With two comprehensive writing models, Scott A Kuehn and Andrew Lingwall help readers to develop the essential writing skills and professional habits needed to succeed in 21st-century media careers.

A quirky language-lovers tour of the twenty most-spoken languages in the world - what puts them a cut above the other six thousand?

Harness creativity for self-care. 100 prompts and exercises that show how the practice of creative writing - being expressive, exploring ideas, crafting words, shaping stories - can also deepen your appreciation of life.

Third edition of the most highly regarded teaching text book on the Japanese language. This is the companion workbook to the text.

This new Sogang Korean series is an updated version of its predecessor with the following changes:

- new Grammar textbook

- Information on social and cultural context updated and modernized

- New illustrations and more effective layout

- Complete guide for Korean language learning, covering grammar, reading, speaking, listening and writing

Description of the original Sogang Korean series:

The objective of this book is to assist readers to improve their communication skills in the Korean langu...

Whether we allow audiences to know that a text is a translation or to see the person responsible for translating it are questions that have dominated discussions about translation throughout history. Despite becoming one of the most ubiquitous terms in translation studies, however, the concept of translator invisibility is often criticized for being vague, overly adaptable, and grounded in literary contexts. This interdisciplinary volume therefore draws on concepts from fields such as sociolo...

By tracing the traditional progression of rhetoric from the Greek Sophists to contemporary theorists, this textbook gives students a conceptual framework for evaluating and practicing persuasive writing and speaking in a wide range of settings and in both written and visual media. The book's expansive historical purview illustrates how persuasive public discourse performs essential social functions and shapes our daily worlds, drawing on the ideas of some of history's greatest thinkers and th...

Intended for both students and practitioners in public administration who want to communicate more effectively with a variety of audiences, this book offers clear, easy-to-understand guidelines on how to write more clearly, concisely, and coherently, as well as correctly. It covers the basics of good English and applies those basics to general forms (such as memos, letters, and e-mails) and more specific forms (such as newsletters, proposals, budget justifications, and rules) used in the publ...

Gives student and instructors the comprehensive and accessible presentation of ancient Greek. This title features: readings based on actual texts and include unadapted passages from Xenophon, Lysias, Plato, Aristophanes, and Thucydides; composite list of verbs with principal parts, and an appendix of all paradigms; and, English-Greek glossaries.