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This guide provides all the essential tools for making organized and persuasive oral presentations. YouÕll find exercisesÑfor use alone or in a groupÑto sharpen your skills and build self-confidence. Well-chosen examples illustrate and make memorable the doÕs and donÕts of successful talks and help you avoid common pitfalls. This guide includes tips on dealing with nervousness, and shows you how to use effective body language, visual aids, questions and answers, metaphors and more, to keep your audience excited and ready to remember your key points. Full of tips and techniques that work, this guide will help you look forward to your best, most confident presentations ever!

Margaret Lucke highlights the essential elements of a short story, its characters, conflict, plot, setting, and narrative voice and explains how each contributes to the success of the story. The text also includes a number of practice exercises.

Schaum's is here--to help you write great research papers The experts at Schaum's are at your service-ready to help you with concise, complete, step-by-step instructions that will make writing research papers a breeze, not a burden. The clear, concise guidelines and in-depth instruction in this book will show you how to write high-quality research papers that will help you succeed academically and in the professional world. You'll quickly learn how to: Select and narrow your topic Evaluate and present evidence persuasively Avoid plagiarism and other novice mistakes Learn from examples, sample papers, and model documentation

This Schaum's Quick Guide shows students and professionals how to write for business clearly, concisely and to the point, in various kinds of communications.

*Build your vocabulary *Develop verbal reasoning *Analyze words and phrases *Improve your score 100 points THE VERBAL SAT ... THE SCHAUM’S WAY Master the material on the three types of questions presented in the verbal portion of the SAT with savvy tips, expert techniques, and insider strategies from one of the field’s top instructors. Discover how to use prefixes, suffixes, and roots to break down and analyze words. Learn the basic verbal reasoning skills that will enable you to confidently answer questions on: *reading comprehension *sentence completion *analogies Depend on this always handy, encouraging guide. Look to Schaum’s Quick Guides for: *Step-by-step guidance to help you move quickly through the essentials *Do’s and don’ts for avoiding common errors *Clear explanations and practice exams with complete answers *Checklists and exercises for fast skill-building Use this Schaum’s Quick Guide to help you look forward to your best verbal SAT scores ever!

Presents basic rules of grammar and sentence construction, shows the proper use of punctuation, and discusses style, research, and editing.

Former teacher David Farmer has written an innovative guidebook aimed specifically at homeschooling, giving students and their parents a step-by-step, user-friendly guide for applying principles and techniques that incorporate dominant learning styles.

A Study Guide for Tillie Olsen's "O Yes," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.

This is the most accessible architectural theory book that exists. Korydon Smith presents each common architectural subject – such as tectonics, use, and site – as though it were a conversation across history between theorists by providing you with the original text, a reflective text, and a philosophical text. He also introduces each chapter by highlighting key ideas and asking you a set of reflective questions so that you can hone your own theory, which is essential to both your success in the studio and your adaptability in the profession. These primary source texts, which are central to your understanding of the discipline, were written by such architects as Le Corbusier, Robert Venturi, and Adrian Forty. The appendices also have guides to aid your reading comprehension; to help you write descriptively, analytically, and disputationally; and to show you citation styles and how to do library-based research. More than any other architectural theory book about the great thinkers, Introducing Architectural Theory teaches you to think as well.