Author : Rebecca Hickey
Publisher : Elsevier Health Sciences
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 29,1 MB
Release : 2009-05
Category : Allied health personnel
ISBN : 1416047557
A study guide for health professions, covering math skills.
Author : Randall VanderMey
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 38,87 MB
Release : 2006-01-10
Category : English language
ISBN : 9780618642021
[This text] provide[s] coverage of the writing process for today's visually oriented students. The text also included a wealth of rhetorical strategies that instructors and students found accessible and helpful. [It] reinforces these strengths with enhanced coverage of many important topics such as analyzing the rhetorical situation, evaluating sources, avoiding plagiarism, and developing visual literacy.-Pref.
Author : Mary Ellen Guffey
Publisher : South Western Educational Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 32,61 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Business communication
ISBN : 9780324233643
This text-workbook is a streamlined, no-nonsense approach to business communication. It takes a three-in-one approach: (1) text, (2) practical workbook, and (3) self-teaching grammar/mechanics handbook. The chapters reinforce basic writing skills, then apply these skills to a variety of memos, letters, reports, and resumes. This new edition features increased coverage of contemporary business communication issues including oral communication, electronic forms of communication, diversity and ethics.
Author : Fred D. White
Publisher : Cengage Learning
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 19,62 MB
Release : 2019-02-20
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781337287289
THE WELL-CRAFTED ARGUMENT, 6th Edition, guides students through the process of writing effective arguments across the disciplines. The two-part structure of this rhetoric/reader includes a complete pedagogical apparatus -- with coverage of critical reading strategies as well as writing, researching, and documenting a topic -- and an anthology of readings grouped into six thematic clusters. In-depth instruction, combined with real student writings, engages students and helps them discover their own voices. The text's visual emphasis and the authors' practical skill-building approach are enhanced with a full-color format. Summaries and checklists in Part I, Connections Among the Clusters and other study aids in Part II, and writing projects throughout the text encourage students to apply what they've learned. In addition to guidance on drafting and revising arguments, the authors provide a variety of composition strategies, including freewriting, outlining, and shared reading. Each student text is packaged with a free Cengage Essential Reference Card to the MLA HANDBOOK, Eighth Edition. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.
Author : Kelly J Mays
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 19 pages
File Size : 38,75 MB
Release : 2015-10-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0393938921
The Norton Introduction to Literature presents an engaging, balanced selection of literature to suit any course. Offering a thorough treatment of historical and critical context, the most comprehensive media package available, and a rich suite of tools to encourage close reading and thoughtful writing, the Shorter Twelfth Edition is unparalleled in its guidance of understanding, analyzing, and writing about literature.
Author : Kristin E. Denham
Publisher : Cengage Learning
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,80 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Linguistics
ISBN : 9781111836603
LINGUISTICS FOR EVERYONE, 2E, International Edition connects the study of linguistics to the language you use every day. The text is very user-friendly: casual writing style, logical presentation of material, balance of theoretical and practical, entertaining information, and lots of ideas and activities to put what you learn to use right away. The first chapter gives you the basics such as how to define language, new ways to look at grammar, your innate knowledge about language. Later chapters address core linguistics areas in depth (phonetics and phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics). Many innovative and varied activities help you review and practice the content and apply the knowledge immediately. Special features throughout the book demystify common curiosities about how language works.
Author : Joseph F. Trimmer
Publisher :
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 23,86 MB
Release : 1998-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780395903544
This rhetorically arranged reader contains 72 sections (48 essays, 8 stories, 16 paragraphs) representing voices and views from student and professional writers. The Riverside Reader encourages students to view organisational forms not just as techniques for writing, but also as a means of thinking and a way to discover a purpose for writing.
Author : Stephanie J. Coopman
Publisher : Wadsworth Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 20,80 MB
Release : 2012
Category :
ISBN : 9781133307860
PUBLIC SPEAKING: THE EVOLVING ART, 2ND EDITION/ENHANCED is a fully integrated book and technology program that matches the expectations of today's students while preserving the well-respected traditions of public speaking instruction. The text comes automatically packaged with a printed access code to a variety of online tools: CourseMate (which houses the interactive activities); Speech Builder Express, Speech Studio 2.0, and access to the eBook. Each chapter's material, both in the book and online, takes you through a sequence that starts with reading the text, moves to watching unique integrated videos, segues to companion interactive activities that ask you to apply chapter concepts in hypothetical scenarios, and then to advance work on your own speech project. A unique, practical pedagogical system in the text -- "Read it, Watch it, Use it, Review it" -- gives structure to each chapter, and directs you to the easy-to-access online material. "Apply It" Boxes give you an opportunity to use your newly-gained public speaking skills in situations outside of the classroom.
Author : Kathy Schwalbe
Publisher :
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 12,69 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Information storage and retrieval systems
ISBN : 9780619215286
Recreates the experience of dozens of projects, both successful and failed, to provide a real-world context for learning.
Author : Sylvan Barnet
Publisher : Macmillan Higher Education
Page : 868 pages
File Size : 40,64 MB
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1457649969
The unique collaborative effort of a professor of English and a professor of philosophy, Current Issues and Enduring Questions is an extensive resource for teaching argument, persuasive writing, and rigorous critical thinking. This extraordinarily versatile text and reader continues to address current student interests and trends in argument, research, and writing.Its comprehensive coverage of classic and contemporary approaches to argument includes Aristotelian, Toulmin, and a range of alternative views, including a new chapter on analyzing and writing about arguments in popular culture. Readings on contemporary controversies (including student loan debt, locavorism, and the boundaries of online privacy) and classical philosophical questions (such as How free is the will of the individual?) are sure to spark student interest and lively discussion and writing, and new e-Pages take advantage of what the Web can do by including videos, speeches, film trailers, and other multimodal arguments.
