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Author : Louise Wetherbee Phelps
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Discourse analysis
ISBN : 9780195067828
These groundbreaking essays reflect on the conceptual and ethical basis for composition studies as a new discipline of written language.
Author : Louise Wetherbee Phelps
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0197723527
Although the subject of composition has firmly established itself in secondary schools and universities as one worthy of study, philosophical premises on composition have yet to be discussed. This collection of essays draws together the different philosophical viewpoints on the matter.
Author : Louise Wetherbee Phelps
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1991-07-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780195361827
This groundbreaking collection of essays is one of the first works to reflect directly and systematically on the conceptual and ethical basis for composition studies as a new discipline of written language. Phelps articulates a philosophy of composition generous enough to accommodate all the strands of current work without being overly eclectic--an open framework subject to modification and addition as the field develops. She draws on wide reading in the humanities and social sciences--including cognitive science, linguistics, literary theory, education, philosophy, hermeneutics, rhetoric, and psychology--to define the contribution and place of composition studies within the larger intellectual and cultural community. The book will therefore interest theorists and scholars in a wide variety of fields.
Author : Eileen E Schell,K. J. Rawson
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2010-01-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780822973676
Rhetorica in Motion is the first collected work to investigate feminist rhetorical research methods in both contemporary and historical contexts. The contributors analyze the decision-making processes and methodologies employed in deciphering the origins, meanings, theories, workings, and manifestations of feminist rhetoric. The volume examines familiar themes, such as archival, literary, and online research, but also looks to other areas of rhetoric, such as disability studies; gerontology/aging studies; Latina/o, queer, and transgender studies; performance studies; and transnational feminisms in both the United States and larger geopolitical spaces. Rhetorica in Motion incorporates previous views of feminist research, outlines a set of principles that guides current methods, and develops models for undertaking future inquiry, including working as individuals or balancing the dynamics of group research. The text explores how feminist research embodies what has come before and reflects what researchers, institutions, and instructors bring to it and what it brings to them. Underlying the discovery of this volume is the understanding that feminist rhetoric is in constant motion in a dynamic that resists definition.
Author : Michael P. Muehlenbein
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2010-07-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781139789004
Wide-ranging and inclusive, this text provides an invaluable review of an expansive selection of topics in human evolution, variation and adaptability for professionals and students in biological anthropology, evolutionary biology, medical sciences and psychology. The chapters are organized around four broad themes, with sections devoted to phenotypic and genetic variation within and between human populations, reproductive physiology and behavior, growth and development, and human health from evolutionary and ecological perspectives. An introductory section provides readers with the historical, theoretical and methodological foundations needed to understand the more complex ideas presented later. Two hundred discussion questions provide starting points for class debate and assignments to test student understanding.
Author : Michael F. Bernard-Donals
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1998-06-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 0521595061
Examines the practical use of theory as a pedagogical aid and argues for a broader conception of rhetoric in the human sciences.
Author : Steven Heymsfield
Publisher : Human Kinetics
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Anthropometry
ISBN : 0736046550
The 2nd edition of Human Body Composition includes updated information and new chapters. The editors and 35 contributors are well respected researchers in the field of body composition science. This is one of few texts that provides comprehensive coverage of body composition research. The primary intent is to present current information on research methods. This book can serve as a textbook for those who are students or new researchers. Descriptions of various methods and background information are imparted in great detail with numerous references. New chapters address energy expenditure, animal body composition, molecular genetics and body composition as it relates to disease states of cancer, HIV, obesity and certain inflammatory diseases like rheumatoid arthritis, inflammatory bowel disease, congestive heart failure and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. This book is recommended for students and new researchers in the field of body composition research who need to learn various methods, histories and practical applications--Publisher's description.
Author : Sidney I Dobrin
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780809387885
Leading a burgeoning self-critical moment in composition studies and writing program administration, Postcomposition is a fundamental reconsideration of the field that attempts to shift the focus away from pedagogy and writing subjects and toward writing itself. In this forceful and reasoned critique of many of the primary tenets and widely accepted institutional structures of composition studies, Sidney I. Dobrin delivers a series of shocks to the system meant to disrupt the pedagogical imperative and move beyond the existing limits of the discipline. Dobrin evaluates the current state of composition studies, underscoring the difference between composition and writing and arguing that the field's focus on the administration of writing students and its historically imposed prohibition on theory greatly limit what can be understood about writing. Instead he envisions a more significant approach to writing, one that questions the field's conservative allegiance to subject and administration and reconsiders writing as spatial and ecological. Using concepts from ecocomposition, spatial theory, network theory, complexity theory, and systems theory, Postcomposition lays the groundwork for a networked theory of writing, and advocates the abandonment of administration as a useful part of the field. He also challenges the usefulness of rhetoric in writing studies, showing how writing exceeds rhetoric. Postcomposition is a detailed consideration of how posthumanism affects the field's understanding of subjectivity. It also tears at the seams of the "contingent labor problem." As he articulates his own frustrations with the conservatism of composition studies and builds on previous critiques of the discipline, Dobrin stages a courageous-and inevitably polemical-intellectual challenge to the entrenched ideas and assumptions that have defined composition studies.
Author : Byron Hawk
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0822973316
Contests the assumption that vitalism and contemporary rhetoric represent opposing, disconnected poles in the writing tradition. Vitalism has been historically linked to expressivism and dismissed as innate and unteachable, whereas rhetoric is seen as a rational, teachable method for producing argumentative texts. Hawk calls for the reexamination of current pedagogies to incorporate vitalism and complexity theory and argues for their application in the environments where students write and think today.
Author : Edith Babin,Kimberly Harrison
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1999-12-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780313005060
Composition studies is a rapidly growing and constantly changing field. At present, however, graduate students new to the field and writing teachers who want to make new connections between theory and practice have little choice of current reference works that define key terms in composition studies and provide information about the scholars and researchers who have shaped and are shaping the discipline. This book supplies this information in an easily accessible format and places both scholars and terms in the context of the field's development. Included are alphabetically arranged entries for 108 individuals who have developed the field and 128 terms central to the discipline. The first part of the book provides entries for leaders in composition studies. Each entry identifies the areas in which the scholar has contributed most influentially to the field and provides both a chronological overview of the person's contributions and a bibliography of representative works. The second part includes entries for terms that are problematic both for newcomers and for those already familiar with the discipline. The entries for the terms show how the disciplinary context has shaped the ways in which they have been used. The entries also indicate how established thinkers in composition studies and other disciplines have explained or defined the terms, provide examples of the terms in context, and list scholars often associated with them. An appendix includes entries for scholars from other disciplines who have contributed to the field.
Author : Bruce Mazlish
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351302388
This sweeping inquiry into the present condition of the human sciences addresses the central questions: What sort of knowledge do the human sciences claim to be offering? To what extent can that knowledge be called scientific? and What do we mean by "scientific" in such a context? In this wide-ranging book, one of the most esteemed cultural historians of our time turns his attention to major questions about human experience and various attempts to understand it "scientifically." Mazlish considers the achievements, failings, and possibilities of the human sciences--a domain that he broadly defines to include the social sciences, literature, psychology, and hermeneutic studies. In a rich and original synthesis built upon the work of earlier philosophers and historians, Mazlish constructs a new view of the nature and meaning of the human sciences. Starting with the remote human past and moving through the Age of Discovery to the present day, Mazlish discusses the sort of knowledge the human sciences claim to offer. He looks closely at the positivistic aspirations of the human sciences, which are modeled after the natural sciences, and at their interpretive tendencies. In an analysis of scientific method and scientific community, he explores the roles they can or should assume in the human sciences. His approach is genuinely interdisciplinary, drawing upon an array of topics, from civil society to globalization to the interactions of humans and machines.
Author : Gilbert B. Forbes
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781461246541
Man has always been curious about himself, a curiosity that began centuries ago with an examination of the soul, and that extended in the period of the Renaissance to his anatomy and certain functions such as the circulation of the blood. Chemical science entered the scene in the 18th century, and burst into prominence in the 19th century. As the various chemical elements were discovered, many were found to be present in body fluids and tissues. Organic compounds were recognized; it became known that body heat was produced by the combustion of food; chemical transformations such as the production of fat from carbohydrate were recognized; and in the 1850s it was determined that young animals differed from adults in certain aspects of body composition. As methods for chemical analysis evolved, they were applied to samples of body fluids and tissues, and it became apparent that life depended on chemical normality; and most importantly it was realized that given the necessary amount of food and water the body had the ability to maintain a degree of constancy of what Claude Bernard called the milieu interieur, in other words its interior chemical en vironment.
Author : Gesa Kirsch,Patricia A. Sullivan
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0809317273
In original essays, fourteen nationally known scholars examine the practical, philosophical, and epistemological implications of a variety of research traditions. Included are discussions of historical, theoretical, and feminist scholarship; case-study and ethnographic research; text and conversation analysis; and cognitive, experimental, and descriptive research. Issues that cross methodological boundaries, such as the nature of collaborative research and writing, methodological pluralism, the classification and coding of research data, and the politics of composition research, are also examined. Contributors reflect on their own research practices, and so reflect the current state of composition research itself.
Author : Donald Judd
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2005-07-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781134463930
This volume examines expressivist, cognitivist, and social-constructivist theories within composition theory: and critiques the epistemological focus of modern composition theory and its neglect of the ontological foundations.
Author : Bassey Effiong Orok
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 531 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781481788199
Written by a seasoned Prophet and reputable Spiritual Scientist, His Lordship Bishop Bassey Effiong Orok; Everlasting Arts and Sciences volume 1 unveils more than 3000 secrets of the universe, natures, souls, destinies, spirits, man, earth and its components and creatures. The manner the earth was created, road leading to it, the top secret and controlling agents of most dangerous sicknesses, and transferring key of creatures from one portion of the universe to another is here unveiled. The true composition, contents and natural tradition of man, star, water, soil, as well as the universal symbol of air, and the demarcation of the sky as linked to humanity are among the secrets revealed. Also unveiled is how the various satellites mounted by man in space will be dismantled by the Supernatural Power of the Universe. The true colours of fire and its last day operation is fact humanity should know. The most deadly fruit, most dangerous and sensitive parts in human body, as well as the several conditions of the earth are also unveiled. The center of the earth is identified in this book, and shocking among other unveiling top secrets is the true colour of Adam and Eve (our first parents), and that of Cain and Abel, with their twin sisters. Shadow, woman's menstrual period, human face, hair, teeth, tongue, and the brain are also among the unveiling mysteries in this book. It is a book for all races, tongues, nations and colours of this last generation.
