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Looks at how dictionary publishing has changed, tells how to select a dictionary, and provides an annotated list of abridged, unabridged, and children's dictionaries.

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A fable that looks at the transformative power of knowledge and emerging consciousness as a small community moves from a rural to an urban/industrial setting.

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Language Arts is a textbook designed for middle school and high school students. Each unit progressively develops grammar, vocabulary, reading, and writing skills of the student.

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Language is an essential part of our everyday lives. This book presents an introduction into the inner workings of language, and illustrates its use, variation and methodology. It examines the origins of language, how language produces meaning, the variation of language across cultures, and how language is used in society.

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Language is an essential part of our everyday lives. This book examines the origins of language, how language produces meaning, the variation of language across cultures, how language is used in society, and whether or not there is a 'correct' way to use language.

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The best-selling humorist and author of Miss Piggy's Guide to Life provides an updated collection of Latin equivalents for a variety of everyday phrases, divided into such categories as Occupational Latin, Sales Latin, Sensual Latin, Pop-Cultural Latin, Familial Latin, and Celebrational Latin. Orig

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Examines the verbal participation of learners in Japanese as a Foreign Language classrooms. This book also examines the verbal interactions with teachers and classmates and 'private' speech acts in relation to the classroom context and also sociocultural factors such as the learner's motivation and the teacher's belief in their own methods.

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Using extensive research based on empirical evidence, this title provides the reader with practical and simple guidelines, exercises and tips to improve performance, including: advice on the use of classical rhetoric; how to write a speech when in a rush; the myths surrounding visual aids; the use of body language; and more.

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Written in the form of letters to an aspiring artist, 'Letters to a Young Artist' includes Julia Cameron's hints on how to become an artist and encourage the creative flow.

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By turns gleefully precise and happily contrarian, Yeager attacks with a linguistic scalpel the illogical expressions that are so commonplace in everyday conversation.

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The first full-length study of the late Victorian and Edwardian writing advice industry, exploring how primary instructive material and British fiction of the period represented, reflected upon, and entered into dialogue with this emerging phenomenon.

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"This edition, with changes to the script, published 2017"--Colophon.

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The definitive guide to writing scenes--now revised and expanded! Scenes are the building blocks for any work of fiction--the DNA sequence that makes a novel un-put-downable and unforgettable. When writers are able to craft effective, engaging scenes, they can develop a complete, cohesive story--and a mesmerizing experience for readers.

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Making Stories shows ten acclaimed Australian authors at work.

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Professional editor and author Lyon offers aspiring novelists the guidance and instruction they need to write and edit well-crafted and compelling stories that will stand out from the competition and attract the attention of agents and publishers.

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Structure Your Plot to Surprise and Satisfy Readers! Plot twists are a unique element of the craft of writing used by writers of all genres--from memoirs to thrillers, screenplays to stageplays--to create unexpected twists and turns.