Academic Writing: A Handbook for International Students, 2nd Edition

Title: Academic Writing: A Handbook for International Students
Author(s): Stephen Bailey
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 2006, 2nd Edition
ISBN10: 0415384206
Pages: 272
Size: 2.15 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: British English

The essential writing course for international students studying at English-medium colleges and universities. Covers all aspects of academic writing and includes exercises at every stage, ideal for classroom or self-study use. [+/-]

Ideal for overseas students studying at English-medium colleges and universities, this practical writing course enables international students to meet the required standard of writing and use an appropriate style for essays, exams and dissertations. Newly revised and updated to include extra exercises and material suggested by teachers and students, Academic Writing explains and demonstrates all the key writing skills and is ideal for use in the classroom or for independent study. Useful at every stage of an academic career and beyond, this indispensable book features:

• Different styles and formats from CVs and letters to formal essays
• a focus on accuracy
• Coverage the writing process from understanding titles to proofreading
• Essential academic writing skills such as proper referencing, summarising and paraphrasing
• Diagrams and practice exercises, complete with answers
• Key writing skills such as referencing and paraphrasing
• 20 units on accuracy in writing
• Adaptable for both long and short courses

About the author
Stephen Bailey is a lecturer at the University of Nottingham, UK, and has been teaching English for Academic Purposes for over 10 years. He also has vast experience of teaching English as a foreign language overseas.

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2600 Phrases for Effective Performance Reviews

Title: 2600 Phrases for Effective Performance Reviews: Ready-to-Use Words and Phrases That Really Get Results
Author(s): Paul Falcone
Publisher: AMACOM
Date: June 10, 2005
Pages: 253
Size: 1.24 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: American English

No managerial or administrative task is as universally dreaded as the performance review. Supervisors may know the points they need to get across, but putting them on paper is another matter. This book puts the the right words at their fingertips, with ready-to-use phrases and words, action items, and descriptions that managers, supervisors, and HR professionals can use to evaluate performance, prepare development plans, and address performance problems. [+/-]

2600 Phrases for Effective Performance Appraisals covers the 25 most commonly rated factors, including productivity, time management, decision making, and teamwork, as well as specific roles such as customer service, finance, sales, and more. The book provides hundreds of phrases to use in performance improvement plans, plus an appendix of helpful individual words.

About the Author
Paul Falcone is Vice President of Employee Relations at Time Warner Cable in Los Angeles and was formerly Vice President of Human Resources at Nickelodeon. He is the author of 2600 Phrases for Effective Performance Reviews, 101 Sample Write-Ups for Documenting Employee Performance Problems, and 96 Great Interview Questions to Ask Before You Hire. He lives in Valencia, California.

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SPEAKING OUT: Storytelling and Creative Drama for Children

Title: SPEAKING OUT: Storytelling and Creative Drama for Children
Level: Kindergarten to Grade 6
Author(s): Jack Zipes
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 2004
Pages: 236
Size: 1.88 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: American English

Speaking Out is a book for storytellers, educators, parents, and anyone who cares about helping kids find within themselves the keys to imagination. In Speaking Out, Zipes advanced a refreshing approach to helping children and adults tell stories. Without knowing how to tell stories, children cannot take charge of their lives, so they must learn how to speak out at home and act out in the public sphere to articulate their views and become responsible members of society.

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Smart Thinking: Skills for Critical Understanding and Writing

Title: Smart Thinking: Skills for Critical Understanding and Writing
Author(s): Matthew Allen
Publisher: Oxford
Date: 2005
Pages: 207
Size: 3.39 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: British English

SMART THINKING is a practical step-by-step guide to improving skills in analysis, critical thinking, and the effective communication of arguments and explanations. With an acccessible and straightforward style, this book is of great use for students at university and also final-year school who are looking to improve their analytical skills. [+/-]

This second edition treats reasoning as an aspect of communication, not an abstract exercise in logic. It not only provides detailed advice on how to practice better analytical skills, but also demonstrates their application to finding information and writing more coherently. The focus in this book is on improving one's own reasoning rather than simply reading others' arguments. In particular, SMART THINKING emphasises how to develop arguments that are coherent and take account of their audience and context.

Features of this new edition include:
• An updated glossy, a guide to further reading, and a guide to important skills
• Aditional advice on casting and developing arguments
• A new chapter at the end of the book that demonstrates, in an extended example, the skills learnt in the book
• A more thorough treatment of how to find and use information via reasoning and
• Exercises and review questions in each chapter to enhance knowledge and test readers' skills

About the author
Matthew Allen is an Associate Professor who coordinates the Internet Studies Program, and Associate Dean Teaching and Learning, Humanities, at Curtin University of Technology.

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A Practical Guide to Teaching Modern Foreign Languages in the Secondary School

Title: A Practical Guide to Teaching Modern Foreign Languages in the Secondary School
Series: Routledge Teaching Guides
Edited by: Norbert Pachler and Ana Redondo
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 2007
Pages: 148
Size: 1.55 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: British English

This practical guide offers valuable support for student-teachers and teachers in their early professional development. Divided into three sections it covers:
• key pedagogical issues and planning
• developing key skills, knowledge and understanding
• broadening your perspective [+/-]

Teaching is rapidly becoming a more research and evidence-informed profession and the materials in this book are specifically designed to support developments in the (pedagogical) knowledge base in teaching.

The guide extends the popular Learning to Teach Modern Foreign Languages in the Secondary School by providing detailed examples of theory in practice. These examples are based on the up-to-date research and practice. In addition, they provide links to relevant sources supporting evidence-informed practice.

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Phrasal Verbs and Idioms: Upper-Intermediate

Title: Phrasal Verbs and Idioms
Level: Upper-Intermediate
Author(s): Graham Workman
Publisher: Oxford
Date: 1996
Pages: 99
Size: 4.68 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: Very good, readable
Language: American English

Students of English realize very early on in their learning career that prepositions present a problem. They collocate with nouns, adjectives, past participles, and verbs, without rules or logic. Students simply have to learn that interested is followed by in, and good is followed by at. and go home has no preposition. This book will help students to unravel the complexity of multi-word verbs and idiomatic expressions. Students will find staged guidance in understanding the systems, and are given a variety of exercise practice in recognition and production.

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MEMORY LANGUAGE: How to develop powerful recall in 48 minutes

Title: MEMORY LANGUAGE: How to develop powerful recall in 48 minutes
Author(s): Allan Pease and Barbara Pease
Publisher: Pease Learning Systems
ISBN: 0646120611
Date: 1992
Pages: 80
Size: 1.59 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: British English

The concept was originally designed for children but has been expanded to teach the technique to any reader of any age, although children can demonstrate exceptional performance with these skills. MEMORY LANGUAGE gives you the key to a great power. Imagine being able to remember the answers for an examination, an entire shopping list, bus timetables, your daily goals, formulas and key information. With MEMORY LANGUAGE there will be no more 'Gee - I forgot.' [+/-]

MEMORY LANGUAGE is a unique and powerful tool. And it's a superb investment. What's more, an average adult can learn the technique in about 48 minutes.

This book shows:
• HOW TO REMEMBER LISTS FOREVER
• HOW TO RECALL INFORMATION IN ANY ORDER
• HOW TO USE CREATIVE IMAGINATION
• HOW TO MEMORISE SCHOOL, BUSINESS AND PERSONAL LISTS

About the author
Allan Pease is head of Pease Training Corporation, a sales and communication training company in Sydney. Australia. He is the author and co-author of the best-selling books BODY LANGUAGE: How to Read Others' Thoughts By Their
Gestures. TALK LANGUAGE: How to Use Conversation for Profit and Pleasure, and WRITE LANGUAGE: How to Write Letters that Really Work. He is the creator and host of a series of top-rating television specials and addresses over 100 conventions and seminars around the globe each year.

Barbara Pease is Executive Director of Pease Learning Systems in Sydney. Australia, which produces and markets raining programmes on Communication, Image and Selfmprovement skills for business, government and industry. A former professional model, Barbara was the face for many national television commercials, for key organisations such as Sheraton. Kern and Toyota. She lectures and trains in Deportment. Grooming, Image and Dress and was the principal of a professional modelling and photographic agency.

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Grammar and Vocabulary for First Certificate

Title: Grammar and Vocabulary for First Certificate
Level: Upper Intermediate
Author(s): Luke Prodromou
Publisher: Longman
ISBN: 058240018X
Date: 1999
Pages: 320
Size: 56.74 Mb
Format: PDF in rar
Quality: Very good, well-scanned, readable, full-color
Language: English

• Designed for Upper Intermediate students. An innovative approach particularly relevant to the Cambridge First Certificate Exam (FCE)
• Thorough grammar review. Detailed information concentrating on points tested in the exam, and a wealth of examples based on the Longman corpus. [+/-]

• A focus on vocabulary. Concentration on word formation, confusable words, and on common words and phrases that are useful in numerous situations.
• Lots of opportunity to practise. A wide variety of exercises to confirm understanding and prepare for the FCE exam, particularly Paper 3.
• Continuous testing in exam format. A diagnostic test for each Unit and regular tests in exam format to check progress.
• A flexible approach. Can be used in many different ways; clear cross-references point you in the direction of related grammar or vocabulary areas.

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Body Language For Dummies

Title: Body Language For Dummies®
Author(s): Elizabeth Kuhnke
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 2007
Pages: 337
Size: 3.52 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: British English

If you are puzzled by other people or want to improve the impression you give, knowing about body language could be the key. In this book you’ll discover how the body reveals what people really mean and how you can use your body and your expressions to improve your self-image to others. [+/-]

It explores why we give the signals we do, how to read the most common expressions and goes on to show how you can use your new understanding of body language for success at work, in relationships and in your communication. Actions really do speak louder than words!

About the author
Elizabeth Kuhnke is a Positive Impact Coach and the Managing Director and founder of Kuhnke Communication.

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Body Language: How to Read Others' Thoughts by Their Gestures

Title: Body Language: How to Read Others' Thoughts by Their Gestures
Author(s): Allan Pease
Publisher: Sheldon Press
Date: 1988
Pages: 148
Size: 2.34 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: British English

What people say is often very different from what they think or feel. Now, one can learn to read others' thoughts by their gestures. It sounds impossible but body language is easy to pick up, and can tell you if someone is lying, or how to choose a partner and make yourself likeable. [+/-]

It is a scientific fact that people's gestures give away their true intentions. This authoritative guide, written with great humour and insight, reveals all the secrets of body language to give you more confidence and control in any situation. Learn how to: choose the right partner get others to cooperate make yourself likeable and approachable tell if someone is lying read between the lines of what is being said how to use body language to get what you want

About the author
Allan Pease is the world's foremost expert on body language and relationships. His acclaimed book Body Language has sold over 4 million copies, while his top rated TV series on the same subject has been seen by over 100 million people worldwide. He travels the world lecturing on human communication. Barbara Pease is CEO of Pease International, which produces videos, training courses and seminars for businesses and governments worldwide. She is co-author of the bestselling book Why Men Don't Listen and Women Can't Read Maps, which has sold ten million copies around the world.

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Body Language by Julius Fast

Title: Body Language
Author(s): Julius Fast
Publisher: Pan Books
Date: 13th printing 1982
Pages: 200
Size: 1.39 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: British English

This important book adds a new dimension to human understanding. Julius Fast teaches you how to penetrate the personal secrets of strangers, friends and lovers by interpreting their body movements, and how to make use of your powers. Shy do you move the way you do? Does your body betray your thoughts? Can you enjoy lovemaking to its fullest? Are you a ‘closed’ or ‘open’ family? Are there homosexual signals? What body language does a girl use to say ‘I’m available? A game that can be surprising, frightening, adventurous or revealing – but never dull.

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25 Days to Better Thinking & Better Living

Title: 25 Days to Better Thinking & Better Living: A Guide for Improving Every Aspect of Your Life
Author(s): Linda Elder and Richard W. Paul
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Date: 2006
Pages: 129
Size: 2.61 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: American English

You are what you think! Take control of your thinking...and start living life to the fullest! In just 25 days, you can discover how to cut through lies, gain insight, and make smarter choices in every area of your life--from work and money to your intimate relationships. Discover how to overcome bad thinking habits caused by self-delusion or out-of-control emotions...clarify what you really want...recognize what you don't know. [+/-]

Ask the right questions...resist brainwashing, manipulation, and hypocrisy...Avoid worrying, conformism, and blame!
• 25 powerful ways to improve your thinking--and make smarter, better decisions.
• Stop deceiving yourself: Overcome built-in self-delusion, wishful thinking, and worrying.
• Use better thinking to make better decisions at work, at home, and throughout your life.
• Critically evaluate what you're told by advertisers, politicians, your boss...even your family!
• Quick, practical, easy to use! Includes daily/weekly action plans, progress notes, and more.

About the author
Dr. Linda Elder is an educational psychologist, Executive Director of the Center for Critical Thinking, and President of the Foundation for Critical Thinking. She is highly published and has done original research into the relation of thought and emotion and into the stages of critical thinking development. She is a regular keynoter at the International Conference on Critical Thinking, is highly sought after as a presenter, and is a recognized leader in critical thinking.

Dr. Richard Paul is Director of Research and Professional Development at the Center for Critical Thinking and Chair of the National Council for Excellence in Critical Thinking. He is an internationally recognized authority on critical thinking, with nine books and more than 200 articles on the subject.

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The 7 Challenges for Better Communication

Title: The 7 Challenges for Better Communication
Author(s): Dennis Rivers, M.A.
Publisher: www.NewConversations.net
Date: 2005
Pages: 105
Size: 1.81 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: American English

The Seven Challenges: A Workbook and Reader About Communicating More Cooperatively features a structured, intensive exploration of seven challenging skills for a lifetime of better communication in work, family, friendship & community. This workbook proposes seven ways to guide your conversations in directions that are more satisfying for both you and your conversation partners. [+/-]

A brief summary of each challenge is given in the paragraphs that follow, along
with some of the lifelong issues of personal development that are woven through each one. In Chapters One through Seven you will find expanded descriptions of each one, with discussions, examples, exercises and readings to help you explore each suggestion in action.

Challenge 1. Listen more carefully and responsively.
Challenge 2. Explain your conversational intent and invite consent.
Challenge 3. Express yourself more clearly and completely.
Challenge 4. Translate your (and other people’s) complaints and criticisms into specific requests, and explain your requests.
Challenge 5. Ask questions more “openendedly” and more creatively.
Challenge 6. Express more appreciation.
Challenge 7. Make better communication an important part of your everyday life.

In conclusion, the writer hopes the information and exercises in this workbook will help readers discover that listening and talking more consciously and cooperatively can be fun and rewarding. Just as guitar playing and basketball take great effort and bring great satisfaction, so does communicating more skillfully.

YOUR RIGHT TO MAKE COPIES OF THIS WORKBOOK:
You have permission to make an unlimited number of copies of this workbook for use in your school, business, public agency, church, synagogue, mosque, temple, and/or community service organization. Permission is granted for educational purposes by any individual and/or within any organization, but not for sale to the general public, provided that this copyright and contributions page is included in each full copy, and the copied material is distributed free of charge.

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Preschool: Alphabet and Nursery Rhymes Printable Worksheets

Title: Alphabet and Nursery Rhymes Worksheets: Help Your Preschoolers Develop Their Language Skills
Level: Preschoolers, ages 2 to 5
Author(s): Tibisay Engelbarts Felida
Publisher: Language-Worksheets.com
Pages: 66
Size: 6.3 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: English
Credit: www.language-worksheets.com

How to Develop the Language Skills of Your Preschool Children
1. Between ages 2 and 5, children acquire a tremendous amount of information on language. At age 5, the differences between children with different degrees of language skills can be striking. One child may have a vocabulary of 4,000-5,000 words; another child only has one to two thousand. [+/-]

As children make the transition from preschool to kindergarten, one of the best predictors of school success is how many words they know and use.

That is why I made several worksheets to improve the vocabulary of your children.

2. Make reading aloud a part of your everyday routine. Even if you just read for five minutes or less each morning and the same amount each evening, you'll be exposing your child to a great wealth of new words. Don't be surprised if you start hearing some of these words slip into your child's everyday speech. I love to read nursery rhymes for my daughter. I have my favorites here for you to print and read to your prescholer.

3. Encourage creativity. Preschool children get excited about making things. I have several dot to dot, colouring and other worksheets that your prescholer is going to love.

Alphabet Worksheets
One of the first steps in becoming a successful reader is to learn to recognize the letters of the alphabet. The alphabetic principle teaches that spoken language is represented by written words that are made up of varying combinations of letters, and that these letters and combinations of them make up all of the sounds in spoken language. Attaching sounds to these letters and learning to write them paves the way to successful reading and writing.
On this place we have free handwriting practice worksheets for children learning to write the alphabet

These worksheets are to be printed and traced. Tracing the shape is a great precursor to learning how to print letters. The alphabet printables are a great way for preschoolers and kindergarten kids to practice printing skills.

Nursery Rhymes
Why Teach Your Children Nursery Rhymes?

There are many benefits that can be gained by reading nurery rhymes to your children.Here are five great reasons!

1. Nursery rhymes helps the development of literacy.
2. Poetry is an excellent way to teach and reinforce grammar and vocabulary skills.
3. Poetry provides a focus for reading and writing, and helps children learn how to be concise.
4. Poetry supports components defined in brain research such as the importance of searching for patterns, and is an acceptable way for children to express emotions and feelings.
5. Poetry, and specially nursery rhymes, provide opportunities for children to listen for rhyming patterns, an important phonological awareness skill.

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Practice Quiz on Phonics (Printable)

Title: Practice Quiz on Phonics
Compiled by: O'Mama
Date: 2009
Pages: 50
Size: 6.3 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High, interactive, printable
Language: English

Phonics is a word-attack skill in which you "sound-out" difficult words by using the common sounds of letters in the word. It is often the first reading skill taught to people and is considered one of the "basic skills". Knowledge of phonics is most helpful in linking the words one knows through simply hearing them with the actual written word. You may wish to review and print this list of phonics rules before you start this quiz.

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My First Phonic Book

Title: My First Phonic Book
Level: Baby to Preschool
Author(s): DK Publishing
Publisher: DK Preschool
Date: 2004
Pages: 36
Size: 6.36 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: Good, full-color
Language: English

When kids begin reading, one of the first things they learn is how sounds are connected to letters. This small, sturdy board book is a simple but entertaining way for kids to start learning phonics. Each page, illustrated in DK's engaging visual style, teaches a single sound, some are single letter sounds like /e/, and others are combinations like /oo/. The book features 33 sounds in alphabetical order. Each sound appears in a small box at the top of the page, and three photos of items whose names contain those sounds help kids make the connection. Whether a child reads this book alone or with a parent, the straightforward presentation makes My First Phonics Board Book a useful introduction to a lifetime of reading adventures.

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Dictionary of Engineering, 2nd Editon

Title: Dictionary of Engineering, 2nd Editon
Author(s): McGraw-Hill Editors
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Date: 2003
Pages: 655
Size: 5.42 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: American English

The McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Engineering provides a compendium of more than 18,000 terms that are central to the various branches of engineering and related fields of science. The coverage in this Second Edition is focused on building construction, chemical engineering, civil engineering, control systems, design engineering, electricity and electronics, engineering acoustics, industrial engineering, mechanics and mechanical engineering, systems engineering, and thermodynamics. [+/-]

Many new entries have been added since the previous edition with others revised as necessary. Many of the terms used in engineering are often found in specialized dictionaries and glossaries; this Dictionary, however, aims to provide the user with the convenience of a single, comprehensive reference.

Written in clear, simple language understandable to the general reader, yet in-depth enough for scientists, educators, and advanced students, The McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Engineering, Second Edition:

• Has been extensively revised, with 17,500 entries encompassing the language of engineering
• Includes synonyms, acronyms, and abbreviations
• Provides pronunciations for all terms
• Covers such topics as building construction, chemical engineering, civil engineering, control systems, design engineering, engineering acoustics, industrial engineering, information technology and computing, mechanical engineering, systems engineering, telecommunications, and thermodynamics
• Includes an appendix containing tables of useful data and information
• Is based on the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms – for more than a quarter-of-a-century THE standard international reference

Carefully reviewed for clarity, completeness, and accuracy, the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Engineering, Second Edition, offers a standard of excellence unmatched by any similar publication.

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Becoming a Teacher: Issues in Secondary Teaching, 3rd Ed.

Title: Becoming a Teacher: Issues in Secondary Teaching
Editor(s): Justin Dillon and Meg Maguire
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Date: 2007, 3rd Edition
Pages: 393
Size: 1.38 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: British English

If you are learning how to be a teacher, this book has been written for you. It has been written by a group of people who have two things in common. The first is that they have devoted most of their lives to education - teaching, researching or both. The second is that they have all worked in the Department of Education at King’s College London. [+/-]

This unique and powerful combination has resulted in what you hold in your hands – thoughts, ideas, words, questions, answers, wit and wisdom. This edition contains 28 chapters, two more than the second edition and five more than the first edition. There are new chapters on education for sustainability, school effectiveness and improvement, and education policy. There are 11 new contributors and many new ideas and issues. However, the overall philosophy of the book remains unchanged. This is not a ‘tips for teachers’ book, although some chapters do focus on technical issues. Each chapter is designed to give you some background in terms of, say, the historical context and to illuminate the key issues that you will be faced with every day.

Much of teaching relies on confidence. You need to be confident in your knowledge of your subject. Your students need to be confident in you as a teacher. Confidence can develop through experience and through feedback from other people. This book is designed to help you to become more confident in your understanding of what learning to teach involves. There will be much in this book that you have not thought of before – things that you disagree with or things that you feel are obvious. It is designed to be dipped into rather than read from beginning to end and, we hope, will point you in the direction of further reading.

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Associate Press Sport Writing Handbook

Title: Associate Press Sport Writing Handbook
Author(s): Steve Wilstein
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Date: 2002
Pages: 209
Size: 3.02 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: American English

Glamorous, exciting, and explosively popular, the world of professional sports increasingly whets the public's appetite for up-to-the-minute, entertaining, and accurate information on the plays and the players. In this invaluable hands-on guide, award-winning AP sports writer and columnist Steve Wilstein gives prospective sports journalists the real-life, up-close and personal scoop on this in-demand but demanding, 24/7, sunshine or snow profession­­a profession that is more about writing than it is about sports. And yes, spelling counts. [+/-]

Here is expert, comprehensive coverage of all aspects of professional sports writing as it is done every day at the world renowned Associated Press, in newspapers, magazines, and on the Internet­­from basic sports reporting to writing a column, the art and craft of interviewing, digging for scoops, writing features and investigative series, breaking into the business, and more. In addition to providing core techniques and methodology, The Associated Press Sports Writing Handbook also includes an array of real-life experiences and insights straight from the mouths of such noted journalists as Dave Anderson, Christine Brennan, Jim Litke, Bob Ryan, George Versey, Michael Wilbon, and many others.

Whether it's boxing or baseball, hockey or horse racing, a paragraph in a small local paper or a spread in a national publication, this expert book will help you meet the challenge of bringing sports to vivid life with style, confidence, wit, and skill. Beautifully illustrated with dozens of dynamic action photographs, The Associated Press Sports Writing Handbook also will inform you about the future of the business­­and help you decide your place in it.

About the author
Steve Wilstein is an Associated Press national sports writer and columnist based in New York. He covers sports events around the globe, including the Grand Slam of tennis, the World Series, Super Bowl, and Olympics, and has won more than 25 writing awards. In 1999, he won the AP Sports Editors award for breaking the news of Mark McGwire's use of a muscle supplement banned by most sports, which was considered the sports story of the year.

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Active Learning and Note Taking Guide: American Literature

Title: Active Learning and Note Taking Guide: American Literature
Author(s): Douglas Fisher, Ph.D.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Date: 2006
Pages: 289
Size: 2.95 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: American English

The Active Learning and Note Taking Guide helps you develop skills for reading informational text—skills such as identifying main ideas, previewing, sequencing, and recognizing organizational patterns in text. Informational text is nonfiction. It presents facts, explanations, and opinions, and is often accompanied by charts, diagrams, and other graphics that make information easier to grasp. Among the types of interesting and challenging texts in this Guide, you’ll find: [+/-]

• Biographical sketches
• Memoirs
• Literary history
• Criticism
• Surveys
• Award-winning nonfiction book excerpts
• Primary source documents
• High-interest articles from TIME magazine

The Active Learning and Note Taking Guide helps you study the background articles found in the Unit and Part Introductions of your textbook, Glencoe Literature: The Reader’s Choice. The Guide includes two types of lessons:

• Note Taking on Informational Text Lessons present a tried-andtrue method of note taking—called The Cornell Note Taking System—along with prompts to help you preview, record, reduce, and summarize the introductory articles in your textbook. Using the book will help you learn this valuable note-taking method, so you can make your own Cornell notes whenever you study.

• Active Reading of Informational Text Lessons are lessons based on the Perspectives and TIME magazine articles in your anthology. In this part of the book, you’ll practice identifying important passages, writing paragraphs, and completing graphic organizers—all tools that expert readers use to help them comprehend informational texts.

Note to Parents and Guardians: Ask your students to show you their work periodically, and explain how it helps them study. You might want to talk to them about how the skills they are learning cross over to other subjects.

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Writing Skills Success in 20 Minutes a Day, 2nd Edition

Title: Writing Skills Success in 20 Minutes a Day, 2nd Edition
Author(s): Judith F. Olson
Publisher: LearningExpress
Date: 1998
Pages: n/a (20 lessons)
Size: 1.19 Mb
Format: Compiled HTML Help file (.chm)
Quality: High
Language: American English

Writing is a lot like fishing. People who are good at fishing study and practice it. They learn which tools to use for catching the best fish in different types of water. No one is born with fishing talent. Some people enjoy it more than others, but everyone can do it if they want. The same goes for writing. Writing is a skill that can be acquired by mastering a few basic, yet vital steps. This book helps readers learn about problem verbs, pronoun agreement, as well as the essentials of style. Everyday examples help fine-tune writing skills as they relate to work, school, and in personal correspondence. With targeted straightforward lessons that require a minimal time commitment to complete—just 20 minutes a day—this book is a valuable resource.

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Writing in 15 Minutes a Day

Title: Writing in 15 Minutes a Day
Series: Junior Skill Builders
Author(s): LearningExpress Editors
Publisher: LearningExpress
Date: 2008
Pages: 240
Size: 1.27 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: American English

With Writing in 15 Minutes a Day, middle school students build tremendous writing and communication skills. Lessons progress in difficulty so the students broaden their understanding of the concepts, and learns by example rather than memorization. Whether they need to catch up on basic writing skills, prepare for a standardized test, essay assignment, classroom exam, or creative writing project, this book guides the student to success.

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Write Better Essays in Just 20 Minutes a Day, 2nd Edition

Title: Write Better Essays in Just 20 Minutes a Day, 2nd Edition
Compiler(s): Learning Express Editors
Publisher: LearningExpress
Date: 2006
Pages: 208
Size: 1.40 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: American English

Essay writing need not be daunting. Taking the reader step-by-step through the entire process, from the initial organization of ideas to the final stages of proofreading, Write Better Essays in Just 20 Minutes a Day covers all the essentials: how to understand essay questions, create a strong thesis, develop a captivating introduction, support ideas, and revise the work. Included are plenty of sample essays, strategies for planning and revising in-class essays, ways to overcome writer's block, and tips on achieving higher scores on essay exams.

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Word Power in 15 Minutes a Day

Title: Word Power in 15 Minutes a Day
Series: Junior Skill Builders
Author(s): LearningExpress Editors
Publisher: LearningExpress
Date: 2009
Pages: 256
Size: 1.93 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: American English

With Word Power in 15 Minutes a Day, students gain an impressive vocabulary in no time! Short, easy lessons and fun factoids drawn from popular TV, music, sports, and movies make learning new words a pleasure rather than a memorization chore. Memory hooks and shortcuts help students retain what they are learning, which includes:SynonymsoAntonyms,Related words and meanings,Vocabulary from a variety of subject areas,How words are used on standardized tests.

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Vocabulary & Spelling Success in 20 Minutes a Day, 4th Edition

Title: Vocabulary & Spelling Success in 20 Minutes a Day, 4th Edition
Author(s): LearningExpress Editors
Publisher: LearningExpress
Date: 2006
Pages: 272
Size: 1.30 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: American English

A good vocabulary is essential to succeeding on tests, in class, or on the job. This self-paced tutorial consists of 20 lessons and numerous practice exercises created specifically to give readers a thorough grounding in every facet of a strong vocabulary, including pronunciation, spelling, context, definitions, word parts, denotation and connotation, synonyms, and antonyms. The book begins with a pretest to diagnose students' word knowledge and ends with a posttest that shows how much they've learned. A bonus appendix provides valuable study tips to help improve retention of new words.

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Paragraph Writing: from Sentence to Paragraph

Title: Paragraph Writing: from Sentence to Paragraph
Level: Pre-intermediate to Intermediate
Author(s): Dorothy E. Zemach and Carlos Islam
Publisher: MacMillan
Date: 2004
Pages: 108
Size: 25.40 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High, full-color
Language: American English

Paragraph Writing encourages learners to develop their writing skills from simple sentence to full paragraphs. The process approach has the benefit of not only developing writing skills, but also independent thought and creative writing. The Student Book contains peer review forms and a grammar reference section. Paragraph Writing is great foundation for Success with College Writing. [+/-]

When starting to write assignments in English, students need to be able to:
● find ideas for their writing and express these in sentences
● logically order sentences to form paragraphs
● strengthen their work through review and revision

The back of the Student’s Book contains peer review forms and a grammar reference section.

Paragraph Writing provides students with:
● Focus on particular aspects of paragraph writing, such as topics, style, and development
● Writing support to help them with brainstorming, organizing ideas, writing topic sentences, and supporting their ideas
● Language support to help them with vocabulary, grammar, and punctuation
● Guidance on reviewing their own and their classmates’ writing in order to make revisions
● Structured, graded writing assignments at the end of each unit Paragraph Writing leads naturally into College Writing.

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Managing Your Classroom with Heart

Title: Managing Your Classroom with Heart: A Guide for Nurturing Adolescent Learners
Author(s): Katy Ridnouer
Publisher: ASCD, Virginia, USA
Date: 2006
Pages: 189
Size: 1.43 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: American English

Although the United States trains more than enough teachers to meet its needs, the attrition rate for educators is higher than that of any other professional occupation. According to a report from the National Commission for Teaching and America’s Future, up to one-third of new U.S. teachers leave the profession within the first few years. Katy, the writer, was one of them. [+/-]

Katy has seen herself how caring for students helps a teacher meet curricular goals; tapping into the excitement of reaching a child emotionally provides energy to reach that child academically. Try out the many approaches that she illustrates throughout this book, and you will find yourself concentrating less on “dealing with” your students and more on inspiring them. It is her hope that as you put her guidelines into practice, you will begin to develop your own classroom management style—one that’s a perfect fit for both your personality and your school. This book is intended as a starting point. Your final destination is entirely up to you.

About the author
Katy Ridnouer has taught students ranging from age 5 to 55 in ethnically and economically diverse classrooms. She has taught English in a public high school and a public middle school and is a member of the faculty at Central Piedmont Community College, where she has taught in a high school diploma program, in a developmental English program, and in a teacher training program. She has been a reading specialist, English teacher, and journalism teacher at a private school for students with learning disabilities, and has taught in a high school equivalency program on the Cheyenne River Reservation. She has also worked with students one-on-one in a tutoring center and in private practice.

Katy earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and a Master of Education degree at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. She lives in Matthews, North Carolina, with her husband and three sons. You may contact her at katyr@carolina.rr.com.

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Listen to Me!: The Voices of Pupils with EBD

Title: Listen to Me!: The Voices of Pupils with Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties (EBD)
Author(s): Susan Wise
Publisher: Lucky Duck
Date: 2000
Pages: 151
Size: 1.67 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: British English

"Shortlist SEN Best Academic Book Award." This book very cleverly combines the academic study with a practical, accessible format. Margin summaries allow the browser to find relevant material. Most importantly, the book provides teachers with suggestions on how to better provide for the pupils who are hard to reach and hard to teach. [+/-]

About the author
Susan gained her doctorate by researching the experiences of young people who had become disaffected with school. Here, she uses that information to provide a fascinating insight into the feelings and views of those young people who are hard to motivate. What we learn from her work is that we might not like what we hear, we might not agree with what we hear, but, if we are to include these young people in our schools, then we must listen to them.

Reviews
"This book is an essential tool if schools are to achieve effective ways forward with those students who are unhappy; disaffected and therefore unable to cope with the present system" -SNIP

"This is a valuable and well-written book which deserves to be widely read" -Support for Learning

"The structure of the book is well organized and the use of marginal summaries is particularly use for those wishing an overview of the key themes from the book" -Educational Psychology in Practice

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In Charge Book 1 and 2 (Grammar Exercises)

Title: In Charge 1 and 2
Level: Advanced
Author(s): Evelina Dimitrova-Galaczi and Árpád Galaczi
Publisher: Longman
Date: 2003
Pages: 147
Size: 1.31 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: American English

A new two-level advanced course, In Charge has a thematic syllabus that invites learners to talk and write about stimulating topics while developing critical thinking skills and learning strategies. The twelve units in each book are based on high-interest themes such as memorable moments, odd jobs, conflict resolution, biological clocks, and humor. Progress checks every three units consolidate key language, present test-taking strategies, and provide useful practice for standardized tests. [+/-]

The new edition of Scott Foresman English is a balanced, four-skills program for secondary and young adult students that combines a strong treatment of reading and writing with an explicit presentation of learning strategies for academic success. A flexible program with multiple entry levels, Scott Foresman English can be used as a comprehensive eight-level course or as separate mini-courses.

The four levels in the second edition of Scott Foresman English are as follows:
• Introductory: On Your Mark 1 and 2
• Beginning: In Contact 1 and 2
• Intermediate: On Target 1 and 2
• Advanced: In Charge 1 and 2

Key features of the Scott Foresman English program:
• A fully integrated four-skills syllabus promotes well-rounded learning and academic preparation.
• Thematic units teach English through a variety of high-interest content.
• A student-centered approach encourages students to share their personal experiences, develop critical thinking skills, and use learning strategies.
• Prelistening, prereading, and prewriting activities give students the focus and support they need to succeed with these language skills.
• Clear grammar presentations provide a balance of controlled and communicative practice.

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Longman English Grammar Practice for Intermeidate Students

Title: Longman English Grammar Practice for Intermeidate Students
Level: Intermediate
Author(s): L. G. Alexander
Publisher: Longman
Date: 1998
Pages: 303
Size: 7.52 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: British English

There is no point in learning grammar for the sake of learning grammar. Grammar is the support system of communication and we learn it to communicate better. Grammar explains the why and how of language. We learn it because we just can't do without it. This book deals entirely with English as a foreign language (EFL). It is for intermediate students who are working with a teacher or working on their own. It covers every important area of the English language. [+/-]

Longman English Grammar Practice is a practice book. It is intended to support (not replace) the material in language courses and is organized for this purpose:
• The material is laid out on facing pages.
• Each set of facing pages deals with a major point of grammar.
• This major point is divided into small, manageable amounts of information. Clear notes explain the points to be practised, followed by an exercise on just those points.
• The last exercise is in context, usually an entertaining story with a cartoon illustration. It sums up all you have learnt in the exercises you have just done and shows you how the language works. It is a 'reward' for the hard work you have just been doing!

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