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"In Tell It Like It Is, bestselling author, writing coach, and teacher Roy Peter Clark offers a succinct and practical guide to writing with clarity, honesty, and conviction. By analyzing stellar writing samples from a diverse collection of public writers, Clark highlights and explains the tools journalists, scientists, economists, fact-checkers, even storytellers use to engage, inform, and hook readers, and how best to deploy them in a variety of...
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Deft praise encourages others to feel as we do, share our enthusiasms. In this "age of awesome," our words and phrases of acclaim are exhausted, all but impotent. Arthur Plotnik is proffering a well knit wellspring of worthy and wondrous words to rescue our worn-down usage. --from publisher description
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Peter Elbow talks directly to students about the process of writing. Beginning with his own early difficulties with writing as a college student, Elbow provides insights into how one can work through writing problems. Full of detailed instruction and specific skills to aid in writing, this video guides its audience from the initial stages of freewriting to the final stages of the revising process. Useful for students and teachers alike, Peter Elbow...
89) Bonjour Les Amis
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A Gentle Introduction to the French Language. "A very good beginning French Series. Highly recommended". - Video Librarian. "An upbeat and delightful work of educational programming." - Children's Bookwatch
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A gentle introduction to the French Language. Moustache has exciting adventures with his human and animal friends. What, you don’t speak French? Well, Moustache can certainly help you with this.. In his first adventure we will meet and greet friends, sing songs, and visit a magic show. And all the while, you’ll see how quickly you have begun to speak French with Moustache
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A gentle introduction to the French Language. Moustache has exciting adventures with his human and animal friends. What, you don’t speak French? Well, Moustache can certainly help you with this. Moustache wants to race!. Un, Deux, Trois, Partez! That means “One, Two, Three, Go!” Learn to count further in French with your new French friends, taste a little “glace,” and then bid “Adieu” to Mademoiselle Abracadabra.
92) The Way We Talk
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Michael Turner struggles with one of medical science’s most baffling and enduring disabilities—he stutters. On the surface, stuttering is syllable repetitions, prolongations, blocks, and various physical tics. But as he illustrates in The Way We Talk, stuttering is like an iceberg, with the major symptoms below the surface. Emotions caused by the disorder— anxiety, depression, denial, and a negative self-image—are rarely confronted in speech...
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Why do we say "I am reading a catalog" instead of "I read a catalog"? Why do we say "do" at all? Is the way we speak a reflection of our cultural values? Delving into these provocative topics and more, author McWhorter distills hundreds of years of lore into one lively history. Covering the little-known Celtic and Welsh influences on English, the impact of the Viking raids and the Norman Conquest, and the Germanic invasions that started it all during...
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