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Writing Successful College ApplicationsToday's college admission applications involve writing more than just one essay. The various required paragraphs and statements demand skill and finesse. Writing Successful College Applications offers vital tips and step-by-step expert advice to help students create outstanding essays to succeed in all aspects of...
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Letter Perfect: The Marvelous History of Our Alphabet from A to ZA fun, lively, and learned excursion into the alphabet--and cultural history. Letters are tangible language. Joining together in endless combinations to actually show speech, letters convey our messages and tell our stories. While we encounter these tiny shapes hundreds of times a day, we...
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Cross-Cultural and Intercultural CommunicationDerived from the best-selling Handbook of International and Intercultural Communication, Second Edition, this economically priced paperback version contains only the chapters dealing with cross-cultural and intercultural communication. Cross-Cultural and Intercultural Communication provides an extensive overview of cross-cultural variations in communication and expands upon the...
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Espanol Para el Hispanohablante en los Estados Unidos, Third EditionThe objective of this book is to teach native speakers of Spanish how to write and use correctly their own language. This text is designed for Spanish speakers who also know English. Current methodology in the teaching of Spanish to Spanish speakers is based...
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Materials Evaluation and Design for Language TeachingTeaching materials play a crucial role in teaching-learning. When these take the form of a textbook it is essential that it is carefully selected to meet both external requirements and the needs of the teachers, as well as allowing teacher to mediate between the...
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Essential Scots Dictionary: Scots/English - English/ScotsThis is a two-way dictionary from Scots-English and English-Scots.Author: Scottish Language DictionariesPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPublished: 01/17/2005Pages: 392Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 7.70h x 5.00w x 1.10dISBN: 9780748622016Language: ScotsAbout the AuthorScottish Language Dictionaries is the quintessential research organisation for the Scots Language. They are responsible for...
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Clinical LinguisticsThe Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists estimates that 2.5 million people in the UK have a communication disorder. Of this number, some 800,000 people have a disorder that is so severe that it is hard for anyone outside their immediate families to...
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Expletive Deleted: Poda Good Look at Bad LanguageHave we always sworn like sailors? Has creative cursing developed because we can't just slug people when they make us angry? And if such verbal aggression is universal, why is it that some languages (Japanese, for instance) supposedly do not contain any nasty words?...
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Word on the Street: Debunking the Myth of a Pure Standard EnglishThough there is a contingent of linguists who fight the fact, our language is always changing--not only through slang, but sound, syntax, and words' meanings as well. Debunking the myth of "pure" standard English, tackling controversial positions, and eschewing politically correct arguments, linguist John...
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The Book of You: For My Child, with Love (a Keepsake Journal)From the authors of What I Love About You, this perfect gift for parents offers a personalized way to say "I love you" to your child. When you've watched someone grow up--from babbling babyhood, through ups and downs in school years, to the first...
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What Is Your One Sentence?: How to Be Heard in the Age of Short Attention SpansYour "one sentence" is that irreducible part of your message that you want your audience to remember. A good sentence stops people in their tracks. It surprises them. It makes them think. And in today's age of information overload and short attention spans, getting...
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Tales from a Mountain Town: Musings from 25 years of living in the Colorado RockiesA collection of humorous and lighthearted essays from award-winning writer and author Eugene Buchanan centered around 25 years of living in the mountainous environment of Steamboat Springs, Colorado. A must for anyone already living in or thinking about moving to a mountain town. Author:...
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Introducción a la lingüística forense: Un libro de cursoEste libro sigue la pauta iniciada hace unos a os por varios investigadores espa oles e iberoamericanos, aumentando sus hallazgos sobre la ling stica forense con casos y datos de la comunidad hispana estadounidense. El autor propone tres metas con respecto al tema: una...
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Introduction to Ebonics: The Relexification of African Grammar with English and Other Indo-European WordsJust when you thought it was safe to dismiss the speech and language of Black folks in America as a forgotten subject, Introduction to Ebonics: The Relexification of African Grammar with English and other Indo-European Words surfaces. Volume I outlines the theoretical base for...
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Excellent Editing: The Writing ProcessWhy do so many people talk about writing a book but never get the job done? Why do so many start books they never finish? And why is the final product often so much less than what editors and agents want? Because writing is...
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Powerful Premise: Writing the IrresistibleWhy do some books attract readers while others don't? What are the essential qualities of an irresistible read, a story people can't wait to start? And what's the secret to attracting a literary agent or publishing deal? The answer to all three questions is:...
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Just the Basics of English Grammar: A workbook for the most common writing problemsJust the Basics of English Grammar teaches only the most common and necessary grammar rules in clear, easy to understand language. Each section is followed by several exercises and answer keys so you can practice the concepts and polish your writing skills. Many grammar...
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Dmitri Prigov: Language with no BordersDmitry Prigov (1941-2007) gained recognition as an artist whose vast artistic legacy engulfs almost all the genres of modern art. Today, his works can be found in the permanent collections and exhibition funds of leading museums in the USA, Europe, and Russia, as well...
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Clear and Simple as the Truth: Writing Classic Prose - Second EditionFor 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. Francis-Noël Thomas and Mark Turner present writing as an intellectual activity, not a passive...
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Virginia Woolf's Nose: Essays on BiographyWhat choices must a biographer make when stitching the pieces of a life into one coherent whole? How do we best create an accurate likeness of a private life from the few articles that linger after death? How do we choose what gets left...
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