Real Skills with Readings

Real Skills with Readings
Author: Susan Anker
Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013-01-11
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9781457602009

Real Skills with Readings offers practical, accessible coverage of basic sentence skills and step-by-step guidance on writing paragraphs. Like the other books in the Anker series, Real Skills motivates students with its message that writing is an essential and achievable skill. Real Skills connects engaging grammar and writing instruction with an emphasis on critical thinking and reading skills — the keys to successful writing. Real-world examples, assignments, and readings show students the relevance of writing to all aspects of their lives. Real Skills with Readings is now integrated with LearningCurve — online, adaptive quizzing activities that reinforce what students learn in the book.

Real Skills with Readings

Real Skills with Readings
Author: Susan Anker
Publisher: Macmillan Higher Education
Total Pages: 724
Release: 2013-02-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1457639122

Real Skills with Readings offers practical, accessible coverage of basic sentence skills and step-by-step guidance on writing paragraphs. Like the other books in the Anker series, Real Skills motivates students with its message that writing is an essential and achievable skill. Real Skills connects engaging grammar and writing instruction with an emphasis on critical thinking and reading skills — the keys to successful writing. Real-world examples, assignments, and readings show students the relevance of writing to all aspects of their lives. Real Skills with Readings is now integrated with LearningCurve — online, adaptive quizzing activities that reinforce what students learn in the book.

Reading the OED

Reading the OED
Author: Ammon Shea
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2008
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780399533983

An obsessive word lover provides an account of the year he spent reading the Oxford English Dictionary cover to cover, offering a selection of obscure and offbeat vocabulary gems he discovered along the way.

Pre-HSE Core Skills in Reading and Writing

Pre-HSE Core Skills in Reading and Writing
Author: New Readers Press
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016-01-07
Genre: English language
ISBN: 9781564208828

A workbook of example and practice questions to build a solid foundation of skills in reading fiction, prose, poetry, drama and nonfiction, as well as English language grammar and usage, and writing paragraphs and essays, as measured by the GED, TASC, and HiSET high school equivalency reading and writing tests; includes answers and explanations for all lesson exercises, and pretest and posttest questions.

The Sleeping Dictionary

The Sleeping Dictionary
Author: Sujata Massey
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 529
Release: 2013-08-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1476703256

From an award-winning novelist, a stunning portrait of late Raj India—a sweeping saga and a love story set against a background of huge political and cultural upheaval. YOU ASK FOR MY NAME, THE REAL ONE, AND I CANNOT TELL. IT IS NOT FOR LACK OF EFFORT. In 1930, a great ocean wave blots out a Bengali village, leaving only one survivor, a young girl. As a maidservant in a British boarding school, Pom is renamed Sarah and discovers her gift for languages. Her private dreams almost die when she arrives in Kharagpur and is recruited into a secretive, decadent world. Eventually, she lands in Calcutta, renames herself Kamala, and creates a new life rich in books and friends. But although success and even love seem within reach, she remains trapped by what she is . . . and is not. As India struggles to throw off imperial rule, Kamala uses her hard-won skills—for secrecy, languages, and reading the unspoken gestures of those around her—to fight for her country’s freedom and her own happiness.

Research on Dictionary Use in the Context of Foreign Language Learning

Research on Dictionary Use in the Context of Foreign Language Learning
Author: Yukio Tono
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2012-05-10
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110915014

The purpose of this book is to conceptualise the research on dictionary use within a more general overview of language learning. It brings together some of the findings of studies on dictionary users and uses and shows how research into dictionary use can contribute to the improvement of dictionary design and the clarification of issues in language learning. The book also provides reports on a series of empirical studies on dictionary use in decoding activities (reading comprehension and L2/L1 translation) , which will shed some light on the nature of the issues discussed throughout the book. The book falls into two parts. Part I, »Research on Dictionary Use - State of the Art« is, as its title suggests, a summary of previous studies to tease out relevant issues in each area of inquiry. Part 2, »Empirical Studies« reports on a series of studies the author has conducted in the past 15 years. The first three studies (Chapter 5, 6, and 7) investigate dictionary use in the broader context of language learning. The next four studies (Chapter 8, 9, 10 and 11) report on a series of controlled experiments on the relationship between the macro- and microstructure of the dictionary and reference skills. Finally, the last two chapters (Chapter 12 and 13) report the use of learner language data for a better lexicographical output.

The BS Dictionary

The BS Dictionary
Author: Bob Wiltfong
Publisher: Association for Talent Development
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2020-04-28
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1950496171

Speak for Yourself Do you yearn for a book to disambiguate words and phrases commonly used in business settings, your workplace, and in life in general? Do you wish the kimono would open on idioms and clichés that stretch the bandwidth of understanding and make you wonder if your career is scalable? What are you really saying when you go against the grain and are aboveboard? What do you hear when your colleague wants face time or to move the needle? The BS Dictionary: Uncovering the Origins and True Meanings of Business Speak provides the real-world definitions to about 300 of the world's most commonly-used business terms and gives you the origin story (who coined the term? when did it start to be used figuratively in the business world?) for each one. Get the language clarity you need and have fun learning the full etymology of favorite phrases. Read humorous commentary about how phrases might be misused or misunderstood. If you are interested in language, business speak, writing, and trivia knowledge, this book is for you! Get The BS Dictionary and impress your friends with your newfound wealth of phrases and their history.