Effective Writing Skills for Public Relations is a reference source on style and presentation with tips on making the best use of written communication. It gives advice on how to write concisely using jargon-free language while avoiding overused words and phrases. It includes advice on policing house style with attention to punctuation, headlines, captions, and overall consistency. Readers will also find help on public speaking, pronunciation and the standard writing skills needed in the office.
The fourth edition includes new sections on websites, emails, and other online communication. Standard proof correction marks are included together with a glossary of terms. The author draws on the authority of established style guides, including the Oxford Guide to English Usage.
Una Cunningham-Andersson and Staffan Andersson are the parents of four children who have grown up speaking English and Swedish. This book is based on their personal experiences with the trials and rewards of life with two languages. The Anderssons' experiences are further illustrated by glimpses of life from interviews with fifty families from all around the world. They discuss the various systems families develop and recognize that every family is unique. Filled with invaluable practical advice for parents and professionals, this book provides guidelines on how to support children's linguistic development and enable them to gain maximum benefit from living with two languages.
In Practical Advice to Teachers, he spoke to the teachers in the following way: “Concern yourselves with whatever has genuine significance for the child’s development (lecture 4, p.55). Then he proceeded to give invaluable insights into the methodology that no Waldorf teacher can be without. These lectures not only provide insight into how certain subject matter works in the growing child and how it correlates with his orher developmental stages, but also how teachers in their method of working can “bring the Soul-Spirit into harmony with the Life-Body,” (The Foundations of Human Experience, lecture 1) and how they can handle the subjects “for the purpose of developing human capacities” (Practical Advice, lecture 1).
The advice in this guide to effective learning is to help students to think about the way they learn and, where necessary to improve their study, revision and examination techniques. They may read it chapter by chapter (rather than at one sitting) during the first weeks of a course, and then try the techniques recommended. Afterwards they may refer to appropriate chapters, for advice on particular points, throughout their course.
For Dummies Travel guides are the ultimate user-friendly trip planners, combining the broad appeal and time-tested features of the For Dummies series with up-to-the-minute advice and information from the experts at Frommer’s.
