Authors:Lilian G. Katz, Sylvia C. Chard,
Publisher: Ablex Publishing
Keywords: approach, second, project, minds, children, engaging
Number of Pages: 215
Published: 2000-05-04
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1567505007
ISBN-13: 9781567505009

This new edition incorporates many insights and strategies the authors have learned while working extensively with teachers to implement the project appoach. Since the popular first edition was published in 1989, the authors have continued to help teachers around the world understand the benefits of this approach. Katz and Chard discuss in great detail the philosophical, theoretical, and research bases of project work. The three typical phases of project work are presented and detailed suggestions for implementing each one are described. Using specific examples, this book clarifies and articul

Authors:Laura J. Gurak, Mary M. Lay,
Publisher: Ablex Publishing
Keywords: communication, technical, research
Number of Pages: 278
Published: 2002-12-30
List price: $102.95
ISBN-10: 1567506658
ISBN-13: 9781567506655

This cutting-edge collection of essays outlines foundational principles of a range of methodologies in technical communication, reflecting on the process of importing and employing these methodologies into technical communication research. Written by noted scholars in the field and presenting a wide range of research methods, the book combines theory and practice in a way that will prove invaluable to technical communicators and beginning scholars alike.

Authors:Henry C. Lucas, Michael J. Ginzberg, Randall L. Sc
Publisher: Ablex Publishing
Keywords: information, systems, based, organization, computer, structural, implementation, testing, model
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 1990-01-01
List price: $119.95
ISBN-10: 089391665X
ISBN-13: 9780893916657

This book presents a structural model of information system implementation and tests using data from several independent system implementation efforts. The model is based on the results of 15 years of implementation research and integrates the two primary streams of that research: factor studies and process studies. Testing the model involved three studies in diverse implementation contexts. The tests provide strong support for some aspects of the model and identify areas where the model is in need of further development and testing. The book includes a detailed review of past implementation r

Authors:Xing Lu, Wenshan Jia, D. Ray Heisey,
Publisher: Ablex Publishing
Keywords: comparisons, contexts, studies, communication, chinese
Number of Pages: 250
Published: 2002-04-30
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1567506569
ISBN-13: 9781567506563

Many varying factors contribute to the dynamics of Chinese communication, which both resembles and differs from its Western counterparts. In this provocative new collection of essays, an international group of scholars challenges the conventional notion of Chinese culture as static, recognizing the causes of cultural change and strategies of resistance. Examining communication contexts in mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, and comparing them to those of the United States and Europe, Chinese Communication Studies: Context and Comparisons considers the relationship between culture and commun

Authors:Michael H. Harris, Pamela C. Harris, Stan A. Hanna
Publisher: Ablex Publishing
Keywords: services, information, contemporary, studies, policy, second, management, industrial, foundations, library, post, future, era
Number of Pages: 159
Published: 1998-03-09
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 1567503551
ISBN-13: 9781567503555

This work is a general and synthetic study of the post-industrial era and its implications for library and information services in the United States. Since Daniel Bell promulgated his "post-industrial" metaphor in the early 1970s, it has become one of the most dominant metaphors in contemporary America. His ideas on the nature of the era, especially his articulation of what he refers to as the "information society" have influenced the ways in which government officials, corporate leaders, and citizens think about the future of political, social and economic life in America. This text examines

Authors:Leo Ruth, Sandra Murphy,
Publisher: Ablex Publishing
Keywords: writing, vol, research, tasks, designing, assessment
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 1988-01-01
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0893914304
ISBN-13: 9780893914301

This volume reports the results of a series of investigations of the properties of writing tasks, their authors’ intentions, and the responses that these tasks evoked in student-writers and teacher-raters. The volume explains how both student-writers and teacher-raters, in their reading of the same topic/text, can arrive at different meanings. The investigations undertaken led the authors to make a number of recommendations about selecting subjects, specifying audience and mode, formulating instructions, and wording the topic. These recommendations are presented in non-technical language

Authors:Alan Wells, Ernest A. Hakanen,
Publisher: Ablex Publishing
Keywords: society, media, mass
Number of Pages: 613
Published: 1997-06-26
List price: $151.95
ISBN-10: 1567502881
ISBN-13: 9781567502886

This is a discussion of the relationships between mass media and society. Topics examined include: talk radio and community; the growth of the corporate newspaper; media violence and audience behaviour; and race, ethnicity and the mass media.