both good and ill.
This collection of essays puts the issue of making sense of reality at the centre of the debate about journalism.
This book invites a careful reconsideration of several premises underpinning the vocabulary we use to document, describe and critique the world around us.