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Kate G. Harper holds a PhD (Arizona State University) and an MA (Georgia State University) in Women and Gender Studies. She has taught courses on gender in literature, popular culture, and daily life in the Departments of Women and Gender Studies at Arizona State University and the University of Colorado Boulder. 

Kindle, any of the portable wireless electronic reading devices (e-readers) produced by the American company Amazon.com. The first Kindle was released in 2007. Amazon’s Kindles became the most popular e-readers, and Amazon e-books were estimated to constitute two-thirds of the electronic book (e-book) market.

Kindles use a display technology called electronic paper, which produces a sharp screen image that resembles text printed on paper. Roughly the size and weight of a trade paperback book, with a 15.2-cm (6-inch) monochromatic screen, the original Kindle could store more than 200 e-books and could be loaded with new material from Amazon.com through a free wireless connection, though only in the United States. The Kindle was also equipped with a limited Web browser that let American users access the Internet.

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The Kindle was not the first e-reader; other companies, such as the Japanese Sony Corporation, had previously produced and marketed their own e-readers. What made the Kindle different was having the marketing power of Amazon.com to distribute titles. A vast selection of e-books, as well as many newspapers and magazines, are available in the Kindle Store. Amazon also has a self-publishing program, Kindle Direct Publishing, that allows authors to directly upload books to the Kindle Store. The device’s wireless capability enables users to buy and read material anytime. The introduction of the Kindle was met with some skepticism, doubts being raised over who would pay the relatively high cost for the unit—priced at $399 for its initial release. Nevertheless, Amazon.com sold out its entire inventory of the devices as soon as the product went on sale. In 2009 Amazon.com released the Kindle 2, a slimmer reader with more storage capacity, a crisper display, better battery life, a small joysticklike controller, and the ability to convert text to speech.

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A Kindle DX e-book reader, 2009.

In May 2009 Amazon.com introduced a larger reader, the Kindle DX, with a 9.7-inch (24.6-cm) screen. The Kindle DX, which had an introductory price of $489, also included more storage (four gigabytes) and native support for Adobe Systems Incorporated’s PDF file format. The latter feature is especially important for replicating newspapers and textbooks, which typically contain graphic elements related to the text. In July 2010 Amazon.com announced that it would cut the price of its entry-level Kindle, which offered a smaller, lighter case than its predecessors, with improved battery life and a faster page-refresh rate. Debuting the following month was a WiFi-equipped model listed at $139, while a 3G version, which accessed AT&T’s mobile broadband network, sold for $189.

In May 2011 Amazon.com announced that Kindle e-books were outselling all printed books. That same year the Kindle Touch, which had a touchscreen, was introduced. The next year Amazon released the Kindle Paperwhite, the first model with an illuminated screen.

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Originally published: 2009

Genre: Reference workISBN:9781412957014, 141295701X

Page count:351

Published: January 20, 2009

Format: Paperback

Publisher: SAGE Publications

Language: English

Author: Wendy Laura Belcher

Subject: Reference / Writing Skills, Academic writing, Academic writing -- Publishing, Editing, Periodicals, Publishers and publishing, Scholarly publishing -- United States, Writing

Wendy Laura Belcher is an award-winning author, academic editor, international lecturer, and professor. She designed one of the first publication focused writing courses for graduate students and junior faculty in the nation, and for ten years has conducted such courses at the University of California, Los Angeles, and in research institutions around the world, including those in Norway, Malawi, Sudan, and Egypt. These popular workshops are based on her twenty years of experience as an academic editor, including eleven years managing an ethnic studies press and the peer-reviewed journal of record in the field, Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies, as well as her two master’s degrees in the social sciences and a doctorate in the humanities. She is also a published nonfiction author, whose memoir about her childhood in Ethiopia and Ghana, Honey from the Lion: An African Journey, won a Washington State Governor’s Writers Award and honorable mention in the Martha Albrand/PEN Society Award for first book of nonfiction. She is now an assistant professor of African literature in the Princeton University Department of Comparative Literature and the Center for African American Studies.

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"This book is a wonderful addition to a graduate course on professional writing, to a writers' group in need of some structure, or even to the lone writer who needs assistance becoming an academic writer."
—Chronicle of Higher Education

Wendy Laura Belcher's Writing Your Journal Article in Twelve Weeks: A Guide to Academic Publishing Success is a revolutionary approach to enabling academic authors to overcome their anxieties and produce the publications that are essential to succeeding in their fields. Each week, readers learn a particular feature of strong articles and work on revising theirs accordingly. At the end of twelve weeks, they send their article to a journal. This invaluable resource is the only guide that focuses specifically on publishing humanities and social science journal articles.

Key Features

Has a proven record of helping graduate students and professors get published: This workbook, developed over a decade of teaching scholarly writers in a range of disciplines at UCLA and around the world, has already helped hundreds to publish their articles in peer-reviewed journals. Demystifies the academic publishing process: This workbook is based on actual research about faculty productivity and peer review, students' writing triumphs and failures, as well as the author's experiences as a journal editor and award-winning author. Proceeds step by manageable step: Within the context of clear deadlines, the workbook provides the instruction, exercises, and structure needed to revise a classroom essay, conference paper, dissertation chapter, master's thesis, or unfinished draft into a journal article and send it to a suitable journal. Targets the biggest writing challenges: This workbook focuses squarely on the most difficult tasks facing scholarly writers, such as getting motivated, making an argument, and creating a logical whole.

Writing Your Journal Article in Twelve Weeks can be used individually or in groups, and is particularly appropriate for graduate student professional development courses, junior faculty orientation workshops, post-doc groups, and journal article writing courses.

Wendy Laura Belcher is assistant professor of African literature at Princeton University in the Department of Comparative Literature and Center for African American Studies. She has taught journal article writing workshops in North America, Europe, and Africa.

Praise for Wendy Belcher and Writing Your Journal Article in Twelve Weeks

"A comprehensive, well-written and beautifully organized book on publishing articles in the humanities and social sciences that will help its readers write forward with a first-rate guide as good company."
—Joan Bolker, author of Writing Your Dissertation in Fifteen Minutes a Day

"Humorous, direct, authentic ... a seamless weave of experience, anecdote, and research."
—Kathleen McHugh, professor and director of the UCLA Center for the Study of Women

"A useful text that will be an excellent resource for any writer attempting to publish their work."
—Larry Chandler, Graduate Student

"Wendy Belcher's book is revolutionizing the way younger scholars perceive academic publishing and radically transforming their level of access to it (and consequently to the profession). It is by far the most readable or practical guide to academic writing on the market."
—Beth Goodhue, UCLA

"Wendy's guidance has been a tremendous help to me, and the book is great for grad students, junior faculty, or anyone who wants to learn how to write and publish more effectively."
-Jake Dorman, The University of Kansas

"Your book struck such a nerve because there is a long chain of assumptions in academia that scholars should just know how to do certain things. The relief among faculty is palpable when I explain in groups that few of us -- even those who have been published in journals -- were ever taught properly. And although it helps everyone who cracks it, your book is especially a godsend for faculty from other cultures." -Carole Sargent, Georgetown University

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 3;,Engagements with Narrative 

About this edition

ISBN:9781317698326, 1317698320

Page count:182

Published: October 8, 2015

Format: eBook

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Language: English

Author: Janine Utell

Balancing key foundational topics with new developments and trends, Engagements with Narrative offers an accessible introduction to narratology. As new narrative forms and media emerge, the study of narrative and the ways people communicate through imagination, empathy, and storytelling is especially relevant for students of literature today. Janine Utell presents the foundational texts, key concepts, and big ideas that form narrative theory and practical criticism, engaging readers in the study of stories by telling the story of a field and its development.

Distinct features designed to initiate dialogue and debate include:

Coverage of philosophical and historical contexts surrounding the study of narrative An introduction to essential thinkers along with the tools to both use and interrogate their work A survey of the most up-to-date currents, including mind theory and postmodern ethics, to stimulate conversations about how we read fiction, life writing, film, and digital media from a variety of perspectives. A selection of narrative texts, chosen to demonstrate critical practice and spark further reading and research "Engagement" sections to encourage students to engage with narrative theory and practice through interviews with scholars

This guide teaches the key concepts of narrative—time, space, character, perspective, setting—while facilitating conversations among different approaches and media, and opening paths to new inquiry. Engagements with Narrative is ideal for readers needing an introduction to the field, as well as for those seeking insight into both its historical developments and new directions.

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