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Book Synopsis The Rhetoric of Remediation by : Jane Stanley
Download or read book The Rhetoric of Remediation written by Jane Stanley and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2010-01-31 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American universities have long professed dismay at the writing proficiency levels of entrants, and the volume of this complaint has been directly correlated to social, political, or economic currents. Many universities, in their rhetoric, have defined high need for remediation as a crisis point in order to garner state funding or to manage admissions. In The Rhetoric of Remediation, Jane Stanley examines the statements and actions made regarding remediation at the University of California, Berkeley (Cal). Since its inception in 1868, university rhetoric has served to negotiate the tensions between an ethic of access and the assertion of elite status. Great care has been taken to promote the politics of public accessibility, yet in its competition for standing among other institutions, Cal has been publicly critical of the "underpreparedness" of many entrants. Early on, Cal developed programs to teach "Subject A" (Composition) to the vast number of students who lacked basic writing skills. Stanley documents the evolution of the university's "rhetoric of remediation" at key moments in its history, such as: the early years of "open gate" admissions; the economic panic of the late 1800s and its effect on enrollment; Depression-era battles over funding and the creation of a rival system of regional state colleges; the GI Bill and ensuing post-WWII glut in enrollments; the "Red Scare" and its attacks on faculty, administrators, and students; the Civil Rights Movement and the resultant changes to campus politics; sexist admission policies and a de facto male-quota system; accusations of racism in the instruction of Asian Americans during the 1970s; the effects of an increasing number of students, beginning in the 1980s, for whom English was a second language; and the recent development of the College Writing Program which combined freshmen composition with Subject A instruction, in an effort to remove the concept of remediation altogether. Setting her discussion within the framework of American higher education, Stanley finds that the rhetorical phenomenon of "embrace-and-disgrace" is not unique to Cal, and her study encourages compositionists to evaluate their own institutional practices and rhetoric of remediation for the benefit of both students and educators.
Book Synopsis The Life Work of Henri René Guy de Maupassant, Embracing Romance, Travel, Comedy & Verse, for the First Time Complete in English by : Guy de Maupassant
Download or read book The Life Work of Henri René Guy de Maupassant, Embracing Romance, Travel, Comedy & Verse, for the First Time Complete in English written by Guy de Maupassant and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Horn of Africa written by Philip Caputo and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2002-02-05 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Vietnam veteran and foreign correspondent Charlie Gage is recruited by the shadowy Thomas Colfax to assist with something called Operation Atropos, he has no idea he is about to be enlisted for guerilla warfare in northeast Africa. Once he realizes he’s a mercenary, however, he is not at all concerned. Ever since his young secretary was killed by a grenade at their bureau office in Beirut a couple of years before, he has lost all volition. Which is why he so readily capitulates not only to Colfax, but also, and more dangerously so, to every command of Jeremy Nordstrand, the mystical megalomaniac determined to achieve greatness on their seemingly suicidal mission. Set in the forsaken yet exotic deserts of Ethiopia, Horn of Africa is a vividly detailed and masterfully plotted novel chronicling a broken man’s struggle for salvation and inner freedom in the midst of a broken nation’s fight for stability and peace.
Book Synopsis The Practical Works of Richard Baxter: with a Life of the Author and a Critical Examination of His Writings by William Orme: The saint's everlasting rest by : Richard Baxter
Download or read book The Practical Works of Richard Baxter: with a Life of the Author and a Critical Examination of His Writings by William Orme: The saint's everlasting rest written by Richard Baxter and published by . This book was released on 1830 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Strange Visitors: a Series of Original Papers, Embracing Philosophy, Science, Government ... by : Henry J. Horn
Download or read book Strange Visitors: a Series of Original Papers, Embracing Philosophy, Science, Government ... written by Henry J. Horn and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Choice Readings from Standard and Popular Authors, Embracing a Complete Classification of Selections by :
Download or read book Choice Readings from Standard and Popular Authors, Embracing a Complete Classification of Selections written by and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Miscellanies: embracing Nature, addresses, and lectures by : Ralph Waldo Emerson
Download or read book Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Miscellanies: embracing Nature, addresses, and lectures written by Ralph Waldo Emerson and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A library of famous fiction, embracing the nine standard masterpieces of imaginative literature by : Library
Download or read book A library of famous fiction, embracing the nine standard masterpieces of imaginative literature written by Library and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 1084 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Practical Works of the Late Reverend and Pious Mr. Richard Baxter ... With a Preface; Giving Some Account of the Author, Etc by : Richard Baxter
Download or read book The Practical Works of the Late Reverend and Pious Mr. Richard Baxter ... With a Preface; Giving Some Account of the Author, Etc written by Richard Baxter and published by . This book was released on 1830 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tortured Disdain written by Cat Tyrson and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003-06-05 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These words have a very strange effect, the deeper you go, the more you feel the pain creeping into your soul. Cat Tyrson knows what bothers you, and he isn't afraid to let you know. He says the things that all of us want to say, but just can't seem to spit out. Warning: This collection is not for the meek. It is real horror. It is a journey through one person's Hell, yet all of us go with him. You will never look in a mirror the same way again. For that matter, you may not view your own life the same either. Read it. Then read it slowly. Then read it again. The horror will come straight to the surface. Literally amazing.
Book Synopsis The Old Dramatists by : Kenneth Deighton
Download or read book The Old Dramatists written by Kenneth Deighton and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Select Collection of Old English Plays by : Robert Dodsley
Download or read book A Select Collection of Old English Plays written by Robert Dodsley and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Eminent Disdain written by Bromwell Ault and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book comments on serious social, economic, political, historical, environmental and other issues which have tested our elected governments from both parties. It points out areas of Constitutional conflict, political inertia, selective law enforcement and others that pose a real peril to our republic. Whether in our foreign, economic, immigration, health care, agricultural or other policy choices, it finds a common thread which ties our elected representatives to the service of interests that are special rather than national. At the root of these failed policy and legislative efforts is an equally damaging failure of our electoral system whereby money is dominant and delivers a Congress that enjoys an incumbency reelection rate of over 90%. Not all of our problems are internal, however. The role assigned to America as sole superpower following the collapse of the USSR has been one which called for our assumption, but for which we were psychologically and historically less than suited. The point is not whether others could do better, but rather that it has had a negative impact upon our national character and actions. This book makes clear that unless we are willing to make a real effort to return to the principles and ideals of our founding and literally "pull ourselves together", our enviable experiment in representative democracy will no longer be able to meet the needs of its citizens and will fail due to our lack of will, not its merit.
Book Synopsis The Industrial Resources, Etc., of the Southern and Western States: Embracing a View of Their Commerce, Agriculture, Manufacturers, Internal Improvements by : James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow
Download or read book The Industrial Resources, Etc., of the Southern and Western States: Embracing a View of Their Commerce, Agriculture, Manufacturers, Internal Improvements written by James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Gaskell's Compendium of Forms, Educational, Social, Legal and Commercial, Embracing a Complete Self-teaching Course in Penmanship and Bookkeeping, and Aid to English Composition ... by : George Arthur Gaskell
Download or read book Gaskell's Compendium of Forms, Educational, Social, Legal and Commercial, Embracing a Complete Self-teaching Course in Penmanship and Bookkeeping, and Aid to English Composition ... written by George Arthur Gaskell and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Milady Disdain by : Marianne Malthouse
Download or read book Milady Disdain written by Marianne Malthouse and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-02-17 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The necessity of leaving the only home she had ever known was daunting so soon after the death of her beloved mother, but the new life she was about to embark on was to prove both exciting and challenging to Patience Kilpatrick. Daughter of a father who had abandoned his family to fight and die for Bonnie Prince Charlie at the Battle of Culloden, and granddaughter of the earl who had given his life in the earlier Stuart cause, she had lived a life far beneath her station and was happy to become governess to the young son of Milady Costain. Her growing confidence in herself and the twists and turns her life takes as she becomes embroiled in the fortunes of her contemporaries in the glittering world of London's aristocracy leads her into a future she could only have dreamed of.
Book Synopsis Embracing Our Mortality by : Lawrence Schneiderman
Download or read book Embracing Our Mortality written by Lawrence Schneiderman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-03-03 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While surveys show that most of us would prefer to die at home, 80% of us will die in a health care facility, many hooked up to machines and faced with tough decisions. When you, a family member, or a friend are in this situation, what should you do next? In Embracing Our Mortality, Dr. Lawrence J. Schneiderman, a physician who is our leading expert on medical ethics at the end of life, urges all of us, including health care professionals caring for people at the end of life, to face these decisions with sensitivity and realism informed by both the latest medical evidence as well as the oldest humanistic visions. Dr. Schneiderman vividly demonstrates the wisdom of this approach by interweaving true stories of his patients, current empirical research in care at the end of life, displays of the power of empathy and imagination as embodied in the work of writers like Tolstoy and Chekov, and examples of how the distortion of medical research by media, and its misunderstanding even by health care professionals, cloud the ability to think, feel, and decide clearly about mortal concerns. He ends by addressing the question implicit in all of this which is how to achieve a just and universal health care. Dr. Schneiderman proves a refreshingly honest, astringent, and life-affirming guide to thinking about the choices that we or people we love will face when we dienot if, as the technological imperatives of modern medicine can suggestand to making decisions at the end of life that respect all that has preceded it.
