Writing Matters is designed to develop students' writing skills and enable them to use these skills confidently in everyday life. The book guides students progressively towards proficient and effective writing using lively and authentic sample material that are relevant to students' real-life needs and interests. The book consists of two parts: * Part 1 deals with basic procedures such as preparing, drafting and revising texts and offers help in the often difficult areas of spelling and punctuation. * Part 2 focuses on writing contexts ranging from the functional (letters of application,...

Showcases the lifelong focus on rural Alabama by an eminent American artist.

With major exhibitions running simultaneously at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C., the Aperture Gallery in New York City, and the Birmingham Museum of Art, William Christenberry is enjoying wide exposure of his artistic body of work. Since the early 1960s, he has plumbed the regional identity of the American South, primarily centering on his early home in the Black Belt counties of Alabama, the same area documented during the Depression years by Walker Evans and James Agee in Let...

Focusing on the introductions to research articles in a variety of disciplines, the author uses appraisal theory to analyze how writers bring together multiple resources to develop their positions in the flow of discourse. It will be most useful for researchers new to appraisal, and to EAP teachers.