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This book provides the step-by-step guidance for developing high-quality infographics. Practical in its approach, 10 Steps to Creating an Infographic: A Practical Guide for Non-designers outlines a user-friendly process for developing infographics with a clearly defined purpose and powerful message. The book's "how-to" approach makes infographic creation accessible for anyone who doesn't have a background in graphic design or a budget for a graphic designer.
In every chapter, "stretching" exercises help readers develop, practice, and hone fieldwork skills and vital habits of mind such as observation, interviewing, writing, creativity, technology, and analysis. While reading the book and working through the exercises, readers can complete a researcher's reflective journal-an invaluable tool that will remain useful throughout their careers. ?New to this edition: 10 new stretching exercises help qualitative researchers practice the techniques needed to sustain them in the post-modern digital era. An all-new chapter on The Technology Habit includes coverage of Skype, voice recognition software, virtual interviews, and more. New examples clarify narrative writing in its many forms. New examples of sample projects provide exemplars and models for students. Twenty new figures help explain analysis and interpretation.
Many of the vestiges of the Civil Rights movement in the United States, including initiatives such as affirmative action, are increasingly under attack by those who assert that the Constitution is explicitly `colourblind'. In this provocative and timely book, Leslie G Carr suggests that the Constitution can be read as `racist' and that the ......
