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Writers at Work: The Essay is the fourth book in a four-book series that provides students with a solid foundation in writing skills. The book adopts a process approach in which students use critical thinking and personal experience to compose well-structured and accurate essays. Students also learn how to incorporate source material into their essays and to write timed essays under exam conditions. Features • Students improve their essays by writing and rewriting assignments. • Pre-writing tasks help students gather and organize ideas. • Students analyze six full-length sample essays for insight and inspiration. • Grammar explanations and exercises guide students to create well-formed sentences. • Peer feedback checklists encourage collaboration and self-editing.
Writers at Work: From Sentence to Paragraph is the first book in a four-book series that provides students with a solid foundation in writing skills. Through the study of vocabulary and grammar, the book helps students to write accurate sentences relating to a topic. In the last three chapters, the book introduces the fundamentals of paragraph writing, and students progress to write basic paragraphs. Features • Students improve their sentences by writing and rewriting assignments. • A focus on vocabulary and grammar in the pre-writing stage provides students with language to use in their writing.
• Freewriting tasks help students gather and organize ideas. • Grammar explanations and exercises guide students to create well-formed sentences. • Checklists encourage accurate editing and student autonomy.
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The Essay Writers at Work
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The Short Composition
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The Short Composition
From Sentence to Paragraph
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The Essay
The Paragraph
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Writers at Work: The Essay is the fourth book in a four-book series that provides students with a solid foundation in writing skills. The book adopts a process approach in which students use critical thinking and personal experience to compose well-structured and accurate essays. Students also learn how to incorporate source material into their essays and to write timed essays under exam conditions. Features • Students improve their essays by writing and rewriting assignments. • Pre-writing tasks help students gather and organize ideas. • Students analyze six full-length sample essays for insight and inspiration. • Grammar explanations and exercises guide students to create well-formed sentences. • Peer feedback checklists encourage collaboration and self-editing. Teacher’s Manual
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The Essay
From Sentence to Paragraph
Dorothy E. Zemach Lynn Stafford-Yilmaz
Laurie Blass Deborah Gordon
The Essay
Other books in the series teach sentence, paragraph, and short composition writing. Other books in the series teach sentence, paragraph, and short composition writing.
Other books in the series teach sentence, paragraph, and essay writing.
Dorothy E. Zemach Lynn Stafford-Yilmaz
• Real lectures from the University of Cambridge and student interviews on the DVD, linked to ‘Lecture skills’ sections in the Student’s book, help learners develop lecture and seminar skills. • Real, contemporary academic language sourced from the Cambridge Academic Corpus and Academic Word List. • Special focus on typical academic structures and independent study skills. • Extensive listening practice with full-length lectures and worksheets online in the Resources tab at:
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B1–C1 Cambridge Academic English An integrated skills course for EAP Martin Hewings, Craig Thaine Course consultant: Michael McCarthy INTERMEDIATE TO ADVANCED 120–140 teaching hours per level Designed for students at university and on foundation courses, this integrated skills course develops academic language and critical thinking skills essential for university studies across disciplines.
A1–B2 Writers at Work Help students master the process of academic writing Writers at Work helps students learn how to find issues in the content as well as the form of their writing. This special emphasis on fully developed revision results in better writing and a greater student appreciation of the value of the process. Additional downloadable practice activities and tests are available on Cambridge One.
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Writers at Work: From Sentence to Paragraph by Laurie Blass and Deborah Gordon
Lecture skills units based on real lectures from the University of Cambridge, available on the DVD, by renowned lecturers in their fields such as David Crystal
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Preparing for lectures • Lecturing styles • Revising basic information Listening • Understanding lecture aims • Understanding outlines • Identifying main and secondary points • Taking notes: annotating slides 1 Language focus • Repetition and rephrasing Follow-up • Taking notes: annotating slides 2 • Reviewing your notes
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Lecture skills A
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Preparing for lectures
1 Lecturing styles 1.1
A.1 During your academic studies you will hear many different styles of lecturing. Watch three lecture extracts that illustrate a reading style, a conversational style, and an interactive style. What differences do you notice?
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1 Reading style
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1.2 a In pairs, discuss the following questions. 1 Which style do you nd easiest to understand, and why? 2 Is there a style of lecturing that is common in your subject?
2 Revising basic information
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Study tip A lecturer will assume that you already know certain information and build on this in the lecture. It is helpful to prepare for a lecture by making sure you understand key terms and concepts that your lecturer may use.
2.1 a You are going to watch extracts from a lecture given by Dr Maru Mormina with the title The origins of human diversity . Read the notes from a previous lecture on her course.
• DNA = material inside the core (= nucleus) of each cell in the body; it carries genetic information in genes (= sections of the DNA) • genetic information controls the cell’s chemistry gives the body its characteristics & influences how the body works • genetic variation = differences between individuals that are inherited (e.g. eye colour is inherited from parents) • genome = total set of genetic information of a living thing (human, plant, etc.); located in chromosomes (in centre of cells; control what living thing is like)
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Dr Maru Mormina is a Research Fellow at the Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, within the Department of Biological Anthropology. Cambridge University.
b In pairs, take it in turns to explain the following key terms without looking back at the notes. DNA genetic information genetic variation genome
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