Clear, concise, and free of unnecessary jargon, this style manual is the first of its kind. Students, writers, businesspeople, journalists, and others who work with words will be amazed at how easily ...

For the traveling business person, tourist, and student. The language lessons cover such common situations as: passing through customs, checking into a hotel, placing phone calls. Brief synopsis of ...

These imaginative courses, designed for both individual and classroom use, assume no previous knowledge of the language.

Basic English Grammar is a developmental skills text for students of English as a second or foreign language. Serving as both a reference and a workbook, it introduces students to the form, meaning, ...

The Intertext series has been specifically designed to meet the needs of contemporary English Language Studies. The core book, Working with Texts, is the foundation text which provides an ...

The Language of Newspapers :* examines how the press is ideologically biased* explores the stylistic contrasts in the portrayal of current events* includes numerous text examples from a range of ...

In the late 1970s a new academic discipline was born: Translation Studies. We could not read literature in translation, it was argued, without asking ourselves if linguistic and cultural phenomena ...

This is a book for anyone whose responsibilities include communication of a technical nature. The book shows how to write and edit clearer, more forceful and persuasive memos, letters, technical ...