The materials in this text were compiled over a period of ten years, in Thailand from 1993 to 2003, while I was teaching at The Faculty of Arts at Chulalongkorn University and later at the Department of Language at KMUTT. I started a file of speaking activities because there were too many tasks and ideas to keep in my head, and I wanted to be able to access them when I needed them in the future. Eventually, the file grew thicker and thicker, until it was big enough to become a book.
Ideas & Details: A Guide to College Writing
Taking a no-frills approach to composition, IDEAS & DETAILS offers a strong focus on student writing with detailed writing strategies that empower student-writers with options instead of prescriptions. In this brief writing guide, students will discover over 40 sample student writings, a balance of short and long assignments, over 100 brain teasers that provide students with invention strategies to stimulate creativity, and integrated coverage of visual rhetoric with 50 new photographs and works of art.
This is an absolutely incredible book packed with unique artworkby over 50 different & highly talented artists. As an intermediatepolymer clay artist I look to this book when I need new ideas & inspiration.
This book has been written for those serious English language learners who equate language development with extending and refining their use of vocabulary. In particular, it systematically covers the vocabulary used to express and discuss complex and abstract ideas; words which often have a low degree of lexicalisation but which are very commonly used across discourses, and some which have recently received attention in university word lists.
It can sometimes feel like you've run out of ideas when it comes to pasta and noodles. Once you've cooked Spaghetti Bolognese, Macaroni Cheese and Chicken Chow Mein, you can be left feeling a little uninspired. In comes Paul Gayler, who provides his personal selection of the very best, from old favourites to new, fresh ideas and not forgetting innovative baked pasta dishes that bring colour and much-needed flavour to even the most jaded of palates. A good pasta or noodle dish relies on the combination of flavours, whether in time-honoured classics Lasagne al Forno, Pasta Carbonara
