Listen Write Present

Author : Stephanie Roberson Barnard,Deborah St James
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780300177916

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Listen. Write. Present. by Stephanie Roberson Barnard,Deborah St James Pdf

Even the best ideas have little value if they are not explained clearly, concisely, and convincingly to others. Scientists, engineers, health care professionals, and technology specialists become leaders in their fields not just by way of discovery, but by communication. In this essential book, two seasoned communication consultants offer specific, focused advice to help professionals develop, improve, and polish their interpersonal communication, writing, and presentation skills. The authors explain exactly how to manage multiple projects and interactions, collaborate with colleagues and others, gain support for ideas through presentations and proposals, and much more.

Author : Bernard Selling
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780897936286

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Writing from Within: The Next Generation by Bernard Selling Pdf

Everybody has something to say. In an age when Twitter, blogs, and Tumblrs give millions the chance to write whatever is on their minds, it seems that we're finding plenty of avenues in which to share it. How, then, do we write what is worth saying? How do we record our important memories so they'll be remembered? How do we tell our personal stories the way they deserve to be told? In keeping with successful earlier editions of Writing from Within, Selling has stressed the idea that personal writing is a means to personal understanding. Learning to write well starts with the subjects we know the best—ourselves. To write life stories, writers explore vivid memories and re-engage with the perspectives of their younger selves. They learn to harness their inner critics and deal with fear. They use their creative drive to remember details from their most significant memories. The process of life story writing is as much one of self-discovery as it is one of nostalgia. These emotional connections to memories provide the backbone for Selling's writing instruction. In this 25th anniversary edition of Writing from Within, the original lessons of life story writing are included and significantly expanded upon. Readers are given guidance on finding their earliest memories and on remembering details vividly. Writing instruction is offered to accompany this process and ensure that readers' life stories are full of clear, accurate memories. The core focus of the book is on unlocking memories and writing them as life stories. However, this Anniversary edition also provides substantial new material on: Story pacing techniques Strategies for subtly adding exposition and denouement Revealing and unraveling character Writing stories within stories Developing unique voices within the same story Researching and writing family histories Expanding life story writing into novels or screenplays Advanced steps like creating visual motifs, employing sub-text, and separating the writer from the central character Draft samples will show readers how their life stories will grow using the Writing from Within method. Excerpts from past students' life stories show the potential of the method. Personal notes to readers keep them on track and their goals in perspective. Writing from Within: The Next Generation invites readers to find their voices and helps them along the way to doing so. As much a tool for personal reflection as a guide to writing instruction, the book represents a comprehensive discussion of the creative process. Writers, new and old, will write with more skill, understand themselves and their characters better, and be able to turn their life experiences into art. So, learn to harness your inner critic. Construct your own writing process. Open the door to your past. Give the characters voices. Breathe some life into your story and leave something so future generations can get to know you.

Author : Ximena Vengoechea
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-30
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780593087060

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Listen Like You Mean It by Ximena Vengoechea Pdf

“Full of revealing, instantly applicable ideas for leveraging your strengths and overcoming your weaknesses.” —Adam Grant, author of Think Again and Originals, and host of the TED podcast WorkLife For many of us, listening is simply something we do on autopilot. We hear just enough of what others say to get our work done, maintain friendships, and be polite with our neighbors. But we miss crucial opportunities to go deeper—to give and receive honest feedback, to make connections that will endure for the long haul, and to discover who people truly are at their core. Fortunately, listening can be improved—and Ximena Vengoechea can show you how. In Listen Like You Mean It, she offers an essential listening guide for our times, revealing tried-and-true strategies honed in her own research sessions and drawn from interviews with marriage counselors, podcast hosts, life coaches, journalists, filmmakers, and other listening experts. Through Vengoechea’s set of scripts, key questions, exercises, and illustrations, you’ll learn to: • Quickly build rapport with strangers • Ask the right questions to deepen a conversation • Pause at the right time to encourage vulnerability • Navigate a conversation that’s gone off the rails Now more than ever, we need to feel heard, connected, and understood in a world that keeps turning up the volume. Warm, funny, and immensely practical, this book shows you how.

Author : Ralph G. Nichols,Leonard A Stevens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Attention
ISBN : OCLC:219964321

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Listening to People by Ralph G. Nichols,Leonard A Stevens Pdf

Author : Melanie Williams,Herbert Puchta,Günter Gerngross,Peter Lewis-Jones
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-09
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780521220613

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Super Minds Level 1 Teacher's Book by Melanie Williams,Herbert Puchta,Günter Gerngross,Peter Lewis-Jones Pdf

An exciting, seven-level course that enhances young learners' thinking skills, sharpening their memory while improving their language skills. This exciting seven-level course enhances your students' thinking skills, improving their memory along with their language skills. Super Minds develops creativity with visualisation exercises and art and craft activities, explores social values with lively stories and encourages cross-curricular thinking with fascinating 'English for school' sections. For ease of use, this Level 1 Teacher's Book is interleaved with pages from the Student's Book. It includes detailed lesson aims, clear instructions and a vast array of extra activities.

Author : Andrew Littlejohn,Diana Hicks
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1998-11-12
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0521568153

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Cambridge English for the World 4 Student's Book by Andrew Littlejohn,Diana Hicks Pdf

Cambridge English for the World offers an exciting new approach to English for students from eleven to sixteen. Through the variety of tasks, the rich content and the superb visual material, learners will learn English naturally and in ways which will generate enthusiasm and motivation.

Author : Isaiah A. Tisdale
Publisher : tbudget, LLC
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-26
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781734635119

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His Conscious Perception of the Soul by Isaiah A. Tisdale Pdf

This book empowers you to begin removing human conditioning and opening up to consciousness. His Conscious Perception of the Soul began as an idea on Isaiah A. Tisdale's journey of spirituality. The hope was to spread consciousness in the world. The intention emerged into a work of therapeutic art, revealing his authentic self. The book showcases wisdom and understanding of awareness by speaking to the soul. It highlights themes of spiritual shifts using the expression of our Divine power: • We can commit ourselves to eliminate conditions, not to recondition our lives, but to live without conditions. • We can understand the transformation between mind and reality by self-therapy. • We can serve our souls by openness to unconditional love in ourselves and the universe. Join his journey and get inspired by the transformation of consciousness and the soul! His Conscious Perception of the Soul may be your awakening of awareness for love and compassion of self and the world around you!

Author : de Juana-Espinosa, Susana
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781613502082

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Human Resource Management in the Digital Economy: Creating Synergy between Competency Models and Information by de Juana-Espinosa, Susana Pdf

Businesses worldwide are faced with major challenges related to the progressive (and many times unavoidable) incorporation of information technologies into their processes. Often, organizations don’t suitably react to the new requirements of these technologies, resulting in outdated policies, practices, and strategies. Human Resource Management in the Digital Economy: Creating Synergy between Competency Models and Information is a reference for both practitioners and academics that demonstrates how to implement e-management and competency models in companies. This book offers perspectives on the impact of integrated e-human resource policies and provides recommendations for addressing the shift from traditional human resource policies to new perspectives.

Author : Joey Mandel
Publisher : Pembroke Publishers Limited
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781551389219

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Keep Growing by Joey Mandel Pdf

Growth mindset, grit, and self-regulation are all terms that teachers and parents have been hearing a lot lately. Drawing on research into the importance of growth mindsets and self-control, Keep Growing shows how teachers can provide opportunities for students to develop traits that will make them better able to face challenges and recover from setbacks. It supports the creation of a practice-based environment that helps teachers transform theory into teachable moments. This practical book provides strategies, activities, and assessment tools that will help children to change their mindsets and foster their desire to tackle difficult tasks, their ability to push through challenging work, and their application of what they have learned. It also offers suggestions for home–school communication that will help you build stronger partnerships and keep students and their learning growing, inside the classroom and out.

Author : Chiu Yong Poon
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Page : 804 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781480974197

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The Guide Book for the Use of National Taiwan Normal University Department of English Students Whose Work Frequently Requires Them to Use Nouns That Are Not ‘Common Nouns’ in English Grammar by Chiu Yong Poon Pdf

The Guide Book for the Use of National Taiwan Normal University Department of English Students Whose Work Frequently Requires Them to Use Nouns That Are Not ‘Common Nouns’ in English Grammar By: Chiu Yong Poon The Pinsin Chinese-English Dictionary was compiled by the Chinese-English editorial committee of the Beijing Foreign Languages Institute over the course of eight years, from 1971 to 1978. More than fifty people took part in the compilation and editing. A Practical English Grammar was written by A. J. Thompson and A.V. Martinet and printed by the Oxford University Press. Together these two sources take up little shelf space and complement each other perfectly. Under the shelter of A Practical English Grammar, the Pinsin Chinese-English Dictionary carries within it the seeds at the contents of this book. In fertile soil, the seed sprouted and produced The Guide Book for the Use of National Taiwan Normal University Department of English Students Whose Work Frequently Requires Them to Use Nouns That Are Not ‘Common Nouns’ in English Grammar.

Author : Andrew Cowan
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2023-08-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780429951497

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The Art of Writing Fiction by Andrew Cowan Pdf

An elegant and intimate insight into the personal and practical processes of writing, Andrew Cowan’s The Art of Writing Fiction draws on his experience as a prize-winning novelist and his work with emerging writers at the University of East Anglia. As illuminating for the recreational writer as for students of Creative Writing, the twelve chapters of this book correspond to the twelve weeks of a typical university syllabus, and provide guidance on mastering key aspects of fiction such as structure, character, voice, point of view, and setting, as well as describing techniques for stimulating creativity and getting the most out of feedback. This new edition offers extended consideration to structure, point of view, and the organisation of time in the novel, as well as the conduct of the Creative Writing workshop in the light of the decolonising the curriculum movement. It features additional writing exercises, as well as an afterword with invaluable advice on approaching agents and publishers. The range of writers surveyed is greatly expanded, finding inspiration and practical guidance in the work of Margaret Atwood, Ayanna Lloyd Banwo, Richard Beard, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Richard Ford, Ashley Hickson-Lovence, Anjali Joseph, James Joyce, James Kelman, Ian McEwan, Arundhati Roy, Sam Selvon, Vikram Seth, and Ali Smith, among many others. With over 80 writing exercises and examples taken from dozens of novels and short stories, the new edition of The Art of Writing Fiction is enriched by the author’s own experience as a novelist and lecturer, making it an essential guide for readers interested in the theory, teaching, and practice of Creative Writing.

Author : B. William Silcock,Don Heider,Mary T. Rogus
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2009-03-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135251048

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Managing Television News by B. William Silcock,Don Heider,Mary T. Rogus Pdf

Managing Television News provides a practical introduction to the television news producer, one of the most significant and influential roles in a newscast. The book provides critical skill sets to help resolve ethical dilemmas, as well

Author : Mark Peter Wright
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781501354526

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Listening After Nature by Mark Peter Wright Pdf

Listening After Nature examines the constructions and erasures that haunt field recording practice and discourse. Analyzing archival and contemporary soundworks through a combination of post-colonial, ecological and sound studies scholarship, Mark Peter Wright recodes the Field; troubles conceptions of Nature; expands site-specificity; and unearths hidden technocultures. What exists beyond the signal? How is agency performed and negotiated between humans and nonhumans? What exactly is a field recording and what are its pedagogical potentials? These questions are operated by a methodology of listening that incorporates the spaces of audition, as well as Wright's own practice-based reflections. In doing so, Listening After Nature posits a range of novel interventions. One example is the “Noisy-Nonself,” a conceptual figuration with which to comprehend the presence of reticent recordists. “Contact Zones and Elsewhere Fields” offers another unique contribution by reimagining the relationship between the field and studio. In the final chapter, Wright explores the microphone by tracing its critical and creative connections to natural resource extraction and contemporary practice. Listening After Nature auditions water and waste, infrastructures and animals, technologies and recordists, data and stars. It grapples with the thresholds of sensory perception and anchors itself to the question: what am I not hearing? In doing so, it challenges Western universalisms that code the field whilst offering vibrant practice-based possibilities.

Author : Renee Giarrusso
Publisher : Major Street Publishing
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780648796473

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Gift Mindset by Renee Giarrusso Pdf

2022 Next Generation Indie Book Awards Finalist - Motivational2022 Next Generation Indie Book Awards Finalist - Self-Help2021 Living Now Book Awards - Bronze medalist An award-winning guide to embracing the life-changing gift mindset, from highly sought-after leadership, communication and mindset expert, Renée Giarrusso.Most of us experience challenges, crises, sadness and triumphs and success at some point over the years. Life throws us curveballs. Some are made of glass and hard to catch, some bounce off us and others seem to fall straight into our hands. Renée Giarrusso calls these 'gifts'. How we catch (or drop) these gifts depends on our mindset, perspective, beliefs, experiences, values and so many other things.In this beautiful, thought-provoking book, Renée explores how to adopt the gift mindset and deepen and develop the 12 Gifts that, if embraced, will bring you greater personal wellbeing and professional success.The first part of the book explains the benefits of adopting a gift mindset and barriers you might face; the second introduces us to the 12 Gifts, which are: Optimism; Change; Curiosity; Courage; Gratitude; Resilience; Growth; Empathy; Connection; Forgiveness; Contribution, and; Re-energizing.A chapter is dedicated to unwrapping each gift. There are stories and research to illustrate how the gift can be useful, and practical advice on how you can reframe what can seem to be a challenge into an opportunity. At the end of each chapter there is a GIFT process to help you share the gift with others and five key takeaways which provide a quick reference point to ensure you embed and share the learnings for yourself, your team and loved ones.Renée Giarrusso believes that by adopting a gift mindset, we can grow as leaders, live a life with purpose and leave a valuable legacy. This mindset is a key trait of a limitless leader.

Author : Heidi Riggenbach,Virginia Samuda
Publisher : Heinle ELT
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2000-03-16
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0838402682

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Grammar Dimensions Platinum by Heidi Riggenbach,Virginia Samuda Pdf

Updated and revised, Grammar Dimensions, Platinum Edition makes teaching grammar easy and effective. Fully annotated Teacher's Editions, well-integrated components, simplified grammar explanations, and new technology resources help both beginning and experienced teachers give their students the skills they need to communicate accurately, meaningfully, and appropriately.