The Quickwrite Handbook by Linda Rief
Despite the fact that Maple V has become one of the most popular computer algebra systems on the market, surprisingly few users realize its potential in the field of scientific visualization. The purpose of this book is to equip the reader with a variety of graphics tools needed on the voyage of discovery into the complex and often beautiful world of curves and surfaces. A comprehensive treatment of Maple's graphics commands and structures is combined with an introduction to the main aspects of visual perception. Top priority is given to the use of light, color, perspective, and geometric transformations. Numerous examples, accompanied by pictures (many in color), cover all aspects of Maple graphics. The examples can be easily customized to suit the individual needs of the reader. The approach is context independent, and as such will appeal to students, educators, and researchers in a broad spectrum of scientific disciplines. For the general user at any level of experience, this book can serve as a comprehensive reference manual. For the beginner, it offers a user- friendly elementary introduction to the subject, with mathematical requirements kept to a minimum. For those interested in advanced mathematical visualization, it explains how to maximize Maple's graphical capabilities. In particular, this book shows how to turn Maple into an excellent modeling tool capable of generating elaborate surfaces that conventional modelers cannot produce. These surfaces can be exported to an external ray tracer (e.g. POV-ray) for sophisticated photo-realistic rendering. All of the Maple code segments which are presented in the book, as well as high-resolution pictures showing alternative renderings of some of the book's color plates, are included on the accompanying DOS diskette.After 40 years of teaching Language Arts to eighth graders, Linda Rief sadly departed the classroom in June of 2019. She misses their enthusiasm, inquisitiveness, and drive to read and write. She has file folders full of these adolescents' ideas, and she plans to continue writing and speaking about everything she has learnt from them. She is a national and international lecturer on teenage literacy challenges and teaches at the University of New Hampshire's Summer Literacy Institute. The Quickwrite Handbook: 100 Mentor Books to Ignite Your Pupils' Thinking and Writing is her most recent book.
Read Write Teach; Inside the Writer's-Reader's Notebook; Vision and Voice; and Seeking Diversity are among the Heinemann titles she has written or co-edited. She is a co-editor of Adolescent Literacy with Kylene Beers and Robert Probst. She co-edited Voices from the Middle, a journal for middle school teachers published by the National Council of Teachers of English, for five years with Maureen Barbieri, and continued to write a column for the journal for another ten years. Edwin A. Smith Award for Excellence in Teaching was bestowed upon him by the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE).
Her classroom was featured in the series Creating Sense in Reading, produced by Maryland Public Television for Annenberg/CPB, and she received the Hoey Award for Outstanding Middle School Educator in the English Language Arts. She chaired the National Council for Professional Teaching Standards' initial Early Adolescent English/Language Arts Standards Committee for three years. She received one of two Kennedy Center Fellowships for Teachers of the Arts in 1988. She wrote prose and poems about the Vietnam Veterans Memorial for a month at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC.
She performed her writing at the Kennedy Center, which was later broadcast on NPR. Linda and Oyster River Middle School in Durham, New Hampshire, responded to heightened high-stakes testing requirements in a New York Times article. Linda can be found on Twitter as @LindaMRief.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780325098128 |
| ISBN 10 | 0325098123 |
| Title | The Quickwrite Handbook |
| Author | Linda Rief |
| Series | Reading Ser |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Heinemann Educational Books |
| Year published | 2018-06-15 |
| Number of pages | 200 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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