The Routledge International Handbook of English, Language and Literacy Teaching

Title: The Routledge International Handbook of English, Language and Literacy Teaching
Author(s): Dominic Wyse, Richard Andrews and James Hoffman
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0415469031
Date: 2010
Pages: 581
Size: 2.99 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: American English

Edited by three authorities in the field, this Handbook presents contributions from experts across the world who report the cutting-edge of international research. It is ground-breaking in its holistic, evidence-informed account that aims to synthesize key messages for policy and practice in English, Language and Literacy Teaching.

A comprehensive collection, the handbook focuses on the three key areas of reading, writing, and language, and issues that cut across them. The international emphasis of all the chapters is extended by a final section that looks directly at different countries and continents.

The authors address many key issues including:
• why pupil motivation is so important
• the evidence for what works in teaching and learning
• the place of Information Technology in the twenty-first century
• the status of English and other languages
• globalisation and political control of education.

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Perfect Phrases for Writing Job Descriptions

Title: Perfect Phrases for Writing Job Descriptions
Author(s): Carole Martin
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
ISBN: 0071635602
Date: 2009
Pages: 208
Size: 1.09 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: American English

Perfect Phrases for Writing Job Descriptions helps you craft job descriptions that attract the best talent and accurately convey job responsibilities. And after you find that ideal candidate, this valuable resource will assist you with performance reviews, goal setting, and accountability.

Hundreds of tips, examples, and sample phrases to help you:
• Get candidates excited about opportunities in your company
• Attract and recruit the very best talent
• Foster communication between supervisors and employees
• Evaluate performance and provide clear feedback to new employees

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The Oxford History of English

Title: The Oxford History of English
Author(s): Lynda Mugglestone
Publisher: Oxford
ISBN : 9780199249
Date: 2006
Pages: 498
Size: 3.2 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: American English

The Oxford History of English traces the language from its obscure Indo-European roots to its position as the world's first language. In accounts made vivid with examples from an immense range of documentary evidence, including letters, diaries, and private records, fifteen experts describe the history of English in all its versions, written and spoken. They reveal the language's rich and protean variety over the centuries and chart the progress of all its versions, standard, regional, and international. With impeccable and approachable scholarship, they describe and explain its constantly changing sounds, words, meanings, and grammar. This is a book for everyone interested in the English language, present and past.

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15-Minute Cover Letter: Write an Effective Cover Letter Right Now

Title: 15-Minute Cover Letter: Write an Effective Cover Letter Right Now
Author(s): Michael Farr and Louise M. Kursmark
Publisher: Jist Works
ISBN: 1593576617
Date: 2005
Pages: 177
Size: 2.41 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: American English

This book distills revolutionary and proven cover letter advice into six quick chapters about writing and using cover letters and other job search correspondence. The book offers a collection of dozens of professionally written cover letter samples along with step-by-step advice for creating attention-getting letters of your own. Bonus content offers tip on resume writing and job search success.

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Opportunities in Technical Writing Careers

Title: Opportunities in Technical Writing Careers
Author(s): Jay R. Gould and Wayne A. Losano
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
ISBN: 0071493115
Date: 2008
Pages: 163
Size: 11.37 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: American English

Write your way to success! Get started in a career that has a promising future and is financially rewarding. Opportunities in Technical Writing Careers provides you with a complete overview of the job possibilities, salary figures, and experience required to enter the field of technical writing.

This career-boosting book will help you:
• Determine the specialty that's right for you, from proposal writing to research to manufacturing
• Acquire in-depth knowledge of technical writing
• Find out what kind of salary you can expect
• Understand the daily routine of your chosen field
• Focus your job search using industry resources

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Writing Better English for ESL Learners, 2nd Edition

Title: Writing Better English for ESL Learners
Author(s): Ed Swick
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
ISBN: 0071628037
Date: 2009, 2nd Edition
Pages: 252
Size: 1.31 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: American English

Taking a developmental approach to improving writing skills, "Writing Better English" helps you increase your levels of proficiency in both grammar and vocabulary. Before tackling sentence structures, the book helps you reinforce those grammar elements you may have trouble with, like verb tenses and pronouns. You'll then expand your written communication abilities through comprehensive explanations, skill-building exercises, and practical writing activities.

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English for Presentations at International Conferences

Title: English for Presentations at International Conferences
Author(s): Adrian Wallwork
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1441965904
Date: 2010
Pages: 196
Size: 1.5 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: American English

This book is designed to help non-native English speakers to prepare and deliver effective presentations at international conferences. It will be the first book ever written on presentations specifically from the perspective of non-native English speakers. It will be written in an English that readers will be able to understand easily. This is not 'simple' English as a native speaker would interpret it, but a particular way of writing with minimal redundancy in which key points are highlighted clearly. The book will cover not only the typical difficulties of all presenters (structure, gaining audience attention, graphics on slides etc), but will also focus above all on those issues that cause specific problems for the non-native.

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5 Favorite Books for Kids (full color)

5 Favorite Books for Kids | PDF | 56.6 Mb

Lists of the books:
1. Disney Learning Phonics and Reading - 34p
2. Disney Learning Addition and Subtraction - 34p
3. Max & Ruby Alphabet - 36p
4. Macmillan Picture Grammar for Children Starter - 51p
5. Macmillan Children's Dictionary - 99p
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English Collocations in Use

Title: English Collocations in Use
Author(s): Michael McCarthy and Felicity O'Dell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521603781
Date: 2005
Pages: 157
Size: 60.79 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: Good, readable
Language: English

A good knowledge of collocations (typical word combinations) is essential for fluent and natural-sounding English. Using collocations will improve your style of written and spoken English, and knowledge of collocations is often tested in examinations such as Cambridge FCE, CAE, CPE and IELTS. Learning correct word combinations will also help you avoid common learner errors. [+/-]

English Collocations in Use presents and practises hundreds of collocations in typical contexts. It is ideal for students at good intermediate level and above. Using collocations will improve your style of written and spoken English: instead of "a big amount", say "a substantial amount"; and instead of "think about the options", say "consider the options". Using collocations will make your English sound more natural: instead of "get ill", say "fall ill"; and instead of "a big fine", say "a heavy fine". Using collocations will help you avoid common learner errors: instead of "do a choice", say "make a choice"; and instead of "make your homework", say "do your homework".

CONTENTS:

Learning about collocations:
1 What is a collocation?
2 Finding, recording and learning collocations
3 Using your dictionary
4 Types of collocation
5 Register

Grammatical aspects of collocations:
6 Intensifying and quantifying adverbs
7 Everyday verbs 1
8 Everyday verbs 2
9 Everyday verbs 3

Special aspects of collocation:
10 Synonyms and confusable words 1
11 Synonyms and confusable words 2
12 Metaphor Topics: Travel and the environment:
13 Weather
14 Travel
15 Countryside
16 Towns

Topics: People and relationships:
17 People and character
18 People - physical appearance
19 Family
20 Relationships
21 Feelings and mental states

Topics: Leisure and lifestyle:
22 Houses
23 Eating and drinking
24 Films and books
25 Music
26 Sport
27 Health and illness
Topics: Work and study:
28 Computers and technology
29 Study and learning
30 Work
31 Business
32 Academic writing 1
33 Academic writing 2

Topics: Society and institutions:
34 Laws and punishments
35 Crime
36 News
37 Money
38 War and peace
39 Global problems

Basic concepts:
40 Time
41 Sound
42 Distance and size
43 Light and brightness
44 Texture
45 Taste and smell
46 Number and quantity
47 Movement and speed
48 Change
49 Ways of speaking
50 Ways of walking

Functions:
51 Starting and finishing
52 Talking about success and failure
53 Talking about cause and effect
54 Remembering and sensing
55 Agreeing and disagreeing
56 Talking about beliefs and opinions
57 Deciding and choosing
58 Claiming and denying
59 Liking and disliking
60 Praising and criticising

Answer key
Index

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The Handbook of Good English: Modern Grammar, Punctuation, Usage, & Style

Title: The Handbook of Good English: A Comprehensive, Easy-to-Use Guide to Modern Grammar, Punctuation, Usage, and Style
Author(s): Edward D. Johnson
Publisher: Facts On File
Date: 1991
Pages: 447
Size: 22.11 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: Very good, well-scanned, readable
Language: American English

For too many years now, the teaching of the English language in our grammar and high schools has been indifferent, leaving an entire generation with only the haziest ideas about how to write and speak clearly and well. Now the Handbook of Good English, a comprehensive, easy-to-use guide to modern grammar, punctuation, usage, and style, puts the best available advice about writing and using the English language at your fingertips. [+/-]

Destined to replace Strunk and White's ELEMENTS OF STYLE and a host of other desk-reference books on careful writing, THE HANDBOOK OF GOOD ENGLISH is organized for both rapid reference to check specific points and for leisurely study to improve personal and professional prose writing.

This comprehensive book covers syntax, punctuation, style, organization, and tone. Johnson does more than dictate the rules; he gives examples, exceptions, and, more important, clear, easily understood explanations of why grammar has the rules it does. He also gives full attention to styling) the important matter of giving consistent treatment to numbers, abbreviations, generic terms, forms of address, foreign terms, etc., in good writing.

A special feature of this book is the combined Glossary/Index, alphabetically arranged to give instant answers to the most commonly asked questions about misused words, phrases, and constructions, and cross-referenced to the text if a longer explanation is desired.

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Writing: Grammar Usage and Style

Title: CliffsQuickReview™ Writing: Grammar Usage and Style
Author(s): Jean Eggenschwiler and Emily Dotson Biggs
Publisher: Hungry Minds
ISBN-13: 978-0764563935
Date: 2001
Pages: 224
Size: 1.28 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: American English

When it comes to pinpointing the stuff you really need to know, nobody does it better than CliffsNotes. This fast, effective tutorial helps you master core grammar, usage, and concepts – from parts of speech, punctuation, and clauses to common sentence errors, misused words, and the elements of style – and get the best possible grade. At CliffsNotes, we're dedicated to helping you do your best, no matter how challenging the subject. Our authors are veteran teachers and talented writers who know how to cut to the chase – and zero in on the essential information you need to succeed.

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AP English Language and Composition, 3rd Edition

Title: CliffsAP™ English Language and Composition
Author(s): Barbara V. Swovelin
Publisher: Wiley
ISBN-13: 978-0471933687
Date: 2006
Pages: 387
Size: 2.51 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: American English

Your complete guide to a higher score on the *AP English Language and Composition exam Why CliffsAP Guides? Go with the name you know and trust Get the information you need--fast! Written by test prep specialists About the contents: [+/-]

Part Introduction
* Review of the format and scoring of the recent exam Part Analysis of Exam Areas
* Description of the multiple-choice section and effective test-taking techniques
* Overview of the essay section and strategies for success

Part Diagnostic Mini-Test

Part Past AP English Language Essays

Part Glossary of Important Terms for the Exam

Part 6 Practice Tests
* 6 full-length practice tests followed by answers and explanations Part Suggested Reading List
* AP is a registered trademark of the College Board, which was not involved in the production of, and does not endorse, this product.

AP Test Prep Essentials from the Experts at CliffsNotes?

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Grammar and Usage for Better Writing

Title: Grammar and Usage for Better Writing
Author(s): Auditi Chakravarty
Publisher: Amsco School Publications, Inc
Date: 2004
Pages: 270
Size: 1.13 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: American English

Recommened! Grammar and Usage for Better Writing is a basic workbook that can provide a foundation for further study in English grammar and usage. It will benefit students who are learning the essentials for the first time as well as those who wish to review concepts they have previously learned. The premise of this book is that understanding how language works enables us to use it more effectively. This skill can enhance our personal communications, schoolwork, and professional lives.

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How to Learn Any Language

Title: How to Learn Any Language: Quickly, Easily, Inexpensively, Enjoyably and On Your Own
Author(s): Barry J. Farber
Publisher: Kensington
Date: 2001
Pages: 110
Size: 1.22 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: British English

Barry Farber has been a true adventurer in languages for forty-six years and can speak in twenty-five tongues. The techniques he presents in How to Learn Any Language will have you speaking, reading, writing and enjoying any foreign language you want to learn - or have to learn - in a surprisingly short time. [+/-]

Without beating your head against verb conjugations or noun declensions, you can follow Farber's principles and glide toward proficiency in your chosen language. His method consist of four ground-breaking but simple concepts hailed by language-teaching professionals:

About the author
Barry Farber has been a true adventurer in languages for forty-six years and can speak in 25 tongues. The techniques he presents here will have readers speaking, reading, and writing and enjoying any foreign language in a surprisingly short time.

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New Cambridge Advanced English, New Edition (full-color)

Title: New Cambridge Advanced English
Author(s): Leo Jones
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: 2000
Pages: 194
Size: 11.31 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High, full color
Language: British English

Recommened! New Cambridge Advanced English is the revised and updated edition of the popular Cambridge Advanced English. The course has been completely redesigned in full colour and its stimulating reading and listening extracts have been supplemented with new authentic reading texts and interviews. [+/-]

Theme units, providing practice in spoken and written fluency, alternate with language units which develop accuracy in grammar, vocabulary, functions and pronunciation. In addition, New Cambridge Advanced English now contains exam-style exercises designed specifically to prepare candidates for the Cambridge CAE exam. The approach to the exam is low-key, however, with guidance and notes on exam-style exercises given in the Teacher's Book only. When used in conjunction with CAE Practice Tests, New Cambridge Advanced English makes the ideal preparation for the exam, and is especially suitable for mixed classes of exam candidates and non-candidates.

Review
"The book offers a variety of attractive reading texts and covers a wide range of topics, so everyone is bound to find something of interest, and I like the fact that students are asked to give a personal reaction (rather than an 'exam answer') to texts and pictures." -English Teaching Professional

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Grammar and Style, 2nd Edition

Title: The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Grammar and Style
Author(s): Laurie E. Rozakis
Publisher: Alpha
Date: 2003, 2nd Edition
Pages: 432
Size: 7.57 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: American English

You're no idiot, of course. You've probably written your share of book reports,, term papers, e-mails, and thank you notes. The rules of writing can be confusing, however, and might result in final drafts riddled with gaffes, typos, and errors! The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Grammar and Style, Second Edition, will take you step by step through the basics of spelling, punctuation, and sentence formation to help you become an effective communicator of the written word! [+/-]

In this revised and updated Complete Idiot's Guide®, you get:
• Explanations of writing styles including exposition, narration, argumentation, and description.
• Definitions of such writing mistakes as dangling modifiers, mixed metaphors, and split infinitives–and how to avoid them.
• Examples of model documents such as resumes, cover letters, and thank you notes.
• The differences between drafting a business letter and crafting a personal one.

Key features:
• Easy-to-understand instructions on writing and speaking
• Perfect punctuation, from the apostrophe to the semi-colon
• Rights and wrongs of sentence structure, word usage, spelling and much, much more

Find the "write" stuff within you!
• Voice your opinion on the page
• Be concise with your words
• Use slang only when appropriate
• Don't run-on with your sentences
• Reach your intended readers with your own style
• Avoid cliches and sexist language
• Turn passive sentenses into active onces
• Know when to abbreviate
• Make your communication effective

About the author
Dr. Laurie E. Rozakis has published dozens of books, including Shaum’s Quick Guide to Writing Research Papers, Study Skills for the Utterly Confused, and The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Grammar and Style. She is a full professor of English and humanities at State University of New York at Farmingdale, and has taught English and research skills for more than 15 years.

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Guide to Good Writing

Title: The Facts on File Guide to Good Writing
Author(s): Martin H. Manser
Publisher: Facts On File
Date: 2006
Pages: 417
Size: 1.61 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: American English

Mastering the art of writing is one of the most important, yet most challenging tasks for many people. Without proper writing skills, completing the easiest assignment can quickly become an insurmountable problem. From English to business to economics, writing is an essential skill for nearly every subject and career. [+/-]

Offering clear, straightforward guidance, The Facts On File Guide to Good Writing outlines the basics of writing for anyone looking to improve writing skills or knowledge of the English language. From grammar and its correct usage to the process of drafting and editing a variety of written communications, this guide is an essential tool for anyone who uses the English language. Coverage includes preparing to write, writing your document, revising your document, grammar, words in use, words often confused, punctuation, and reference resources.

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The Columbia Guide to Standard American English

Title: The Columbia Guide to Standard American English
Author(s): Kenneth G. Wilson
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Date: 1993
Pages: 972
Size: 2.54 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: American English

The most reliable and entertaining guide to effective writing and speaking for Americans today, Kenneth Wilson's Columbia Guide to Standard American English belongs on the desk of everyone who uses our ever-changing language. This book will help you write and speak clearly and appropriately for a full range of purposes and audiences. Unlike most writers on English usage (who so often reflect British practices) Wilson focuses on American English. [+/-]

In addition, this guide is the first to present a systematic, comprehensive view of our language - both spoken and written - as influenced by context. It provides the answers to such troublesome questions as: should we split an infinitive? Should we say hopefully? Should we end a sentence with a preposition? May we say can instead of may? Wilson's answer most often begins "That depends on the context". Even confident writers and accomplished speakers encounter tricky questions of usage.

For example, what prepositions correctly follow the adjective different? What is the difference between bring and take? Wilson answers such questions - about word choice, meanings, pronunciations, spellings, grammatical forms and structures, and idiomatic expressions - in thousands of clear and concise entries.

The Columbia Guide to American English offers
• readily accessible advice about American English by providing an A to Z format for quick reference;
• over 6,500 lively entries, more than any other usage book;
• sensible and useful suggestions based on current language practices;
• a convenient chart of levels of speech and writing geared to context;
• both descriptive and prescriptive entries for guidance, with thousands of examples;
• guidelines for nonsexist usage.

A vigorous assessment of how, at the end of the twentieth century, our language is best written and spoken and how we can use it most effectively, The Columbia Guide to Standard American English is the ideal handbook of language etiquette - friendly, sensible, reliable, and fun to read.

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Webster's Guide to Grammar and Writing

Webster's Guide to Grammar and Writing
Intermediate/Upper-intermediate | Dr. Charles Darling | 2004 | 2.28 Mb | .chm

This is a HTML Help Compiled Help File from Webster containing the most essential explanations and information for improving grammar, hence improving writing. In some parts this file is linked to Webster knowledge bases to improve the quality of being up to date. This index includes references to both the Guide to Grammar and Writing and Principles of Composition. [+/-]

It does not, however, include references to the interactive Quizzes or to the Grammar logs (posted responses to ASK GRAMMAR queries). The Frequently Asked Questions page and the Guide's Search Engine will also help you find help on grammatical issues, tips on composition, and advice on English usage.

It is divided into 15 large sections, the three largest of which are the sections concerning sentence level advice for writers, paragraph level advice for writers, and essay level advice for writers. The Sentence Level section and the Paragraph Level section are both divided into many subsections that have their own links, presumably because these two levels involve many discrete and/or concrete rules and guidelines for composition.

The Essay Level section also contains a great deal of information, but the subsections do not have links of their own, unlike the subsections of the Sentence Level and Paragraph Level sections, presumably because guidelines for essay level composition are not as discrete or concrete.

It also contains 12 other types of information, including Other Online Resources for Writing, samples of different types of writing (i.e., business letters, thank-you notes, memos, application letters) under Forms of Communication, grammar quizzes under Interactive Quizzes, quotations from famous writers under Eminent Quotables, a place for students to ask questions under Ask Grammar! and Grammar Logs, where the site keeps track of questions students have asked and the answers that were given to them.

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The Oxford Essential Guide to Writing

Title: The Oxford Essential Guide to Writing
Author(s): Thomas S. Kane
Publisher: Berkley
ISBN-13: 978-0425176405
Date: July 10, 2000
Pages: 446
Size: 1.97 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: American English

This essential resource helps all writers organize, shape, and complete their work while expressing their ideas creatively and clearly. Rules of style and technique are covered, with examples of expert prose from the masters. An Appendix covers punctuation and grammar.

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