VOA慢速英语 Education Report - Studying in the US: Writing Colle

This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Today in our Foreign Student Series we discuss writing college papers. Writing a term paper, research paper or essay for a college class is a kind of academic writing. Academic writing among professi

143 How to Improve Your Writing Skills

By the time you reach this page, you will have studied 142 lessons of this book. You will have learned many new words, idioms, sentence structures and quite a bit of grammar. You will have come to a s

VOA慢速英语--Improve Your Writing with Inversion, Part 1

In English, the traditional word order of a statement is subject + verb. Never do we change the order except when asking a question. Or do we? If you listened closely, you may have noticed that my statement beginning with the word never failed to fol

Improve Your Writing by Using Concept Maps

Improve Your Writing by Using Concept Maps English learners face a common problem: their writing often lacks clarity and cohesion. That is according to Babi Kruchin and Alan Kennedy who teach at the American Language Program at Columbia University. T

VOA慢速英语--Improve Your Writing with Inversion, Part 2

In last weeks Everyday Grammar, we told you about a few kinds of inversion that are useful in academic writing and common on the TOEFL. But there are others. Today, well talk about three more. In fact, I already used one kind in my introduction. Comp

英语听力—环球英语 1454 Ngugi wa Thiong’o: Writing in His Own Language

Voice 1 Welcome to Spotlight. Im Liz Waid. Voice 2 And Im Joshua Leo. Spotlight uses a special English method of broadcasting. It is easier for people to understand, no matter where in the world they live. Voice 1 In Kenya, a young man sits in his hi

词汇大师-- Wise Writing Instead of '-Wise'

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER, our guest is the author of a new book called On Words: Insight Into How Our Words Work -- and Don't. RS: Paula LaRocque has worked for many years as a writing instructor and newsp

词汇大师-- Showing Students That Good Writing Matters

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: a teaching method that emphasizes writing not only in English classes but also in other disciplines. RS: It's called writing across the curriculum, and it's an old idea, but one t

词汇大师-- When Netspeak Enters Formal Writing

AA: I'm Avi Arditti and this week on Wordmaster: an example of how English teachers at one high school are trying to get students to keep the language of the Internet where it belongs. Jodi Schenck teaches at Rothberg Comprehensive High School in the

英语语法：215 Writing Accents and Dialects

Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is how hit the right tone when you give characters accents and dialects. Guest-writer Charles Carson writes, To flavor a novel and provide authenticity, authors often use dialect in their written dialogue. But the use

Improving High School Reading and Writing

By Jerilyn Watson Broadcast: October 9, 2003 This is Bob Doughty with the VOA Special English Education Report. An American expert has suggestions for helping high school students read and write bette

Mysteries for English Readers of all Levels

Mysteries for English Readers of all Levels Sherlock Holmes may be the most famous private investigator of them all. Holmes is also one bookstore owners first choice when a new English reader asks him to recommend a mystery novel. Otto Penzler owns t

英语单词大师：U.S. Writing Style2

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: more of our discussion with Jane Dunphy, director of the English Language Studies Program at M.I.T., the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. RS: Our subject is the American sty

英语单词大师：U.S. Writing Style1

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: we talk about the American style of academic writing, and the challenges to foreign students. JANE DUNPHY: Grad students often come here without ever having had to write a documen

How to Study English Well?

How to Study English Well? We all know that English is very useful. Many people in the world speak English. So more and more people in China study it. How to study English well? I think we must have a good way to study English. If you want to learn E

英语单词大师：Wise Writing Instead of '-Wise'

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER, our guest is the author of a new book called On Words: Insight Into How Our Words Work -- and Don't.RS: Paula LaRocque has worked for many years as a writing instructor and newspa

英语单词大师：Wise Writing

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER, our guest is the author of a new book called On Words: Insight Into How Our Words Work -- and Don't.RS: Paula LaRocque has worked for many years as a writing instructor and newspa

英语单词大师：Writing Matters

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: a teaching method that emphasizes writing not only in English classes but also in other disciplines. RS: It's called writing across the curriculum, and it's an old idea, but one t

英语单词大师：Formal Writing

AA: I'm Avi Arditti and this week on Wordmaster: an example of how English teachers at one high school are trying to get students to keep the language of the Internet where it belongs. Jodi Schenck teaches at Rothberg Comprehensive High School in the

词汇大师(Wordmaster)--Imagination in Writing

Broadcast on Coast to Coast: May 22, 2003 AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- some views about encouraging creative writers in American schools. RS: Virginia Monseau [mon-SO] teaches future English teachers. She's