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Creative Writing Workshops for Second Language Writers
Kevin Dvorak
Writing centers are seeing more and more kinds of ESL students. That's why the much-loved ESL Writers (winner of the International Writing Centers Association's Outstanding Scholarship Award for Best Book) has changed with the times to reflect the expanding diversity of writing center students. The Second Edition features five totally new essays and has been thoroughly revised to be more useful than ever. ESL Writers,Second Edition:
- expands the definition of students and tutors with respect to their linguistic backgrounds, describing specifically the characteristics of a variety of English learners, including bilingual writers, Generation 1.5ers, recent immigrants, and foreign students who need support with academic English in a new first chapter
- focuses greater attention on the diversity of cultural and literacy identities among students and tutors
- addresses tutors' most frequently asked questions about helping ESL writers with English grammar
- outlines methods for succeeding with tutoring ESL writers online as well as tips for common pitfalls.
Filled with suggestions and strategies based on a rigorous combination of experience, research, and theory, ESL Writers, Second Edition, remains a tutor's top resource for working with English learners
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Writing Activities for ESL Writers
Kevin Dvorak
Writing centers are seeing more and more kinds of ESL students. That's why the much-loved ESL Writers (winner of the International Writing Centers Association's Outstanding Scholarship Award for Best Book) has changed with the times to reflect the expanding diversity of writing center students. The Second Edition features five totally new essays and has been thoroughly revised to be more useful than ever. ESL Writers,Second Edition:
- expands the definition of students and tutors with respect to their linguistic backgrounds, describing specifically the characteristics of a variety of English learners, including bilingual writers, Generation 1.5ers, recent immigrants, and foreign students who need support with academic English in a new first chapter
- focuses greater attention on the diversity of cultural and literacy identities among students and tutors
- addresses tutors' most frequently asked questions about helping ESL writers with English grammar
- outlines methods for succeeding with tutoring ESL writers online as well as tips for common pitfalls.
Filled with suggestions and strategies based on a rigorous combination of experience, research, and theory, ESL Writers, Second Edition, remains a tutor's top resource for working with English learners.
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What the #%@: Offensive Language Spoken on Popular Morning Radio Programs
Megan Fitzgerald
This book examines offensive language spoken on popular morning radio programs. While concerns over indecency have long existed, the 2004 Super Bowl half-time show sparked renewed interest in the issue of indecency on television and radio and, as evident in the 2007 firing of radio personality Don Imus, continues to be of concern today. Even with Howard Stern running for the cover of satellite radio at the start of 2006 and the often-controversial NYPD Blue signing off in 2005, the battle over a crackdown on indecency on the public airwaves wages on. How pervasive is indecent language on radio? Is it really as ?filthy? and out of control as critics claim? While some lawmakers and interest groups presume this to be the case, no research evidence exists to support or reject these claims. While offensive language on primetime television has been studied, offensive language on radio has received little scholarly attention. The purpose of this work was to identify the amount and kind of offensive language spoken on- air.
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The Many Faces of Gene Expression Profiling: Transcriptome Analyses Applied Towards Elucidating Marine Organismal Interactions and Metabolism.
Jose V. Lopez, Benoit Mouzon, Peter McCarthy, and Russell Kerr
This chapter will exhibit and summarize current molecular biotechnologies that focus on characterizing gene expression at the mRNA level. Specific focus will be on recent research regarding marine ecosystems and organisms. Learning objectives for the advanced biology students are the following:
- To understand the similarities and differences between genomics (DNA-based) and transcriptoics (RNA-based) laboratory methods for data generation and analysis.
- To learn the strengths and weaknesses of various state-of-the-art transcriptomic methods that are used to study gene expression and mRNA transcripts, and when they can be most appropriately applied.
- To rate and apply the most cost-effective means for transcriptome analyses based on the model system and hypotheses posed.
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Outsourcing Ourselves: Students, Academics, and the Service Learning Economy
Eric Mason and Julia L. Mason
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Introduction to Applications of Physics and Mathematics to Social Science
Andrzej Nowak and Urszula A. Strawinska-Zanko
The human mind is often regarded as the most complex structure in the universe. If anything could be argued to be of higher complexity it is a collection of interacting minds: social groups and societies. Kluver argues that social cognitive complexity(see Social Cognitive Complexity)stems from the fact that such systems consist of multiple (at least two – social and cognitive) levels that are constantly at flux due to the multiple influences both between and within levels.
The complexity of the subject matter of the social sciences has made adequate description using the traditional models of mathematics and physics difficult. For a long time it has been argued that tools of mathematics and physics are not adequate for social processes and therefore science had to proceed along two independent fronts that seemed irreconcilable (Snow, 1993).
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Echinodermata of the Gulf of Mexico
David L. Pawson, Doris J. Vance, Charles Messing, Francisco A. Solis-Marin, and Christopher L. Mah
Presents a biodiversity inventory of the Gulf of Mexico with biotic and biogeographic information. This book presents a comprehensive summary of knowledge of Gulf biota through 2004. It includes seventy-seven chapters, which list more than fifteen thousand species in thirty-eight phyla or divisions.
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Markov Models for Linking Environments and Facies in Space and Time (Recent Arabian Gulf, Miocene Paratethys)
Bernhard Riegl and Samuel J. Purkis
This special publication Perspectives in Carbonate Geology is a collection of papers most of which were presented at a symposium to honor the 80th birthday of Bob Ginsburg at the meeting of Geological Society of America in Salt Lake City in 2005. The majority of the papers in this publication are connected with the study of modern carbonate sediments. Bob Ginsburg pioneered the concept of comparative sedimentology - that is using the modern to compare to and relate to and understand the ancient. These studies are concerned with Bob's areas of passion: coral reefs and sea-level; submarine cementation and formation of beach rock; surface sediments on Great Bahama Bank and other platforms; origin of ooids; coastal sediments; formation of stromatolites; impact of storms on sediments; and the formation of dolomite. The remainder of the papers apply the study of modern environments and sedimentary processes to ancient sediments.
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Stand up; your father’s passing’: Atticus Finch as Hero Archetype
Marlisa Santos
This title covers the role of the hero's journey in 'Beowulf', 'The Lord of the Rings', 'Moby-Dick', 'To Kill a Mockingbird', and many other works.
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Toward the Theory and Practice of Appreciative Inquiry in Complex Peacebuilding, and Development Contexts
Mary H. Schwoebel and Erin McCandless
Positive Approaches to Peacebuilding is a path-breaking contribution to peacemaking for a global society. In a highly readable fashion, it combines theory and case studies, domestic and international experiences, and advocacy of innovative approaches along with appropriate caution against simplistic application of these practices. The theoretical frameworks are rich enough to satisfy scholars, the case studies are practical enough to engage practitioners and the tips and guides to practice are sure to inspire new and innovative work among peacebuilders. This book presents an innovative perspective on peacebuilding that breaks new ground while maintaining strong roots and relationships in tradition. The impact of this book on the reader and those with whom the reader works, will last a lifetime.
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Black Churches and the Environment in Miami
Eileen Smith-Cavros
In addition to being a religious countryùover ninety percent of Americans believe in God--the United States is also home to more immigrants than ever before. Churches and Charity in the Immigrant City focuses on the intersection of religion and civic engagement among Miami's immigrant and minority groups. The contributors examine the role of religious organizations in developing social relationships and how these relationships affect the broader civic world. Essays, for example, consider the role of leadership in the promotion and creation of "civic social capital" in a Haitian Catholic church, transnational ties between Cuban Catholics in Miami and Havana, and several African American congregations that serve as key comparisons of civic engagement among minorities.
This book is important not only for its theoretical contributions to the sociology of religion, but also because it gives us a unique glimpse into immigrants' civic and religious lives in urban America.
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The Supreme Court and Elections ... Into the Political Thicket
Charles L. Zelden
Voting is simple in the United States, right? The process of voting (organizing, running and tabulating the results of a popular election) is, in fact, a highly contested act whose forms, meanings, and practical boundaries are open to widely differing interpretations. From questions of who can vote to the tricky problem of accurately counting the votes, popular democracy is still a work in progress in the United States. Add in the complexities of politics and the picture becomes even more complicated.
Taking a chronological approach to the topic, The Supreme Court and Elections explores the ways that the Court has struggled with these questions. From the earliest days of the Union when the Supreme Court refused to address the topic, to the early struggles with the Fourteenth Amendment’s impact on the question of who can vote, to the rise and fall of race-based disenfranchisement, to our recent issues of proper districting, campaign finance reform and the struggle to find a workable voting technology, the essay and documents in this reference illuminate the multifaceted nature of voting and election laws. At the same time, this title provides in-depth analysis of the impact of the Court in shaping this ongoing history.
Topics addressed in The Supreme Court and Elections include the following:
- The Nature of Election Law/Voting
- Rights and the Impact of the Court
- Impact of the Civil Rights Amendments
- Voting in the late 19th And early 20th centuries
- Disenfranchisement and the Court
- Redistricting cases
- Majority-Minority districts
- Campaign finance reform
- Bush v. Gore and beyond
This title also interweaves select sections of primary source documents in an easy-to-follow format:
- The U.S. Constitution
- The Voting Rights Act (1965) and the later Amendment (1982)
- Excerpts from Federal Voting Statutes
- Supreme Court cases
- President Lyndon Baines Johnson excerpts
- Contemporaneous news articles
- Court Briefs
Focusing on the practical problems of U.S. voting and its complex development within the framework of the political branches of the government, students and researchers will benefit from the clear picture painted by the author of the current elective structure. Essay and document based, The Supreme Court and Elections is the definitive reference on the application of U.S. law on Americans right to vote and the resulting participatory democracy.
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Linear Algebra: Challenging Problems for Students
Fuzhen Zhang
Linear algebra is a prerequisite for students majoring in mathematics and is required of many undergraduate and first-year graduate students in statistics, engineering, and related areas. This fully updated and revised text defines the discipline's main terms, explains its key theorems, and provides over 425 example problems ranging from the elementary to some that may baffle even the most seasoned mathematicians. Vital concepts are highlighted at the beginning of each chapter and a final section contains hints for solving the problems as well as solutions to each example. Based on Fuzhen Zhang's experience teaching and researching algebra over the past two decades, Linear Algebra is the perfect examination study tool. Students in beginning and seminar-type advanced linear algebra classes and those seeking to brush up on the topic will find Zhang's plain discussions of the subject's theories refreshing and the problems diverse, interesting, and challenging.
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The Reef Tract of Continental Southeast Florida (Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach Counties, USA)
Kenneth W. Banks, Bernhard M. Riegl, Vincent P. Richards, Brian K. Walker, Kevin P. Helmle, Lance K. B. Jordan, Janet Phipps, Mahmood S. Shivji, Richard E. Spieler, and Richard E. Dodge
[Chapter Introduction] Although South Florida coral reefs are frequently considered to be confined to the Florida Keys, a complex of relict early Holocene shelf-edge and mid-shelf reefs as well as limestone ridges extends along the continental coast of Southeast Florida (Fig. 5.1) from offshore south Miami (N25°34') northward to offshore West Palm Beach (N26°43'). This extends the distance spanned overall by reefs in SE Florida by 125 km (Fig. 5.2). The nomenclature proposed by Moyer et al. (2003) and Banks et al. (2007) identifying these structures as ridge complex and inner, middle, and outer reef will be used herein. The reefs are arranged linearly and parallel to the trend of the shoreline. They are separated by sandy sedimentary deposits of varying thicknesses that overly erosional hardground surfaces (Duane and Meisburger 1969a, b; Raymond 1972; Shinn et al. 1977; Banks et al. 2007). The reefs themselves are presently not framebuilding but are colonized by a rich tropical fauna otherwise characteristic of the West Atlantic/Caribbean reef systems.
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Pandas of Sichuan
Barry W. Barker
The Pandas of Sichuan documents life at the Wolong Panda Preserve before the tragic May 2008 earthquake in China that killed nearly 100,000 people and severely damaged the facilities located near Chengdu. This photographic documentary effort of a courageous group of American travel photographers, members of Wild Spots Foundation, as well as academics from south Florida colleges and universities, is a modest attempt to protect biodiversity and contribute to the reconstruction efforts of the Pandas in the Sichuan Provence.
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Taphonomy as an Indicator of Behavior Among Fossil Crinoids
Tomasz K. Baumiller, Forest J. Gahn, Hans Hess, and Charles Messing
The dominant faunal elements in shallow Paleozoic oceans, echinoderms are important to understanding these marine ecosystems. Echinoderms (which include such animals as sea stars, crinoids or sea lilies, sea urchins, sand dollars, and sea cucumbers) have left a rich and, for science, extremely useful fossil record. For various reasons, they provide the ideal source for answers to the questions that will help us develop a more complete understanding of global environmental and biodiversity changes. This volume highlights the modern study of fossil echinoderms and is organized into five parts: echinoderm paleoecology, functional morphology, and paleoecology; evolutionary paleoecology; morphology for refined phylogenetic studies; innovative applications of data encoded in echinoderms; and information on new crinoid data sets.
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Case Study: Elasmobranch Bycatch in the Pelagic Longline Fishery off the Southeastern United States, 1992-1997
Lawrence R. Beerkircher, Enric Cortes, and Mahmood Shivji
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Characteristics of Shark Bycatch in the Pelagic Longline Fishery off the Southeastern US, 1992-1997
Lawrence R. Beerkircher, Enric Cortes, and Mahmood S. Shivji
This important and exciting title represents the first authoritative volume focussed on pelagic (open ocean) sharks as a group. Virtually every pelagic shark expert in the world has contributed to this landmark publication which includes the latest data and knowledge on pelagic shark biology, fisheries, management, and conservation.
Pelagic sharks face unprecedented levels of exploitation in all the world's oceans through both direct fisheries and by-catch, and effective management for these species is contingent upon solid science and data, which this book brings together for the first time. All those involved in shark biology will need to have a copy of this book.
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Geologic Setting and Ecological Functioning of Coral Reefs in American Samoa
Charles Birkeland, Peter Craig, Douglas Fenner, Lance Smith, William E. Kiene, and Bernhard Riegl
[Chapter Introduction] American Samoa is rich in coral reefs and all islands are more or less fringed by coral reefs. Although structurally not part of the Samoan chain, political American Samoa includes Rose Atoll, a true atoll, and Swains Island. The coral reefs of American Samoa are integrated into a national protected areas system with the National Park of American Samoa (US Department of Interior) managing some coral reefs on the north coast of Tutuila near Vatia and along the shores of southern Ofu, and southeastern Ta’u, while the National Marine Sanctuary Program (US Department of Commerce) manages Fagatele Bay.
Although debated among historians, many believe that the Samoan Islands were originally inhabited as early as 1000 bc. Thus, the division between American and independent Samoa is very recent and pre-Western history of both Samoan groups is inextricably linked. The Manu’a Islands (Ofu, Olosega, Ta’u ) of American Samoa have one of the oldest histories of Polynesia, and the Tuimanu’a title, formerly held by the highest chief of the Manu’a islands, is considered the oldest chiefly title. The title’s name is obviously derived from the islands’ name and its prestige is because the Manu’a Islands were, at least according to Samoan oral tradition, the first islands settled in Polynesia. During the Tongan occupation of Samoa, Manu’a was the only island group that remained independent because of the familial relationship between the Tuimanu’a and the Tuitonga, who was descended from a former Tuimanu’a. The islands of Tutuila and Aunu’u were culturally connected to Upolu Island in what is now independent Samoa. Still today, all the Samoan Islands are politically connected through the chieftain system and through family connections.
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Cuchulainn
James E. Doan
An encyclopedia designed especially to meet the needs of elementary, junior high, and senior high school students.
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