The Laugh Out Loud Guide

The Laugh Out Loud Guide

Author: Charles Horn

Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing

Published: 2013-07-16

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 0740798553

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Written for the 1.8 million students who will take the SAT this year, this relatable study guide fuses the irreverent humor of The Onion with all the preparation prowess of The Official SAT Study Guide. Every year, almost 2 million students take the SAT exam, a test that will likely determine their college admissions, scholarship offers, and ultimately, what kind of cars they'll drive and how much money they'll make. To ensure that your child doesn't end up in a rusted-out Gremlin making less than $5.00 an hour, professional comedy writer and savant Charles Horn taps his talents to present an instructive test-taking tool that is as entertaining as it is educational. Using the same types of questions that appear on the actual exam, Horn rewrites his guide to make the questions timely, edgy, and fun. Instead of boring, politically correct textbook material, students will be engaged by questions covering stuff they actually might care about, like teen issues, Hollywood, and pop culture.


Sentence CPR

Sentence CPR

Author: Phyllis Beveridge Nissila

Publisher: Prufrock Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781877673979

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Practical and fun, this dynamic guide for both student writers and English teachers dispenses quirky remedies—with a generous dose of humor—for sentences suffering from ailments such as detail deficiency, passive voice fatigue, weak verbs, and word overdose. Providing teachers with tools to improve middle and high school student writing, the lessons show how to write interesting sentences through samples of stellar sentences, practice exercises, and skill-boosting activities.


Text, Speech, and Dialogue

Text, Speech, and Dialogue

Author: Petr Sojka

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-09-02

Total Pages: 565

ISBN-13: 3319455109

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Text, Speech, and Dialogue, TSD 2016, held in Brno, CzechRepublic, in September 2016. The 62 papers presented together with 3 abstracts of invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 127 submissions. They focus on topics such as corpora and language resources; speech recognition; tagging, classification and parsing of text and speech; speech and spoken language generation; semantic processing of text and speech; integrating applications of text and speech processing; automatic dialogue systems; as well as multimodal techniques and modelling.


Information Retrieval

Information Retrieval

Author: Hongfei Lin

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2021-10-04

Total Pages: 215

ISBN-13: 303088189X

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 27th China Conference on Information Retrieval, CCIR 2021, held in Dalian, China, in October 2021. The 15 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 124 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections: search and recommendation, NLP for IR, IR in Education, and IR in Biomedicine.


The Lawyer’s Style Guide

The Lawyer’s Style Guide

Author: Peter Butt

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2021-02-25

Total Pages: 965

ISBN-13: 1509936254

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Clarity and precision in legal writing are essential skills in the practice and study of law. This book offers a straightforward, practical guide to effective legal style from a world-leading expert. The book is thoughtfully structured to explain the elements of good legal writing and its most effective use. It catalogues all aspects of legal style, topic by topic, phrase by phrase, usage by usage. It scrutinises them all, suggesting improvements. Its 'dictionary' arrangement makes it easy to navigate. Entries cover matters such as abbreviations, acronyms, active and passive voice, brackets, bullet points, citation methods, cross-referencing, fonts, document design, footnotes, gender-neutral language, numbering systems, plain legal language, punctuation, the use of Latin in law, structures for legal advices and documents, and techniques for editing and proofreading. Also covered are many words and phrases that non-lawyers find opaque and obscure-the aim being to show that lawyers can usually substitute a plain-English equivalent that captures the legal nuances of the 'legalese'. Other topics include ambiguity, deeds, definitions, provisos, recitals, simplified outlines, terms of art, tone, and the various principles of legal interpretation. With an emphasis on technical effectiveness and understanding, the book is required reading for all those engaged in the practice and study of law.


Missed Periods and Other Grammar Scares

Missed Periods and Other Grammar Scares

Author: Jenny Baranick

Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Inc.

Published: 2012-09

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 1616083700

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A new, edgy, entertaining book about grammar and usage in the spirit of the bestselling Eats, Shoots &...


Kiss My Asterisk

Kiss My Asterisk

Author: Jenny Baranick

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2014-03-04

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 1629141186

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Grammar has finally let its hair down! Unlike uptight grammar books that overwhelm us with every single grammar rule, Kiss My Asterisk is like a bikini: it’s fun, flirty, and covers only the most important bits. Its lessons, which are 100 percent free of complicated grammar jargon, have been carefully selected to include today’s most common, noticeable errors—the ones that confuse our readers or make them wonder if we are, in fact, smarter than a fifth grader. What is the proper use of an apostrophe? When should an ellipsis be used instead of an em dash? Why do we capitalize President Obama but not “the president”? And why is that question mark placed outside of the end quote? Author Jenny Baranick is an English professor whose students can’t believe she’s actually that into grammar. Upon experiencing the joys of grammar at an early age, raising grammar awareness became Jenny’s raison d’être. By spreading her remarkably user-friendly and hilarious approach to grammar, she hopes everyone will experience the satisfaction of a properly placed comma, a precisely used semicolon, and a correctly deployed en dash. Kiss My Asterisk shows grammar as it’s never been seen before: uncomplicated, laugh-out-loud funny, and, dare we say, a little risqué.


English Legal System

English Legal System

Author: Helen|Kotecha Rutherford (Birju|Macfarlane, Angela)

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2024

Total Pages: 757

ISBN-13: 0198898525

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