The Elusive Sentence
The Elusive Sentence

Author: Rita Eulalie Hatfield

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2015-12-08

Total Pages: 173

ISBN-13: 1475823401

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Across our nation, many within our educational system complain that America’s children cannot write well. Hatfield and Young assert that the problem lies at the foundation of our pedagogy for writing, that most elementary writing curricula lack rudimentary instruction at the sentence level. The authors introduce a sentence-level writing intervention that explicitly defines the elements found in great sentences. This intervention forms the foundational framework for writing skills acquisition, helping teachers, students, and writers of all ages to understand how to craft well-written sentences and paragraphs. Research supports that the most effective instruction is skills-based and multisensory; therefore, Hatfield and Young also introduce a cognitively differentiated writing model, which uses arts-integrated instruction to enhance learning and memory for other content areas. This writing model is based on best practice and this sentence-level intervention serves as a precursor for mastering the new writing standards for CCSS. It offers novice writers a precise blueprint for what successful writing looks like and clearly defines the elusive sentence.

Knowledge, Language and Silence
Knowledge, Language and Silence

Author: Anna Brożek

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2015-12-22

Total Pages: 403

ISBN-13: 9004312676

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Izydora Dąmbska (1904-1982) was a Polish philosopher; a student of Kazimierz Twardowski, and his last assistant. Her output consists of almost 300 publications. The main domains of her research were semiotics, epistemology and broadly understood methodology as well as axiology and history of philosophy. Dąmbska’s approach to philosophical problems reflected tendencies that were characteristic of the Lvov-Warsaw School. She applied high methodological standards but has never limited the domain of analyzed problems in advance. The present volume includes twenty-eight translations of her representative papers. As one of her pupils rightly wrote: “Dąmbska’s works may help everyone [...] to think clearly. Her attitude of an unshaken philosopher may help anyone to hold oneself straight, and, if necessary, to get up after a fall”.

First You Write a Sentence
First You Write a Sentence

Author: Joe Moran

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2019-08-13

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 0525506152

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“Do you want to write clearer, livelier prose? This witty primer will help.” —The New York Times Book Review An exploration of how the most ordinary words can be turned into verbal constellations of extraordinary grace through the art of building sentences The sentence is the common ground where every writer walks. A good sentence can be written (and read) by anyone if we simply give it the gift of our time, and it is as close as most of us will get to making something truly beautiful. Using minimal technical terms and sources ranging from the Bible and Shakespeare to George Orwell and Maggie Nelson, as well as scientific studies of what can best fire the reader's mind, author Joe Moran shows how we can all write in a way that is clear, compelling and alive. Whether dealing with finding the ideal word, building a sentence, or constructing a paragraph, First You Write a Sentence informs by light example: much richer than a style guide, it can be read not only for instruction but for pleasure and delight. And along the way, it shows how good writing can help us notice the world, make ourselves known to others, and live more meaningful lives. It's an elegant gem in praise of the English sentence.

The New Well-tempered Sentence
The New Well-tempered Sentence

Author: Karen Elizabeth Gordon

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 9780618382019

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The basic rules governing the use of periods, semicolons, hyphens, commas, and other punctuation marks are illustrated by original explanations and humorous sample sentences. Reprint.

GRE Premier 2017 with 6 Practice Tests
GRE Premier 2017 with 6 Practice Tests

Author: Kaplan Test Prep

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2016-06-07

Total Pages: 653

ISBN-13: 150621021X

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GRE Premier 2017 is a comprehensive prep system that includes both book and mobile-enabled online components. Get access to in-depth strategies, test information, and practice questions to help you score higher on the GRE. GRE Premier 2017 features: * 2,200+ practice questions with detailed explanations * 6 full-length practice tests (5 realistic Multi-Stage Tests available online and 1 in the book) * 500-question online Quiz Bank for customized quiz creation and review of GRE practice questions * Mobile-enabled online resources: study anywhere on any device with an Internet connection * Videos on stress management and the graduate school application process * Academic support from Kaplan faculty via our Facebook page: facebook.com/KaplanGradPrep Kaplan guarantees that if you study with this book and online resources, you will score higher on the GRE.

A Good Year For Murder
A Good Year For Murder

Author: A.E. Eddenden

Publisher: Chicago Review Press

Published: 2005-08-01

Total Pages: 186

ISBN-13: 1613733097

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Set in the Ontario city of Fort York in 1940, this novel introduces readers to Albert V. Tretheway (pronounced TreTHOOee), an oversized Inspector in the Fort York Police Department, along with his colleague, Jonathan (Jake) Small, his sister Adelaine (Addie), and a bizarre collection of characters who make up the Fort York City Council. In early 1940, Fort York is chiefly concerned with the war; that is, until a series of crimes turns their attention to dangers closer to home. A dead, unplucked chicken with an arrow through its heart is delivered to Junior Alderman Gertrude Valentine, which marks the beginning of a series of “pranks” on subsequent holidays, eventually leading to murder. The city waits breathlessly for each week to pass, wondering which holiday (and which Alderman) will be next. The story reaches its raucous climax on New Years Eve in Albert and Addie’s boarding house, where Tretheway unravels the mystery in front of the entire cast of citizens.

Musical Biographies
Musical Biographies

Author: Michal Ben-Horin

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2016-04-25

Total Pages: 182

ISBN-13: 3110460939

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Since the second half of the twentieth century various routes, including history and literature, are offered in dealing with the catastrophe of World War II and the Holocaust. Historiographies and novels are of course written with words; how can they bear witness to and reverberate with traumatic experience that escapes or resists language? In search for an alternative mode of expression and representation, this volume focuses on postwar German and Austrian writers who made use of music in their exploration of the National Socialist past. Their works invoke, however, new questions: What happens when we cross the line between narration and documentation, and between memory and a musical piece? How does identification and fascination affect our reading of the text? What kind of ethical issues do these testimonies raise? As this volume shows, reading these musical biographies is both troubling and compelling since they ‘fail’ to come to terms with the past. In playing the haunting music that does not let us put the matter to rest, they call into question not only the exclusion of personal stories by official narratives, but also challenge writers’ and readers’ most intimate perspectives on an unmasterable past.