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  • Reflections From the Wrong Side of the Tracks

    Class, Identity, and the Working Class Experience in Academe

    by Vincent C. Samarco, Phyllis L. Baker, Jennifer Beech, Bonnie Berry, Julie Harms-Cannon, Lyn Huxford, David Kauzlarich, Donna Selman-Killingbeck, Donna LeCourt, William Macauley, Daniel D. Martin, Mike Presdee, Dawn Rothe, Kent Sandstrom, Michael Shott, Livy A. Visano, Janelle Lynn Wilson, Stephen L. Muzzatti ...
    In this edited collection of narrative-based, critically situated essays, each contributor explores how class has affected his/her personal and academic lives. The collection is divided into three sections: i) narratives that critique the meritocracy; ii) narratives that trace the effects of middle class cultural capital on relatively new academics from the working class, and; iii) narratives that ... Read more

    $34.89 USD

  • Standing at the Threshold

    Working through Liminality in the Composition and Rhetoric TAship

    Edited by Leslie R. Anglesey, Brady Edwards, Kathryn M. Lambrecht, Phillip Lovas, William J. Macauley Jr. ...
    Standing at the Threshold articulates identity and role dissonances experienced by composition and rhetoric teaching assistants and reimagines the TAship within a larger professional development process. Current researchers and scholars have not fully explored the liminality of the profession’s traditional path to credentialing. This collection reconsiders these positions and their contributions ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • Building Writing Center Assessments That Matter

    by Ellen Schendel, William J. Macauley Jr. ...
    No less than other divisions of the college or university, contemporary writing centers find themselves within a galaxy of competing questions and demands that relate to assessment—questions and demands that usually embed priorities from outside the purview of the writing center itself. Writing centers are used to certain kinds of assessment, both quantitative and qualitative, but are often ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

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  • The Teaching Gap

    Best Ideas from the World's Teachers for Improving Education in the Classroom

    by James W. Stigler, James Hiebert ...
    Comparing math teaching practices in Japan and Germany with those in the United States, two leading researchers offer a surprising new view of teaching and a bold action plan for improving education inside the American classroom.For years our schools and children have lagged behind international standards in reading, arithmetic, and most other areas of academic achievement. It is no secret that ... Read more

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  • Naming What We Know, Classroom Edition

    Threshold Concepts of Writing Studies

    Edited by Linda Adler-Kassner, Elizabeth Wardle ...
    Naming What We Know, Classroom Edition examines the core principles of knowledge in the discipline of writing studies, using the lens of “threshold concepts”—concepts that are critical for epistemological participation in a discipline. This edition focuses on the working definitions of thirty-seven threshold concepts that run throughout the research, teaching, assessment, and public work in ... Read more

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  • Reason & Rigor

    How Conceptual Frameworks Guide Research

    by Sharon M. Ravitch, J. Matthew Riggan ...
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  • Conducting Action Research for Business and Management Students

    by David Coghlan, Abraham B. Shani ...
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    In Conducting Action Research, Coghlan and Shani explain how action research differs from more detached research methods and provides expert guidance on how to engage effectively with it, helping the reader to complete both a successful research project and produce findings that are useful in an organizational context.Ideal for Business and Management students reading for a Master’s degree, each ... Read more

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  • The Handbook of Scholarly Writing and Publishing

    by Tonette S. Rocco, Timothy Gary Hatcher ...
    Focusing on writing for publication, The Handbook of Scholarly Writing and Publishing discusses the components of a manuscript, types of manuscripts, and the submission process. It shows how to craft scholarly papers and other writing suitable for submission to academic journals. The handbook covers how to develop writing skills by offering guidance on becoming an excellent manuscript reviewer and ... Read more

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  • The Education Dissertation

    A Guide for Practitioner Scholars

    Edited by Dan W. Butin ...
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  • Doing Interview-based Qualitative Research

    A Learner's Guide

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    For many students, the experience of learning about and using qualitative methods can be bewildering. This book is an accessible step-by-step guide to conducting interview-based qualitative research projects. The authors discuss the 'hows' and 'whys' of qualitative research, showing readers the practices as well as the principles behind them. The book first describes how to formulate research ... Read more

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  • Qualitative Research Methods

    Collecting Evidence, Crafting Analysis, Communicating Impact

    by Sarah J. Tracy ...
    Qualitative Research Methods is a comprehensive, all-inclusive resource for the theory and practice of qualitative/ethnographic research methodology.Serves as a “how-to” guide for qualitative/ethnographic research, detailing how to design a project, conduct interviews and focus groups, interpret and analyze data, and represent it in a compelling mannerDemonstrates how qualitative data can be ... Read more

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