Through clear advice and an accessible visual design, Mike Markel’s Technical Communication models the principles it teaches, offering practical strategies that students can put to use right away. Using a student-friendly voice, Mike Markel shows writers how to tackle the major types of documents and writing situations they will encounter in their professional lives. Excellent and always fresh …
Multisensory Teaching of Basic Language Skills Activity Book, Revised Edition
Save when you order the text and activity book together!With the new edition of this activity book—the companion to Judith Birsh’s bestselling text, Multisensory Teaching of Basic Language Skills—students and practitioners will get the practice they need to use multisensory teaching effectively with students who have dyslexia and other learning disabilities. Ideal for both pre-service teacher education courses …
Treatment Resource Manual for Speech Language Pathology (with Student Web Site Printed Access Card)
TREATMENT RESOURCE MANUAL FOR SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY, Fifth Edition, is an ideal text for students entering a clinical practicum or preparing for certification and licensure, as well as practicing professionals who need a thorough guide to reliable intervention materials. This detailed, evidence-based text includes complete coverage of common disorder characteristics, treatment approaches, information reporting techniques, and patient profiles across …
Popular cult author and show business insider James Parish exposes the scandals that rocked Tinseltown Nothing intrigues the public more than a good, juicy scandal. Add a famous Hollywood star or two to the mix and the nation is hooked. The Hollywood Book of Scandals provides the full account of 32 big, provocative scandals―complete with all the sexy, …
The Video Game Debate: Unravelling the Physical, Social, and Psychological Effects of Video Games
Do video games cause violent, aggressive behavior? Can online games help us learn? When it comes to video games, these are often the types of questions raised by popular media, policy makers, scholars, and the general public. In this collection, international experts review the latest research findings in the field of digital game studies and weigh in on …
Skills to Succeed in Today’s Media World Designed to give students the media literacy principles and critical thinking skills they need to become smart consumers of the media, Mass Communication: Living in the Media World provides comprehensive yet concise coverage of all aspects of mass media, along with insightful analysis and fun, conversational writing. In every chapter, students …
An ideal combination of communication theory and practical advice, Communicating About Health: Current Issues and Perspectives, Fourth Edition, is an indispensable resource for readers looking to improve their communication abilities in the health care field. Written by Athena du Pré–an experienced researcher and noted scholar–the text offers an excellent balance of theory and practice; research and pedagogy; coverage …
Remediating Transcultural Memory (Media and Cultural Memory / Medien Und Kulturelle Erinnerung)
Remediating Transcultural Memory offers a new approach to the study of mediated memories. It offers new theorizations of remediation, the archive and transculturality from the perspective of film and media studies. Drawing on contemporary debates in media and memory studies this innovative work examines documentary film making, the essay film and YouTube clips as interventions into the audiovisual …
Drawings and sequential images are an integral part of human expression dating back at least as far as cave paintings, and in contemporary society appear most prominently in comics. Despite this fundamental part of human identity, little work has explored the comprehension and cognitive underpinnings of visual narratives―until now. This work presents a provocative theory: that drawings and …
Well-known for its balanced approach to media industries and professions, Dynamics of Mass Communication offers a lively, thorough, and objective introduction for mass communication majors and non-majors alike. Dynamics of Mass Communication takes a comprehensive and balanced look at the changing world of mass media. Social media, ‘apps’ and the new media Goliaths are new and major themes …