Language learning: writing skills

The last 25 years have witnessed extraordinary growth in the academic specialization variously described as composition studies or rhetoric and composition.

Equip learners to achieve in the Extended Essay.

Ideal for teachers who have been searching for a way to inspire students with a love for writing--and reading--contemporary poetry.

Non-degree and undergraduate students are both inexperienced essay writers who need close guidance to become effective writers.

Planting Daisies is one of those books in which reader and character become friends in the face of their shared struggles.

If you have the passion and energy to write fiction, but have trouble finding an idea and getting started, this is the perfect book for you.

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For more than a decade, Clear and Simple as the Truth has guided readers to consider style not as an elegant accessory of effective prose but as its very heart.

Despite the rise of computer gaming, millions of adults still play face to face role playing games, which rely in part on social interaction to create stories.

Write in English like a native speaker!

Public Relations Writing and Media Techniques is the most comprehensive and up-to-date public relations writing text available.

Lit from Within offers creative writers a window into the minds of some of America's most celebrated contemporary authors.

'A definitive guide, in here you'll find everything you need' S.

Over 300 time-saving model business letters!

WRITING THE VISUAL: A PRACTICAL GUIDE FOR TEACHERS OF COMPOSITION AND COMMUNICATION offers a variety of creative and theoretically based approaches to the development of visual literacy.

Many children avoid writing for a number of reasons perhaps they find it tedious or frustrating, or perhaps they have dyslexia or dysgraphia.

Respected quotation anthologist and author of Oxymoronica and Viva la Repartee Dr.

Write more with less pain!

Winner of the 2016 IWCA Outstanding Book/Major Work AwardDrawing from her decade leading Salt Lake Community Colleges Community Writing Center (CWC), Tiffany Rousculp advocates cultivating relationships within a rhetoric of respect that recognizes the abilities, contributions, and goals of all participants.

The Handbook of Second and Foreign Language Writing is an authoritative reference compendium of the theory and research on second and foreign language writing that can be of value to researchers, professionals, and graduate students.

Writing Skills for Public Relations is filled with helpful pointers and useful examples for public relations practitioners at all levels who need to make the best use of written communication.

This comprehensive book helps you learn the 92 basic Kana characters and 2,136 standard Kanji characters.

Composing a Community is not only a history of early WAC programs but also of how the people developing those programs were in touch with one another, exchanging ideas and information, forming first a network and then a community.

Examining recent changes in the once stable genre of doctoral thesis and dissertation writing, this book explores how these changes impact on the nature of the doctoral thesis/dissertation itself.

Intermediate Written Chinese is tailored to your personal Chinese language-learning goals and abilities so that you can become fluent as smoothly as possible!

Do you want to be able to listen to, speak, read and write Cantonese confidently?

The EPA investigation of a 1994 chemical plant tragedy concluded that "e;the explosion resulted from a lack of written safe operating procedures "e; While good written procedures can't guarantee zero accidents, they can reduce the number of accidents caused by human error.

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This antiquarian volume contains a comprehensive guide to speaking and writing correctly, with information on grammar, sentence structure, writing letters, common pitfalls, comments on famous pieces of literature and their authors, and much more.

Many children avoid writing for a number of reasons perhaps they find it tedious or frustrating, or perhaps they have dyslexia or dysgraphia.

An off-hand speculation by ex-pat and professor, David Moran, sends his celebrated historian colleague, Graham Guade, on an investigation that peels back American use of, and protection for, Japanese doctors who committed unspeakable medical experiments in WWII.

This eminently practical volume demystifies legal writing, outlines the causes and consequences of bad writing, and prescribes straightforward, easy-to-apply remedies that will make your writing readable.

Reinforce your written Chinese with this practice book for the best-selling Tuttle Learning Chinese Characters.

A gentleman knows the importance of effectively expressing, in three or four sentences, his thanks for a gift or for a job interview, conveying his sympathy, or saying he is sorry.

Some of us understand place in terms of family and community, landscape, or even the weather.

For more than a quarter of a century, Pat Schneider has helped writers find and liberate their true voices.

Beginning with a review of the theory and pedagogic practices that have been influential in English for Academic Purposes (EAP) contexts, this book examines the practice of joint construction in a genre-based approach to literacy pedagogy.

The essays in New Media/New Methods: The Academic Turn from Literacy to Electracy pose an invention-based approach to new media studies.

Personal writing can be risky for anyone, but for military veterans, especially those suffering from post-traumatic stress, sharing stories can trigger painful and disturbing flashbacks.

Theory has been used widely in the field of second language writing.

On the Blunt Edge: Technology in Composition's History and Pedagogy tells the stories of composition's techno-history, from the roads of the ancient world, which allowed students to travel to school, to the audio-visual aids that populate the classrooms of the modern world.

The first study to explore deeply and intimately the complex and multifaceted nature of creative writing practice, The Scholarship of Creative Writing and Practice offers a new route in scholarly inquiry for creative writing studies, probing beyond pedagogical methods (with which most of the field's scholarship is occupied) to explore the writing life as it is experienced by a wealth of international writer/academics.

The use of creative writing as a route to personal development is a powerful therapeutic tool - a fact that is recognized in the growing numbers of workshops and writing groups within professional contexts, including clinical, health and criminal justice settings.