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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        April 2020

        The craft of writing in sociology

        Developing the argument in undergraduate essays and dissertations

        by Andrew Balmer, Anne Murcott

        This is an indispensable companion for students studying sociology and related disciplines, such as politics and human geography, as well as courses which draw upon sociological writing, such as nursing, social psychology or health studies. It demystifies the process of constructing coherent and powerful arguments, starting from an essay's opening paragraphs, building evidence and sequencing key points in the middle, through to pulling together a punchy conclusion. It gives a clear and helpful overview of the most important grammatical rules in English, and provides advice on how to solve common problems experienced in writing, including getting rid of waffle, overcoming writer's block and cutting an essay down to its required length. Using examples from essays written by sociology students at leading universities, the book shows what they have done well, what could be done better and how to improve their work using the techniques reviewed.

      • Teaching, Language & Reference
        December 2014

        Your Writing Well

        by Dr. Bob Davis

        Fifteen essays for anyone in any profession or academic level, Your Writing Well studies every aspect of the writing process, providing faster means to better products than do narrowly focused trade handbooks and academic texts. Having combed through writing pedagogy and cut through nonsense about composition and grammar, Dr. Davis provides an all-inclusive set of theory highlighting logic-based skills and practical strategies to create, develop, defend, and communicate coherently organized, well-expressed thoughts. Not marketed for dummies, Your Writing Well assumes readers have the smarts to follow mature common-sense guidance, grasp examples, and thus compensate for their existing lack of knowledge of what to do, how and why to do it, and where. Informed not by needless prohibitions but by relaxed, reassuring balances of freedom and prudent regulation, Your Writing Well is a comprehensive cure for all writers’ ailments and deficiencies.

      • Teaching, Language & Reference
        February 2015

        Sweet Rosa

        by Kingsley Osei, David Asimeng

        Sweet Rosa is a picture book which details the brave stance of a young African-American woman named Rosa Parks who refused to give up her seat to a white person on bus in 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama. Ms. Parks' actions led to the infamous Montgomery bus boycott and helped establish the civil rights movement led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.  The bold and courageous act of Ms. Parks, Dr. King and thousands of boycotters and civil rights advocates eventually pushed the Supreme Court to declare segregation on buses unconstitutional, helping to put racial discrimination to rest. This book takes young readers on an historic, illustrious journey through this staple event and how it has forever shaped the racial outlook of equality for adults and children alike in today's society.

      • Teaching, Language & Reference
        November 2022

        Easy-to-Read Chinese Short Stories, Book 2

        by April Zhang and Carlton Cash

        This is the second book in the series that is for Chinese learners and by Chinese learners.   Since 2021, MSL Master has invited Chinese language learners worldwide to participate in an annual event, Chinese Writing Contest. Entries are limited to using 320 Chinese characters only.   In 2022, 58 entries were received. After a public vote on Twitter, the best 14 were included in this book.   These are interesting stories and moving poems. Family, friendship and love are the main themes. The presence of nature is prominent. An element of inexplicable phenomena is also felt.   The authors were from seven countries, Malaysia, China, the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada. The oldest one was 70 years old, while the youngest one only 13. They shared a passion for the Chinese language and the love of a good challenge!   Their abilities of moulding these 320 characters were varied. While some were skilful, others were still feeling their ways and trying inventive combinations. While some relied on literary language, others preferred using simple expressions to express deep meanings.   Because of its unique mixture of texts, this book has something for evereyone, regardless whether you are beginners or advanced Chinese language learners.   Free audio and a sample story are available here: https://www.mslmaster.com/index.php/chinese-textbooks/easy-to-read-series

      • Teaching, Language & Reference

        Listening(1), Persian language teaching - listening skills

        by Ahmad Kolivandi And Ali Poormand

        Persian is a good word and has a fixed principle and it is expected that it will develop day by day and the world will be able to make many uses of this language. Supreme Leader This book is related to teaching Persian language and has different parts that include reading, writing, listening and teaching Persian language. The use of the course of these books for learning Persian language is strongly emphasized.

      • Teaching, Language & Reference

        Listening(4), Persian language teaching - listening skills

        by Ahmad Kolivandi And Ali Fatemi Manesh

        Persian is a good word and has a fixed principle and it is expected that it will develop day by day and the world will be able to make many uses of this language. Supreme Leader This book is related to teaching Persian language and has different parts that include reading, writing, listening and teaching Persian language. The use of the course of these books for learning Persian language is strongly emphasized.

      • Teaching, Language & Reference

        Reading(1): Persian language teaching - reading skills

        by Ahmad Kolivandi and others

        Persian is a good word and has a fixed principle and it is expected that it will develop day by day and the world will be able to make many uses of this language. Supreme Leader This book is related to teaching Persian language and has different parts that include reading, writing, listening and teaching Persian language. The use of the course of these books for learning Persian language is strongly emphasized.

      • Teaching, Language & Reference

        Reading: Persian language teaching - reading skills 2

        by Masoomeh Kermani and Others

        Persian is a good word and has a fixed principle and it is expected that it will develop day by day and the world will be able to make many uses of this language. Supreme Leader This book is related to teaching Persian language and has different parts that include reading, writing, listening and teaching Persian language. The use of the course of these books for learning Persian language is strongly emphasized.

      • Teaching, Language & Reference
        February 2013

        TEN LESSONS TO TRANSFORM THE WAY YOU LEARN LANGUAGES

        by Shiro

        Foreign language ability is an essential skill in our current era of globalization, but not everyone feels they can learn new languages easily. While it may come naturally to some, for most of us learning a language feels like drowning in a sea of new vocabulary, with no signs of progress in sight.   For author Shiro, learning a language isn’t about sitting at your desk memorizing heaps of vocabulary — it emerges naturally from life experience. While driving through Myanmar he used a stack of flashcards to help him chat with gas station attendants and other drivers he met along the way. He immersed himself in Spanish by taking a cruise of Latin American ports for two months, seizing every opportunity to converse with locals. Designing his own personal “Language Immersion Camps” is Shiro’s passion, allowing him to experience foreign cultures as he masters a new language.   Languages are tools for exploring the world, according to Shiro. Using the local language helps you forge stronger relationships with local people, and unlocks opportunities to more deeply engage with a culture. Foreign language ability allows you to choose your own adventure, far off the beaten path of the usual tourist destinations. For Shiro, learning languages is a hobby, like learning to play an instrument, or learning to cook, except the effort we put in is doubly rewarded: while we master a new skill we also expand our view of the world, making friends with people across the world.   In this book, Shiro highlights ten important lessons about language learning. Backed by personal experience and a wealth of academic research, Shiro has constructed a comprehensive chart of the language learning journey to help guide readers. By learning to see language learning as a pursuit that transcends our traditional notions of classroom study, readers will be inspired to formulate their own adventurous plans for language mastery.

      • Teaching, Language & Reference
        October 2019

        Wordplay Book 1

        by Afrasiyab Khan

        Considering the manifold benefits of creative writing, the three-book Word Play series is designed to help both the teachers and the students to take up the task of creative writing.  Includes: Intriguing topics chosen to increase student interest. Rich vocabulary to help build meaningful sentences. Discussion starter questions for getting the thoughts organised. Careful thematic division to provide continuity and progression.

      • Writing skills

        Center Will Hold

        ed. Michael A. Pemberton & Joyce Kinkead

        by Michael Pemberton

        In The Center Will Hold, Pemberton and Kinkead have compiled a major volume of essays on the signal issues of scholarship that have established the writing center field and that the field must successfully address in the coming decade. The new century opens with new institutional, demographic, and financial challenges, and writing centers, in order to hold and extend their contribution to research, teaching, and service, must continuously engage those challenges. Appropriately, the editors offer the work of Muriel Harris as a key pivot point in the emergence of writing centers as sites of pedagogy and research. The volume develops themes that Harris first brought to the field, and contributors here offer explicit recognition of the role that Harris has played in the development of writing center theory and practice. But they also use her work as a springboard from which to provide reflective, descriptive, and predictive looks at the field. A collection that suggests a new agenda for research and teaching in writing centers, The Center Will Hold signals a turn toward the future in writing center scholarship. It belongs on the bookshelf of every writing center and will be used with graduate students and in tutor training seminars for years to come.

      • Teaching skills & techniques

        Situating Portfolios

        by Kathleen Yancey

      • Creative writing & creative writing guides

        Teaching Lives

        by Wendy Bishop

      • Creative writing & creative writing guides

        Composition Studies As A Creative Art

        Teaching, Writing, Scholarship, Administration

        by Lynn Bloom

        Bloom gathers twenty of her most recent essays (some previously unpublished) on critical issues in teaching writing. She addresses matters of philosophy and pedagogy, class and marginality and gender, and textual terror transformed to textual power. Yet the body of her work and this representative collection of it remains centered, coherent, and personal. This work focuses on the creative dynamics that arise from the interrelation of writing, teaching writing, and ways of reading—and the scholarship and administrative issues engendered by it. To regard composition studies as a creative art is to engage in a process of intellectual or aesthetic free play, and then to translate the results of this play into serious work that yet retains the freedom and playfulness of its origins. The book is fueled by a mixture of faith in the fields that compose composition studies, hope that efforts of composition teachers can make a difference, and a sense of community in its broadest meaning. Included are Bloom's well-known essays "Teaching College English as a Woman," "Freshman Composition as a Middle Class Enterprise," and many more recent works, equally provocative and insightful.

      • Literature: history & criticism

        Saying And Silence

        by Frank Farmer

      • Writing & editing guides
        May 2013

        501 Writers Useful Phrases

        by Quentin Cope

        501 Writers Useful Phrases 501 Writers Useful Phrases is a self help book for writers and authors, full of subject sentences and one-liners. You can use it as a ‘reminder’ tool when looking for a phrase or description of a particular moment that simply won’t come to you in a head full of words and characters. This will definitely not solve all your structural writing problems, and it’s certainly not designed to, but it is a great help at one o’clock in the morning when you simply want to get that last word down, with a smile of satisfaction, before curling up with the reoccurring dream of your next one selling a million.

      • Writing & editing guides
        August 2013

        501 More Writers Useful Phrases

        by Quentin Cope

        501 More Writers Useful Phrases This second edition of the ‘Writers Useful Phrases’ is not the complete answer to a ‘writer’s prayer’, but it is a great second line reference book of phrases you can use every day in your writing journey. So, what does 501 “More” Writers Useful Phrases contain? It’s simple really. If you have the first edition, this book is divided in to the same ten sections as the original version with each one containing 50 short phrases, quotes, expressions or complete sentences to fit a particular subject heading. The last section contains 51 entries, again making a total of 501 for this edition. Hopefully, you the reader … and more importantly, you the writer, will gain something more from this second writers new phrasebook in the series. It will make a great reference book and a significant addition to ‘501 Writers Useful Phrases’ … not only at the initial manuscript stage in the production of your next epic novel, but at the tough edit stage where just one small adjustment can make all the difference.

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