Edward Woods – författare

A Communicative Grammar of English is a pedagogical and reference grammar which has a highly successful track record.

Employee Development at the Workplace describes the communication characteristics employees need to acquire for career success.  The main ideas that power this text are simple, but of great value to students. Employee Development at the Workplace advocates that readers engage in behaviors and practices that build credibility, and develop communication skills associated with self-empowerment.  It provides an innovative stage framework for analyzing employee development, with the identification and exploration of communication competencies associated with each stage.  Integrating a focus on organizational competencies with adaptation to a variety of organizational structures, this text emphasizes the widely adopted and highly influential continuous learning organizational structure.

The companion text to A Communicative Grammar of English (CGE), this workbook presents an opportunity for practising the points raised in the main grammar. The units follow the order of sections in Part One and Part Two of CGE; at the beginning of each sub-unit there is a brief explanation of a particular structure followed by a series of tasks, ranging from gap filling exercises to rewrite assignments and conversational passages in which the student is invited to participate. With authentic material and a variety of different task types graded by difficulty, this is an indispensable resource for teachers and advanced students with a good grounding in the grammar of the language.

Woods examines Luke's use of the unusual phrase 'Finger of God' at Lk. 11.20 as a key to understanding the role of the Holy Spirit in Luke-Acts. Luke's interest in the Holy Spirit is well-known, so when instead of having Jesus say,' It I cast out devils by the Spirit of God...', as Matthew has it, he writes, 'If I by the finger of God..', Luke poses a question that has puzzled many commentators since. Woods argues that in fact the phrase finger of God' holds the key to understanding the role of the Spirit in Luke-Acts. Taking into account the background to the phrase. Luke's larger theological interests within the Beelzebub section itself, the Travel Narrative, and the programme of Luke-Acts as a whole, he offers a new solution to an old exegetical question.