Dictionary Use in Foreign Language Writing Exams contributes to ongoing debates around using or not using dictionaries in writing. The book alerts those who have a stake in language learning, teaching, and assessment to both the benefits and drawbacks of bilingual dictionaries and to means of improving their use. The book will help language students, at whatever level, and whatever language they are studying, to get the best out of bilingual dictionaries when writing, and it will also help language teachers help their students to use this resource to full effect.
Starting Points: Creating Meaningful Scrapbook Layouts From Whatever Inspires You
Find Your Inspiration Getting started can be the hardest part of scrapbooking--but it doesn't have to be. Starting Points shows you that inspiration for creating a scrapbook page can come from anywhere: an old photo, a conversation, beautiful architecture or even a clever ad in a magazine. In Starting Points, author Linda Harrison teaches you how to open your eyes to all the starting points around you, then illustrates how they can lead to an attractive and meaningful page.
Designed for the use of teachers and advanced learners by William Stevens Balch (1806-1887)
It is designed for advanced scholars, and is introductory to a system of grammar which he has in preparation, which it is humbly hoped will be of some service in rendering easy and correct the study of our vernacular language. But this book, it is thought, may be successfully employed in the instruction of the higher classes in our schools, and will be found an efficient aid to teachers in inculcating the sublime principles of which it treats.
To get the job you want you need a CV that really does the job. This practical, bestselling book will show you exactly how to present your skills, identify your achievements and communicate these successfully. You will learn to focus on your strengths and find out which skills to highlight for which kind of job. The author suggests different styles and uses for a CV, showing how to get the most from your most powerful marketing tool, whatever your background or current situation. And you will find invaluable advice on what to do once you've got an interview.
