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The Subversive Copy Editor

Author : Carol Fisher Saller
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226734102
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book The Subversive Copy Editor written by Carol Fisher Saller and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-08-01 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each year writers and editors submit over three thousand grammar and style questions to the Q&A page at The Chicago Manual of Style Online. Some are arcane, some simply hilarious—and one editor, Carol Fisher Saller, reads every single one of them. All too often she notes a classic author-editor standoff, wherein both parties refuse to compromise on the "rights" and "wrongs" of prose styling: "This author is giving me a fit." "I wish that I could just DEMAND the use of the serial comma at all times." "My author wants his preface to come at the end of the book. This just seems ridiculous to me. I mean, it’s not a post-face." In The Subversive Copy Editor, Saller casts aside this adversarial view and suggests new strategies for keeping the peace. Emphasizing habits of carefulness, transparency, and flexibility, she shows copy editors how to build an environment of trust and cooperation. One chapter takes on the difficult author; another speaks to writers themselves. Throughout, the focus is on serving the reader, even if it means breaking "rules" along the way. Saller’s own foibles and misadventures provide ample material: "I mess up all the time," she confesses. "It’s how I know things." Writers, Saller acknowledges, are only half the challenge, as copy editors can also make trouble for themselves. (Does any other book have an index entry that says "terrorists. See copy editors"?) The book includes helpful sections on e-mail etiquette, work-flow management, prioritizing, and organizing computer files. One chapter even addresses the special concerns of freelance editors. Saller’s emphasis on negotiation and flexibility will surprise many copy editors who have absorbed, along with the dos and don’ts of their stylebooks, an attitude that their way is the right way. In encouraging copy editors to banish their ignorance and disorganization, insecurities and compulsions, the Chicago Q&A presents itself as a kind of alter ego to the comparatively staid Manual of Style. In The Subversive Copy Editor, Saller continues her mission with audacity and good humor.

Practical Cues and Social Spectacle in the Chester Plays

Author : Matthew Sergi
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022670937X
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)

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Book Synopsis Practical Cues and Social Spectacle in the Chester Plays by : Matthew Sergi

Download or read book Practical Cues and Social Spectacle in the Chester Plays written by Matthew Sergi and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2020-10-19 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amid the crowded streets of Chester, guild players portraying biblical characters performed on colorful mobile stages hoping to draw the attention of fellow townspeople. In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, these Chester plays employed flamboyant live performance to adapt biblical narratives. But the original format of these fascinating performances remains cloudy, as surviving records of these plays are sparse, and the manuscripts were only written down a generation after they stopped. Revealing a vibrant set of social practices encoded in the Chester plays, Matthew Sergi provides a new methodology for reading them and a transformative look at medieval English drama. Carefully combing through the plays, Sergi seeks out cues in the dialogues that reveal information about the original staging, design, and acting. These “practical cues,” as he calls them, have gone largely unnoticed by drama scholars, who have focused on the ideology and historical contexts of these plays, rather than the methods, mechanics, and structures of the actual performances. Drawing on his experience as an actor and director, he combines close readings of these texts with fragments of records, revealing a new way to understand how the Chester plays brought biblical narratives to spectators in the noisy streets. For Sergi, plays that once appeared only as dry religious dramas come to life as raucous participatory spectacles filled with humor, camp, and devotion.

Play in Clinical Practice

Author : Sandra Walker Russ
Publisher : Guilford Press
ISBN 13 : 1609180461
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Play in Clinical Practice written by Sandra Walker Russ and published by Guilford Press. This book was released on 2011-01-25 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Summary This innovative book goes beyond traditional play therapy to present a range of evidence-based assessment and intervention approaches that incorporate play as a key element. It is grounded in the latest knowledge about the importance of play in child development. Leading experts describe effective strategies for addressing a wide variety of clinical concerns, including behavioral difficulties, anxiety, parent-child relationship issues, trauma, and autism. The empirical support for each approach is summarized and clinical techniques are illustrated. The book also discusses school-based prevention programs that utilize play to support children's learning and socioemotional functioning. Subject Areas/Key Words: Assessments, behavioral, children, developmental psychology, early childhood, emotional, interventions, play therapy, prevention, problems, psychological disorders, psychotherapy, treatments Audience: Child psychologists, play and art therapists, social workers, counselors, family therapists, psychiatrists, and school psychologists; early childhood professionals; developmental psychologists"--

How to Read a Play

Author : Damon Kiely
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040146694
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book How to Read a Play written by Damon Kiely and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-10-08 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in a fully updated second edition, How to Read a Play offers methods for analyzing play scripts from a diverse range of perspectives, giving directors practical tools as they prepare for production. Based on interviews with award-winning directors, university professors, and experimental theatre companies, How to Read a Play provides practical advice on how to first approach a script, prepare for design meetings, get ready for casting sessions, and lay the groundwork for rehearsals with actors. The book starts with a brief historical overview of famous directors, surveys the work of experimental theatres that devise their work, and ends with twenty-one practical exercises. The second edition includes material from interviews with a diverse range of directors and features perspectives on identity, race, trauma, and joy in working on new plays and redefined classic works. How to Read a Play is written for anyone who loves studying the craft of directing. Students and early career directors will be introduced to basic techniques for breaking down a script for production. Established artists will enjoy a behind the scenes peek at the methods and processes of directors with a diverse range of perspectives.

Teaching Play to Children with Autism

Author : Nicky Phillips
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1446258599
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (462 download)

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Download or read book Teaching Play to Children with Autism written by Nicky Phillips and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2012-04-04 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Identiplay intervention helps children on the autistic spectrum, and those with specific communication disorders, learn to play. Through the use of play scripts the approach promotes the development of social skills, understanding, imagination and exploration. By learning these skills the young person can enjoy reciprocal play with an adult or peer. Supported by case studies the theory behind the approach is fully outlined and scripts are provided for instant use in a number of settings. The new edition of this popular book includes: - More on developing your own scripts - How to assess the child′s current play skills - The adult′s role in play - The use of visual/verbal support - New case studies - New scripts - Advice on taking learning outdoors - Links to resources and useful websites A supporting CD ROM contains video clips of the intervention in practice, printable scripts and a PowerPoint presentation to facilitate professional training making this a vital resource for anyone working with young children on the autistic spectrum or with communication difficulties.

Rhyming Plays for Primary Days

Author : Ann Budden
Publisher : R.I.C. Publications
ISBN 13 : 1863119574
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (631 download)

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Book Synopsis Rhyming Plays for Primary Days by : Ann Budden

Download or read book Rhyming Plays for Primary Days written by Ann Budden and published by R.I.C. Publications. This book was released on 2003 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plays are suitable to be performed for assemblies or as part of the classroom program. Includes step-by-step instructions that any teacher can direct. Takes around ten minutes to perform and require inexpensive costumes and props found in most schools. Involves whole- class participation and a variety of historic and modern themes.

Stage Directing

Author : Jim Patterson
Publisher : Waveland Press
ISBN 13 : 1478626860
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (786 download)

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Download or read book Stage Directing written by Jim Patterson and published by Waveland Press. This book was released on 2014-08-19 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flexible and concise, Stage Directing details the seven steps that make up the directing process: selecting a work, analyzing and researching the playscript, conceiving the production, casting, beginning rehearsals, polishing rehearsals, and giving and receiving criticism. Each step is highlighted with valuable directing tips, as well as examples from modern and contemporary playscripts and productions. Exercises, objectives, and key terms put directing precepts to a practical test, revealing what is significant about each phase of the process. Over eighty charts, graphs, and photographs unite to exemplify the text. With a fresh voice and an engaging writing style, Patterson provides insightful questions, suggestions, and illustrations that define and invoke contemplation about the role of the director. Three original short plays provide the opportunity for hands-on analysis and the application of practical concepts. In a final essay, Patterson highlights the function and growing artistry of the director in the modern and postmodern theatre by concisely examining the history of the director.

How to Read a Play

Author : Damon Kiely
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317283635
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book How to Read a Play written by Damon Kiely and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-17 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to Read a Play outlines the cruicial work required for a play before the first rehearsal, the first group reading or even the before the cast have met. Directors and dramaturgs must know how to analyze, understand and interpret a play or performance text if they hope to bring it to life on the stage. This book provides a broad range of tools and methods that can be used when reading a text, including: Lessons from the past. What can we learn from Aristotle, Stanislavsky, Meyerhold, Vakhtangov, Brecht and Harold Clurman? This section establishes the models and methods that underpin much of a director’s work today. A survey of current practices in Western theatre. A combination of research, interviews and observation of practical work addresses the main stages in understanding a play, such as getting to know characters, sharing ideas, mapping the action and grappling with language. A workbook, setting out twenty one ways of breaking down a play, from the general to the particular. Contributions, reflections and interjections from a host of successful directors make this the ideal starting point for anyone who wants to direct a play, or even devise one of their own. This wide range of different approaches, options and techniques allows each reader to create their own brand of play analysis.

Interpreting the Play Script

Author : Anne Fliotsos
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350315869
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Interpreting the Play Script written by Anne Fliotsos and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-08-17 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One type of analysis cannot fit every play, nor does one method of interpretation suit every theatre artist or collaborative team. This is the first text to combine traditional and non-traditional models, giving students a range of tools with which to approach different kinds of performance.

Script Analysis for Actors, Directors, and Designers

Author : James Thomas
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1136082050
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Script Analysis for Actors, Directors, and Designers written by James Thomas and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2004-11-05 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Script Analysis for Actors, Directors, and Designers

Author : James Michael Thomas
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 024080662X
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (48 download)

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Book Synopsis Script Analysis for Actors, Directors, and Designers by : James Michael Thomas

Download or read book Script Analysis for Actors, Directors, and Designers written by James Michael Thomas and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2005 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the premise that plays are objects of study in and of themselves, this title details the Konstantin Stanislavskis method of action analysis, expanding the scope of analysis to includes both inductive and deductive methodologies.

Play Production Processes

Author : Effiong Johnson
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1453584897
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (535 download)

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Download or read book Play Production Processes written by Effiong Johnson and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-02-16 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Script Into Performance

Author : Richard Hornby
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781557832375
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (323 download)

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Download or read book Script Into Performance written by Richard Hornby and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 1995 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Applause Books). "An analysis of script interpretation for the theater. The text includes theories on performance as well as examples from the works of Shelley, Ibsen and Pinter. In his new preface, Hornby laments the modernization of classic plays which he believes subverts the original text." Library Journal

A Practical Guide to Teaching English in the Secondary School

Author : ANNABEL WATSON
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000483266
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Book Synopsis A Practical Guide to Teaching English in the Secondary School by : ANNABEL WATSON

Download or read book A Practical Guide to Teaching English in the Secondary School written by ANNABEL WATSON and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-29 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Practical Guide to Teaching English in the Secondary School offers straightforward advice, inspiration and a wide range of tried and tested approaches to help you find success in the secondary English classroom. Covering all aspects of English teaching, it is designed for you to dip in and out of, and enable you to focus on specific areas of teaching, your programme or pupils’ learning. Fully updated to reflect what student and early career teachers see and experience when they enter the classroom, the second edition supports trainee and practicing teachers to teach in imaginative and creative ways to promote learning in English. Packed with ideas, resources, practical teaching activities and underpinned by the latest research into how children learn, the book examines the core areas of reading, writing and spoken English including: • Plays, poetry, non-fiction, myths and legends, drama and Shakespeare • Developing writing • Creative grammar • Talk and classroom dialogue • Media and digital writing • English across the curriculum • Well-being through writing • Literature and language post-16. Including tools to support critical reflection, A Practical Guide to Teaching English in the Secondary School is an essential companion for all training and newly qualified English teachers.

EBOOK: Challenging Play

Author : Liz Brooker
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
ISBN 13 : 0335239226
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book EBOOK: Challenging Play written by Liz Brooker and published by McGraw-Hill Education (UK). This book was released on 2010-06-16 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes a detailed look at the complex area of young children's play as it is understood in the early twenty-first century, and in particular at the relationships between play, learning and teaching which are enacted in early childhood settings, across countries as different as England and the USA, Sweden and the Netherlands, Australia and New Zealand. It examines contemporary thinking about the role of play in the early years from a range of perspectives, and offers new ways to understand and define the relationship between learning and play. Its contributors bring together theory, practice and research evidence to make their arguments, which are illustrated through a range of international, cross-cultural examples. Contributors: Jo Ailwood, Joy Cullen, Brian Edmiston, Marilyn Fleer, Helen Hedges, Barbara Jordan, Anna Kilderry, Annica Lofdahl, Alex Moran, Andrea Nolan, Bert van Oers, Ann Merete Otterstad, Jeannette Rhedding-Jones, Sue Rogers, Annette Sandberg, Tuula Vuorinen.

Primary English: Teaching Theory and Practice

Author : Jane Medwell
Publisher : Learning Matters
ISBN 13 : 1529756944
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (297 download)

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Download or read book Primary English: Teaching Theory and Practice written by Jane Medwell and published by Learning Matters. This book was released on 2021-02-24 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All you need to know about the theory and practice of teaching primary English. If you are training to be a primary school teacher, a knowledge of the primary English curriculum is not enough, you need to know HOW to teach English in primary schools. This is the essential teaching theory and practice text for primary English that takes a focused look at the practical aspects of teaching. It covers the important skills of classroom management, planning, monitoring and assessment and relates these specifically to primary English. Practical guidance, features and resources support you to translate your learning to the classroom and understand the wider context of teaching. The book includes: - Online practical lesson ideas for the classroom - The Primary National Curriculum for English in Key Stages one and two - Tips for planning primary English - A recommended children’s book list - Useful weblinks for primary English teaching This ninth edition has been updated throughout and includes a new chapter on online and ′blended′ learning and teaching for primary English.

Comic Practice/comic Response

Author : Robert I. Williams
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
ISBN 13 : 9780874134636
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)

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Download or read book Comic Practice/comic Response written by Robert I. Williams and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study focuses on response to comedy. The author maintains we respond rather mindlessly to comic effect. Comedy itself, in the philosophical sense, is seen as play. The play impulse is manifest in numerous forms from theater to painting, the novel to sculpting, poetry to cartooning; and each medium has its own semiotic language.