Enhance you research, information literacy, and critical thinking skills with these 7 tutorials.
Scholarly articles, News articles and Audio-visual content, Opinions, Primary sources, Reference, and Websites on topics of social interest. Scholarly content and general reader. Recommended for argumentative research.
How to Win Friends and Manage Remotely by
How to Win Friends and Manage Remotely shares real-life examples, scientifically proven ideas, and distillations of tried-and-true business tenets, including why expressing empathy is the most important factor in managing and working with others—all mapped to a new virtual-first office.
Win-Win by
We all negotiate every day, whether we realize it or not. Yet few people ever learn how to negotiate. Those who do usually learn the traditional, win-lose negotiating style rather than an approach that is likely to result in a win-win agreement. This old-school, adversarial approach may be useful in a one-off negotiation where you will probably not deal with that party again. However, such transactions are becoming increasingly rare, because most of us deal with the same people repeatedly -our spouses and children, our friends and colleagues, our customers and clients. It's essential to achieve successful results for ourselves and maintain a healthy relationship with our negotiating partners at the same time. In today's interdependent world of business partnerships and long-term relationships, a win-win outcome is fast becoming the only acceptable result. This book will show you how to get that win-win.
The Writing Rope by
Writing is a task as complex and multifaceted as reading --but itâ (TM)s often taught as a single skill. Discover how to plan and deliver comprehensive, explicit, and evidence -based writing instruction with this groundbreaking book, aligned with IDAâ (TM)s Structured Literacy approach and based on the latest research. Joan Sedita 's innovative Writing Rope weaves multiple skills and strategies into five fundamentals of a comprehensive writing curriculum: critical thinking, syntax (sentences ), text structure, writing craft, and transcription (spelling and handwriting ). Teachers of Grades 4 -8 will get crystal-clear guidelines that demystify the process of helping students learn to write and write to learn across academic content areas. And with dozens of included templates, handouts, and other resources -available for download online --teachers will have all the tools they need to design and deliver explicit, high-quality writing instruction. Perfect for professional development, this invaluable planning guide will help teachers apply the science of reading to the skill of writing --and help students master a critically important aspect of literacy. TEACHERS WILL: Learn the fundamentals of effective writing instruction. Get research -based background knowledge about writing development, the five components of the Writing Rope framework, the role of fluent transcription skills in proficient writing, and the intentional choices proficient writers make about writing craft.Apply evidence -based practices in the classroom. Teach essential skills all students must learn to become proficient writers, focusing on critical thinking strategies for generating ideas and gathering information before writing, strategies for each stage of the writing process, syntactic awareness and sentence writing, paragraph writing, and skillful structuring of different types of text. Help students "write to learn." Teach students how to use writing to enhance their learning across different content areas. Learn how to plan effective writing assignments in different content areas, and explicitly teach students skills for summarizing texts and writing about narrative and expository text. PRACTICAL MATERIALS: Apply the Writing Rope framework to support your studentsâ (TM) writing skills with classroom activities, Connect to Your Classroom questions, suggestions for scaffolding, a Writing Assignment Guide to use with any grade or content area, and 40 + reproducible instructional resources for students and teachers.
Academic Writing Skills for International Students by
This engaging guide will equip students who are non-native speakers of English with the tools and confidence to respond effectively and appropriately to written assignments at university. It supports students in the development of essential writing skills, such as structuring paragraphs and building an argument, and provides practical guidance on adhering to the conventions of academic writing. It guides students systematically through a series of text analyses which bring out key linguistic and rhetorical features, making complex textual issues manageable and understandable for learners of all abilities. This is an ideal self-study aid for non-native English speakers, both on pre-sessional language courses and on degree programmes, who need to get to grips with the conventions of academic writing.
Moving from the Known to the Unknown in Academic Writing by
Expressive writing is mainly used on psychological patients to assist them in dealing with their trauma. This book is the first to use expressive writing in assisting L2 students in their academic writing. As may be shown in this book that using expressive writing techniques are particularly helpful for L2 students who have difficulty expressing themselves when writing in English. The book will appeal to lecturers in language centres, linguists, psychologists, and teachers.
The Research Journey: Introduction to Inquiry by
Designed to foster "inquiry-mindedness," this book prepares students to develop a conceptual framework and conduct inquiry projects that are linked to ongoing conversations in a field. The authors examine different ways of knowing and show how to identify a research question; build arguments and support them with evidence; make informed design decisions; engage in reflective, ethical practices; and produce a written proposal or report.
Scientific Methods Used in Research and Writing by
Research publications, projects, and teaching learning theories have become very important to universities, institutions, organizations, and industries. Many submissions are rejected due to author's lack of writing and research skills. This new book provides a quick, basic starting point to learning the needed skills. The book discusses the statistical methods involved, covers the development of academic writing skills for a higher impact, teaches learning theories, and uses a structured and holistic approach for educational research proposal development. This book will be used by research scholars, undergraduates, postgraduates, and anyone interested in engineering and learning the basic academic writing skills and scientific methods needed.
A Multidisciplinary Exploration into Flow in Writing by
"Offering a multidisciplinary exploration of "flow" and the often-nebulous ways it is conceptualized and operationalized in writing pedagogy, this book addresses a critical gap in Writing Studies. Bringing together practice-based and scholarly perceptions, this book outlines the key features, definitions and approaches of flow and identifies pedagogical opportunities for classroom instruction. Incorporating perspectives from disciplines including classical rhetoric, composition studies, cognitive science, and linguistics, this book provides a diverse overview of the literature on flow in writing pedagogy. It includes two instructional voice-based and rhetorical-grammar-based activities that outline how to recognize and improve flow in writing. In doing so, the book also provides clear examples of how to create an inclusive writing pedagogy that incorporates sensory and analytical perspectives to help readers and writers experience flow and meet their writing goals. As an exploration of flow instruction as it currently stands and might stand in the future, this book will be of interest to students and instructors in the field of academic, professional and creative writing studies"--
Why Do We Write As We Write? Paradigms, Power, Poetics, Praxis by
This interdisciplinary volume answers questions, such as: What is motivating us? What are the outcomes of our writing experiences? How do we improve them? What are the challenges? The activity of writing has been observed here from, mainly, two different perspectives: writing as self- discovery on a predominantly institutional level, and w
