IDEAS INTO WORDS MASTERING THE CRAFT OF SCIENCE WRITING

It is undeniable that English is a means of international communication in the fields of science, technology, culture, education, economy and so on. In Vietnam, English has taken on a special significance when people are taking the modernization and industrialization. In addition, of four English sk[r]

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then asks for solutions in a paraphrased way (‘How could these problems be reduced?’)Remember that the exact words ‘problem’ and ‘solution’ may not be used in the task; you mustbe alert to synonyms such as ‘challenge’ and ‘answer.’Model Essay 10The almost universal availability[r]

The growing fields of distributed and cloud computing are rapidly evolving to
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commonly accepted ideas about how to approach data challenges upside down, forcing
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Repetition of keywords and phrasesBy repeating keywords and phrases, you can create a powerful cohesive effect. Be careful, though; too muchrepetition can create a ludicrous effect.Of course, repetition isn’t desirable. However, if it is used correctly, it will make your prose more int[r]

Building SentencesInstructions for use:Print the worksheets onto card. Cut out and laminate the cards. Put each set of cards in anenvelope or box, with the relevant label attached. These are some ideas for how to use them:a)Practise sentence building - ask students[r]

Talking about changes using turn and fallWe use turn to talk about visible changes of state. It is common before color words. Note that turn is more formalthan go.Leaves turn brown in autumn.When I broke the news she turned red.She turned white with anger.Suddenly everything tur[r]

achieve a band score of6 or 7 on the Speaking Test of the IELTS exam, although candidatesintending to achieve a band score of 5 will also benefit from the book, it covers manyaspects of the interview with ample samples and provides a considerable numb[r]

This book began to emerge in 1985, based on the wisdom of my original guru in Finland,
Jean Margaret Perttunen (1916—). Peggy’s book, The Words Between, during decades in which
she offered me specific advice, taught me about Finnish scientists’ problems in writing in English.

A more recent g[r]

STEP ONE: GETTING IDEASResearch for imaginative writing can be about a location (JohnMarsden, for example, drew on real places and stories for Tomorrow,When the War Began). It can be about a historical period (ColleenMcCullough does a lot of historical research for her books abo[r]

Vocabulary and Spelling
Strategies and Practice
Grade 11
Vocabulary for Writing in the Real World
Eyewitness to a Hurricane 1
Where Her Characters Come From. 2
Discovery in the Digs . . . . 3
More Than a Baseball Story. . . . . . . 4
When the World Wants to Know. . . 5
A Plea for the Rights of Nativ[r]

In October and November 2007, The eLearning Guild conducted a survey of its members, asking
for their favorite tips for using software to create eLearning. Members could submit tips in
any or all of these five categories: Courseware authoring and eLearning development tools,
rapid eLearning tools, s[r]

This study is an attempt to describe, analyse, compare contrast English and Vietnamese root and epistemic modality as realized by modal verbs from Cognitive perspective, more specifically in terms of force dynamic framework. The study is both descriptive and contrastive in nature. The main aim of th[r]

Common expressions without articlesIn some common fixed expressions of place, time and movement countable nouns are normally treated asuncountables, without articles. Here are the most common expressions of this kind:To school / at school / in school / from schoolTo university /[r]

We do not read words, one by one. Meaning is contained not so much in individual words as in collections of words conveying broader or more specific ideas. Readers thus make sense of a sentence by breaking it into meaningful chunks and examining their interrelationships. Skillful writers focus not s[r]

How to Write an Effective and Successful SummaryWhat a summary is“summary is a short statement that gives only the main points ofsomething, not the details.” (Oxford dvanced Learner’s Dictionary, 8th Edition) Tosummarize a text is to condense it into a distillation and to do so[r]

General writing tips for TOEFL and IELTSWhile writing your TOEFL or IELTS essay, avoid using unfamiliar vocabulary. In a bid to impress the examinerwith complex vocabulary, many students commit this mistake.Instead use the vocabulary you would normally use. During the<[r]

TOEFL essay writing tipsThere are two tasks in the TOEFL Writing section. The first writing task is an integrated task: you will have tolisten to a lecture and read a passage. You must then write a summary of both passages.The second writing ta[r]

The ability to deliver thoughts and feelings towards other people effectively is an important aspect of communicate. However, it seems that verbal expression of ideas and displays of emotions do not come easy to many people.

Verbal expression of ideas involves putting ideas into words. In most case[r]

The simple, practical and easytoapply ideas in this guide will help business owners identify the main reasons behind their lack of worklife balance and, most importantly, how to fix it. The experiences, tips, and coping mechanisms of thousands of business owners around the world who were consulted i[r]