Showing posts with label Edition. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Edition. Show all posts

Sunday, October 9, 2011

Making Connections High Intermediate: A Strategic Approach to Academic Reading, Second Edition (Student Book)

Making Connections High Intermediate: A Strategic Approach to Academic Reading, Second Edition (Student Book)The series helps students gain insight into how academic text is organized and how to read effectively. Making Connections High Intermediate is a reading skills book aimed at students who need to prepare for academic college reading tasks. The book has four high-interest thematic units, each with multiple readings. Twelve reading skills and strategies sections give students insight into how academic texts are organized and how to read effectively.

Price: $32.00


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Friday, October 7, 2011

Secrets of a Freelance Writer, Third Edition: How to Make $100,000 a Year or More

Secrets of a Freelance Writer, Third Edition: How to Make $100,000 a Year or More
The definitive guide to becoming a successful freelance writer, now in an updated and expanded third edition
Secrets of a Freelance Writer has long been the authoritative guide to making big money as a commercial freelance writer. In this new edition, you'll find out how to make $100,000 a year--or much more--writing ads, annual reports, brochures, catalogs, newsletters, direct mail, Web pages, CD-ROMs, press releases, and other projects for corporations, small businesses, associations, nonprofit organizations, the government, and other commercial clients.

You'll also learn how to start out as a freelancer, market yourself to clients, create a successful personal Web site to cull more sales leads, follow up on potential customers to build your practice, and run your business on a day-to-day basis.
Secrets of a Freelance Writer is the definitive guide to building a successful and lucrative freelance writing practice.

Price: $18.00


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Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Global Issues, Local Arguments: Readings for Writing (2nd Edition)

Global Issues, Local Arguments: Readings for Writing (2nd Edition)

Global Issues, Local Arguments: Readings for Writing features high-interest arguments on significant global issues and emphasizes their connection to our lives–all the while developing critical thinking, rhetorical, analysis, synthesis, argumentation, and research skills.

Price: $71.60


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Saturday, September 17, 2011

Best Newspaper Writing, 2008-2009 Edition

Best Newspaper Writing, 2008-2009 Edition

For more than 25 years, Poynter faculty have presented the year's best newswriting and community service photojournalism with the winners and finalists of the American Society of Newspaper Editors annual competition. An ideal reader for aspiring journalists, the volume provides quality models students can study and emulate.



Poynter's renowned faculty-- including Roy Peter Clark, Karen Dunlap, Tom French, Kenny Irby, Chip Scanlan, and Keith Woods-- take your students "Behind the Story" with the book's much heralded features. In-depth interviews with the winners let readers benefit from unique insight into how these reporters developed their stories into, in some cases, Pulitzer Prize-winning pieces. Ethical challenges are tackled, as are discussions of how to report and present news online. "Sources Say" features offer students perspective on a piece from those at the heart of the story, while the ever-popular "X-Ray Readings" are back, dissecting articles to show students exactly how writers ply their craft, sentence by sentence.



Always covering the range of journalism, this edition showcases sections on breaking news, investigative reporting, editorials, narrative writing, columns, photojournalism, plus new sections on covering immigration, race and ethnicity, and writing about human connections.

Price: $34.95


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Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Reading and Writing in Elementary Classrooms: Research-Based K-4 Instruction (5th Edition)

Reading and Writing in Elementary Classrooms: Research-Based K-4 Instruction (5th Edition)

This K-4 text follows the style of the successful Cunningham/Allington franchise-it is very practical with tons of activities but grounded on solid research. With new chapters on Fluency, Assessment, and a new organization this text offers the most current insight on thinking processes, on reading and writing as language, and on the importance of the affective domain.

Price: $123.00


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Sunday, September 4, 2011

Asking the Right Questions: A Guide to Critical Thinking (8th Edition)

Asking the Right Questions: A Guide to Critical Thinking (8th Edition)The habits and attitudes associated with critical thinking are transferable to consumer, medical, legal, and general ethical choices. When our surgeon says surgery is needed, it can be life sustaining to seek answers to the critical questions encouraged in Asking the Right Questions This popular book helps bridge the gap between simply memorizing or blindly accepting information, and the greater challenge of critical analysing the things we are told and read. It gives strategies for responding to alternative points of view and will help readers develop a solid foundation for making personal choices about what to accept and what to reject.

Price: $48.20


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Friday, September 2, 2011

Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum (11th Edition)

Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum (11th Edition)

Remaining one of the best-selling interdisciplinary composition texts for over twenty-five years, Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum helps readers of all majors and interests learn to write effectively for college.

This rhetoric and reader guides students through the essential college-level writing skills of summary, critique, synthesis, and analysis.

Price: $80.00


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Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Qualitative Reading Inventory (5th Edition)

Qualitative Reading Inventory (5th Edition)

This easy-to-use, best-selling collection of reading materials effectively assesses reading ability at emergent though high school levels. Qualitative Reading Inventory-5 includes both narrative and expository passages at each grade level, questions to assess prior knowledge, and word lists. Instructors can measure comprehension by retelling passages, implicit and explicit questions, and other devices. Based on the latest reading research, this comprehensive inventory focuses assessment on specific questions regarding word identification, fluency, and comprehension. It also provides suggestions for intervention instruction, procedures for assessment of strategic reading, and inclusion of results in classroom portfolios.

What's new to this edition...

  • Presents new narrative texts even easier than the pre-kindergarten passages previously included, as well as a updated narrative for all primary grade level
  • Includes passages at pre-kindergarten through second grade levels with and without pictures
  • Offers maps and illustrations as part of expository selections for Grades 4-12Features new content on DVD , including:
    • Examples of students reading orally
    • Scored protocols to accompany readings
    • Directions for administering each segment of the QRI
    • Tables/Charts that increase consistency of administration’s coring and interpretation
    • All student and instructor copies
  • Outlines the full research-base and includes the various pilot studies conducted with various classrooms in the appendix

Price: $66.99


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Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Writing for Social Scientists: How to Start and Finish Your Thesis, Book, or Article: Second Edition (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing)

Writing for Social Scientists: How to Start and Finish Your Thesis, Book, or Article: Second Edition (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing)
Students and researchers all write under pressure, and those pressures—most lamentably, the desire to impress your audience rather than to communicate with them—often lead to pretentious prose, academic posturing, and, not infrequently, writer’s block.  

Sociologist Howard S. Becker has written the classic book on how to conquer these pressures and simply write. First published nearly twenty years ago, Writing for Social Scientists has become a lifesaver for writers in all fields, from beginning students to published authors. Becker’s message is clear: in order to learn how to write, take a deep breath and then begin writing. Revise. Repeat.

It is not always an easy process, as Becker wryly relates. Decades of teaching, researching, and writing have given him plenty of material, and Becker neatly exposes the foibles of academia and its “publish or perish” atmosphere. Wordiness, the passive voice, inserting a “the way in which” when a simple “how” will do—all these mechanisms are a part of the social structure of academic writing. By shrugging off such impediments—or at the very least, putting them aside for a few hours—we can reform our work habits and start writing lucidly without worrying about grades, peer approval, or the “literature.”

In this new edition, Becker takes account of major changes in the computer tools available to writers today, and also substantially expands his analysis of how academic institutions create problems for them. As competition in academia grows increasingly heated, Writing for Social Scientists will provide solace to a new generation of frazzled, would-be writers.

Price: $12.00


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Thursday, July 14, 2011

"They Say / I Say": The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing (Second Edition)

The book that demystifies academic writing, teaching students to frame their arguments in the larger context of what else has been said about their topic???and providing templates to help them make the key rhetorical moves.

The best-selling new composition book published in this century, in use at more than 1,000 schools, They Say / I Say has essentially defined academic writing, identifying its key rhetorical moves, the most important of which is to summarize what others have said (??œthey say??) to set up one???s own argument (??œI say??). The book also provides templates to help students make these key moves in their own writing.

The Second Edition includes a new chapter on reading that shows students how to read for the larger conversation and two new chapters on the moves that matter in the sciences and social sciences. line drawings

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