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Mosaics: Focusing on Sentences in Context

Flachmann, Kim

Maher, Jane

Campbell, Elizabeth H.

Literature & Fiction

PRENTICE/HALL

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Mosaics: Focusing on Essays

Reference

Johnson, Nancy

Magee, D.B.

Words, Language & Grammar

Pearson College Div

User-friendly and non-threatening, this book gives readers materials and assignments they may need to read/write successfully. Its unique approach parallels the "life flow" from childhood to old age, reflecting the way reading and writing are used in life. Includes short, helpful examples of reading and writing. Uses relevant example formats like e-mail correspondence and magazine articles that deal with topics of interest to basic writers. Provides brief examples of different types of reading, including informal letters to relatively dense text. Offers tips on appropriate dictionary use. For anyone interested in improving their written communication skills.

Writing for a Lifetime: Contemporary Readings from Popular Sources

Pearson

Even before the publication of her pioneering work, Errors and Expectations, Mina P. Shaughnessy was recognized as the leading figure in the field of basic writing and as a devoted advocate of Open Admissions. Her career at City College and the CUNY Instructional Resource Center spanned the turbulent years of Open Admissions, and throughout the late sixties and seventies she worked with a commitment and intensity to her students that was unparalleled. As Adrienne Rich has said, Mina Shaughnessy knew "that education was not only a means of access to power, but a form of power in itself: the power of expression, of language." Author Jane Maher has recaptured that intensity in her account of Shaughnessy's remarkable personal and professional life. As a result of her work, Shaughnessy came to realize that "the open admissions experiment, wherever it has been seriously undertaken, has yielded a few truths that I... would walk the plank for - and one of them is that the young men and women we call remedial have the capacity (by now the proven capacity) to become competent writers and to do so, if everyone works very hard, even within the harsh limits imposed by the college timetable." Although Shaughnessy's career was relatively brief - she died in 1978 at the age of 54 - her work as a teacher, a scholar, and an administrator has had a profound and permanent effect on basic writing as a discipline and on the education of underprepared students. As she herself said, "Open Admissions is forcing the real question - not how many people society is willing to pay to salvage itself." From her roots in South Dakota to her professional life in New York City - expertly chronicled here by Maher - Shaughnessy won international recognition fighting for the rights of those students who had been denied for so many years the right to a college education.

Mina P. Shaughnessy: Her Life and Work

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)

A big toe is a seemingly unimportant part of the body. But try to walk without it. Try to have a church service without lights or drive a car without oil...Faith in God does not protect a believer from tradegy. Faith in God only protects a believer from despair. A serious illness or accident can be an awful thing, but it becomes a little less awful when we believe that God will stay with us and help us to endure the pain...

One Step More: The Life and Work of Father Joseph C. Martin

Leaders & Notable People

Ashley Pr

In 1995 William C. Stokoe arrived at Gallaudet College (later Gallaudet University) to teach English, specifically Chaucer. His own education in Old and Middle English, however, triggered a disparate response within him when he was first exposed to deaf people signing. While most of his colleagues conformed to current conventional theory and dismissed signing as mere mimicry of speech, Stokoe saw in it elements of a distinctive language all its own. Seeing Language in Sign traces the process that Stokoe followed to prove scientifically and unequivocally that American Sign Language (ASL) met the full criteria of linguistics - phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and use of language - to be classified a fully developed language. This perceptive account dramatically captures the struggle Stokoe faced in persuading the establishment of the truth of his discovery. Other faculty members ridiculed or reviled him, and many deaf members of the Gallaudet community laughed at his efforts. Seeing Language in Sign rewards the reader with a rich portrayal of an undaunted advocate who, like a latter-day Galileo, pursued his vision of doggedly regardless of relentless antagonism. He established the Linguistics Research Laboratory, then founded the journal Sign Language Studies to sustain an unpopular dialogue until the tide changed. His ultimate vindication corresponded with the recognition of the glorious culture and community that revolves around Deaf people and their language, American Sign Language.

Seeing Language in Sign: The Work of William C. Stokoe

Professionals & Academics

Gallaudet University Press

In 1955 William C. Stokoe arrived at Gallaudet College (later Gallaudet University) to teach English where he was first exposed to deaf people signing. While most of his colleagues dismissed signing as mere mimicry of speech, Stokoe saw in it elements of a distinctive language all its own. Seeing Language in Sign traces the process that Stokoe followed to prove scientifically and unequivocally that American Sign Language (ASL) met the full criteria of linguistics―phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and use of language―to be classified a fully developed language. This perceptive account dramatically captures the struggle Stokoe faced in persuading the establishment of the truth of his discovery. Other faculty members ridiculed or reviled him, and many deaf members of the Gallaudet community laughed at his efforts. Seeing Language in Sign rewards the reader with a rich portrayal of an undaunted advocate who, like a latter-day Galileo, pursued his vision doggedly regardless of relentless antagonism. He established the Linguistics Research Laboratory, then founded the journal Sign Language Studies to sustain an unpopular dialogue until the tide changed. His ultimate vindication corresponded with the recognition of the glorious culture and community that revolves around Deaf people and their language, ASL.

Joint and Soft Tissue Injection: Injecting with Confidence

Steroid injections are a useful and effective treatment for many painful conditions of joints and soft tissues. This book comprehensively examines the diagnosis of conditions, the uses of steroids, and the potential pitfalls in their use. It looks at all aspects of the practical skills required as well as the evidence-base, general information, medico-legal issues and clinical pitfalls. This new edition has been updated and expanded to incorporate the latest, vital research and developments in clinical practice. It conveys the author's comprehensive knowledge of anatomy and procedures and describes, step-by-step, the required skills for each procedure using full-colour photographs and explanatory illustrations. It imparts to every practitioner the knowledge to inject with confidence. This fourth edition is essential reading for general practitioners, rheumatologists, sports injury doctors, orthopaedic doctors and junior hospital doctors. 'Interest in injecting joints and soft tissues continues to flourish. General practitioners and hospital doctors are finding that these practical skills are rewarding in primary care as well as in hospital care. Since writing the last edition there has been a noticeable increase in published work, trials and reviews of the literature on the whole range of treatments used in musculoskeletal conditions. Thus, the evidence base is now very comprehensive.' - Trevor Silver, in the Preface. Key reviews from previous editions: 'This book is excellent.' "Hospital Doctor". 'Clear illustrations and a step-by-step text.' - "British Medical Journal". 'Ideal for encouraging confidence.' - "British Journal Of General Practice". 'Very useful for immediate reference, this is an excellent textbook.' - "British Journal Of Sports Medicine". 'A superb practical guide to soft tissue and joint injection and can be recommended with confidence.' - "London Calling". 'The original 'how to do it' handbook for the benefit of colleagues.' - "Family Practice". 'This book is a very useful guide to numerous joint and soft tissue injection techniques, which would be worth having as a reference text in the libraries of departments which have pain management clinics.' - "Britishc Journal Of Anaesthesia". 'This book is superbly produced with wonderful illustrations of both the surface anatomy and the deep structures, whose mysteries the nervous young injector hopes to penetrate with accuracy and safety.' - "Education For Primary Care". 'This is an ideal reference book.' - "Practice Nurse". 'This book offers clear and well illustrated instructions and advice, backed up with considered clinical evidence of effectiveness. This book would be an excellent resource for nurses working in rheumatology.' - "Britishc Journal Of Perioperative Nursing".

Medical Books

Silver, Trevor

Nursing

CRC-Press

Dedicated and hard-working staff at all levels of large healthcare organisations can be frustrated by a perceived inability to influence healthcare priorities. One way of enabling such practitioners to shape and improve services is to bring them together in 'communities of influence'. These are informal groups or networks of committed people who meet regularly to share experiences, develop a collective voice and influence policy and practice at local and national levels. Such 'bottom-up' approaches to change can complement the more conventional management mechanisms widely employed today. Communities of Influence tells the story of how a prominent UK non-profit organisation (Macmillan Cancer Support) has engaged both professionals and patients over the past two decades to improve cancer care. It will stimulate managers and practitioners alike to develop their capacity to work through networks, relationships and conversations in pursuing their objectives. This book will appeal to clinicians and managers responsible for service improvement, as well as public servants, researchers and educators interested in management and organisational change. At a time when the 'big society' is the policy idea of the day, this book illustrates what can be achieved when communities of practice become communities of influence. In so doing, the authors offer a timely counterpoint to believers in command and control and rampant competition by stressing the critical role of networks and relationships. The ideas they discuss are at once simple and complex and have the potential to be revolutionary when taken forward in the right hands. Professor Chris Ham, Chief Executive of The King's Fund This wonderful book describes how a creative, problem-solving organisation can be encouraged to start, grow and flourish. The result is a text that could act as a guide for 21st century healthcare, one of the key books for an era in which it will be recognised that new solutions are needed for the problems we face. From the foreword by Sir Muir Gray This book is a welcome antidote to the usual approaches to improving healthcare which take the form of endlessly changing organisational structures and relentless monitoring, often with dubious consequences. It presents an alternative, holding out the prospect of gradually accumulating changes in the actual work of those delivering healthcare in a complex environment. Professor Ralph Stacey, Complexity Research Group, University of Hertfordshire

Communities of Influence: Improving Healthcare Through Conversations and Connections

Business & Money

Donaldson, Alison

Lank, Elizabeth

Industries

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