This new edition is designed to help graduate and research students with the process, preparation, writing, and examination of their theses. Many students are able to design their program of research and to collect the data, but they can find it more difficult to transform their data into a thesis.
Dr Paul Oliver is a principal lecturer in the School of Education and Professional Development at the University of Huddersfield.
Twitter means business: how microblogging can help or hurt your company
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Millions of Internet users have fallen in love with the Twitter "microblogging" service, which lets them swap brief text "tweets." Now companies are embracing the service to engage customers, promote products and monitor what is being said about their brands.
In this groundbreaking resource, two school garden pioneers offer parents, teachers, and school administrators everything they need to know to build school gardens and to develop the programs that support them. Today both schools and parents have a unique opportunity — and an increasing responsibility — to cultivate an awareness of our finite resources, to reinforce values of environmental stewardship, to help students understand concepts of nutrition and health, and to connect children to the natural world. What better way to do this than by engaging young people, their families, and teachers in the wondrous outdoor classroom that is their very own school garden?
Taking into account the changing needs of learners and teachers, New Snapshot: - captures and holds students' attention through authentic location photography, magazine articles and personalisation activities that allow students to talk about themselves - gives all students the opportunity to achieve success at their own level by providing two-level exercises and projects which enable students from different levels to express themselves creatively and successfully encourages learner independence, making it ideal for large classes by offering opportunities for students to monitor their own progress and develop effective learning strategies Level: Pre-Intermediate - Intermediate
This updated vocabulary-building book presents the essential core of words that students at middle-school and higher levels must know and be able to use fluently for academic success. These words also constitute essential vocabulary for ESL students and test-takers, as well as others who speak English as their second language. The authors present a series of brief word-building lessons, each introducing 12 new words that are presented in sample sentences and short articles. Fill-in-the-blanks exercises help students measure their word-buil
