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This book explores the inspirations and creative process of America's Pulitzer Prize-winning playwrights of the last dozen years.

Focusing on two Chicago neighborhoods as case studies, this text examines the regional and national factors that affect urban development as well as the specific local characteristics that impact revitalization.

This collection of essays focuses on such topics as the daily experience of teaching art in today's public schools; the tradition of honoring only the European patriarchal canon; structural change in school policy and curriculum and teaching.

Emotional disorders such as anxiety, depression, and dysfunctional patterns of eating are clearly among the most devastating and prevalent confronting practitioners, and they have received much attention from researchers - in personality, social, cognitive, and developmental psychology.

Using examples from politics, law, and education, this book shows how people misconceive language every day and what the consequences of misconceptions can be. This book offers many specific suggestions and guidelines for approaching a linguistic project. It also helps students of sociolinguistics avoid pitfalls that may inhibit research.

Illustrated with numerous case studies, this book identifies 19 myths and misconceptions about youth violence, from ordinary bullying to rampage shootings. It demonstrates how fear of school violence has resulted in misguided, counterproductive educational policies and practices ranging from boot camps to zero tolerance.

Ths book offers a clear, readable, comprehensive overview of all the knowledge those training as alcohol and other drug abuse counselors need to pass final examinations in their academic programs and certification or licensing examinations pre-practice. It includes challenging study questions, lists of key terms, and suggestions for further reading.

This introductory media sales text serves as a step-by-step manual to assist students in attaining sales proficiency and confidence. It is organized into 15 chapters and features assignments and handout materials throughout.

This book offers a concise, readable, research-grounded synthesis of the special concerns mental health and other helping professionals need to address when working with men today, and explains a wealth of effective gender-specific approaches to assessment and intervention that result in more successful outcomes for male clients.

This text explores public affairs journalism - a practice that lies at the core of the journalism profession. It goes beyond the journalistic instruction for reporting, presenting news and reflecting on why journalism works the way it does even though other options are available.

A discussion of reform in American education over the second half of the 20th century. It analyzes why voucher plans and charter schools have not fulfilled expectations, and concludes with policy suggestions that balance children's educational needs against the rights of schools to experiment.

This volume presents a theory of writing as representational composition. It envisions texts not as words and clauses forming sentences and high-level linguistic units but as words forming imagery-rich narrative worlds and invitations for readers to interact with them.

This text examines teachers' responses to multiple subject matter reforms, and then uses those responses as part of an analysis of the move towards systemic reform. Based on that analysis, the author concludes that although the problem of US education may be systemic, the solutions are not.

Covering the field of language and communication, this text includes topics such as: the nature of language; modern linguistics; language and cognition; meaning; pragmatics and discourse; discourse and global organization; and sociolinguistics and communication.

This study follows the experiences of a group of students labelled "underprepared" over their college career, looking at their writing, learning and intellectual development. In a time of declining resources, evidence of potential for success may become essential justification for a college place.

Topics in this volume on literacy include: working with young literacy learners; individual and group management concerns; teaching and promoting writing; and working with special needs students.

An assessment of Native Hawaiian education, this text focuses on the historical, political and cultural contexts which produced the system's "institutionalized" structure, which results in marginalization in schools and wider society. This is placed in the context of American minority cultures.

This text demonstrates the importance of thought collectives as forums for student and teacher learning - the children's inquiry, their teachers' inquiry, and the place of teaching and learning in a democracy. It lays out the way in which inquiry is fundamental to teaching and learning.

Feminists first voiced their outrage about discrimination against women in the health care system in the United States in the 1960s. This study asserts that there is still a lack of understanding, information and adequate diagnoses and treatment, and provides strategies for improvement.

This guide is for teachers and other school personnel whose students may raise issues about drug education, substance abuse prevention and drug control. It seeks to enable teachers to help students cope with drug-related events and experiences.

In the early 20th century, the audience was seen as a mass of people mostly unknown to one another that was unified through exposure to media. This concept, whilst generally accepted, has been questioned by scholars. This book looks into the meaning of "audience".

This volume explores knowledge production in defence technology from the Cold War to the 1990s, highlighting technology development and technology transfer. It also includes cited documents pertaining to the transactions that engage customers and vendors in the process of knowledge production.

Discussing ethical concerns as they emerge in areas of the communication process, this book aims to cover the entire scope of the genre to include interpersonal, intercultural, organizational, small groups, and public speaking.

Comprising a five-year study, this text examines four engineering students as they write at work. Primarily concerned with whether engineers see their writing as rhetorical or persuasive, the study aims to describe the students' changing understanding of what it is they do when they write.

This work addresses the theory of memory, emphasizing its creative force and power in the writing process and allying it to rhetoric, psychology, philosophy, and literary and compositional studies.