Authors:Brian Richard Paltridge, Lindy Woodrow, Lesley Har
Publisher: University of Michigan Press/ESL
Keywords: writers, michigan, teacher, training, language, second, academic, writing, introduction, teachers, teaching
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 2009-02-17
List price: $28.50
ISBN-10: 0472033344
ISBN-13: 9780472033348

How does academic writing vary between educational settings, disciplines, and cultures? How do different approaches to knowledge affect academic writing? Teaching Academic Writing combines research and practice to explore the questions that instructors may have about academic writing in the second language classroom. Whether for writing teachers new to the second language classroom or ESL teachers new to academic writing instruction, this textbook provides an accessible and detailed survey of the key issues and ideas that shape the teaching of academic writing to ESL students today. Chapters

Author: Dr. Lea Stirling
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Keywords: taste, antique, gaul, classical, statuettes, collector, mythological, learned
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2005-01-26
List price: $90.00
ISBN-10: 0472114336
ISBN-13: 9780472114337

Inspired by a classical education, wealthy Romans populated the glittering interiors of their villas and homes with marble statuettes of ancestors, emperors, gods, and mythological figures. In The Learned Collector, Lea M. Stirling shows how the literary education received by all aristocrats, pagan and Christian alike, was fundamental in shaping their artistic taste while demonstrating how that taste was considered an important marker of status. Surveying collections across the empire, Stirling examines different ways that sculptural collections expressed not only the wealth but the identity o

Authors:John M. Swales, Christine B. Feak,
Publisher: University of Michigan Press/ESL
Keywords: academic, series, michigan, english, professional, purposes, skills, tasks, writing, graduate, students, essential, commentary
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2004-03-26
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0472088572
ISBN-13: 9780472088577

The second edition of this successful guide to writing for graduate-and undergraduate-students has been modified to include updates and replacements of older data sets; an increased range of disciplines with tasks such as nursing, marketing, and art history; discussions of discourse analysis; a broader discussion of e-mail use that includes current e-mail practices. Like its predecessor, this edition of Academic Writing for Graduate Students" explains understanding the intended audience, the purpose of the paper, and academic genres." includes the use of task-based methodology, analytic group

Author: Dr. Nina Berman PhD
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Keywords: popular, history, culture, politics, germany, social, practices, literature, middle, east, discourses, german
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2011-02-11
List price: $70.00
ISBN-10: 0472117513
ISBN-13: 9780472117512

German Literature on the Middle East explores the dynamic between German-speaking and Middle Eastern states and empires from the time of the Crusades to the end of the Cold War. This insightful study illuminates the complex relationships among literary and other writings on the one hand, and economic, social, and political processes and material dimensions on the other. Focusing on German-language literary and nonfiction writings about the Middle East (including historical documents, religious literature, travel writing, essays, and scholarship), Nina Berman evaluates the multiple layers of me

Author: Rudolph Fisher
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Keywords: paperbacks, arbor, ann, jericho, walls
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 1994-08-15
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0472065653
ISBN-13: 9780472065653

The first novel by one of the legends of the Harlem Renaissance

Author: Tobin Anthony Siebers
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Keywords: disability, discourses, theory, corporealities
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2008-06-16
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0472050397
ISBN-13: 9780472050390

"Disability Theory is just the book we’ve been waiting for. Clear, cogent, compelling analyses of the tension between the ’social model’ of disability and the material details of impairment; of identity politics and unstable identities; of capability rights and human interdependence; of disability and law, disability as masquerade, disability and sexuality, disability and democracy---they’re all here, in beautifully crafted and intellectually startling essays. Disability Theory is a field-defining book: and if you’re curious about what ’disability’ has

Author: Robert E. Lewis
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Keywords: volume, dictionary, english, middle
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 1984-07-15
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0472011685
ISBN-13: 9780472011681

The most important modern reference work for Middle English studies