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Ideas into Words
Mastering the Craft of Science WritingintowordsideasElise HancockForeword by Robert KanigelTHE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ... 21218-4363www.press.jhu.eduLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication DataHancock, Elise.Ideas into words: mastering the craft of science writing / Elise Hancock.p. cm.ISBN 0-8018-7329-0 — ISBN 0-8018-7330-41. ... manuscript,pounced, using her wh...
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Ideas into Words
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Mastering the Craft of Science WritingintowordsideasElise HancockForeword by Robert KanigelTHE JOHNS ... 21218-4363www.press.jhu.eduLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication DataHancock, Elise.Ideas into words: mastering the craft of science writing / Elise Hancock.p. cm.ISBN 0-8018-7329-0 — ISBN 0-8018-7330-41. ... manuscript,pounce...
... sitting—about 25 minutes. 400Must-Have Words is also highly effective in the TOEFL-prep classroom.Each chapter begins with a list of 10 target words. These words aredefined and used in sample sentences. ... . . . . .195400 Must-Have Words for the TOEFL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .199Contentsix
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Introduction400 Must-Have Words for th...
... English words are small ones. And those small words which occur most often in our speech, reading, and writing—are relatively few in number. Just ten words account for 25 percent of all the words ... words, you have the power to fight jargon and to simplify modern communication. It’s now up to you. vii
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... fill in the world with words. Not only is inventing words a blast: it has real possibilities. Let’s explore a few of these—in particular, the ones that have to do with coining words just for fun. ... 5MAY WE HAVE A WORD?k 127 People who start thinking about words are likely to find themselves, pretty soon, thinking about words about words. You never know: it might even happen to you....
... Vietnamese cultural words and their equivalences2.1. The most common types of cultural wordsIn his classification of culture words, Newmark (1998) concluded five major categories of culture words including ... use of loan words in the source textThe use of loan words in the source text poses a special problem in translation. Quite apart form their respective propositional meaning, lo...