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Craft of Research, Fifth Edition
Av Wayne C. Booth, Gregory G. Colomb m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
213 kr
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A thoroughly updated edition of a beloved classic that has guided generations of researchers in conducting effective and meaningful research. With more than a million copies sold since its first publication, The Craft of Research has helped generations of researchers at every level—from high-school …
Forskning och skrivande : konsten att skriva enkelt och effektivt
Av Wayne C. Booth, Gregory G. Colomb m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
452 kr
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Forskning och skrivande är en bok för alla som står inför uppgiften att skriva en uppsats, en rapport eller ett större vetenskapligt arbete. I boken beskrivs bland annat hur man formulerar en intressant och relevant frågeställning, hur man söker ochhanterar källor, samt hur man formulerar stöd för …
Art of Growing Older
Writers on Living and Aging
Häftad, 1996
332 kr
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Wayne Booth has selected, and has been inspired by, the works by some of our greatest writers on the art of growing older. In this widely praised anthology he shows that the very making of art is in itself a victory over time. Culled chiefly from great literary works, this unusual compendium of …
Craft of Research, Fifth Edition
Av Wayne C. Booth, Gregory G. Colomb m. fl.
Inbunden, 2024
419 kr
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A thoroughly updated edition of a beloved classic that has guided generations of researchers in conducting effective and meaningful research. With more than a million copies sold since its first publication, The Craft of Research has helped generations of researchers at every level—from high-school …
Rhetoric of Irony
Häftad, 1975
420 kr
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Perhaps no other critical label has been made to cover more ground than "irony," and in our time irony has come to have so many meanings that by itself it means almost nothing. In this work, Wayne C. Booth cuts through the resulting confusions by analyzing how we manage to share quite specific …
Rhetoric of Fiction
Häftad, 1983
349 kr
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The first edition of The Rhetoric of Fiction transformed the criticism of fiction and soon became a classic in the field. One of the most widely used texts in fiction courses, it is a standard reference point in advanced discussions of how fictional form works, how authors make novels accessible, …
Knowledge Most Worth Having
E-bok, 2008
589 kr
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The Knowledge Most Worth Having represents the essence of education at the University of Chicago—faculty and students grappling with key intellectual questions that span the humanities, while still acknowledging the need to acquire a depth of knowledge in one’s chosen field. The papers collected …
For the Love of It
Amateuring and Its Rivals
E-bok, 2008
507 kr
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For the Love of It is a story not only of one intimate struggle between a man and his cello, but also of the larger struggle between a society obsessed with success and individuals who choose challenging hobbies that yield no payoff except the love of it. "If, in truth, Booth is an amateur player …
Modern Dogma and the Rhetoric of Assent
Häftad, 1974
371 kr
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When should I change my mind? What can I believe and what must I doubt? In this new "philosophy of good reasons" Wayne C. Booth exposes five dogmas of modernism that have too often inhibited efforts to answer these questions. Modern dogmas teach that "you cannot reason about values" and that "the …
Knowledge Most Worth Having
Häftad, 2006
272 kr
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The Knowledge Most Worth Having represents the essence of education at the University of Chicago—faculty and students grappling with key intellectual questions that span the humanities, while still acknowledging the need to acquire a depth of knowledge in one’s chosen field. The papers collected …
Now Don't Try to Reason with Me
Essays and Ironies for a Credulous Age
Häftad, 2006
425 kr
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In this entertaining collection of essays, Wayne Booth looks for the much-maligned “middle ground” for reason—a rhetoric that can unite truths of the heart with truths of the head and allow us all to discover shared convictions in mutual inquiry. First delivered as lectures in the 1960s, when Booth …
Vocation of a Teacher
Rhetorical Occasions, 1967-1988
Häftad, 1991
255 kr
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This critically acclaimed collection is both a passionate celebration of teaching as a vocation and an argument for rhetoric as the center of liberal education. While Booth provides an eloquent personal account of the pleasures of teaching, he also vigorously exposes the political and economic …
For the Love of It
Amateuring and Its Rivals
Häftad, 2000
243 kr
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Why would anyone spend free hours and weekends on a demanding practice that promises no payoff in money, fame, or power? Is it true that anything worth doing is worth doing only if you can get credit for doing it really well? Why do amateurs do what they do? Wayne Booth found himself enticed by …
Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations, Ninth Edition
Chicago Style for Students and Researchers
Av Kate L. Turabian, Wayne C. Booth m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
189 kr
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When Kate L. Turabian first put her famous guidelines to paper, she could hardly have imagined the world in which today's students would be conducting research. Yet while the ways in which we research and compose papers may have changed, the fundamentals remain the same: writers need to have a …
Rhetoric of RHETORIC
The Quest for Effective Communication
E-bok, 2009
524 kr
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In this manifesto, distinguished critic Wayne Booth claims that communication in every corner of life can be improved if we study rhetoric closely. Written by Wayne Booth, author of the seminal book, The Rhetoric of Fiction (1961). Explores the consequences of bad rhetoric in education, in …
Company We Keep
An Ethics of Fiction
Häftad, 1989
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
371 kr
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In "The Company We Keep", Wayne C. Booth argues for the relocation of ethics to the center of our engagement with literature. But the questions he asks are not confined to morality. Returning ethics to its root sense, Booth proposes that the ethical critic will be interested in any effect on the …
Rhetoric of RHETORIC
The Quest for Effective Communication
Häftad, 2004
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403 kr
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In this manifesto, distinguished critic Wayne Booth claims that communication in every corner of life can be improved if we study rhetoric closely. Written by Wayne Booth, author of the seminal book, The Rhetoric of Fiction (1961). Explores the consequences of bad rhetoric in education, in …
Vocation of a Teacher
Rhetorical Occasions, 1967-1988
Inbunden, 1989
513 kr
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This critically acclaimed collection is both a passionate celebration of teaching as a vocation and an argument for rhetoric as the center of liberal education. While Booth provides an eloquent personal account of the pleasures of teaching, he also vigorously exposes the political and economic …
Essential Wayne Booth
Av Wayne C. Booth, Walter Jost
Inbunden, 2006
488 kr
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Wayne Booth wrote some of the most influential and engaging criticism of our time, most notably the 1961 classic "The Rhetoric of Fiction", a book that transformed literary criticism and became the standard reference point for advanced discussions of how fiction works, how authors make novels …
Craft of Research, Fourth Edition
Av Wayne C. Booth, Gregory G. Colomb m. fl.
Häftad, 2016
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (2)
186 kr
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With more than three-quarters of a million copies sold since its first publication, The Craft of Research has helped generations of researchers at every level from first-year undergraduates to advanced graduate students to research reporters in business and government learn how to conduct effective …
