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Journalism makes a difference. In-depth investigation and reporting can break preconceptions, expose hidden truths, and have deep impacts on both public perception and public policy. Fact-based journalism is essential in a world flooded by mis- and dis-information.
The...
Editeur :
Bighorn Books
Parution :
2024-05-25
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Find concrete ways to support unwilling, unengaged, or struggling readers! This professional resource includes easy-to-implement classroom strategies and activities to help teachers reach reluctant readers. Have your students mastered the art of avoiding reading?...
Editeur :
Shell Education
Parution :
2023-11-14
Collection :
50 Strategies
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In this candid and concise volume, Kyle Conway, author of The Art of Communication in a Polarized World, considers how we can open ourselves to others and to ideas that scare us by reading difficult texts. Conway argues that because we resist ideas we don’t understand,...
Editeur :
AU Press
Parution :
2023-07-18
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Across more than twenty chapters, Future Horizons explores the past, present, and future of digital humanities research, teaching, and experimentation in Canada. Bringing together work by established and emerging scholars, this collection presents contemporary...
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University of Ottawa Press
Parution :
2023-06-13
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A celebration of cultural inheritance and the evolution of language
Mapping the language, literature, and history of Icelandic immigrants and their descendants, this collection, translated and expanded for English-speaking audiences, delivers a comprehensive overview of...
Editeur :
University of Manitoba Press
Parution :
2023-04-14
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« In a world where the word ‘gender’ has undergone an explosion of meaning originating in a proliferation of new pronouns, Lori Morris’ study of grammatical gender in English constitutes a much-needed reminder to linguists of the necessity of distinguishing between...
Editeur :
Presses de l'Université Laval
Parution :
2021-10-27
Collection :
Cahiers de psychomécanique du langage
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Perspectives on Mass Communication is based on an in-depth conversation between Howard Burton and Denis McQuail (1935-2017), who was Emeritus Professor at the University of Amsterdam and Visiting Professor at the University of Southampton. He is widely considered to be...
Editeur :
Ideas Roadshow
Parution :
2021-04-23
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Maci-Anihšinapemowin / Beginning Saulteaux is an introductory look at one of the most widely spoken of all North American Indigenous languages, regionally known as Saulteaux, Ojibway, Ottawa (Odawa), Chippewa, and Algonquian./ In an easy-to-use and easy-to-read series...
Editeur :
U of R Press
Parution :
2020-12-30
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The Elements of Style is a prescriptive American English writing style guide in numerous editions.The original was composed by William Strunk Jr., in 1918, and published by Harcourt, in 1920, comprising eight "elementary rules of usage", ten "elementary principles of...
Editeur :
Turtleback
Parution :
2020-11-08
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People’s minds are hard to change. In North America and elsewhere, communities are fractured along ideological lines as social media and algorithms encourage individuals to seek out others who think like they do and to condemn those that don’t. This social and political...
Editeur :
AU Press
Parution :
2020-03-31
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Written for beginning learners of Nakoda (also known as Assiniboine), this workbook, arranged thematically, provides a Nakoda/English lexicon, a vocabulary, a table of kinship terms, a glossary of linguistic terminology, and exercises to do after each lesson.
This book...
Editeur :
U of R Press
Parution :
2019-11-02
Collection :
Indigenous Languages for Beginners
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Public access to government information forms the foundation of a healthy liberal democracy. Because this information can be precarious, it needs stewardship. Government Information in Canada provides analysis about the state of Canadian government information...
Editeur :
University of Alberta Press
Parution :
2019-04-04
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In Voice, Adam Pottle explores the crucial role deafness has played in the growth of his imagination, and in doing so presents a unique perspective on a writer’s development. Born deaf in both ears, Pottle recounts what it was like growing up in a world of muted sound,...
Editeur :
U of R Press
Parution :
2019-03-02
Collection :
Writers on Writing
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'The Elements of Style' (1918), by William Strunk, Jr., is an American English writing style guide. It is the best-known, most influential prescriptive treatment of English grammar and usage, and often is required reading and usage in U.S. high school and university...
Editeur :
ESBooks
Parution :
2019-02-13
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'The Elements of Style' (1918), by William Strunk, Jr., is an American English writing style guide. It is the best-known, most influential prescriptive treatment of English grammar and usage, and often is required reading and usage in U.S. high school and university...
Editeur :
Turtleback Classics
Parution :
2019-02-13
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Imagine having a Newbery Medal-winning author in your classroom as an advisor and a friend, providing personal and practical advice on how to teach writing workshop in the modern-day classroom. With The Write Thing, you can do just that! Kwame Alexander is the New York...
Editeur :
Shell Education
Parution :
2018-07-02
Collection :
Professional Resources
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'The Elements of Style' (1918), by William Strunk, Jr., is an American English writing style guide. It is the best-known, most influential prescriptive treatment of English grammar and usage, and often is required reading and usage in U.S. high school and university...
Editeur :
Big Cheese Books
Parution :
2017-11-05
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Great poets like Shelley and Goethe have made the claim that translating poems is impossible. And yet, poems are translated; not only that, but the metrical systems of English, French, Italian, German, Russian and Czech have been shaped by the translation of poems. Our...
Editeur :
University of Ottawa Press
Parution :
2016-12-09
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Making Feminist Media provides new ways of thinking about the vibrant media and craft cultures generated by Riot Grrrl and feminism’s third wave. It focuses on a cluster of feminist publications—including BUST, Bitch, HUES, Venus Zine, and Rockrgrl—that began as zines...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2016-08-30
Collection :
Film and Media Studies
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Bonté III was five years old. A cow at that age is at her prime. Prime is an accounting term. A dairy farm is a business and must be managed as such. From this perspective,Bonté III’s days were numbered. Numbered is not an empty word. She had been a good representative...
Editeur :
University of Ottawa Press
Parution :
2015-12-01
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