Download or read book Powerful Writing Strategies for All Students written by Karen R. Harris and published by Brookes Publishing Company. This book was released on 2008 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highly-effective, field-tested lesson plans that will help transform struggling elementary and middle school students into skilled writers
Download or read book Report Writing Strategies written by Cynthia Gagne and published by . This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text provides comprehensive instruction on all aspects of report writing for Human and Community Services, Business, Education, and more. Combining general guidance on professional communication with specific advice on writing reports and unique coverage of reflective practices, ReportWriting Strategies is an ideal guide to the principles of effective report writing.
Download or read book Writing Reports to Get Results written by Ron S. Blicq and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2004-04-05 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The professional's quick-reference handbook for writing business and technical reports Professionals in business, government, and technical fields often need help in organizing and writing reports for associates, clients, and managers. This simple tutorial handbook offers expert tips and useful ideas for organizing ideas, structuring reports, and adding spice to technical papers. Writing Reports to Get Results offers in-depth guidance for writing: short, informal reports, such as job progress reports and inspection reports semiformal reports, such as laboratory and medium-length investigation and evaluation reports formal reports, such as analytical and feasibility studies and major investigations technical and business proposals of varying complexity The authors use a simple pyramid method to help writers organize their information into the most convenient and simplest structure for any type of document-from single-page proposals to full-length presentations. Rounding out this easy, instructional handbook are helpful tips on a number of other topics, such as: constructing reference lists and bibliographies; the use of numbers, abbreviations, and metric symbols; preparing illustrations for insertion into a report; and working collaboratively as a member of a writing team.
Download or read book Writing Strategies written by Laurel Richardson and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1990-08 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of strategies for writing up the same research in different ways - preparing the writer for approaching and addressing diverse audiences.
Download or read book Writing Reports to Get Results written by Ron S. Blicq and published by Wiley-IEEE Press. This book was released on 1994-08-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This new edition of a quick and easy-to-read reference guide helps professionals and students learn to write effective reports. The popular ?Pyramid Method? of writing is introduced to show readers how to structure and organize their documents to create a clear and concrete writing style. Updates to the third edition include new examples, new report samples, and a more thorough description of the writing process. An expanded documentation section now includes references to both APA and MLA formats. The report section has been expanded to include a new report type, the Project Completion Report. Professionals who need to document projects and ideas efficiently and effectively will learn techniques to help them organize their thoughts into coherent, well-structured reports. This book speaks the language of the technical professional and will be of particular use to engineers, technicians, project managers, consultants, architects, and managers in fields ranging from construction to telecommunications and financial services." Sponsored by: IEEE Professional Communications Society
Download or read book Self Publish Succeed written by Julie Broad and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-23 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You can write a book-anyone can. But if you want to write a book that people will want or even need to read, it's not as simple as sitting down to write. In fact, that's one of the biggest mistakes unsuccessful authors make. Writing a book can be one of the smartest moves for your business success. But you need more than writing skills to create an impressive book that readers will love. You also need a plan to market, sell, and leverage your book into a new level of leadership within your industry to reach your professional goals. In Self-Publish & Succeed, trusted best-selling author and entrepreneur Julie Broad shows you that writing a successful nonfiction book starts long before you write your first chapter. To write a book that boosts your brand, generates a profit, and makes you an influencer in your industry, you need the #noboringbooks way. You're about to discover: -The reason why you're not finishing your book-and how to overcome it. -Why most books are boring, and how to keep yours from being one of them. -Which editors you need to perfect your story and where to find them. -The one simple page that could generate thousands of sales. -Seven places to sell your book (and only one starts with "A!"). Nonfiction doesn't mean no fun. Write a money-making book that delivers meaningful impact. Self-Publish & Succeed is your step-by-step guide to writing, publishing, and marketing a book that will get attention, explode your career, and change people's lives-including yours.
Download or read book Helping Students Write the Best Research Reports Ever written by Lois Laase and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 1998 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Easy mini-lessons, strategies, and creative formats to make research manageable and fun.
Download or read book Rebuilding Research Writing written by Nanci Werner-Burke and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-24 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our students must become skilled at finding answers and using information to succeed in college, careers, and daily life. Using inquiry, writing, and technology to infuse passion into the classroom research paper motivates students and results in deeper learning. In this practical, research-based book, authors Werner-Burke, Knaus, and DeCamp encourage you to toss the old index cards and jump-start the classroom research paper so that it is more meaningful, manageable, and effective. Explore innovative ways to help students find engaging topics, collect and evaluate information, and write, rethink, and revise to truly impact their audience. The book is filled with tools and student samples to help you implement the ideas in your own classroom. Special Features: Clear connections to the Common Core State Standards Ready-to-use classroom handouts for different stages of the research process A handy appendix featuring a sample research project timeline and rubric Helpful examples of real student work and assessments Research-based foundations that guide and inform how the process unfolds and why it works
Download or read book Strategies for Successful Writing written by James A. Reinking and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 2006-12 with total page 854 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in its eighth edition, the authors ofStrategies for Successful Writing: a Rhetoric, Research Guide, Reader, and Handbook have strived to achieve the same steadfast goals that have motivated them from the beginning: create a rhetorically-organized writing guide that combines four books into one convenient and flexible teaching tool while offering students an exceptional value. By having at their disposal a comprehensive textbook that offers ample material for a full-year composition course, instructors teaching aone-termcourse can make various selections from Chapters 1-17, from whatever types of specialized writing suits the needs of their students, and from the appropriate essays in the reader. As well, because the authors believe strongly that an effective composition textbook should address students directly, they've aimed for a conversational yet clear style that invites students into the book, lessens their apprehensions about writing, and provides a model for their own prose. This style complements the authors' strong student-based approach to writing, and together they help create a text that genuinely meets student needs.
Download or read book A Writer s Coach written by Jack R. Hart and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2006-08-22 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mystified over misplaced modifiers? In a trance from intransitive verbs? Paralyzed from using the passive voice? To aid writers, from beginners to professionals, legendary writing coach Jack Hart presents a comprehensive, practical, step-by-step approach to the writing process. He shares his techniques for composing and sustaining powerful writing and demonstrates how to overcome the most common obstacles such as procrastination, writer’s block, and excessive polishing. With instructive examples and excerpts from outstanding writing to provide inspiration, A Writer’s Coach is a boon to writers, editors, teachers, and students.
Download or read book Strategies for Struggling Writers written by James L. Collins and published by Guilford Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring a wealth of real-life examples, the book helps readers to understand the default strategies students bring to the classroom, and to work collaboratively on developing these into strategies for successful writing.
Download or read book Strategies and Tactics for Multidisciplinary Writing written by Elufiede, Kemi and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2021-03-18 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Across a wide range of fields of study and academic interests, there is often a common denominator in the need for successful, concise, and well-researched communications in the form of writing. Whether it be accessing credible research, pre-writing practices, or taking writing to the next level from good to excellent, there is a constant need for teaching writing skills and methods effectively as well as utilizing what has been learned within real-life applications to create quality written content. With composers of the written word ranging from students to researchers to business owners and more, multidisciplinary writing encompasses a range of research devoted to enhancing writing skills and providing an understanding of the writing process across diverse fields of interest. Strategies and Tactics for Multidisciplinary Writing provides writers in the professional and academic sphere resources for enhancing their writing skills through a clear understanding of the writing process. The chapters focus on the multiple stages of writing including planning, researching, drafting, revising, and more. While highlighting specific topics such as writing in virtual environments, topic research, writing for the internet, and pre-writing practices, this book is ideally intended for writers in the professional and academic spheres as well as practitioners, stakeholders, researchers, academicians, and students interested in multidisciplinary writing.
Download or read book Strategies for Successful Writing written by James A. Reinking and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in a clear, engaging style, this 4-in-1 volume combines four books--a rhetoric, a research guide, a reader, and a handbook--into one convenient learning/reference tool. The "Rhetoric" section presents a full range of writing strategies, along with chapters on paragraphs, sentences, style, and three specialized types of writing, and in-depth chapters on planning and drafting, as well as revising and editing a paper. The "Research Guide" section includes three comprehensive chapters on the research process. The "Reader" section contains forty-four essays that illustrate the different writing strategies and display a wide variety of styles, tones, and themes. The "Handbook" section offers easy access to the major elements of grammar, punctuation, and mechanics, and includes a unit on spelling and a glossary of word usage. (The book is available in an alternate version--without the "Handbook" section.) For anyone wanting an all-in-one resource for learning or reviewing rhetorical writing strategies.
Download or read book Evaluation Strategies for Communicating and Reporting written by Rosalie T. Torres and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2005 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evaluation Strategies for Communicating and Reporting has been thoroughly revised and updated creating 75% new material and 34 new case examples. The Second Edition provides worksheets and instructions for creating a detailed communicating and reporting plan based on audience needs and characteristics. Authors Rosalie T. Torres, Hallie Preskill, and Mary E. Piontek cover advances in technology including Web site communications, Web and videoconferencing, and Internet chat rooms. Also mentioned are several additional topics for consideration, including communicating and reporting for diverse audiences and for multi-site evaluations.
Download or read book Scenes of Writing written by Amy J. Devitt and published by Addison-Wesley Longman. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based in current genre theory, this guide helps writers make more informed rhetorical choices and participate more effectively within academic, workplace and public contexts. This text illustrates how to use genres to assess, understand, and write within different scenes or writing situations. Discussions of writing for academic contexts cover writing analysis, argument, and research-based genres. Public and workplace writing is illustrated though discussions of other genres—letters, resumes, proposals, reports.
Download or read book Strategies for Student Writers written by Pam Peters and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive writing text for students in all disciplines. Covers every aspect of the writing process, from coming up with an idea to the final written product, whether it be an essay, exam essay, tutorial paper, or report. Illustrates each stage of the process of writing with examples and models. Offers strategies for the ``prewriting stage'': thinking the question through, defining a purpose, selecting evidence, and choosing a presentation structure; for the writing stage: constructing introductions and conclusions, sustaining a line of argument, and choosing an appropriate level of technicality or generality; and for the editing stage: reworking sentences, ensuring that each paragraph has a focus, and that the argument flows well throughout the paper. Contains notes on referencing systems, bibliographies, and on punctuation and spelling. Includes many examples of good writing drawn from a wide variety of subjects.
Download or read book Speaking and Writing Strategies for the TOEFL iBT written by Bruce Stirling and published by Nova Press. This book was released on 2021-01-15 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Increase your TOEFL iBT score by increasing your speaking and writing scores. How? By using the strategy called argument mapping. Why argument mapping? Because the TOEFL iBT speaking and writing sections are all argument-based tasks. That means if you want high speaking and writing scores, you must know how to map out (develop and deliver) spoken and written arguments, quickly and proficiently. With argument mapping, you will be able to do just that. Best of all, you can apply argument mapping to all six speaking tasks and both writing tasks. That means you will spend less time reading about strategies and more time practicing them. You Will Also Learn: * Essential rhetorical strategies and opinion development strategies * Step-by-step basic responses for all speaking and writing tasks * Step-by-step advanced responses for all speaking and writing tasks * Step-by-step emergency responses for all speaking and writing tasks * How to revise your spoken and written responses to maximize scoring * How to rate spoken and written responses quickly and proficiently ARGUMENT DEVELOPMENT Learn basic and advanced argument development strategies to maximize your speaking and writing scores. By doing so, you can increase your TOEFL score. ARGUMENT MAPPING Learn test-proven speaking and writing strategies quickly and proficiently using the graphics-based strategy called argument mapping. SCORING STRATEGIES Learn how to think like a TOEFL rater so you know exactly what to say and write to maximize scoring.
