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Collins Easy Learning Writing is an easy-to-use guide on how to write good, clear and effective English. With simple explanations of everything from the basics of sentence and paragraph structure, to writing CVs, letters and essays, this e-book is a valuable guide for anyone who wants to improve their writing. Collins Easy Learning Writing is the helpful guide to good written style. Covering areas such as sentence structure, punctuation and page layout,...
2) Writing
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Collins Webster's Easy Learning Writing is an accessible guide to successful writing in the English language. With clear, concise explanations of everything from the basics of sentence and paragraph structure, to writing résumés, letters and essays, this e-book is an indispensable guide for the language learner. Collins Webster's Easy Learning Writing is the helpful guide to good written style. Covering areas such as sentence structure, punctuation...
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A menudo escuchamos, por boca de escritores, gramáticos y cargos públicos, entusiastas loas a la lengua española: su grandeza, su hermosura, su elegancia. Ante estos calificativos cabe preguntarse: ¿Atienden a motivos meramente lingüísticos o más bien laten en ellos implicaciones étnicas, culturales y políticas?
Autorretrato de un idioma presenta una serie de textos fundamentales en los que distintos estamentos han abordado algunas cuestiones...
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Previously published as part of The Yahoo! Style Guide.
WWW may be an acronym for the World Wide Web, but no one could fault you for thinking it stands for wild, wild West. The rapid growth of the Web has meant having to rely on style guides intended for print publishing, but these guides do not address the new challenges of communicating online. Enter The Yahoo! Style Guide to Writing for an Online Audience, from Yahoo!, a leader in online content...
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Rhetorics Change/Rhetoric's Change features selected essays, multimedia texts, and audio pieces from the 2016 Rhetoric Society of America biennial conference, which spotlighted the theme "Rhetoric and Change." The pieces are broadly focused around eight different lines of thought: Aural Rhetorics; Rhetoric and Science; Embodiment; Digital Rhetorics; Languages and Publics; Apologia, Revolution, Reflection; and Intersectionality, Interdisciplinarity,...
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This collection includes a rich variety of approaches to Southerners' complex understandings of change and developments reflected in the literature, history, and culture of this distinctive region. Contributors from both sides of the Atlantic address introspective journeys of literary pilgrimage, shed new light on the history of the civil rights movement as well as its reflection in literature, analyse transactions from literature to film, trace religious...
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Las revistas fueron un espacio arriesgado de información y opinión política en los últimos años del franquismo, lo que algunas pagaron con sanciones y suspensiones. Este libro analiza la aportación y la significación de la prensa no diaria como tribuna accesible a los movimientos de oposición, a manera de «parlamento de papel», término sobre cuyo alcance se habla en la introducción. Por una parte, se estudian algunas revistas anteriores...
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This year's anthology of finalists and winners of the National Magazine Awards includes Ta-Nehisi Coates's much-discussed and debated "The Case For Reparations" (The Atlantic), Amanda Hess's explosive report on Internet sexual harassment (Pacific Standard), John Jeremiah Sullivan's account of the intergenerational effort to solve one of American music's greatest mysteries (New York Times Magazine), and Pamela Colloff's haunting profile of the Texas...
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Esta colección incluye una rica variedad de enfoques a los complejos entendimientos de los sureños con el cambio y los avances reflejados en la literatura, la historia y la cultura de esta región tan característica. Los colaboradores de ambas partes del Atlántico abordan viajes introspectivos de peregrinación literaria, arrojan nueva luz sobre la historia del movimiento de los derechos civiles, así como su reflejo en la literatura, analizan...
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Grounded in linguistic research and argumentation, THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE: FROM SOUND TO SE01 General/tradeE offers readers who have little or no analytic understanding of English a thorough treatment of the various components of the language. Its goal is to help readers become independent language analysts capable of critically evaluating claims about the language and the people who use it.
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Before writing, an author should review the Chicago Manual of Style guidelines. The Chicago Manual of Style helps an author's work to be taken seriously. Similar to the APA, and MLA, the Chicago Manual of Style teaches a writer how to properly cite the works of others. A writer must always cite anything he or she obtains ideas from. Using a reference guide allows a writer to be assisted when citing references. According to Purdue, it also helps with...
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Third Language Acquisition and Universal Grammar contains nine chapters on adult third language (L3) or multilingual acquisition from the Universal Grammar (UG) perspective. A variety of languages other than English are involved in the studies reported in the papers, including Cantonese Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Mandarin Chinese, Norwegian, Russian, Spanish, Tagalog, and Thai, with acquisition cases taking place in a number...
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A study guide on sign language would essentially help readers to learn a completely different form of communication. It would reveal the appropriate hand movements for communicating with a non-verbal language. It would start with the basics and then move to complex techniques. More importantly, it would help readers learn social and cultural cues that are expressed through sign language.
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This volume delves into the discursive construction of three closely linked linguistic functions: evaluation, emotion, and persuasion in order to explore how they may intertwine. The discourse genres examined comprise business pitches, political debates, media discourse, fiction, social networks, etc., either in English or Spanish. The editors bring together a miscellanea of papers written by scholars from different Spanish universities and with different...
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Telling Stories, Talking Craft is a collection of fifteen conversations with some of the finest contemporary fiction writers. These distinguished authors discuss their lives and their craft in candid, thought-provoking interviews from the pages of Sycamore Review, Purdue University's international journal of literature, opinion and the arts.
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Esta antología reúne las participaciones de algunos ponentes del Coloquio Internacional de Estudios Críticos sobre Géneros Populares, que tuvo lugar en agosto del 2016 en la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de la UNAM. Este coloquio fue producto del proyecto PAPIME (Programa de Apoyo a Proyectos para la Innovación y Mejoramiento de la Enseñanza) del mismo nombre que, por más de tres años, se construyó con la colaboración de profesores, investigadores...
19) Spoken English
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In today's competitive world, Spoken English is considered as a passport for a guaranteed success in life. The craze for learning spoken English has led to the growth of various coaching institutes all over the country. Much as they may profess and advertise, it is not really possible to learn any language in 30 or 40 days. A person who genuinely wants to learn the language needs to spend at least two to three hours every day for at least five or...
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Through forty-three personal essays, Resonance: Essays on the Craft and Life of Writing brings together insights from writers and publishers across Canada on the practices that fuel their work, and invites readers to join the conversation through a series of engaging writing prompts. The essays collected here include strategies for pre-writing, writing and revision, as well as thoughts on the writing life and the world of writing. Resonance is for...
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