| The Writing Template Book: The MICHIGAN Guide to Writing Well and Success on High-Stakes Tests [by Kevin B. King and Ann M. Johns] |
 The Writing Template Book is a practical how-to guide for academic writers. Because good writers automatically develop their own internal writing templates that impose clarity and structure on their material, this text provides template examples to help less experienced writers produce the reliable, replicable syntax that is essential to good writing. The Writing Template Book provides numerous examples and practice exercises on writing summaries, thesis sentences, introductions, conclusions, and the bodies of typical essays and papers.
Templates are an effective tool for improving performance on standardized tests like the TOEFL® and the SAT®. Writing templates can enhance students’ scores on standardized tests by providing them with a structure that |
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| Verbal Hygiene (The Politics of Language) [by Deborah Cameron ] |
 In this award winning book Deborah Cameron takes a serious look at popular attitudes towards language and examines the practices by which people attempt to regulate its use. Instead of dismissing the practice of verbal hygiene , as a misguided and pernicious exercise, however, she argues that popular discourse about language values; good and bad, right and wrong, serves an important function for those engaged in it.
A series of case-studies deal with specific examples of verbal hygiene: the regulation of style by editors, the teaching of English grammar in schools, the movements for and against so-called politically-correct language and the recent explosion of advice to women on how they can speak more effectively. In each case she argues that verbal hygiene provi |
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| Success with Languages [by Stella Hurd and Linda Murphey] |
 Success with Languages is designed to help all students develop the skills they need to become an effective language learner and to make the most of language study.
Written by experienced language teachers at the Open University, this book offers undergraduates and postgraduates crucial and practical advice on important areas such as:
choosing a language and study programme
setting personal goals for language learning and monitoring progress
using ICT to support language learning.
Each of the ten chapters features a number of exercises in order to help students assess the ways they learn and consider where improvements can be made, making the most of the media available and how to use resources effectively.
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| Building Vocabulary for College [by R. Kent Smith] |
 BUILDING VOCABULARY FOR COLLEGE is a vocabulary worktext that helps you increase your academic vocabulary through a practical, reinforcing approach that promotes mastery of the words and word parts studied. The text begins by presenting the basics such as common prefixes, suffixes, and roots. Exercises in Part 1 ask you to work through matching, multiple-choice, sentence fill-in, and completing a passage sections. The lessons in Section 2 introduce terms from a variety of academic disciplines to help you succeed across the curriculum. Exercises in Part 2 include matching, sentence fill-ins, and completing a passage sections. |
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| Basic English Usage Exercise [by Jennifer Seidl Michael swan] |
 An alphabetical guide to the most common problems of grammar and vocabulary.
Basic English Usage: Exercises contains over 200 exercises on the most important topics dealt with in Basic English Usage. The exercises are varied to suit the topics and the needs of the user and are suitable for use in class and for self-study. The exercises are cross-referenced to Basic English Usage and contain many attractive illustrations. The book also has a full answer key to all exercises.
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| Practical English Usage [by Michael Swan] |
 This unique reference guide addresses problem points in the language as encountered by learners and their teachers. It gives information and advice that is practical, clear, reliable, and easy to find. Most of the book is about grammar, but it also covers selected points of vocabulary, idioms, style, pronunciation, and spelling.
· Explanations and examples based on current corpus research.
· Entries on "kinds of English," covering standard English and dialects, correctness, spoken and written English, formality, and variation and change.Acknowledgments vi
Introduction viii-x
Contents Overview . .Xl-XVI
Language Terminology XVIl-XXV
Don t say it:
130 common mistakes . .XXVl-XXIX
Phonetic alphabet xxx
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