This book presents 12 strategies (focusing on one strategy a week) for students to increase vocabulary and boost communication skills, suggesting that these techniques can easily double the average person's vocabulary.
From a master novelist and teacher, this guide diagnoses and treats 38 of the most common problems writers create and offers hundreds of tips, tricks and techniques to fix them.
Learn the tricks of the trade of becoming a great technical communicator
Remember when you were an undergraduate and freshman composition seemed
so irrelevant to your life? After all, you were going to conquer the
world with technological know how. Your spellcheck software would
handle the details. Now that you re a professional pitching an idea,
vying for a contract or grant, or presenting at a meeting getting
your point across effectively suddenly seems pretty essential for
success, doesn t it?
Fear not. This light hearted text,
brimming with proven techniques, good advice, and real world examples
that you can easily apply to your own case, will turn you into an adept
communicator. Written expressly for technologists, this is a simple,
concise, and practical guide to the communication dynamics of writing,
presentation delivery, and meeting interaction.
Herbert
Hirsch, in demand consultant who developed these techniques for his own
prolific engineering career, teaches you how to use "scripting" to plan
for communication events. More than a mere outline or storyboard,
scripting is a powerful technique that assists you in getting the right
structure and content, in the proper order.
Intermediate Vocabulary is designed to teach, test and practise the vacabulary of EFL students at a level leading up to the Cambridge First Certificate examination. It covers a wide range of topics and consists of a variety of enjoyable exercises. Over 2000 lexical items are introduced through techniques which include gap filling, matching, word formation and word building exercises.
Teaching techniques in English as a second language.
Series Editors: Russell N.Campbell and William E. Rutherford
Techniques in Teaching Writing outlines practical procedures for teachers, including ways to stimulate students to write through pictures, readings, and discussions, and effective, motivating ways to respond to student writing. This book includes 9 chapters: introduction teaching writing in ESL classes, techniques in planning the class: seven basic questions, techniques in using pictures, techniques in using readings, techniques in using all language skills, techniques in teaching practical writing, techniques in using controlled writing, techniques in teaching organization, techniques in responding to students' writing.
Intermediate Vocabulary
