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    • Language learning: specific skillsx
    • Trusted Partner
      Humanities & Social Sciences
      April 2020

      The craft of writing in sociology

      Developing the argument in undergraduate essays and dissertations

      by Andrew Balmer, Anne Murcott

      This is an indispensable companion for students studying sociology and related disciplines, such as politics and human geography, as well as courses which draw upon sociological writing, such as nursing, social psychology or health studies. It demystifies the process of constructing coherent and powerful arguments, starting from an essay's opening paragraphs, building evidence and sequencing key points in the middle, through to pulling together a punchy conclusion. It gives a clear and helpful overview of the most important grammatical rules in English, and provides advice on how to solve common problems experienced in writing, including getting rid of waffle, overcoming writer's block and cutting an essay down to its required length. Using examples from essays written by sociology students at leading universities, the book shows what they have done well, what could be done better and how to improve their work using the techniques reviewed.

    • Trusted Partner
      Teaching, Language & Reference
      May 2025

      Writing creatively for work or study

      Easy techniques to engage your readers

      by Helen Kara

      A unique guide featuring tips for improving your professional writing through creative formats and techniques. Workplace writing doesn't have to be dull. In fact, there's evidence that more creative approaches can capture a reader's interest and increase the accessibility, comprehension and memorability of the most everyday documents. Writing creatively for work or study shows you how to apply formats and techniques from creative writing to professional communication. Whether you're creating a business plan, a sales report or terms and conditions, simple principles such as establishing tension, using sensory language and employing well-chosen metaphors can engage a reader's emotions, turning a drab piece of prose into something memorable. At the more inventive end of the scale, documents in the form of novels, comic books or even film scripts can have a dramatic impact and ensure your work makes a lasting impression. Featuring a wealth of real-life examples, plus exercises to help you develop your skills, Writing creatively for work or study proves that writing for work can also be fun.

    • Trusted Partner
      Teaching, Language & Reference
      May 2025

      Writing creatively for work or study

      Easy techniques to engage your readers

      by Helen Kara

      A unique guide featuring tips for improving your professional writing through creative formats and techniques. Workplace writing doesn't have to be dull. In fact, there's evidence that more creative approaches can capture a reader's interest and increase the accessibility, comprehension and memorability of the most everyday documents. Writing creatively for work or study shows you how to apply formats and techniques from creative writing to professional communication. Whether you're creating a business plan, a sales report or terms and conditions, simple principles such as establishing tension, using sensory language and employing well-chosen metaphors can engage a reader's emotions, turning a drab piece of prose into something memorable. At the more inventive end of the scale, documents in the form of novels, comic books or even film scripts can have a dramatic impact and ensure your work makes a lasting impression. Featuring a wealth of real-life examples, plus exercises to help you develop your skills, Writing creatively for work or study proves that writing for work can also be fun.

    • Teaching, Language & Reference
      February 2015

      Sweet Rosa

      by Kingsley Osei, David Asimeng

      Sweet Rosa is a picture book which details the brave stance of a young African-American woman named Rosa Parks who refused to give up her seat to a white person on bus in 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama. Ms. Parks' actions led to the infamous Montgomery bus boycott and helped establish the civil rights movement led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The bold and courageous act of Ms. Parks, Dr. King and thousands of boycotters and civil rights advocates eventually pushed the Supreme Court to declare segregation on buses unconstitutional, helping to put racial discrimination to rest. This book takes young readers on an historic, illustrious journey through this staple event and how it has forever shaped the racial outlook of equality for adults and children alike in today's society.

    • Teaching, Language & Reference
      December 2014

      Your Writing Well

      by Dr. Bob Davis

      Fifteen essays for anyone in any profession or academic level, Your Writing Well studies every aspect of the writing process, providing faster means to better products than do narrowly focused trade handbooks and academic texts. Having combed through writing pedagogy and cut through nonsense about composition and grammar, Dr. Davis provides an all-inclusive set of theory highlighting logic-based skills and practical strategies to create, develop, defend, and communicate coherently organized, well-expressed thoughts. Not marketed for dummies, Your Writing Well assumes readers have the smarts to follow mature common-sense guidance, grasp examples, and thus compensate for their existing lack of knowledge of what to do, how and why to do it, and where. Informed not by needless prohibitions but by relaxed, reassuring balances of freedom and prudent regulation, Your Writing Well is a comprehensive cure for all writers’ ailments and deficiencies.

    • Teaching, Language & Reference
      October 2019

      Wordplay Book 1

      by Afrasiyab Khan

      Considering the manifold benefits of creative writing, the three-book Word Play series is designed to help both the teachers and the students to take up the task of creative writing. Includes: Intriguing topics chosen to increase student interest. Rich vocabulary to help build meaningful sentences. Discussion starter questions for getting the thoughts organised. Careful thematic division to provide continuity and progression.

    • Teaching, Language & Reference
      February 2013

      TEN LESSONS TO TRANSFORM THE WAY YOU LEARN LANGUAGES

      by Shiro

      Foreign language ability is an essential skill in our current era of globalization, but not everyone feels they can learn new languages easily. While it may come naturally to some, for most of us learning a language feels like drowning in a sea of new vocabulary, with no signs of progress in sight. For author Shiro, learning a language isn’t about sitting at your desk memorizing heaps of vocabulary — it emerges naturally from life experience. While driving through Myanmar he used a stack of flashcards to help him chat with gas station attendants and other drivers he met along the way. He immersed himself in Spanish by taking a cruise of Latin American ports for two months, seizing every opportunity to converse with locals. Designing his own personal “Language Immersion Camps” is Shiro’s passion, allowing him to experience foreign cultures as he masters a new language. Languages are tools for exploring the world, according to Shiro. Using the local language helps you forge stronger relationships with local people, and unlocks opportunities to more deeply engage with a culture. Foreign language ability allows you to choose your own adventure, far off the beaten path of the usual tourist destinations. For Shiro, learning languages is a hobby, like learning to play an instrument, or learning to cook, except the effort we put in is doubly rewarded: while we master a new skill we also expand our view of the world, making friends with people across the world. In this book, Shiro highlights ten important lessons about language learning. Backed by personal experience and a wealth of academic research, Shiro has constructed a comprehensive chart of the language learning journey to help guide readers. By learning to see language learning as a pursuit that transcends our traditional notions of classroom study, readers will be inspired to formulate their own adventurous plans for language mastery.

    • Teaching, Language & Reference

      Listening(1), Persian language teaching - listening skills

      by Ahmad Kolivandi And Ali Poormand

      Persian is a good word and has a fixed principle and it is expected that it will develop day by day and the world will be able to make many uses of this language. Supreme Leader This book is related to teaching Persian language and has different parts that include reading, writing, listening and teaching Persian language. The use of the course of these books for learning Persian language is strongly emphasized.

    • Teaching, Language & Reference

      Listening(4), Persian language teaching - listening skills

      by Ahmad Kolivandi And Ali Fatemi Manesh

      Persian is a good word and has a fixed principle and it is expected that it will develop day by day and the world will be able to make many uses of this language. Supreme Leader This book is related to teaching Persian language and has different parts that include reading, writing, listening and teaching Persian language. The use of the course of these books for learning Persian language is strongly emphasized.

    • Teaching, Language & Reference

      Reading(1): Persian language teaching - reading skills

      by Ahmad Kolivandi and others

      Persian is a good word and has a fixed principle and it is expected that it will develop day by day and the world will be able to make many uses of this language. Supreme Leader This book is related to teaching Persian language and has different parts that include reading, writing, listening and teaching Persian language. The use of the course of these books for learning Persian language is strongly emphasized.

    • Teaching, Language & Reference

      Reading: Persian language teaching - reading skills 2

      by Masoomeh Kermani and Others

      Persian is a good word and has a fixed principle and it is expected that it will develop day by day and the world will be able to make many uses of this language. Supreme Leader This book is related to teaching Persian language and has different parts that include reading, writing, listening and teaching Persian language. The use of the course of these books for learning Persian language is strongly emphasized.

    • Teaching, Language & Reference
      November 2022

      Easy-to-Read Chinese Short Stories, Book 2

      by April Zhang and Carlton Cash

      This is the second book in the series that is for Chinese learners and by Chinese learners. Since 2021, MSL Master has invited Chinese language learners worldwide to participate in an annual event, Chinese Writing Contest. Entries are limited to using 320 Chinese characters only. In 2022, 58 entries were received. After a public vote on Twitter, the best 14 were included in this book. These are interesting stories and moving poems. Family, friendship and love are the main themes. The presence of nature is prominent. An element of inexplicable phenomena is also felt. The authors were from seven countries, Malaysia, China, the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada. The oldest one was 70 years old, while the youngest one only 13. They shared a passion for the Chinese language and the love of a good challenge! Their abilities of moulding these 320 characters were varied. While some were skilful, others were still feeling their ways and trying inventive combinations. While some relied on literary language, others preferred using simple expressions to express deep meanings. Because of its unique mixture of texts, this book has something for evereyone, regardless whether you are beginners or advanced Chinese language learners. Free audio and a sample story are available here: https://www.mslmaster.com/index.php/chinese-textbooks/easy-to-read-series

    • Teaching skills & techniques

      Between Talk And Teaching

      Reconsidering the Writing Conference

      by Laurel Black

      The teacher-student conference is standard in the repertoire of teachers at all levels. Because it's a one-to-one encounter, teachers work hard to make it comfortable; but because it's a pedagogical moment, they hope that learning occurs in the encounter, too. The literature in this area often suggests that a conference is a conversation, but this doesn't account for a teacher's need to use it pedagogically. Laurel Johnson Black's new book explores the conflicting meanings and relations embedded in conferencing and offers a new theoretical understanding of the conference along with practical approaches to conferencing more effectively with students. Analyzing taped conferences of several different teachers and students, Black considers the influence that power, gender, and culture can have on a conference. She draws on sociolinguistic theory, as well as critical theory in composition and rhetoric, to build an understanding of the writing conference as an encounter somewhere between conversation and the classroom. She finds neither the conversation model nor versions of the master-apprentice model satisfactory. Her approach is humane, student-centered, and progressive, but it does not ignore the valid pedagogical purposes a teacher might have in conferencing.Between Talk and Teaching will be a valuable addition to the professional library of writing teachers and writing program administrators.

    • Teaching skills & techniques

      Situating Portfolios

      by Kathleen Yancey

    • Creative writing & creative writing guides

      Teaching Lives

      by Wendy Bishop

    • Creative writing & creative writing guides

      Composition Studies As A Creative Art

      Teaching, Writing, Scholarship, Administration

      by Lynn Bloom

      Bloom gathers twenty of her most recent essays (some previously unpublished) on critical issues in teaching writing. She addresses matters of philosophy and pedagogy, class and marginality and gender, and textual terror transformed to textual power. Yet the body of her work and this representative collection of it remains centered, coherent, and personal. This work focuses on the creative dynamics that arise from the interrelation of writing, teaching writing, and ways of reading—and the scholarship and administrative issues engendered by it. To regard composition studies as a creative art is to engage in a process of intellectual or aesthetic free play, and then to translate the results of this play into serious work that yet retains the freedom and playfulness of its origins. The book is fueled by a mixture of faith in the fields that compose composition studies, hope that efforts of composition teachers can make a difference, and a sense of community in its broadest meaning. Included are Bloom's well-known essays "Teaching College English as a Woman," "Freshman Composition as a Middle Class Enterprise," and many more recent works, equally provocative and insightful.

    • Literature: history & criticism

      Saying And Silence

      by Frank Farmer

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