Practical advice in a perfect package for young aspiring writers.After receiving letters from fans asking for writing advice,accomplished authors Anne Mazer and Ellen Potter joined together to create this guidebook for young writers. The authors mix inspirational anecdotes with practical guidance on how to find a voice, develop characters and plot,make revisions, and overcome writers block. Fun writing prompts will help young writers jump-start their own projects, and encouragement throughout will keep them at work.
Four full-length practice tests in TOEFL iBT format All questions types encountered on the real TOEFL test allowing test-takers to familiarize themselves with the type of questions they will be asked Audio CDs to simulate TOEFL iBT listening sections, including authentic university-level lectures and realistic campus-related conversations Complete transcripts of the practice listening, speaking, and writing sections Design similar in appearance to the real TOEFL iBT Full answer key for the practice reading and listening sections Model speaking and writing answers
The new seventh edition of English Skills with Readings features the author's trademark crystal-clear explanations, along with his range of motivating activities and writing assignments that reinforce the four bases of effective writing: unity, support, coherence, and sentence skills. This edition of the book adds a variety of exciting new features to the author's proven approach, and reinstates much-requested materials from previous editions.
Q: Skills for Success is a six-level series with two strands, Reading and Writing and Listening and Speaking. Q: Skills for Success uses an essential question in every unit to connect critical thinking, language skills and learning outcomes. The series provides students with the language skills needed to achieve academic success.
