By: W. Brad Johnson , Carol A. Mullen This is a pithy, no-nonsense, no-excuses guide to maximizing the quality and quantity of your scholarly products. Write to the Top! offers an accessible overview of the art of writing efficiently and effectively; it is the first book that explicitly...
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By: Pilar Alonso Download http://usafiles.net/Bci/Semantics._A_Discourse_Perspective.pdf
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By: Marianne Jørgensen and Louise Phillips Discourse Analysis as Theory and Method is a systematic introduction to discourse analysis as a body of theories and methods for social research. It brings together three central approaches, Laclau and Mouffe’s discourse theory, critical discourse analysis and discursive psychology, in order...
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By: Richard J. Light What choices can students in America make and what can teachers and university leaders do to improve more students’ experiences and help them make the most of their time and monetary investment? Two Harvard University presidents invited Richard Light and his colleagues to explore...
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By: Laura Aull First-Year Writing describes significant language patterns in college writing today, how they are different from expert academic writing, and how to inform teaching and assessment with corpus-based linguistic and rhetorical genre analysis. Download http://usafiles.net/Bcf/First-_Year_University_Writing_-_A_Corpus-_Based_Study_with_Implications_for_Pedagogy.pdf
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by Peter Westwood This book bridges the gap between knowledge accumulated from research on spelling acquisition and the practicalities of teaching spelling more effectively. Current trends are examined, alongside community views on spelling standards because this is the context in which change is beginning to occur. The book...
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By: Penny Ur Tried and tested teaching tips for language teachers. This practical book, with its clear and accessible style, will be useful to many teachers, whether trainee, novice or experienced, in a variety of contexts. It provides a set of 100 hands-on tips on 19 different areas...
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by Mary Embree Have you been putting bullion in your soup? Is incorrect spelling starting to have a negative affect on your term papers? Do you wonder what someone is inferring when they tell you to pick up a dictionary? These are just a few of the commonly...
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Klinkenborg believes that most of our received wisdom about how writing works is not only wrong but an obstacle to our ability to write. In Several Short Sentences About Writing, he sets out to help us unlearn that “wisdom”—about genius, about creativity, about writer’s block, topic sentences, and...
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