Polishing Your Prose: How to Turn First Drafts Into Finished Work
This singular book illustrates how to edit a piece of prose and enhance its clarity of thought and felicity of style. The authors first present ten principles of effective composition, and then scrutinize three extended paragraphs, suggesting with remarkable specificity how to improve them. The volume also offers challenging practice questions, as well as two finished essays, one serious and one humorous, that demonstrate how attention to sound mechanics need not result in mechanical writing.
Reading and Writing Technical English Online This course is designed for post-graduate students specializing in Internet and multimedia information, and who need to master technical English. The students should have completed about 8 years of English (both secondary and tertiary), and their proficiency level in English could be characterized as of upper intermediate to advanced.
Настоящее учебное пособие продолжает курс обучения, начатый в книге "Вводный курс морского английского языка для изучающих технику и инженерное дело" того же автора. Вниманию будущих и уже работающих судовых инженеров предлагается 48 технических, административно-хозяйственных и юридических текстов, дающих полное представление о письменном английском языке их профессии.
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Career Paths: Law is a new educational resource for business professionals who want to improve their English communication skills in a work environment. Incorporating career-specific vocabulary and contexts, each unit offers step-by-step instruction that immerses students in the four key language components: reading, listening, speaking, and writing. Career Paths: Law presents subject matter including basic legal concepts, court processes, legal billing, evidence, and international law. The series is organized into three levels of difficulty and offers over 400 vocabulary terms and phrases
The Teacher's book contains a full answer key and audio scripts.
Innovations in English Language Teaching to Migrants and Refugees
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This book is about the teaching of English to migrants and refugees. It is written from the perspective of those who work with and teach this diverse group of adults and children. Migrants and refugees come from very different geographical areas and have left their home countries for very different reasons. They will have had very different experiences of education. In this book we are concerned with English language teaching in a country in which English is the dominant language of a substantial, often monolingual, majority and learners need English to communicate in their daily life.