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Private Eyes: A Writer's Guide To Private Investigating, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe, John Landreth
Private Eyes: A Writer's Guide To Private Investigating, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe, John Landreth
Hal Blythe
Is your protagonist a private eye? Is he or she believable? Do you know how private investigators really work? What tricks do they use to get the job done? And how do they live their lives? Now you can find out from the experts. A real private eye and two published mystery writers joined forces to write Private Eyes: A Writer's Guide to Private Investigators.
Reinventing The University: Finding The Place For Basic Writers, Jane E. Hindman
Reinventing The University: Finding The Place For Basic Writers, Jane E. Hindman
Publications and Research
A poststructuralist critique of basic writing placement and pedagogy, this paper argues that our notions of good writing (i.e., the criteria by which we as English professors and compositionists authorize and "place" students) come not from some general or transcendent standards, but rather from the practices by which we self-authorize within our own discourse community. Using Bartholomae and Petrosky's curriculum presented in Facts, Artifacts, Counterfacts as a point of departure, I propose a language-centered curriculum which uses discourse itself as the subject of the semester-Jong project wherein students eventually learn to critique our practices and create their own discourse communities. …
The Development And Writing Of A Children's Story To Promote An Awareness Of Deaf Culture And American Sign Language, Blaine J. Taylor
The Development And Writing Of A Children's Story To Promote An Awareness Of Deaf Culture And American Sign Language, Blaine J. Taylor
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
Many advocates of the deaf fear that a whole generation of deaf children will be lost emotionally, socially, and educationally, this fear stems from the fact that many children who are deaf are not having their linguistic, sociocultural. and communicative needs met at home or at school (King, 1993). Their needs are not met primarily for three reasons. First. the hearing culture is often inaccessible to them because they do not understand most of the spoken language around them. When children lack the communicative abilities to interact with the hearing culture, they can not be expected to be knowledgeable of …
More Than Meets The Eye: A Look At Sharing Writing And Peer Response In An Esl Context, Catherine Bachy
More Than Meets The Eye: A Look At Sharing Writing And Peer Response In An Esl Context, Catherine Bachy
Master's Capstone Projects
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Private Eyes: A Writer's Guide To Private Investigating, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe, John Landreth
Private Eyes: A Writer's Guide To Private Investigating, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe, John Landreth
Charlie Sweet
Is your protagonist a private eye? Is he or she believable? Do you know how private investigators really work? What tricks do they use to get the job done? And how do they live their lives? Now you can find out from the experts. A real private eye and two published mystery writers joined forces to write Private Eyes: A Writer's Guide to Private Investigators.