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<P style="MARGIN: 0px">The Writer’s Handbook for College and Career helps students write successfully in college and prepares them for writing in the workplace. <P style="MARGIN: 0px">
Students want to learn how to improve their writing in college, but they also want to learn how to transfer these writing skills to their workplace. <I>The Writer’s Handbook for College and Careeroffers complete coverage of topics expected in a handbook–writing, research, and grammar–that students use through out their college experience, but it goes one step farther and includes instruction and examples that span a range of workplace situations. For example, chapters on argument, design, and presentations discuss fundamental principles but then also explore how usage strategies vary in classroom or workplace settings. Students learn practical writing skills they can use to connect the writing they do in college to the writing they do at work.
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This book arises from a bold suggestion: that education is to be understood mainly as a practice in its own right, as opposed to a subordinate activity controlled largely by society’s ‘powers-that-be’. Yet the long history of the practice has abundant examples that reveal just the latter. Many centuries of ecclesiastical control have cast teachers and pupils alike in an acquiescent role, and proclaimed a paternalistic order of things to be the natural one in the world of learning. In a secular age, a more mercantile credo gains ascendancy, but the hierarchical order of things in education essentially remains in place. Furthermore, international educational reforms in recent decades have done much to secure a major renewal of this order for the 21st century. The New Significance of Learning draws on a wide range of insights from history, philosophy, literature and social sciences, in an accessible style. The author’s analyses reveal a vacuity that lies at the heart of this renewed educational order, for all its conspicuous concern with excellence and its measurement. In response to this, the book seeks to uncover the eclipsed classical origins of education as a characteristic human undertaking with its own inherent purposes. The seminal power of these origins is revealed by aligning them with major contemporary insights, to elucidate a distinctly educational understanding of human understanding itself. The merits of such an understanding are explored in some detail, not least by reviewing some objections that might be brought against it. The book proposes a more original understanding of education as a practice, and a number of examples suggest the merits of seeing it as a form of imaginative heartwork. This ‘heartwork’ recognises the plurality of the human condition, but also emphasises the necessity to cultivate and sustain environments of learning which embody universally defensible practices. A central ethical orientation for educational practice thus emerges, which combines a commitment to progressive fluency with an educated sense of one's own ignorance, and, in turn, of the relative ignorance of humankind. Such an orientation identifies an overlooked significance for learning in an era where fundamentalisms have made headway internationally, not only in religion, but also in politics and in commerce.
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In this thoughtful new resource, a master teacher shares her framework for presenting powerful read-aloud lessons that teach students the comprehension skills they need to read nonfiction. You’ll learn how to plan and present interactive read alouds of newspaper or magazines articles, textbooks, informational books, and lots more. Standards-based lessons include exploring the features and structures of nonfiction, activating background knowledge, making inferences, summarizing, and much more. You’ll also find suggestions for choosing nonfiction texts, using read alouds across the curriculum, and differentiating your lessons. For use with Grades 3–6.
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Save countless hours with more than 100 ready-made letters and other communications. Use "as is" or customize them for your particular needs. This handy collection will help you communicate more effectively with parents and enlist their support.
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Discover your Synergy Quotient. This breakthrough discovery for a new sense of the whole mind answers how we all fit into the synergy quotient. SQ is how we think best. It's not just IQ-skills we know or EQ-how we feel about what matters to us most, but synergy intelligence may be the best indicator of success in life, redefining learning ability and patterns. Our brains sensory balancing act creates a personality profile for living smarter together.
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 (2.0 / 5.0) Word 2003 Essential Training with David Rivers is a movie-based tutorial for users who are either new to working with MS Office Word 2003, or those upgrading from a previous version of Microsoft Word. This workshop begins with a basic overview of the application and quickly advances to cover text formatting, styles, automatic text features, find/replace, proofing, shared workspaces, printing (including envelopes and labels) importing graphics, working with templates, customizing the toolbar and much more. Exercise files accompany the training, allowing you to follow along and learn at your own pace.<strong>Topics Include:
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 (1.0 / 5.0) This volume provides a comprehensive and balanced survey of the state of American public education. It examines the trend in the quality of the public schools over the past 100 years, and reviews the possible reasons for a decline in quality. The work focuses on the importance of local control in American public education and how it has been steadily eroded. Franciosi advocates school choice as a way of restoring greater control by parents over their children's schools. This work is distinct among calls for reform in that it takes a skeptical attitude towards the centralized school reform movement that has culminated in the No Child Left Behind Act. It discusses important topics that have been the subject of research including the effect of teachers unions, Tiebout competition and local control, and school finance reform.
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 (4.0 / 5.0) Whether you use a web authoring system or write HTML by hand, you need to know how HTML works. HTML Essential Training is designed to help you understand HTML, its strengths and weaknesses, and how to identify and fix problems in a web page. More than just an HTML tutorial, <em>HTML Essential Training covers the how and the why of HTML documents, including document structure, block and inline level tags, floating images, controlling white space, phrase and font markup, and much more! From setting up a simple web page to adding CSS style sheets and JavaScript rollovers, <em>HTML Essential Training gives you the skills you need to take control of your HTML.Topics Include:
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