... in a formal letter.
• Dear Gentlemen:
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3. Well
4. Rather
5. Bad
6. Amazingly
7. Narrower
8. Most mysterious
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3. The circus came to town, ... New York last summer, we visited the Theodore Roosevelt
Museum. [ ]
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C.
Colons
1. take: English
2. point: every
3. commented: “Laughter
4. 6:45
5. said: Ask
... and to develop social skills.
[ ]
X. Capitalization
The main uses of capital letters include the following:
1. The first word in a sentence or direct quotation
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...
... divide writing activities according to the
level of the teacher's control, which include: (1) imitative or writing down, (2) controlled or
guided writing, and (3) free -writing or self -writing.
Imitative ... their English for office work. That is why
they are supposed to learn a variety of ESP subjects such as: English for Education, English
for Finance and Banking, English for Economics, Business English, ... term. Students have to present what they have learned as business
writing skills and do writing business correspondent test: writing a CV and a job cover letter.
Based on the exam results obtained,...
... 2003).
2.2 THE NEED FOR SCIENTIFIC WRITING
Communication lecturers at university teach basic and generic writingskills but not
necessarily scientific writing skills. This practice that started ...
background that has to be catered for when writing is assessed (Hamp-Lyons, 2002).
ESL students lack the ability to apply their general writingskills to writing in a foreign
language. They prefer ...
proficiency in English is better than their writing competency (Katznelson et al., 2001).
Acquisition of academic English proficiency takes place faster for learners with a strong
x
Writing strategies...
... you will be using.
Essay Writing:
Developing Academic WritingSkills in
English
Catherine Schwerin
Designed for use in the
obligatory academic writing courses
in the second module ... academic writing. However, to make the most of your essay, there
are some things to remember:
Check, check, and check again! Develop the text in stages of writing,
revising and rewriting. ... of writing you will also need to consult a style manual
such as the
MLA Style Manual to help you.
Let's begin now by looking at a checklist of the general procedure for planning and
writing...
... characteristically middle-class
Allegories of Union in Irish and English writing
ALLEGORIES OF UNION
IN IRISH AND
ENGLISH WRITING,
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Politics, History, and the Family from Edgeworth ... hardest
responsibility.
Allegories of Union in Irish and English writing
Susan Morgan argues in her study of Victorian women’s travel
writings about Southeast Asia that ‘‘the very notion of what ... be reformed or conciliated unless English
practices of familial inheritance and domestic affection, so crucial to his
Allegories of Union in Irish and English writing
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efore you start your study of grammar and writing skills, you may want...
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Writing with Authority
Writing a research paper is very similar to writing
an essay. An essay is often an opinion piece that
analyzes ... Cataloging-in-Publication Data:
Stark, Rachael.
Research and writingskills : success in 20 minutes a day /
Rachael Stark.—1st ed.
p. cm.
ISBN 1-57685-442-6 (pbk.)
1. Report writing Handbooks, manuals, etc. 2. Research—
Handbooks, ... her M.F.A. from Columbia University and has been teaching English and Creative
Writing for the last fifteen years. Currently, she teaches English at Polytechnic University and is com-
pleting her...
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3. the salaries the men earned
4. the protests of the townspeople
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In a sentence, a word may play one of eight parts. It...
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Approaching WritingSkills through Fairy
Tales
Silvia Bruti
University of Pisa, Italy
Why Fairy Tales?
When I was asked to choose a topic for a seminar for second year students of English I
thought ... of his addressees, in the world he
describes. In English the present perfect is an example of commentative verb. Narrative
verbs (e.g. the English past tense) convey a more detached attitude. ... year students of English I
thought of a way of combining linguistics with the teaching of writing skills. At that stage
my ideas were still unclear and all I knew was that I had to select a...
... unique
opportunities to aid in developing writing skills. Furthermore, this integrative approach to
genre specific writing also encapsulates the skills that parallel those that will be essential ... the marriage between collaborative writing
and electronic technology is an ideal means to help writers develop the much-needed skills
to succeed at academic writing.
Compare/Contrast Essay
The ... technology in the second language writing
class. The first step is to divide a class into teams of an equal number of students; ideally
Developing WritingSkills in a Foreign
Language via the...
... pragmatic Englishwriting program for engineering students of
colleges and technical institutes with intermediate ESL proficiency. It can be used as a
writing course, or as part of a general English ... and instructional approaches on basic writingskills with particular reference to
technical writing. Georges [2] explains that the purposes of technical writing are to inform
and persuade; the ... up students' confidence or reshaping their perceptions of
English writing. Some engineering students may think that Englishwriting is a very
difficult task; yet they can still write comprehensibly...
... paragraph writing, they can and should tbe allowed to write
longer forms of writing.
The Teaching of Writing, Integrated with Other Skills
The most common problem that confronts teachers of a Writing ... in the Advance Writing Class that has been proven
successful in teaching the skills of summarizing, outlining, expressing opinion through the
medium of writing. In integrating Writing Lessons ... Integrated Writing Skills
Dr. Cecilia B-Ikeguchi
Tokyo Kasei Gakuin: Tsukuba Women's University (Japan)
This article was published in the International Journal for Teachers of Writing Skills. ...