Basic Reading Skills Handbook (with Myreadinglab)

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Wiener, Harvey S.

Bazerman, Charles

Words, Language & Grammar

Longman Publishing Group

The Languages of Edison's Light (Inside Technology) (Inside Technology (Paperback))

Technology is business, and dealing with the media, the public, financiers, and government agencies can be as important to an invention's success as effective product development. To understand how rhetoric works in technology, one cannot do better than to start with the American inventor Thomas Alva Edison and the incandescent light bulb. Charles Bazerman tells the story of the emergence of electric light as one of symbols and communication. He examines how Edison and his colleagues represented light and power to themselves and to others as the technology was transformed from an idea to a daily fact of life. He looks at the rhetoric used to create meaning and value for the emergent technology in the laboratory, in patent offices and courts, in financial markets, and in boardrooms, city halls, newspapers, and the consumer marketplace. Along the way he describes the social and communicative arrangements that shaped and transformed the world in which Edison acted. He portrays Edison, both the individual and the corporation, as a self-conscious social actor whose rhetorical groundwork was crucial to the technology's material realization and success.

The Languages of Edison's Light (Inside Technology)

History

Americas

Mit Pr

MIT Press]

The forms taken by scientific writing help to determine the very nature of science itself. In this closely reasoned study, Charles Bazerman views the changing forms of scientific writing as solutions to rhetorical problems faced by scientists arguing for their findings. Examining such works as the early "Philosophical Transactions" and Newton's optical writings as well as "Physical Review", Bazerman views the changing forms of scientific writing as solutions to rhetorical problems faced by scientists. The rhetoric of science is, Bazerman demonstrates, an embedded part of scientific activity that interacts with other parts of scientific activity, including social structure and empirical experience. This book presents a comprehensive historical account of the rise and development of the genre, and views these forms in relation to empirical experience. The emergence of the experimental scientific article, Bazerman argues, is a response to the social and rhetorical situation of the 17th and 18th-century natural philosophy activated by the need to communicate findings and the exigencies of conflict that arise from communication. The emergence of the argumentative forms of scientific writing are coincident with the emergence of the scientific community and the development of experimental procedures. All three interactively structure each other. Bazerman shows that later developments of the experimental article, in both the physical and social sciences of the 20th century, have been shaped within the contexts of the various disciplines. An understanding of what forces have shaped the experimental report, what functions the features were designed to serve, and the impact of rhetoric on the rest of scientific activity helps to evaluate all statements of knowledge and increases our ability to make intelligent writing choices. The introductory chapters explore the complex dynamics of situated knowledge-bearing texts. Bazerman then explores the interactions of textual form and social and empirical activity in early science, through examinations of the early "Philosophical Transactions" and Newton's optical writings. Bazerman also examines literate activity within the elaborated social/intellectual/empirical/literary structures of 20th century physics. His study of "Physical Review" examines changing textual form, particularly in relation to the increasing importance of physical theory as a text-structuring element. Bazerman then examines the migration of the experimental report to the social sciences in considering both changing forms and epistemological implications, looking at experimental psychology and political science. He closes by considering directly the implications of the studies in the book for theories of language and language use and for the practice of writing.

Shaping Written Knowledge: The Genre and Activity of the Experimental Article in Science (Rhetoric of the Human Services)

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Univ of Wisconsin Pr

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Textual Dynamics of the Professions is a collection of fifteen essays examining the real effects of text on professional practices—in academic, scientific, and business settings. Charles Bazerman and James Paradis describe textual dynamics as an interaction in which professional texts and discourses are constructed by, and in turn construct, social practices. In the burgeoning field of discourse theory, this anthology stands apart in its treatment of a wide range of professional texts, including case studies, student papers, medieval letters, and product instructions, and in the inclusion of authors from a variety of disciplines. Invaluable to the new pedagogical field of “writing across the curriculum,” Textual Dynamics of the Professions is also a significant intervention into the studies of rhetoric, writing theory, and the sociology of knowledge.

Textual Dynamics: Historical & Contemporary Studies Of (Rhetoric of the Human Sciences)

University of Wisconsin Press

The Basic Reading Skills Handbook, 6th edition, provides reading skills instruction, reference and practice for a first-level college reading course, in a convenient handbook format. The unique two-part format allows students to focus on skills they need the most and develop the skills in a meaningful context. Part One, the handbook provides basic reading skill instruction and exercises. Part Two, the anthology includes twelve high-interest readings and a casebook on Romance, Love, and Marriage, so that students can apply newly learned skills. Both the handbook chapters and the attached anthology offer extensive exercises keyed to the handbook presentation.

Basic Reading Skills Handbook (6th Edition)

Pearson

Reading Skills Handbook, 9/e, teaches the essential reading and study skills required for success in college . The cornerstone of the Wiener/Bazerman System, Reading Skills Handbook, 9/e, retains the features that have made it a bestseller for more than twenty-five years: flexible format, high-interest readings, clear explanations, and a multitude of practice exercises. The step-by-step approach encourages students to move with confidence from simple to more complex skills. An anthology of readings helps students apply newly learned skills in selections drawn from books, magazines, and newspapers and including essays, articles, textbook pages, journals, fiction, photographs, illustrations, cartoons, advertisements, and Web sites—in short, the wide range of reading opportunities available to today’s readers at home or on the job.

Reading Skills Handbook (9th Edition)

The informed writer

Houghton, Mifflin Co.

Bazerman' s "The Informed Writer" teaches students to formulate original arguments through fourteen different kinds of writing activities, ranging from brief summaries to full-scale research papers. Students are encouraged to explore the close connection between writing and reading, as well as the social context for their writing. Student writing examples and two complete research papers model both MLA and APA styles.

Informed Writer

Houghton Mifflin School

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Basic Reading Skills Handbook (with Myreadinglab)

The Languages of Edison's Light (Inside Technology)

The Languages of Edison's Light (Inside Technology) (Inside Technology (Paperback))

Shaping Written Knowledge: The Genre and Activity of the Experimental Article in Science (Rhetoric of the Human Services)

Shaping Written Knowledge: The Genre and Activity of the Experimental Article in Science (Rhetoric of the Human Services)

Textual Dynamics: Historical & Contemporary Studies Of (Rhetoric of the Human Sciences)

Basic Reading Skills Handbook (6th Edition)

Reading Skills Handbook (9th Edition)

The informed writer

Informed Writer