Book Description
The second edition of this successful guide to writing for graduate-and undergraduate-students has been modified to include updates and replacements of older data sets; an increased range of disciplines with tasks such as nursing, marketing, and art history; discussions of discourse analysis; a broader discussion of e-mail use that includes current e-mail practices.
Like its predecessor, this edition of Academic Writing for Graduate Students
" explains understanding the intended audience, the purpose of the paper, and academic genres.
" includes the use of task-based methodology, analytic group discussion, and genre consciousness-raising.
" shows how to write summaries and critiques.
" features "language focus" sections that address linguistic elements as they affect the wider rhetorical objectives.
" helps students position themselves as junior scholars in their academic communities.
The Commentary has also been revised and is available.
Customer Reviews:
academic writing for graduate studies.......2007-01-30
This book is a great tool for both experienced and novice writers in college matters. It introduces basic information about sentence structure, style, tone and other features you need to consider when writing a scholar papers. It also provides lots of practice to reinforce the concepts introduced and put them into practice.
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For health care providers who wish to learn Spanish to effectively communicate with patients, this book offers an excellent first course in the language. It is a classroom text that uses readings, exercises, and interactive activities to integrate the Spanish medical vocabulary, grammar, and colloquial terms that nurses, doctors, dentists and medical technicians most need. Rich cultural notes explain Hispanic customs and communication styles. This second edition provides an expanded lexicon, a more concise, graphic presentation of structure, added communicative activities, and a workbook section to consolidate learning and promote writing skills. Also included with the book is a 72-minute CD audio program integrated with each of the lessons, which develops listening skills and guides pronounciation.
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An Introduction to Spanish for Health Care Workers.......2007-07-06
This is by far the best book in it's field. It is very well organized and presents grammar points in a subtle yet clear manner. The vocabulary is perfect. The compact discs are very clear and accurate. The only negative comment I would have is that it is sad that this book now costs so much, as compared with the original edition. An accompanying workbook would be helpful.
There's a second edition with a free audio CD.......2003-03-26
... The book has been completely revised and an audio CD of the dialogs is included for FREE at the back of the book. Try searching by its full title, AN INTRODUCTION TO SPANISH FOR HEALTH CARE WORKERS and hopefully you will be able to find the MOST RECENT EDITION.
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Book Description
Grammar for English Language Teachers provides an accessible reference for planning lessons and clarifying learners' problems. It includes a typical difficulties section in each chapter, which explores learners' problems and mistakes and offers ways of overcoming them.
Customer Reviews:
great resource to have.......2007-03-23
Grammar for English Language Teacher is a must have book if you are in English teaching business. This book is very user friendly and its content is extremely useful and relevant. I am very pleased to have it and recommend it 100%.
Grammar for English Language Teachers: With Exercises and a Key.......2007-01-12
An easy to read book. Lot of tips and comments. Good for the teacher's own understanding of grammar and how to teach the grammar. Wonderful guide and help!
Not for beginner.......2006-08-02
This book covers everything and more. However its language and order means it is not for the beginner but for someone already fluent and understanding of english grammar. I am a prospective english teacher and was looking forward to the assistance of this book. I think I will in time but will need to read other books first before i can get near to this level. Things are not explained simply but assume you already know the words he uses and the meanings behind them even as early as the first few pages.
A comprehensive and lucid reference.......2002-12-11
As is evident from the book's title, this book is intended for practising and prospective teachers. Its simple structure enables the teacher to teach grammar lucidly and effectively. Every chapter features an analysis of common grammatical difficulties that students encounter when studying grammar. This advantage will help you identify the difficulties and accordingly reveal efficient ways to help students deal with troublesome points of grammar.
In the following, I will account for the chief characteristics of this book:
1. a very simple structure,
2. a thorough analysis of complex sentence structures,
3. the identification of typical grammatical difficulties,
4. its methodological and pedagogical structure,
5. its simple terminology,
6. it is comprehensive and lucid
7. it will help teacher to choose the most effective method to teach grammar.
The above-mentioned features should help you decide if this is the book you need! In my opinion, this is the only book you need to become a competent english teacher.
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More than 10,000 people turn 50 every day in the U.S.; how do they handle this shift? Claiming Your Place at the Fire invites this group of "new elders" to ask four key questions: Who am I? New elders synthesize and transfer the wisdom of the past into the present. Where do I belong? They have a powerful sense of where they have come from, where they are, and where they are going. How do I bring my passions alive? They rejoice in rediscovering their life's work, their calling, their vocation. What is my life's purpose? Freed from imposed schedules and demands, new elders now find the freedom to create their lives anew. This timely book describes how new older adults can rekindle the good life, relight the fire within, and share that warmth and light with others.
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My friend loves this book!.......2007-05-30
I gave this as a gift...and she loves this book!
Grow Alive Instead of Old.......2005-01-25
You can grow old in the darkness of night or grow alive in the light of your sun--your choice. Richard J. Leider and David A. Shapiro take you by the hand and help you see how to let go of the things that don't bring you alive and replace them with things that do. Can it really be that simple? You decide.
CLAIMING YOUR PLACE AT THE FIRE lets you see how to believe that every second of human life is valuable. And, oh how our needy world needs the best of every single one of us. If you can answer a telephone and speak, you can volunteer for a prayer line where people call for comfort in times of turmoil and are so grateful when they get a live person.
When you are tempted to give in to your aches and pains, do remember Stephen Hawking, our modern day Einstein confined to a wheel chair, who had a body that was unable to respond to him. So, he used to the fullest what was able to respond to him, his mind, and blessed the entire universe with his wisdom.
Best of all, CLAIMING YOUR PLACE AT THE FIRE makes you feel warm and comfortable about walking your path instead of so afraid of what will happen to you.
Attention Boomers: Buy This Book!.......2004-09-02
As one who has benefited from Richard Leider's work during my own mid-life transition, this new work takes us into new (yet old) territory and reminds us of what's been lost in our society and in ourselves through the industrial era. The best is yet to be . . . and let Leider & Shapiro be your journey partners!
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A Writer's Workbook: A Writing Text with Readings
ASIN: 0521658004 |
Book Description
A Writer's Workbook is a thematically arranged writing text that explores the connections between reading, critical thinking, and writing strategies. The Student's Book focuses on cultural studies using 8 readings, 10 of which are new to this edition, from a variety of sources. The text provides grammatical instruction and editing strategies in each chapter. It also includes vocabulary development exercises before each reading selection.
Customer Reviews:
A great vocabulary book!.......2006-03-10
I purchased this book to use in an intermediate ESL reading/writing class. It contains tons of exercises on the collection of academic words called the Academic Word List. I highly recommend it. This list was put together from the analysis of a corpus of articles from a range of academic topics, and it identifies words that are used in academic English across the board. My students are most interested in these words because they appear frequently in the Reading and Listening passages of the TOEFL IBT and in textbooks they will be reading after they pass the TOEFL.
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Women over 40 long to redefine the rest of their lives. Dale Hanson Bourke and the friends she interviewed--including General Claudia Kennedy, Kay Warren, Becky Pippert, journalist Peggy Wehmeyer and Jill Briscoe--resoundingly affirm that midlife can be a time of spiritual rebirth and a chance for God to get one's attention now that others' demands on her life have diminished. Bourke offers essential principles that will help women to blaze new trails in their best years.
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A good read for mature women.......2006-07-10
This is a book for mature women (these days and in this context meaning baby-boomers) facing the "second half of life." Dale Hanson Bourke, now in her early 50s, has a different take on life than she did as a young I-can-do-it-all wife, mother and entrepreneur. She was the type who set annual five-year and 10-year goals, building toward the next achievement. She even wrote her first book about it, titled YOU CAN MAKE YOUR DREAMS COME TRUE. But now? In recent years she's felt drawn toward what she refers to as a "second calling," one that "doesn't necessarily build your résumé, but it builds your soul." And here she welcomes readers to join her on this transformative journey.
The book is framed by the biblical story of Naomi (and secondarily Ruth). "Before the Book of Ruth begins, Naomi is enjoying a wonderful life... She loves God and her family, and all seems right in the world." But "then the bottom falls out." And later, "through divine providence and Naomi's obedience, the Book of Ruth ends" with Naomi "feeling fulfilled" and "playing a pivotal role" in a larger story.
But Naomi and Ruth provide the framework for a contemporary challenge: "If all the Christian women aged forty and older got truly serious about seeking God and letting him use us in amazing ways, we could completely change our world." With an endearing vulnerability, Dale walks you through her own menopausal crisis and awakening, realizing that what really energized her involved international relief and justice issues, including AIDS awareness and orphan assistance. But such work, which started with high-profile marketing advice and overseas travel, eventually and humbly included night after night of personally labeling and mailing out packages of "AIDS orphan bracelets" --- not because she had to do it herself but because she wanted to.
This is more than her own story, however. She also draws in vignettes of other empty-nest moms and career women who've found a new stride. And parts of the middle chapters are quite specific in their how-to pointers for finding new direction --- identifying what one needs to let go of and leave behind before one can step out in confidence and faith.
In one particularly interesting chapter, titled "Giving up Idols," Dale humorously describes how much she valued her airline "super-duper premier executive platinum card" and ultimately admits that she's "still an achiever in recovery."
Whole chapters are devoted to the foundational aspects of prayer and to the critical support of friends and mentors. "If prayer is the bedrock of the second half of life, then friends are the rich soil that give form, substance, and richness to our calling." She also addresses the value of passing on your life lessons to the younger generation.
One chapter departs from the Naomi metaphor and centers on the wilderness manna that was edible only one day. Here Dale discusses the importance of "living in the present," letting God set the agenda, taking on the task set before her rather than relying on those old long-term goals. Though she has obviously felt the grief of letting go and moving on, maybe she has ultimately experienced her heart's dreams come true.
The publisher's claim that this is the "first major book to address the spiritual side of a woman's second half of life" gave me pause. It's been out nearly a decade, but for a midlife woman I'd also recommend Valerie Bell's A WELL-TENDED SOUL.
Great Book.......2006-07-06
As one who is on the early end of midlife, I found myself in a place, not of my choosing, where I had never imagined I would be. This book didn't say where to go. However it did say how to go. The right book at the right time with the right message. It is unabashedly Christian, without giving the answers. If you're facing midlife in crisis, or just facing it with sudden blocks of open time, this is a wonderful and inspiring book.
Gentle invitation to relinquish control to God in mid-life.......2006-06-24
In 1985, Dale Hanson Bourke published You Can Make Your Dreams Come True, a book designed to encourage women to believe in themselves, their passions, and their power in God to realize their dreams. Two decades later, her latest book, Second Calling: Passion & Purpose for the Rest of Your Life, could be its sequel. For Second Calling is all about life after the dream has been achieved. Or not.
Patterned on the book of Ruth, Second Calling is written for women "in or approaching the second half of . . . life." And it's especially relevant to those who spent the first half of their lives pursuing their dreams, whether successfully or not, only to find as they transition into mid-life that they no longer have the energy and drive they once had.
After the death of her husband and sons, the future looked bleak as Naomi packed her things, dispatched her daughters-in-law, and headed out of Moab back to Judah. But Ruth refused to leave, so together they made their way to Bethlehem where Naomi instructed the women to call her "Mara, because the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me." At that moment, when all seemed lost, Naomi had no way of knowing that God would use her life to bless future generations.
Through this study of Naomi's life, Bourke encourages women to realize that when age inevitably takes its toll on our energy and vitality, when our dreams have either been realized or given up, our lives can still have meaning and purpose. Once the busyness has slowed, God can finally get our attention and show us, as He did Naomi, that it's not what we can do for Him, but what He can do through us that ultimately matters.
"Naomi became part of the greatest story ever told," writes Bourke, "not because of what she did in the first half of her life but because of what God did through her in the second half."
Naomi's second calling was to be "called the grandmother of baby Obed, who later becomes the grandfather of David." Only God knows what unique second calling He has in mind for each of us, but, according to Bourke, Naomi's story "is evidence that God wants to tell a story through us as well." In Second Calling, Dale Hanson Bourke has issued a gentle invitation to women in mid-life and beyond to relinquish control of our lives and to rest in God's grace while He writes "the rest of [our] story." - Linda Whitlock, Christian Book Previews.com
One Missing Ingredient.......2006-06-04
Although I appreciated much about the book and could relate to lots of its content, I felt that an important piece was missing -- and that was the fact that although Mrs. Bourke is married, so little, in fact, minute, reference was made to her husband's part in her life, her career, her choices, her future. It was as if he was a non-entity in any of this. She made mention of her sons, but so little of her husband. This stood out as a glaring omission to me since our decisions in marriage impact our mate greatly, and particularly as we make choices that have us traveling around the country and the world in work and/or ministry. I would have liked to hear more about this relationship, and particularly in respect to her "Second Calling."
A soulful, reflective and gentle push for a new perspective is maintained throughout.......2006-05-23
If you're a religious-thinking, older woman wondering if the best of life has already happened, SECOND CALLING: FINDING PASSION AND PURPOSE FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE is for you. It tells how to make peace with the past and with annoying people, provides first-person spiritual reflections and insights, and offers plenty of real-life examples and case histories for finding meaning in the world. A soulful, reflective and gentle push for a new perspective is maintained throughout.
Diane C. Donovan, Editor
California Bookwatch
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The author clarifies the nature of expertise in language teaching, its development, and how teachers employ it. Amy B.M. Tsui has provided a major service to the field of applied linguistics in the paperback edition of this first detailed study of what expertise in language teaching consists of and how it develops in language teachers. Exploring the classroom practices of her subjects in four illuminating case studies, Tsui succeeds in clarifying the nature of expertise in language teaching, the factors that shape and influence its development, and how teachers employ their expertise in teaching. In the process, the author critically examines an extensive literature on teacher cognition and shows how teachers' theories, knowledge, experience, and goals shape their classroom practices and their ability to move from novice to expert. Understanding Expertise in Teaching is a valuable addition to the literature on teacher cognition in language teaching and is of considerable interest to researchers, teachers, and teacher educators in applied linguistics and TESOL.
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not in the best condtion.......2007-07-26
the conditon of the book i was told was totally not true the book had writing all inside the body was all bent up. i am not happy
Great for learning to teach ESL writing.......2004-07-16
As an ESL teacher trainer, I have used this book in a course on how to teach ESL writing. My students read through the entire book and worked through all the exercises in several chapters. They found it very helpful and practical for getting the main idea of how to teach ESL writing, how to present and practice skills, how to organize instruction. Like most ESL textbooks, there are topics included in this one which aren't my first choice (why do we often give ESL students cheery topics like capital punishment, euthanasia, etc?), but overall I think the authors have done an excellent job of demystifying the writing process, both for teachers and students. The text deals with the writing process, rhetorical modes, and grammar. Very balanced.
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