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Your Guide to College Writing is a practical handbook for academic writers. This book teaches you the rules for college research and writing and shows you how to follow them in real-world examples. By starting with the basics of paragraphs, sentences, punctuation, word choice, research, and guides to MLA, APA, and Chicago styles, you'll become comfortable with the building blocks of writing in college. When you have trouble with a specific error or...
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Ce recueil de portraits nous fait pénétrer dans l'intimité de dix traducteurs qui appartiennent à diverse époques : XVIe, XVIIIe, XIXe et XXe siècles. Les textes traduits vont de l'article de presse aux Saintes Écritures, en passant par la tragédie grecque, le roman, la poésie, le conte, le « polar » et les traités de droit. Réintroduisant la subjectivité dans le discours sur la traduction, ces portraits contribuent au nécessaire recentrement...
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A straightforward guide to creating a great story that keeps your audience riveted.
The art of telling stories has been around as long as humans. And in today's noisy, techy, automated world, storytelling is not only prevalent, it's vital. Whether you're interested in enlivening verbal communication, building your business brand, making presentations, sharing family wisdom, or performing on stage, Story Power shows you how to make use of a good story.
Telling...
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Anyone who laments the demise of print text would find a sympathetic listener in Andrea A. Lunsford. Anyone who bemoans the lack of respect for blogs, graphic novels, and other new media would find her no less understanding. Lunsford is at home in both camps because she sees beyond writing's ever-changing forms to the constancy of its power to "make space for human agency-or to radically limit such agency."
Lunsford is a celebrated scholar of rhetoric...
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Adjectives have long suffered from bad press. For many years, English teachers have been fond of telling students that "adjectives are the enemy of nouns, and adverbs are the enemy of everything else."
While it's still advisable to heed your English teacher's advice on most other matters, The Highly Selective Dictionary of Golden Adjectives for the Extraordinarily Literate proves that breaking certain rules can make written and spoken language that...
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Desde hace 19 años que el Premio Periodismo de Excelencia de la Universidad Alberto Hurtado elige a grandes periodistas, editores, profesores y pensadores de la comunicación para que seleccionen, como prejurados y jurados finalistas, a aquellos trabajos periodísticos que logran ir más allá: los que descubren las causas, las consecuencias, las tendencias, lo que está pasando y lo que muestra el germen de lo que vendrá. Este libro es un ejemplo...
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Between TV talk shows, radio call-in programs, email and the Internet, spontaneous-talk media has skyrocketed in the '90s. People are interacting more frequently and more fervently than ever before, turning the English language into an indecipherable mess. Now, this unique and concise compendium presents the most confused and misused words in the language today -- words misused by careless speakers and writers everywhere. It defines, discerns and...
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The parents of second language children are often seen but not heard in schools. This book is unique in addressing the many issues facing parents of children whose first language is different from that of the school classroom.
Drawing on teaching theory, the book provides these parents with a wealth of practical information, guidelines and checklists, enabling them to ask schools intelligent and challenging questions to test whether their children's...
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Enseña al niño a formar más de 50 palabras. Utilizar las letras es muy divertido, y este libro te proporciona las palabras para copiarlas en el tablero. Enséñale a reconocer las letras. Haz que mejore sus niveles de lectura y escritura. Incluye juegos de palabras y ejercicios Contiene. ALFABETO DE LETRAS DE ESPUMA. TABLERO DE DOS CARAS. LIBRO DE PALABRAS, DIBUJOS Y ACTIVIDADES
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Perfect for Spanish revision offering beginners a clear and easy-to-understand guide to Spanish verbs. The main section of the book consists of 120 fully conjugated verbs, regular and irregular. Each is self-contained, showing all the major tenses, clearly set out with pronouns. The introduction gives a detailed explanation of each of the three main tenses. It also deals with compound tenses and the use of the passive. Finally, an alphabetical index...
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Perfect for German revision offering beginners a clear and easy-to-understand guide to German verbs. The main section of the book consists of 200 fully conjugated verbs, regular and irregular, weak and strong. Each is self-contained, showing all the major tenses, clearly set out with pronouns. The tables also tell you if the verb is weak or strong and if it takes the auxiliary "haben" or "sein". New German spellings are included throughout. There...
12) Easy Learning Italian Complete Grammar, Verbs and Vocabulary (3 books in 1): Trusted support for
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A handy 3-in-1 Italian study book: grammar, verbs and vocabulary in one volume, ideal for beginners who need a clear and easy-to-understand Italian reference and revision guide. This book gives you the essential tools to help you progress quickly in your study of Italian. The grammar, verb and vocabulary sections have been designed for all those learning Italian at school, in an evening class, for work or for leisure. • Grammar: this section provides...
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Perfect for French revision offering beginners a clear and easy-to-understand guide to French verbs. The main section of the book consists of 112 fully conjugated verbs, regular and irregular. Each is self-contained, showing all the major tenses, clearly set out with pronouns. Major constructions and idiomatic phrases are given for most verb models. Similarly conjugated verbs are listed with their translations for complete clarity. The introduction...
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This book offers beginners a clear and easy-to-understand guide to the verbs and grammar of French. Ideal for French revision. Designed for all those learning French at school, at work or at home. It provides easily accessible information in an attractively presented layout. Key grammatical points are highlighted throughout the text as a means of reinforcement. In addition, a full glossary gives clear explanations of grammatical terminology. This...
15) Easy Learning French Complete Grammar, Verbs and Vocabulary (3 books in 1): Trusted support for l
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A handy 3-in-1 French study book: grammar, verbs and vocabulary in one volume, ideal for beginners who need a clear and easy-to-understand French reference and revision guide. This book gives you the essential tools to help you progress quickly in your study of French. The grammar, verb and vocabulary sections have been designed for all those learning French at school, in an evening class, for work or for leisure.
• Grammar: this section provides...
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This book offers beginners a clear and easy-to-understand guide to the verbs and grammar of Italian. Ideal for Italian revision. Designed for all those learning Italian at school, at work or at home. It provides easily accessible information in an attractively presented layout. Key grammatical points are highlighted throughout as a means of reinforcement. In addition, a full glossary gives clear explanations of grammatical terminology. This book also...
17) Easy Learning German Complete Grammar, Verbs and Vocabulary (3 books in 1): Trusted support for l
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A handy 3-in-1 German study book: grammar, verbs and vocabulary in one volume, ideal for beginners who need a clear and easy-to-understand German reference and revision guide. This book gives you the essential tools to help you progress quickly in your study of German. The grammar, verb and vocabulary sections have been designed for all those learning German at school, in an evening class, for work or for leisure. • Grammar: this section provides...
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Did you ever want to teach your kids the basics of Vietnamese Alphabets ?Learning Vietnamese can be fun with this big picture book.In this book you will find the following features: Vietnamese Alphabets.Vietnamese Words.English Translations.English Transliteration (Using English to give you an idea of how the word is pronounced).Some Important Information Regarding Our Books: Each Alphabet has its own Page.All Pages are in Color.You (the Parent) should...
19) Love Is
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With his graphic design expertise linking vision and verse, 'Love Is...' is the first of a 10-book poetry set featuring Roy's life with his darling wife Nancy, who recently passed away.
He hopes everyone in love will associate with the closeness he enjoyed during his longmarriage to Nancy through the prose and vibrant illustrations that are conveyed sobeautifully in each of his fluent and powerful observations that make the world go round.
If...
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"Histoires Courtes en Portugais pour Débutants" est une collection de 20 contes faciles à lire, spécialement conçus pour les débutants apprenant le portugais. Les histoires sont écrites dans un langage simple et présentent des personnages et des situations avec lesquels les lecteurs peuvent facilement s'identifier, ce qui les rend idéales pour ceux qui commencent à apprendre cette langue. Chaque conte comprend une liste de vocabulaire et...
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