1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910464199203321

Autore

Ward Mark

Titolo

Deadly Documents [[electronic resource] ] : Technical Communication, Organizational Discourse, and the Holocaust-Lessons from the Rhetorical Work of Everyday Texts

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amityville, : Baywood Publishing Company, Inc., 2014

ISBN

0-89503-803-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (266 p.)

Collana

Baywood's Technical Communications Series

Altri autori (Persone)

KatzSteven B

Disciplina

601.4

Soggetti

Technical writing - Germany - History - 20th century

Communication of technical information - History - 20th century - Germany

Technical writing - History - 20th century - Germany

Jews - History - Persecutions - 20th century - Germany

Gases, Asphyxiating and poisonous - War use

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

""Deadly Documents: Technical Communication, Organizational Discourse, and the Holocaust""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Dedication""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""CHAPTER 1: Can Genocide Be Regulated?""; ""An Ontological Shift""; ""Revisiting the Final Solution""; ""Sample, Method, and Chapter Organization""; ""The Importance of the Study""; ""CHAPTER 2: From Darwin to Death Wagons""; ""Origins of European Anti-Semitism""; ""The Rise of Racial Anti-Semitism""; ""Development of the Gas Vans""; ""Operational Challenges in the Field""

""CHAPTER 3: The People's Community""""Organizations as Open Systems""; ""Unifying Principles of Institutional Culture""; ""Aspects of SS Organizational Culture""; ""Lines of Organizational Authority""; ""German Bureaucratic Document Protocols""; ""CHAPTER 4: The Participants and Their Motives""; ""Personnel of the Gas Van Program""; ""Individual Relationships and Motives""; ""CHAPTER 5: Documents for Destruction""; ""Setting Up the Analyses""; ""Introducing the



Documents""; ""CHAPTER 6: A Community of Killers""; ""Constructing the Rhetorical Community""

""A Safety Narrative and Protean Metaphors""""Discovering Organizational Genres in the Texts""; ""Rhetorical Community in Organizational Contexts""; ""Visuality in the Rhetorical Community""; ""CHAPTER 7: Discourse of Death""; ""What Discourse Analysis Can Add""; ""The Killers Use of Linguistic Resources""; ""Reconstructing an Organizational Discourse""; ""CHAPTER 8: Revisiting Expediency""; ""Boundary Work in Action""; ""Lanzmann and the Why Question""; ""Implications of the Lanzmann Alterations""; ""CHAPTER 9: Bridging the Boundaries""; ""An A historical Consensus?""

""Expediency Without Ethics""""Protecting Rhetoric and Rhetoricians""; ""Safeguarding Science and Civilization""; ""Converging on a Comfortable Distance""; ""What the Orderings May Reveal""; ""CHAPTER 10: Some Ethical Implications""; ""A Bias for Explanation""; ""Prescriptive and Descriptive Ethics""; ""Afterword: The Reality of Words and Their Aftermaths""; ""References""; ""Index""

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910787633103321

Titolo

Developing materials for language teaching / / edited by Brian Tomlinson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2013

©2013

ISBN

1-4411-7687-X

1-4411-5311-X

Edizione

[Second edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (577 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

TomlinsonBrian

Disciplina

418.0071

418/.0071

Soggetti

Language and languages - Study and teaching

Teaching - Aids and devices

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; HalfTitle; Series; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Contributors; Preface; Introduction: Are Materials Developing?; What is materials



development?; What are materials?; What are the issues in materials development?; Who should develop the materials?; What are the current trends in materials development?; What is the future of materials development?; MATSDA; Part A Evaluation and Adaptation of Materials; 1 Materials Evaluation; What is materials evaluation?; Principles in materials evaluation; Second language acquisition research (SLA); Types of materials evaluation

Standard approaches to materials evaluationDeveloping criteria for materials evaluation; Conclusion; 2 Adapting Courses: A Personal View; Introduction; Adapting materials; A model for adapting courses; Conclusions; 3 Publishing a Coursebook: The Role of Feedback; Introduction; Nature of pathways and loops in materials development; Existence of feedback loops in materials development; The case of Singapore; Role and effectiveness of feedback in the case study; Incorporating feedback loops in the materials development process; Conclusion; Comments on Part A

Part B Principles and Procedures of Materials Development4 Developing Principled Frameworks for Materials Development; Introduction; Principles in materials development; A text-driven approach to materials development; Using the framework; An example of the framework in use; A web-based adaptation of the framework; Other types of principled framework; Conclusion; 5 The Instructional Design of a Coursebook Is As It Is Because of What It Has To Do - An Application of Systemic Functional; Introduction; Concepts from systemic functional theory; The context of culture: The genre of the coursebook

From theory to practiceThe plane of expression; Conclusion; 6 Humanizing the Coursebook; Introduction; Humanizing without the coursebook; Partial replacement of the coursebook; Humanizing with the coursebook; Developing humanistic coursebooks; Conclusion; 7 The Visual Elements in EFL Coursebooks; Introduction; Visuals in recent British coursebooks; What might we do with visuals in coursebooks?; Conclusion; 8 Creative Approaches to Writing Materials; Introduction; Part I: What is creativity?; How has creativity been applied?; Part II : Ideas for generating creative materials; Conclusion

9 Developing Digital Language Learning MaterialsIntroduction; Teacher-created digital materials; Student-created digital materials; Publisher- /Professionally created digital materials; Looking to the future; 10 Demystifying Blended Learning; Introduction; A framework for blended language learning; Blended learning tools; Blended language learning case studies; Conclusion; Comments on Part B; Part C Developing Materials for Target Groups; 11 Authors' Knowledge, Rationales and Principles - Steady Flow-Through or Stuck in the Publishing Pipeline? The Case of Ear; Introduction

How coursebooks might give support

Sommario/riassunto

There have been a number of books published on various aspects of materials development for language teaching but Developing Materials for Language Teaching is the only one which provides a comprehensive coverage of the main aspects and issues in the field. This second edition brings it completely up to date and expands on the original book. It deals with advances in IT and an increasingly globalized world. It is the only publication which views current developments in materials development through the eyes of developers and users of materials from all over the world.