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Ann Wysocki is hard to find

{ February 12, 2008 @ 1:48 am } · { literature review, resources }
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Well, at least her work is. I finally found the online, hyper-text version of “Monitoring order: Visual desire, the organization of web pages, and teaching the rules of design here, but I still can’t find “With Eyes That Think, and Compose, and Think: On Visual Rhetoric,” which I know was published in Teaching Writing With Computers: An Introduction by Pamela Takayoshi and Brian Huot. But I can’t get a hold of their book (unless I buy it, and I’m just too cheap/poor to do that when I’m not sure I will get any use out of the other articles). Halle Library doesn’t have it and neither do any of the hundreds of libraries in the MelCat system. *sigh*

Ann Wysocki, if you’re reading this, do you happen to have a copy of this article around? I would really like to include it in my literature review for my master’s project. Thanks.

P.S. I will be e-mailing her if I can’t find it in the next couple of days. I sure hope she doesn’t mind!

Great Children’s Literature Resources

{ November 5, 2007 @ 9:58 pm } · { literature review, resources }
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The one thing I have found is a plethora of children’s literature (fiction and nonfiction) resources, and many of them have been fantastic. Here are a few of my favorites (and they’re making it into my lit review):

Bamford, Rosemary A., and Janice V. Kristo. “Choosing Quality Nonfiction Literature: Examining Aspects of Accuracy and Organization.” Making Facts Come Alive: Choosing Quality Nonfiction Literature K–8. Ed. Rosemary A. Bamford and Janice V. Kristo. Norwood, Mass.: Christopher-Gordon Publishers, Inc., 1998. 19–38.

Fredericks, Anthony D. “Evaluating and Using Nonfiction Literature in the Science Curriculum.” Making Facts Come Alive: Choosing Quality Nonfiction Literature K–8. Ed. Rosemary A. Bamford and Janice V. Kristo. Norwood, Mass.: Christopher-Gordon Publishers, Inc., 1998. 109–121.

Kerper, Richard M. “Choosing Quality Nonfiction Literature: Features for Accessing and Visualizing Information.” Making Facts Come Alive: Choosing Quality Nonfiction Literature K–8. Ed. Rosemary A. Bamford and Janice V. Kristo. Norwood, Mass.: Christopher-Gordon Publishers, Inc., 1998. 55–74.

McClure, Amy A. “Choosing Quality Nonfiction Literature: Examining Aspects of Writing Style.” Making Facts Come Alive: Choosing Quality Nonfiction Literature K–8. Ed. Rosemary A. Bamford and Janice V. Kristo. Norwood, Mass.: Christopher-Gordon Publishers, Inc., 1998. 39–54.

Palmer, Rosemary G., and Roger A. Stewart. “Nonfiction trade book use in primary grades.” The Reading Teacher 57.1 (Sept 2003): 38(11). Academic OneFile. Gale. Eastern Michigan University. 1 Oct.. 2007
<http://find.galegroup.com.ezproxy.emich.edu/itx/start.do?prodId=AONE>.

Seuling, Barbara. How to Write a Children’s Book and Get It Published. 2nd ed. New York: MacMillan General Reference, 1991.

Lit Review Hell

{ November 5, 2007 @ 9:48 pm } · { literature review }
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I just completed the first draft of my literature review, and it was strenuous at best. I’m not sure why this part of the process is so grueling for me. Maybe it’s because I have no sources that directly discuss my topic: children’s nonfiction editing.

Or perhaps I’m getting senioritis. Crappy time to be getting it considering I just signed on for another year of grad school in order to complete another Master’s. Yup, I’ll be doing all this again in a year, but this time, it’s going to be a thesis. This blog is going to be getting a serious work-out then.