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This is the third of four courses designed to develop English language knowledge for use in translation and/or simultaneous interpretation. This course will introduce the students to different genres of texts to further broaden their exposure to authentic materials evident in their chosen career area and develop their awareness and understanding of discourse features of different genres.
This book introduces research design and methodology in scientific research. It is important, in the editors’ eyes, to elucidate what research and science are, and this comprises the main part of the first chapter. There are eight other chapters in this book, covering the preliminary stages of research; sources of bias in research design; common measurement issues and strategies in research design; general types of research designs and approaches; the many forms of validity as well as how to maximize validity in research; issues in data preparation, analyses, and interpretation; ethical considerations in research; the dissemination of research results and the distillation of major principles of research design and methodology.
This book gives advices on writing essays and papers in the humanities and social sciences. The introductory chapter discusses the main elements in academic writing, writing task, subject matter, reader, and language. Aside from the introductory chapter, the book is organized into 3 parts. Part 1 focuses on reflection and research- how to ask questions and propose answers, as well as how to read and take notes. Part 2 focuses on the dynamics of an essay, separately discussing how to write the introductions, the middles, and the endings. Part 3 focuses on language, dealing with language and material, analytical language, cohesion and texture, as well as conventions of academic writing.
This book offers an approach to thinking about sentence, this fundamental unit of written and spoken language. Not a manual, not a handbook, not a textbook, this slim volume is a more of a philosophical treatise, a careful and thoughtful reflection on prose style. Rather than disseminating "how to" knowledge, Fish exposes readers to a sensibility – a consciousness of and sensitivity to style. Fish hopes to teach the fundamental motions of sentence structure that enable thought and meaning. The book dissects the good sentence and teaches the reader how to reconstruct it.
While in the original edition, 50 writing tools are shared with the readers, this 10th anniversary edition includes five brand new, never-before-shared tools- now the readers are instructed with altogether 55 tools in this guide to writing. At the end of each tool, readers will find a set of workshop questions and exercises. Organized into four sections, “Nuts and Bolts,” “Special Effects,” “Blueprints for Stories,” and “Useful Habits,” this book is infused with more than 200 examples from journalism and literature. The source includes great works on writing, the authors whose works are sampled in this book, conversations with professional writers and editors, and America’s great writing teachers.
This book teaches how to analyze the arguments from tweets to infographics to student newspaper articles and how to create convincing arguments of your own. It teaches all facets of argument, including classical, visual, and multimedia argument. This book consists of 22 chapters divided into 4 parts. Part 1 deals with reading and understanding arguments, including types of arguments and fallacies of arguments. Part 2 deals with writing arguments, basically how to structure arguments. Part 3 deals with style and presentation in arguments, highlighted by the multimedia arguments. Part 4 deals with research and arguments, paying special attention to aspects of arguments in the research activity.
This book reveals the secrets of Power leaders through the ages. Tools and techniques that those leaders developed, polished, and honed as the secret techniques to rise to power are presented in the form of 21 power secrets- Power Pause, Power Opener, Power Presence, Power Point, Power Brief, Power Quote, Power Stat, Power Outrage, Power Wit, Power Parable, Power Gesture, Power Reading, Power Poetry, Power Line, Power Question, Power Word, Power Active, Power Dollar, Power Button, Power Closer, Power Audacity. Read through the book, and then you will learn how great leaders used tricks to speak, persuade, and win throngs of fans and followers.
This book is designed to assist readers in the task of developing a clear central argument. Collins lists six basic precepts of good writing- delivery that emphasizes the character of speech as performance, expectations that call for mutual expectations from both the speaker and the audience, topic that can be summarized into one single sentence, audience whose response is vital to the speech, individual that the speech needs to present the best possible version of the speaker, and language that should be simple terms rather than jargons. There are six chapters in this book, each corresponding to one of the basic precepts, but in a different sequence.
