Adult Literacy Guides and Handbooks

Aimed at adults who lack confidence in their ability to spell.

Write with confidence

With usage notes including details of common pitfalls and how to avoid them, the author presents the reader with advice on how to write essays, letters, speeches and CVs. This book is a complete guide to every aspect of the art of writing.

A philosophical and literary exploration of the concept of "the Word became Flesh," showing the many ways thinkers and artists have grappled with the idea of words becoming embodied.

The Academic Writer is a brief guide that prepares students for any college writing situation through a solid foundation in rhetorical concepts. By framing the reading and composing processes in terms of the rhetorical situation, Lisa Ede gives students the tools they need to make effective choices.  With an emphasis on analysis and synthesis, and making and supporting claims, students learn to...

A tongue-in-cheek guide to words that a smart, well-educated, pretentious person should be able to drop into cocktail conversation. It helps the reader to toss off words such as 'Disestablishmentarianism', 'descant', and 'autodidactic', proving, if not the value of a good education, at least the appearance of a good education.

"Dennis Palumbo has great insight into a writer s psyche. Every writer should have a shrink or this book. The book is cheaper. " -Gary Shandling, actor, comic, and writer "wise, compassionate, and funny.

Cultural messages bombard students daily, laden with unstated rules about what makes our work valuable, our bodies ideal, our connections meaningful. Acting Out Culture empowers students to critically read those messages and use writing to speak back to their culture and question its rules....

READ real Japanese Today! By choosing short stories, the intimidation factor is greatly reduced. Not only that, but we divide the story up into tiny, easy-to-swallow segments with complete explanations to give you confidence as you read real Japanese page by page....

Maximize Your Reading  3 provides students with instruction and practice in developing their academic reading, vocabulary, and study skills. The four levels of Maximize Your Reading Workbooks feature useful strategies and abundant practice, helping students become confident and successful readers....

Boost your brain power, stretch your mind, and assess your own performance with 1000 practice questions written and compiled by IQ-test experts.

The Inference Activities workbook is an easy to use manual that has been designed to engage your students with high interest scenarios. Each scenario contains several questions which prompt your students' thinking and problem solving abilities.This inferencing activities book focuses on teaching students inference and thinking skills. The book has over 100 compelling fiction and non-fiction...