A self-instruction manual and reference book for academic, personal, business, and public audience writing. Coverage includes writing college-level essays, source-based arguments, and research papers; thinking and reading critically; using documentation style correctly; designing documents; writing for the Web; writing about literature; writing for business; creating oral presentations; taking essay tests; and using correct grammar, punctuation, and mechanics correctly. Anyone looking to succeed and fulfill their potential in writing.
Addresses the need for a systematic approach to training in translation studies. This text explores various areas of language and relates the theoretical findings to the actual practice of translation, using authentic examples.
You're no idiot, of course. You studied a foreign language, you can give good hand signals to a driver parallel parking, and you know when your boss is in a bad mood based on body language. But when it comes to using sign language, you feel like you're all thumbs.
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.
