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Writing Academic English

Now in its fourth edition, Writing Academic English , by Alice Oshima and Ann Hogue, is the essential writing text to prepare high-intermediate and advanced college or college-bound English language learners for academic success.   Features A...

Writing Essays About Literature

Widely used in introductory literature courses as a style guide or as a supplement to anthologies, this book provides valuable guidelines for interpreting literature and writing essays. It includes full-length selections as well as essays.

Sociolinguistics - An Introduction to Language and Society

This introduction to that part of linguistics which is concerned with language as a social and cultural phenomenon ranges over gender, environment, age, race, class, region and politics. This edition looks at the development of a language as a res...

I Never Knew There Was a Word for it

From 'shotclog' a Yorkshire term for a companion only tolerated because he is paying for the drinks to Albanian having 29 words to describe different kinds of eyebrows, the languages of the world are full of amazing, amusing and illuminating words...

WRITING ACADEMIC ENGLISH ANSWER KEY

Focus on Vocabulary: Mastering the Academic Word List

Focus on Vocabulary: Mastering the Academic Word List , by Diane Schmitt and Norbert Schmitt, is a research-based vocabulary textbook that gives high-intermediate to advanced students the advantage they need to succeed in academic environments. Th...

Longmans Student Grammar of Spoken and Written English Workbook - Workbook.

invaluable for students on university and teacher-training courses checks your knowledge of how English is actually used in speech and writing shows how grammar differs in different contexts of registers provides practice with relationships betwee...

The Elements of Journalism: What Newspeople Should Know and the Public Should Expect - What Newspeople Should Know And the Public Should Expect

"In an age when partisan rancor and ratings-driven showmanship have crowded out the more subtle virtues of solid journalism, (the authors) provide a timely refresher course in the importance of press fundamentals. They remind us that at its b...

On Speaking Well - How to Give a Speech With Style, Substance, and Clarity

For anyone who fears the thought of writing and giving a speech--be it to business associates, or at a wedding--help is at hand. Acclaimed presidential speechwriter Peggy Noonan shares her secrets to becoming a confidence, persuasive speaker demys...

Academic Writing for Graduate Students - Essential Tasks and Skills

The second edition of the highly successful "Academic Writing for Graduate Students will orient students in becoming junior members of the academic community. New to this edition are updates and replacements of older data sets, a broader rang...

Illustrated History of Britain, An Paper

An absorbing overview of major events in England, Scotland and Wales, tracing the development of the nation from prehistoric times to the present day.

Rediscover Grammar Third edition

David Crystal guides readers through the maze of structures and terminology of the English language. He shows how language structures link together, describes their features and usage, and cautions against easy mistakes.

The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language

The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language is one of the publishing phenomena of recent times. Rarely has a book so packed with accurate and well researched factual information been so widely read and popularly acclaimed. It has played a k...

Language Change - Progress or Decay?

This substantially revised third edition gives a lucid and up-to-date overview of language change.

Hot Words for the SAT: 4th Edition

Updated and expanded to reflect the vocabulary and format of the most recent SATs' Critical Reading sections, "Hot Words for the SAT" presents and defines more than 365 words that appear most frequently on SAT exams. These are words that...

Reading Like a Writer - A Guide for People Who Loves Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them

This book presents an inside look at how the professionals read and write. Long before there were creative writing workshops and degrees, how did aspiring writers learn to write? By reading the work of their predecessors and contemporaries, says t...

The Elements of Style - United States Edition

This style manual offers practical advice on improving writing skills. This 'little' book can help students communicate more effectively, showing them how to enliven their sentences, put statements in the positive form and write in a clear and sim...

Global Crisis Reporting - Journalism in the Global Age

What are global crises' and how do they differ from earlier crises? What do recent studies of global crises reporting tell us about the role of the news media in the global age? What are the current trends in the fields of journalism and civil soc...

Succeeding with Your Master's Dissertation - A Step-by-Step Handbook

"I found this book indispensable and consulted it pretty much on a daily basis throughout the whole process of planning and writing my dissertation. By following the book from beginning to end I was able to hand-in a piece of work that I was both ...

How to Teach Pronuncation Book & Audio CD

How to Teach Pronunciation offers practical teaching ideas within a clear, theoretical framework, and activities to increase students' spoken English skills