Inventions In Reading And Writing

Author : Scott Lloyd DeWitt
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791450390
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Writing Inventions written by Scott Lloyd DeWitt and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2001-07-26 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of instructional stories, research, and classroom applications for teachers who use computers in their writing instruction.

Author : Clayton Koelb
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 150174397X
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inventions of Reading written by Clayton Koelb and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-30 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where do writers of fiction get their ideas? Clayton Koelb here takes issue with those who regard inspiration or imitation as primary forces influencing literary invention. He finds that another mechanism, which he calls "rhetorical construction," underlies much fiction and some nonfiction as well. Rhetorical construction, Koelb says, is a way of producing writing out of reading. The rhetorical writer begins by discovering an interpretive crux in a familiar text-a passage from the Bible, for example, or a commonplace expression—and then proceeds to imagine a fictional situation in which all the meanings of the passage, contradictory though they may seem, may be realized. According to Koelb, "inventions of reading" do not stop with the discovery of the eternal and inevitable deconstructibility of language; they somehow generate an urge to put language back together through the invention of a fictional world. Among the texts he discusses are writings by Boccaccio, Rabelais, Goethe, Schiller, Kleist, Hawthorne, Hans Christian Andersen Nietzsche, Kafka, Calvino, and Flannery O'Connor.

Author : Cory MacPherson
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1502622998
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inventions in Reading and Writing written by Cory MacPherson and published by Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2016-12-15 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The earliest civilizations developed writing systems in order to keep records. Since then, writing has evolved to become a complex form of communication. In fact, reading and writing today are often hi-tech endeavors. Inventions in Reading and Writing: From Calligraphy to Kindles discusses (in chronological order) the invention of calligraphy, paper, moveable type, and Kindle e-Readers. The book demonstrates the effect these innovations have had on readers, writers, and the world at large. The book also draws connections between the inventions themselves. These connections are often surprising, such as the link between moveable type, e-books, and our modern idea of individual nations with unique identities.

Author : Suzanne Slade
Publisher : Charlesbridge Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1580896677
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Inventor's Secret written by Suzanne Slade and published by Charlesbridge Publishing. This book was released on 2015-09-08 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Both Thomas Edison and Henry Ford started off as insatiably curious tinkerers. That curiosity led them to become inventors—with very different results. As Edison invented hit after commercial hit, gaining fame and fortune, Henry struggled to make a single invention (an affordable car) work. Witnessing Thomas's glorious career from afar, a frustrated Henry wondered about the secret to his success. This little-known story is a fresh, kid-friendly way to show how Thomas Edison and Henry Ford grew up to be the most famous inventors in the world—and best friends, too.

Author : Angus Fletcher
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982135980
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wonderworks written by Angus Fletcher and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-03-08 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A brilliant examination of literary invention through the ages, from ancient Mesopotamia to Elena Ferrante, showing how writers created technical breakthroughs as sophisticated and significant as any in science, and in the process, engineered enhancements to the human heart and mind"--

Author : Cory MacPherson
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1502623005
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inventions in Reading and Writing written by Cory MacPherson and published by Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2016-12-15 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The earliest civilizations developed writing systems in order to keep records. Since then, writing has evolved to become a complex form of communication. In fact, reading and writing today are often hi-tech endeavors. Inventions in Reading and Writing: From Calligraphy to Kindles discusses (in chronological order) the invention of calligraphy, paper, moveable type, and Kindle e-Readers. The book demonstrates the effect these innovations have had on readers, writers, and the world at large. The book also draws connections between the inventions themselves. These connections are often surprising, such as the link between moveable type, e-books, and our modern idea of individual nations with unique identities.

Author : Tony Stead
Publisher : Capstone Classroom
ISBN 13 : 1625218893
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What Is the Most Important Invention? written by Tony Stead and published by Capstone Classroom. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "We depend on inventions to live in the 21st century, such as washing machines and smoke detectors, but which one is the most important invention? This fourth grade class looks at nine inventions and argues why each is the most important. Read this book to help you decide: What is the most important invention?" -- back cover.

Author : Silvia Ferrara
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374601631
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Greatest Invention written by Silvia Ferrara and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this exhilarating celebration of human ingenuity and perseverance—published all around the world—a trailblazing Italian scholar sifts through our cultural and social behavior in search of the origins of our greatest invention: writing. The L where a tabletop meets the legs, the T between double doors, the D of an armchair’s oval backrest—all around us is an alphabet in things. But how did these shapes make it onto the page, never mind form complex structures such as this sentence? In The Greatest Invention, Silvia Ferrara takes a profound look at how—and how many times—human beings have managed to produce the miracle of written language, traveling back and forth in time and all across the globe to Mesopotamia, Crete, China, Egypt, Central America, Easter Island, and beyond. With Ferrara as our guide, we examine the enigmas of undeciphered scripts, including famous cases like the Phaistos Disk and the Voynich Manuscript; we touch the knotted, colored strings of the Inca quipu; we study the turtle shells and ox scapulae that bear the earliest Chinese inscriptions; we watch in awe as Sequoyah single-handedly invents a script for the Cherokee language; and we venture to the cutting edge of decipherment, in which high-powered laser scanners bring tears to an engineer’s eye. A code-cracking tour around the globe, The Greatest Invention chronicles a previously uncharted journey, one filled with past flashes of brilliance, present-day scientific research, and a faint, fleeting glimpse of writing’s future.

Author : Steven Caney
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780894800764
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Steven Caney's Invention Book written by Steven Caney and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A project book for the would-be inventor with activities, a list of "contraptions" in need of invention, and the stories behind thirty-six existing inventions.

Author : Catherine Barr
Publisher : Frances Lincoln Children's Books
ISBN 13 : 071124538X
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Story of Inventions written by Catherine Barr and published by Frances Lincoln Children's Books. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This brilliant book introduces 15 of the world’s most incredible inventions to children. Using bitesize text and beautifully bright illustrations this is the perfect book for science and history lovers everywhere. The world is brimming full of incredible inventions - but where did it all begin? How did these incredible inventions come about? Journey back in time, travel across the world and discover incredible inventions from throughout history. Take a ride on the very first wheel, find your way and ensure you'll never get lost again with the compass, let the lights come on with electricity, watch as the world puffs into life with the steam engine and many more astounding inventions. Written with bite sized pieces of text and illustrated with bright and engaging artwork, this is the perfect introduction to some of the most amazing inventions that have helped make history. Learn fascinating facts about the people behind these inventions and how their discoveries changed the world forever. So what are you waiting for? Let's uncover The Story of Inventions! Inventions featured: The wheel, the compass, paper, clocks, gunpowder, steam engines, vaccinations, computers, electricity, the telephone, the car, planes, plastic, nuclear weapons and the internet.