Principles of Public Speaking
Balancing skills and theory, this introductory public speaking textbook encourages the reader to see public speaking as a way to build community in today's diverse world. Within a framework that emphasizes speaker responsibility, listening, and cultural awareness, this classic book uses examples from college, workplace, political, and social communication to make the study of public speaking relevant, contemporary, and exciting. This new edition includes expanded coverage of mediated speaking with examples from podcasts and online speaking contexts; discussion of ethical issues of contemporary public discourse, including disinformation and public civility; and tips for extemporaneous speaking. This textbook is ideal for general courses on public speaking as well as specialized programs in business, management, political communication, and public affairs. A companion website including an instructor's manual containing discussion questions, exercises, quiz questions, and suggestions for syllabus design is available at www.routledge.com/cw/german.
Write for Your Life
In the 1980s, Lawrence Block developed an interactional seminar that adapted elements of the human potential movement specifically for writers.For several years he and his wife, Lynne, traveled the country conducting seminars that focused on the inner game of writing, and designed to enable participants to get out of their own way and put their best work on paper. This book was written to make the seminar available to a larger audience.Block self-published it in 1986, in an edition of 5000 copies, which sold out in short order. A few years later he stopped offering the seminar, having tired of the guru trip and preferring to concentrate on his own writing, and ever since the book's been impossible to obtain. When eBooks came around, Block arranged for HarperCollins to publish Write For Your Life in that format. But it's the sort of text one wants to be able to page through, and a printed book is just more user-friendly. In the fall of 2013, an assistant found the last box of 25 copies of the 1986 edition in a storage cupboard; Block offered them in a newsletter, and they sold out within three hours.This is the original book, with a foreword bringing it up to date. With the book, as with the seminar, it doesn't matter at all where you are in your writing career, or what kind of writing you do. That's all beside the point. Write For Your Life is about making the best out of what you are and who you are.
The Occupation Thesaurus
What if there was a shortcut for helping readers get to know your characters? Would you take it? Characters are as complex as people and revealing their inner layers without chunky blocks of pace-stopping description is a challenge. The Occupation Thesaurus can help you unlock one of the best tools in your show-don't-tell writing kit: a character's job. Occupations are part of our everyday world, meaning they can be used to encourage readers to make associations between a type of work and the person doing it, shortening the "get to know the character" curve. Whether a person loves or hates what they do, a job can reveal many things, including their priorities, beliefs, desires, and needs. The Occupation Thesaurus will show you how a career choice can characterize, drive the plot, infuse scenes with conflict, and get readers on the character's side through the relatable pressures, responsibilities, and stakes inherent with work.THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX REGARDING CAREER OPTIONSSelect a job that packs a powerful punch. Inside The Occupation Thesaurus, you'll find: Informative profiles on popular and unusual jobs to help you write them with authority Believable conflict scenarios for each occupation, giving you unlimited possibilities for adding tension at the story and scene levelAdvice for twisting the stereotypes often associated with these professions Instruction on how to use jobs to characterize, support story structure, reinforce theme, and more An in-depth study on how emotional wounds and basic human needs may influence a character's choice of occupation A brainstorming tool to organize the various aspects of your character's personality so you can come up with the best careers for them Do more with your description and choose a profession for your character that showcases who they are, what they want, and what they believe in. With over 120 entries in a user-friendly format, The Occupation Thesaurus is an entire job fair for writers.
Secrets of the Permafree Book
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Effect of Time on Writing
Many investigations have been conducted to examine the latent factors that may affect the writing performance of ESL/EFL learners. Among them, time has been identified as one of the major factors that may activate the limited attention capacity model (LACM)-a framework considered to exhibit compelling power over the memory processing system. This mechanism may result in possible turbulence in the interactive relationship among writing complexity, accuracy, and fluency (CAF). The current understanding regarding this aspect, particularly the influence of time on Taiwanese university-level EFL student writing CAF, remains limited. To better understand how the time variable alone may impact the LACM and, hence, writing CAF, the researcher of this study scrutinized the textual outputs created by 43 EFL participants who composed essays given two different timeframes, specifically, 30 minutes and 50 minutes. Both inferential and descriptive statistics were used to analyze the resultant data. The results revealed explicit trade-off models between complexity and accuracy/fluency. This study concludes with pedagogical implications and suggestions for future investigations.
V. S. Naipaul
The book entitled V. S. NAIPAUL: POST-COLONIAL MELANCHOLIA is about the oeuvre of V.S. Naipaul who won Nobel Prize of Literature in 2003. This book is an intensive study of the migrants; of Indian coolies; their hopes and aspirations; failures and fatalism; their cultural disruption and longing to go back to their homeland. The Indian collies were displaced people confused and bewildered. When they arrived in Fiji they referred the island as hell. Hartz (1991) refers to the" "grirmit ideology" as fossilized and regressive. They were a motley group of illiterate Indians migrated to these lands for money and security of life. Naipaul has discussed the dilemmas and predicaments of the colonized people who were the victims of the cruel politics of indenture. Terry Eagleton observes that this ideology is "affective, unconscious, mythical and symbolic" representing the historical sufferings of the coolies whose ancestors signed an unholy bond with the capitalist traders. The coolies signed the indenture rupturing age old traditions. Naipaul has depicted the cultural changes and the dilemmas of the migrants when they arrived in new alien land.
Iconoclasm in Selected Short Stories of Alice Munro
Literary critics have argued over the status of women in the world and their self-development of their literary and cultural position in literary works. Women's oppression, self-complication, and self-recognition are worldly studied. In this respect, this thesis aims at exploring how Alice Munro has violated the established norms of writing in order to give women the chance to speak. It can be classified as a postcolonial study because Munro tries to deconstruct the centre: it is both the metropolitan and patriarchy. Moreover, she has used postmodernist techniques in order to distort both the west and men. This topic has been chosen for many reasons. First, Munro is a staunch feminist whose oeuvre gives due respect to women's problems. Theme of woman/country recurs in most of her works; this accentuates that Canada cannot get its full independence without emancipating women from patriarchal restrictions, and the constraints of society.
Attitudes towards the Use of Songhay as a Language of Education in Gao (Mali)
The choice of a language of education and people's support of that language have always been a great concern for most Sub-Saharan African countries. Mali makes no exception to that rule. At independence, and for the preservation of national unity, the Malian government opted for the colonial French language as its sole language of education, administration, politics, etc. The limitations to that language policy later on drove successive governments to gradually introduce the native languages into the educational system. However, after the experimentation, introduction, and generalisation of those languages into the educational system, very few (if any) studies have been carried out to determine the attitudes of the people whose children use those media of formal education. This research has been undertaken to determine how people of Gao feel about Songhay as the language of education of their children at school. The researcher administered questionnaires to headmasters and teachers and carried out interviews with key school stakeholders in Gao.
Memory and Consecutive Interpreting
In recent studies, interpreting, as a main way for communication among people with different language, has attracted the attention of many researchers. Consecutive interpreting is one type of interpreting that requires skills such as target language reorganization and short-term memory. Considering the crucial role of memory in interpreting, the present study aims to examine relation between memory and consecutive interpreting and also investigate the influence of memory on consecutive interpreting quality. This book can be proper source for interpreting teachers to identify and describe their objectives and to provide student's needs. The present book also is useful for syllable designers of this field to plan and structure this course and syllabus to effectively reach desired instructional goals. Another main point which makes this book significant is to provide students logistical information they will need to success in the course.
Critical Essays in Modern English and American Poetry
At the threshold of the twentieth century, English and American poetry witnessed tremendous changes in form and content due to the influences of the two Great Wars, the Great Depression and the political conflicts that shaped the new ideologies and peoples' new realizations of them. Ezra Pound's motto "make it new" embodies such kind of tendencies that prevailed throughout the modern times. This book sheds light on the main trends that shaped modern English and American poetry.
Feminine Sensibility in the Short Stories of Eudora Welty
The literary history of the American South since the Civil War has been fascinating. In more recent times on account of modernization, consequent upon industrialization and urbanization, there has been a decline in the spiritual and ethical values in the Mothern America South. And these find expression in the literature of the times. Although there were few women writers in the nineteenth century, their number increased in the twentieth century.
The Use of Intensifiers in the Language of Advertising in English Media
This book provides an image of the effect of the use of intensifiers in the language of advertisement in English media. It is based on a study which has been conducted so as to show how the advertisers implement the language of the media, with special reference to the use of intensifiers, so as to fulfill social, psychological as well as commercial effects upon the address. A number of commercial advertisements have been elicited as the data to be manipulated. The data analysis involves providing information about using parameters such as boosters and downtoners. The findings could be valuable to scholars such as media language specialists, Applied Linguists, Sociolinguits and Psychologists.
The Translation of Polite Requests From English Into Arabic
Polite requests are expressed by means of syntactic structures and lexical items. However, their performances pose a problem for requestees and translators. In fact, they are context bound. Once the requester requests something by producing an utterance, he will perform three acts, namely lucutionary act, illocutionary act and perlocutionary act. So, the translator does not know which act should be translated, unless he is aware of the intention of the requester. Another problem is that means of expressing polite requests in English and Arabic are not identical. These means are culture and language specific.
A Qualitative Assessment of Machine Translation of English Legal Texts
The current study carries out a qualitative and descriptive assessment of Arabic translations of three machine translation systems: Google Translate (GT), Bing Translator (BT) and MateCat (MC). The corpus used in this study constitutes three English-authentic legal texts: A Notice upon Conviction of a Misdemeanor Crime Involving Domestic Violence (ELT1); A Marriage License (ELT2); and A Special Power of Attorney (ELT3). The study attempts to answer three research questions: To what extent the selected MT systems are able to provide a functional translation of the ELTs as specified in Nord's (1991) Skopotheies Model?; In what way can the errors within the machine translation influence the function of the source text by examining the intra-textual and extra-textual factors specified in Nord's (1991).
Amazon Keywords for Books
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A crystal alphabet
A cursive workbook of crystals!One page each for upper and lower case letters.Advanced section includes a paragraph for each stone. The paragraph is to be copied rather than traced.Further learning resources are provided at the end.Word choices are as follows: Agate, Bloodstone, Citrine, Dichroite, Emerald, Fluorite, Garnet, Heliotrope, Indicolite, Jade, Kunzite, Lapis, Morganite, Nickel, Opal, Pearl, Quartz, Rhodolite, Sapphire, Tanzanite, Unakite, Viridine, Wavellite, Xenotime, Youngite, Zircon.
De cabo a rabo - Vocabulario/Gram獺tica
VOCABULARIO/GRAM?TICA - 2 great books in 1 (out of 3) in the "De cabo a rabo - Spanish" series- Gram獺tica, broken down into 30 manageable units, explains, in detail, everything there is to know about Spanish grammar. Whether you are a beginner, intermediate, or advanced student, this is the only guide you'll ever need to push you to the next level. Gram獺tica answers questions you never knew you had and delves into subtleties other books don't dare to wade into. If you want to attain the elusive superior level, you need De cabo a rabo: Gram獺tica.- Vocabulario, broken down into 30 themed units, complements Gram獺tica unit by unit, giving you context to learn the grammar and expand your vocabulary. If you master Vocabulario, you'll not only be able to effectively contribute to conversations on just about every daily topic you come across with native speakers, you'll also impress the heck out of them.For experienced students looking to brush up on their Spanish grammar and expand their Spanish vocabulary, Vocabulario/Gram獺tica provides the perfect combination. For those looking for exercises to put their grammar and vocabulary into practice, pick up Actividades as well.Don't miss ACTIVIDADES - book 3 of 3 in the "De cabo a rabo - Spanish" seriesBroken down into 30 workable units, Actividades goes hand-in-hand with Gram獺tica and Vocabulario, providing fun and challenging practice every step of the way. For answer keys and bonus activities, like crossword puzzles and vocabulary quizzes, go to David Faulkner Books dot com.If you teach Spanish and are looking for a curriculum to use with your students or a no-fluff guide to help you polish your own skills, look no further. You no longer have to purchase book after book trying to piecemeal a complete curriculum. This is it, A to Z, beginning to end, start to finish, or as the saying goes in Spanish: de cabo a rabo.
The Book of Literary Terms
The much-anticipated second edition of The Book of Literary Terms features new examples and terms to enhance Turco's classic guide that students and scholars have relied on over the years as a definitive resource for the definitions of the major terms, forms, and styles of literature. Chapters covering fiction, drama, nonfiction, and literary criticism and scholarship offer readers a comprehensive guide to all forms of prose and their many sub-genres. From "Utopian novel," "videotape," and "yellow journalism" to "kabuki play," "Personalism," and "Poststructuralism," this book is a valuable reference offering an extensive world of knowledge. Every teacher, student, critic, and general lover of literature should be sure to add The Book of Literary Terms to their library.
So What?
So What? The Writer's Argument, Third Edition, teaches students how to write compelling arguments and explains why practicing argumentation is essential to learning and communicating with others. Practical exercises throughout each chapter reinforce this broader academic aim by focusing on the key issue of significance--helping writers answer the "So What?" question for themselves and their audiences. By showing students how their writing fits within the broader context of academic inquiry, So What?, Third Edition, encourages them to emulate and adapt the authentic academic styles, foundational organizing structures, and helpful rhetorical moves to their college classes and beyond.
Sweat the Technique
On the heels of Kendrick Lamar's Pulitzer Prize, as the world begins to recognize the creative side of Hip-Hop, comes a writing guide from a musician and "The greatest MC of all time," Rakim.The musician and Hip Hop legend--hailed as "the greatest MC of all time" and compared to Thelonious Monk--reimagines the writing handbook in this memoir and guide that incorporates the soulful genius, confidence, and creativity of a master artist.When he exploded on the music scene, musical genius Rakim was hailed for his brilliant artistic style, adding layers, complexity, depth, musicality, and soul to rap. More than anyone, Rakim has changed the way MCs rhyme. Calm on the mic, his words combine in a frenzy of sound, using complicated patterns based on multisyllabic rhymes and internal rhythms. Rakim can tell a story about a down-on-his-luck man looking for a job and turn it into an epic tale and an unforgettable rhyme. He is not just a great songwriter--he's a great modern writer. Part memoir, part writing guide, Sweat the Technique offers insight into how Rakim thinks about words, music, writing, and rhyming as it teaches writers of all levels how to hone their craft. It is also a rare glimpse into Rakim's private life, full of entertaining personal stories from his youth on Long Island growing up in a home and community filled with musiciansto the clubs of New York and the studios of Los Angeles during his rise to the top of popular music. Rakim celebrates the influences that shaped his development, including the jazz music of John Coltrane and the spirituality of the streets, and shares anecdotes spotlighting personalities such as L. L. Cool J. and Dr. Dre, among others.Filled with valuable lessons for every writer, Sweat the Technique reveals the heart and mind of an artist and his love for great storytelling, and always, the words.
The Book of Forms
Now in its fifth edition, The Book of Forms: A Handbook of Poetics continues to be the go-to reference and guide for students, teachers, and critics. A companion for poets from novice to master, The Book of Forms has been called "the poet's bible" for more than fifty years. Filled with both common and rarely heard of forms and prosodies, Turco's engaging style and apt examples invite writers to try their hands at exploring forms in ways that challenge and enrich their work. Revised for today's poet, the fifth edition includes the classic rules of scansion and the useful Form-Finder Index alongside new examples of terms and prose that are essential to the study of all forms of poetry and verse. As Turco writes in the introduction, "It should go without saying that the more one knows how to do, the more one can do."
Elements of Fiction
Following his essential writing guide, This Year You Write Your Novel, award-winning author Walter Mosley delivers an eloquent treatise on the craft of fiction writing--part writing guide, part study of the mechanics of the genre.In his essential writing guide, This Year You Write Your Novel, Walter Mosley supplied aspiring writers with the basic tools to write a novel in one year. In this com-plementary follow up, Mosley guides the writer through the elements of not just any fiction writing, but the kind of writing that transcends convention and truly stands out. How does one approach the genius of writers like Melville, Dickens, or Twain? In The Elements of Fiction, Walter Mosley contemplates the answer. In a series of instructive and conversational chapters, Mosley demonstrates how to master fiction's most essential elements: character and char-acter development, plot and story, voice and narrative, context and description, and more. The result is a vivid depiction of the writing process, from the blank page to the first draft to rewriting, and rewriting again. Throughout, The Elements of Fiction is enriched by brilliant demonstrative examples that Mosley himself has written here for the first time. Inspiring, accessible, and told in a voice both trustworthy and wise, The Elements of Fiction writing will intrigue and encourage writers and readers alike.
The Book of Dialogue
The Book of Dialogue is an invaluable resource for writers and students of narrative seeking to master the art of effective dialogue. The book will teach you how to use dialogue to lay the groundwork for events in a story, to balance dialogue with other story elements, to dramatize events through dialogue, and to strategically break up dialogue with other vital elements of your story in order to capture and hold a reader's or viewer's interest in the overall arc of the narrative. Writers will find Turco's classic an essential reference for crafting dialogue. Using dialogue to teach dialogue, Turco's chapters focus on narration, diction, speech, and genre dialogue. Through the Socratic dialogue method--invented by Plato in his dialogues outlining the teachings of Socrates--Turco provides an effective tool to teach effective discourse. He notes, "Plato wrote lies in order to tell the truth. That's what a fiction writer does and has always done." Now it's your turn.
So What? (W/ Readings)
So What? The Writer's Argument, Third Edition, teaches students how to write compelling arguments and explains why practicing argumentation is essential to learning and communicating with others. Practical exercises throughout each chapter reinforce this broader academic aim by focusing on the key issue of significance--helping writers answer the "So What?" question for themselves and their audiences. By showing students how their writing fits within the broader context of academic inquiry, So What?, Third Edition, encourages them to emulate and adapt the authentic academic styles, foundational organizing structures, and helpful rhetorical moves to their college classes and beyond.
My Publishing Journey
It's like a baby book for authors -- with instructions! Take a tour through each stage of the publishing process while you fill in the details of your own unique journey. This journal is sprinkled with uplifting anecdotes, delightful artwork, and valuable advice from publishing professionals to inform and inspire you along the way. Whether you've just decided to write a book, are in the midst of writing, or have already finished, this beautiful guided journal will encourage you to record each and every moment that makes your publishing journey so special. Once completed, this is sure to become a treasured keepsake.
My Publishing Journey
Authors, now you have a place to record every step of your publishing journey in a beautiful guided journal! This book allows you to document each moment that makes your publishing journey so special -- whether you're thinking about writing, in the midst of the process, or have already finished your book.Inside, you'll take a tour through each stage of publishing while you fill in the details of your unique journey. Sprinkled with gorgeous artwork, author anecdotes, and advice from professionals to inform and encourage you along the way. Once completed, this journal is bound to be a long-treasured keepsake.
Liebesgeschichten schreiben
Sie wollen eine faszinierende Liebesgeschichte schreiben? Sie suchen nach einer einfachen Methode, wie Sie Ihre Lovestory ideal gestalten? Erfolgreiche Liebesgeschichten folgen einem bestimmten Aufbau, den jeder erlernen kann. Sie werden in diesem Buch deshalb alles Wichtige 羹ber Figuren, Plots und Szenen erfahren. Ja, Sie haben es vielleicht schon bemerkt: Es gibt grundlegende Liebes-Szenen, die sich in allen Liebesgeschichten wiederholen. All diese Szenen und die 羹bergeordneten Plots werden Sie hier kennenlernen. Damit erhalten Sie ein praktisches Handwerkszeug, um eine eigene Lovestory zu schreiben. Dieses Buch wird Ihnen helfen, das Potenzial Ihrer Story, ob Drehbuch oder Roman, zur vollen Entfaltung zu bringen.
Translations in Korea
1. Two Korean Translations of the Xiaoxue.- 2. The Term Question in Korean Bible Translations.- 3. James Scarth Gale as a Translator.- 4. Three English Translations of the Declaration of Korean Independence.- 5. Cross-Cultural Barriers in the Translations of Modern Korean Literature.- 6. The "Creative" English Translation of The Vegetarian by Han Kang.- 7. (Mis)translations of Foreign Film Titles in South Korea.
Translating WomenDifferent Voices and New Horizons
This book focuses on women and translation in cultures 'across other horizons' well beyond the European or Anglo-American centres. Drawing on transnational feminist connections, its editors have assembled work from four continents and included articles from Morocco, Mexico, Sri Lanka, Turkey, China, Saudi Arabia, Columbia and beyond. Thirteen di
Do It Write
Multi-award winner and USA TODAY bestseller Nicola Marsh has published 70 books, been translated into 25 languages and sold 8 million copies worldwide.Like most authors, she writes because she has to. It's a passion, an obsession.In this jargon-free reference, she explores various writing tips for publication and beyond: stellar settings, the first 5 pages, what drives your story, motivation, editing, speed writing, methodology, revisions, resilience, and more, including sample synopses.This concise writing guide, with its tips and examples, will spark the imagination and help the words to flow.
7 Seconds to Connect
You're standing in front of the room, and you have to get your point across. You know what you want to say-but your heart is pounding, your throat is dry, and your palms are sweating. You have seven seconds to connect with your audience. Seven seconds! Can you pull it off?In 7 Seconds to Connect: 3 Steps to Engage Your Audience with Confidence, you'll learn how to open with a bang to capture the attention of the people in front of you. In addition, you'll learn how to structure your opening for maximum audience engagement and buy-in. With these tools, you will: Be confident.Be heard. Be able to engage your audience throughout any type of presentation (online and in-person).You can benefit from this book whether you speak to board members, management, clients and potential clients, or community groups. You can especially benefit from this book in the age of virtual presentations and speeches. Online audiences have distractions near at hand. You'll be able to engage them throughout your speech by incorporating the three elements of a powerful opening into your talk. "Start your speech off strong every single time! Is that possible? Yes, but only if you have the right tools. "That's why I'm absolutely thrilled that Carolyn Jenkins has written this groundbreaking book entitled 7 Seconds to Connect: 3 Steps to Engage Your Audience with Confidence. The best presenters understand that it only takes 7 seconds before their audiences realize whether or not they like them and it only takes 30 seconds before they realize whether or not they want to hear more. That's why it's important to open your speech with a bang and Carolyn has provided a fantastically effective roadmap for doing just that." (From the Foreword by Craig Valentine, 1999 World Champion of Public Speaking)You'll also gain some online speaking tips from the Appendix on Virtual Presentations. By following these delivery techniques, you'll be able to distinguish your speech from the rest of them.7 Seconds to Connect will empower you to open your presentations with energy and impact. Don't hesitate! Buy this book now!
Livre de Coloriage Et d’?criture
Ce cahier d'矇criture aide les enfants de tous 璽ges ? commencer ? apprendre les lettres et ? am矇liorer leur 矇criture.Il renforce progressivement la confiance en soi dans l'矇criture en commen癟ant parEtape 1: Ecrire l'alphabetEtape 2: Dessiner la figure des animaux?tape 3: Peignez votre propre tableauAvec plus de 50 pages de pratique, votre enfant d矇veloppera le contr繫le moteur n矇cessaire pour bien 矇crire tout en apprenant ? reconna簾tre chaque lettre.
Writing Memoir
Done properly, memoir is more than just a recitation of facts about a person's life.It's a journey, connecting writer and reader in that shared space where we all experience what it means to be human. In Writing Memoir: The Practical Guide to Writing and Publishing the Story of Your Life, Jerry Payne details, in an easy-to-follow way, how to take the particulars of one's life and weave them into a moving, compelling, page-turning story. Using examples from his own works as well as other works from the masters of the genre, Payne discusses narrative arc, theme, character development, description, dialogue, flow, and voice.Concise, yet comprehensive, Writing Memoir also covers essential concerns like how to construct an effective outline, how to avoid common errors of grammar and punctuation, how to go about editing and rewriting, how to view one's book critically and objectively, and the ins and outs of both traditional publishing and self-publishing.
27 Essential Principles of Story
"So often people ask me if there's a book on story I can recommend. This is the one. I can't recommend it highly enough."--Alexa Junge, writer/producer, Friends, Sex and the City, The West Wing A master class of 27 lessons, drawn from 27 diverse narratives, for novelists, storytellers, filmmakers, graphic designers, and more. Author Daniel Joshua Rubin unlocks the secrets of what makes a story work, and then shows how to understand and use these principles in your own writing. The result is "an invaluable resource" (Publishers Weekly, starred review), offering priceless advice like escalate risk, with an example from Pulp Fiction. Write characters to the top of their intelligence, from the Eminem song "Stan." Earn transformations, from Alison Bechdel's Fun Home. Attack your theme, from The Brothers Karamazov. Insightful, encouraging, filled with attitude, and, as Booklist puts it, "perfect for any writer looking to ensure their stories operate and resonate at the top of their potential," this book gives contemporary storytellers of all kinds a lifeline of inspiration and relatable instruction. "[The] new bible of lessons and practices for creators."--Library Journal "Not a 'how-to, ' thank God, but a 'here's why.' Writers of all levels of experience will benefit from reading--and then rereading--this elegant exploration of the principles of storytelling."--Traci Letts, Pulitzer and Tony Award-winning playwright "A godsend for storytellers in all media. It will help you decide what to write and then show you, step by step, how to tackle virtually any problem you face."--Anna D. Shapiro, Tony Award-winning director, August: Osage County
Writing Center Talk Over Time
This book explores the importance of writing center talk and demonstrates the efficacy of tutor training. It uses corpus-driven and discourse analysis to examine the changes in writing center talk over time to provide a baseline understanding of the very heart of writing center work: the talk that unfolds between tutors and student writers.
Public Speaking
This book provides easy-to-read information on successful public speaking, including types of speeches, speech writing and delivery basics, opening and closing a speech and common public speaking errors.
Better English Made Easy - The Henry Thomas Method
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Chitrali-English Grammar
This Chitrali-English Grammar book provides a grammatical description of Khowar language spoken in Pakistan, an Indo-Aryan language of Chitral District, Mataltan Valley, Swat and Ghizer District of Gilgit-Baltistan of Northern Pakistan. The language is spoken by about 11,00,000 people in Pakistan.In pursuit of his passion for the endangered mother languages of Pakistan, Rehmat Aziz Khan Chitrali, the man behind the first-ever Multilanguage Text Editor for 40 Arabic script languages has invented yet another text editor - a software that allows Chitral's Khowar language typing in 7 platforms i.e. Desktop, Windows, Virtual Keyboard Online, iPhone, Linux and iPad.The students, researchers, teachers of Pakistani languages and linguists working in the Chitral, Swat and Gilgit-Baltistan Pakistan will find this book useful.His other publications related to Khowar language include Khowar Grammar, Chitrali Dictionary, Khowar Qaida, Guldan e Rehmat and Guldasta e Rehmat, etc.
Romanian Contributions to English for Specific Purposes
This book, which resulted from the joint efforts of eight academics, celebrates Romanian contributions to English studies. The research, elaboration and proofreading, initiated and coordinated by Professor Floriana Popescu, together with its editing reflect the team work under the aegis of CITLIT (Cercetarea de interfaţă a textului original şi tradus. Dimensiuni cognitive şi comunicaţionale), the English Department Research Centre accredited by CNCSIS in 2005. This book brings to light the salient data of the local heritage ensuring "Dunărea de Jos" University of Galatz a unique position within the landscape of Romanian academia ESP studies. Our University has always played an important role in the education and specialization of professionals who made brilliant careers in such challenging industrial branches as shipbuilding, thermal machines and mechanics. This is why our survey dwells on a chronology of the theoretico-practical approaches to ESP as well as the impact of the locally-created manuals on the non-philology beneficiaries at this University.
Much More Metaphoric Madness
Can you describe temptingly low-hanging fruits as tantalising? Are all doomsayers Cassandras? Which is right, squaring the circle or circling the square? Why is the vegetative metaphor in a vegetative state today?When does the arithmetic metaphor become a good metaphor arithmetic? Is botany a metaphor for all hand-me-down knowledge? Can negative words become resonant? Why is Eureka moment fast turning into a weasel metaphor?Yeast and dough - which is the spreading metaphor and which is the accommodating metaphor? Why shouldn't veneer be used as a respectable metaphor? Is wilderness a metaphor for the down and out? Are all harsh and severe laws draconian?Many more metaphor questions.............Many more answers..............And many more metaphor stories. Much More Metaphoric Madness is all about metaphor sanity.
Freelancing 101Launching Your Editorial Business
If you want freedom, flexibility to express personal style, more time for your family, interests and hobbies, more variety and more control; and, you have self-discipline, a strong work ethic, good interpersonal skills, appropriate assertiveness, situational awareness, and don't mind working home alone, you may be ready to launch your business as an editorial freelancer.Being an editorial freelancer takes a variety of professional abilities, personal attributes, and business skills. You will find the essentials for developing all of these in this booklet; as well as, definitions of the types of editorial freelancing, lists of skills, tools, resources, and pros and cons of freelancing.This booklet answers the most common questions asked by editors considering the freelance life: How to get started-choosing a business name, type of business entity and accounting system, basics for marketing the new freelance business, find clients and assignments, how to identify possible fraud, how much to charge, and how to get paid. The authors share practical skills such as what language to include in service agreements and how to send invoices and collect payments. Written by two experienced editorial freelance professionals at different places in their careers, the revised edition of Freelancing 101 includes expanded information about finding work through job placement and freelance websites, marketing freelance businesses and finding work using LinkedIn and social media, and details about SaaS tools that automate some of the tasks of running a freelance business.
Public SpeakingBring Your Social Skills and Self Esteem to the Next Level (Improve Self Confidence and Empathy by Mastering Your Communication Skills)
There's no reason to bore your audience. Just because you've seen many dull speakers, you don't have to be one too. Make people feel they've had a great experience, and they're more likely to want to get to know you and do business with you. You'll be seen as a leader and will have more influence over those around you.Inside the book: How to cultivate an awe-inspiring aura of power and authority that instantly commands respectHow to speak volumes without saying a word by mastering powerful body languageHow to use powerful gestures to make your speech that much more impactfulHow to feel more confident and relaxed when speaking to an audienceExcluding pure entertainment, the objective of most speeches is to convey information, or to promote or defend a point of view. Certain tools, such as vocal variety and body language, can aid this process. But by their very nature they can communicate only emphasis or emotion.
How to Write His Answer
Encouragement & practical help to impact the lives of your readers with links to 4 audio workshops: The Power of Story; Go & Grow, Write & Speak through the Hurts; How to Write the Personal Experience Story; Write Your Testimony. "Few have the experience of Marlene Bagnull to teach writers and to give writers the tools they need to Write His Answer and to do it so well. These are practical items even experienced writers need reminding of, such as: have a clear focus, stay close to the Lord, search for truth, reflect (and journal) on your life experiences, stay humble, know your audiences-all of this to remind us that we, as believers in the Lord Jesus, are called to write His answer to those with so many questions. Written conversationally, this book invites you to take part in the work with a ready pen." Eva Marie Everson - Bestselling & multiple award-winning author & speaker; President, Word Weavers International
Book Indexing For AuthorsHow to create a professional nonfiction index in Word
An index could be the thing your book is missing. Take a look in a library or bookstore and you will find few nonfiction books that don't have indexes. That's because publishers know how important the presence of an index is to readers - and therefore how vital it is for sales. Indies often don't realize this - and miss out on potential sales and potential good reviews.A book index is like a guidepost or map for your readers. It tells them what to expect from your book, where to find topics that interest them, and - importantly - what isn't in the book. This means that it reduces the chances of poor reviews and increases the chances of positive reviews. An index helps usability, which makes it more useful to readers.If you are an author thinking of creating your own index, you're in good company.There is quite a precedent for author-indexes (especially in the world of academia, where subjects are so specialist that it's hard to find a professional indexer with relevant experience). This book will guide you through the process and show you how to do it yourself in Microsoft Word. (Sorry, no Mac instructions.)This book is for you if...You need easy-to-understand instructions on how to create your own index for a non-fiction book using Microsoft Word;Your [traditional] publisher is insisting on an index and expecting you to pay for it;You don't have a big budget;You aren't a computer or publishing expert;You don't want to spend weeks (or months) learning how to index.This book is not for you if...You need an in-depth, theory-based book. Many people like the jump-right-in, workbook approach. You are looking for something to help you become a professional indexer, or to win indexing awards. Most professional training courses and organizations often recommend Nancy C. Mulwary's Indexing Books. Also check out the American Society of Indexers (ASI) - www.asindexing.org - and other professional and standards organizations in other countries. You can find courses on indexing in local colleges, as well as online.If you do buy this [print] book, you will have the opportunity of joining the forthcoming online course based on it - free of charge. You will be able to ask questions, receive help, and see in real-time what the creation of an index involves.
Conversation SkillsManage Business Presentations by Learning Storytelling Techniques and O
Novice speakers will learn valuable tips and methods that can help them become effective communicators in no time at all. Students taking their first speech class in secondary school or college will definitely appreciate this book. Those who frequently give speeches will gain insights to improve their efficiency in speech writing and take their presentations to the next level.What you'll discover are the types of speaking opportunities that are out there, along with suggestions for handling challenging situations before, during, and after your presentations that can eat up your time, energy, and money. Here's a preview of what's discussed: .Who hires public speakers?.Why you don't want to be a "professional" speaker..What should you talk about?.Does public speaking help you sell books? And can your book help you get speaking gigs?.How many sales leads can you really get from public speaking?.How to evaluate public speaking opportunities..Dealing with unwanted post-presentation consultation requests.Simple Secrets to Getting Paid to Speak is a guidebook that also shows you how to get paid in referrals and testimonials, as well as techniques of building your email list at all of your speaking events, whether you're paid or not. Using practical descriptions, examples, and illustrations, the book explains simple methods to write your Speaker One Sheet and the times when you don't need it.
Public SpeakingLearn How to Negotiate and Master the Secrets of Crucial Conversation for Effective Leadership (Smart Ways to Get the Attention of Your Audience)
This basic practical workbook has been written for public speaking beginners. It will encourage speakers to acknowledge the purpose of everyday communication. Speakers will learn to plan, organize, and present speeches to an appropriate designated audience.Below is a preview of just some of the content covered in this book Overcoming Fear of Public SpeakingWhy Practice, Rehearse & Visualize Public SpeakingHow to startKnowing your audienceVocal PitchAcing the opener and ending on a high noteHow to portray humor effectively during a presentationWhere you put the punch lineDealing with Culture DifferencesBody languageListening effectivelyCommunicating with family membersCommunication tips in the work environmentYou too have a voice, and it is only fair that you use all the weapons at your disposal to make it clearly heard in public, whether amongst a small group of friends or colleagues or on a stage in front of thousands of people.
