Write personal and professional communications with clarity, confidence, and style.How to Write It is the essential resource for eloquent personal and professional self-expression. Award-winning journalist Sandra E. Lamb transforms even reluctant scribblers into articulate wordsmiths by providing compelling examples of nearly every type and form of written communication.Completely updated and expanded, the new third edition offers hundreds of handy...

This tried-and-true, easy-to-use reference offers thousands of powerful words, phrases, and evaluation descriptions for performance reviews, action plans, and motivational sessions to increase employee and employer communication, performance, and satisfaction.For HR professionals and managers at every level, this user-friendly reference offers ready answers for the difficult job of creating effective reviews and evaluations. Lamb shows managers how to use action ve...

An indispensable guide to writing personal notes and letters that have heart, style, and humor—and that keep us connected with our loved ones.Do you dread writing notes to say "Thank you," "I'm sorry," or "Congratulations"?When's the last time you sent a handwritten letter to a faraway friend, just to catch up?What should you write to a grieving friend or colleague? How do you let friends know you're getting a divorce?As our lives get busier an...

So much of success in business depends on writing well. From résumés to reports, proposals to presentations, Writing Well for Business Success will help you communicate your ideas clearly, quickly and effectively.It will help you:-Distill your message into a well-targeted statement-Ace the elements of style-Write what you want to say in emails, business plans and more-Master the tricks of editing yourselfPresented in author Sandra Lambs li...

August 18, 2020, marked the centennial of the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. In 1920, women wearing yellow roses stood shoulder to shoulder in Tennessee, awaiting the roll call of men who would cast their votes for or against a woman’s right to a voice in government.Though this movement won rights for some women—an achievement to be acknowledged and celebrated—the struggle did not end there. Due to states’ laws and prohibitive policies, ...

Winner of the 2018 AERA Division K Exemplary Research in Teaching and Teacher Education AwardThe first of its kind, Teacher Education across Minority-Serving Institutions brings together innovative work from the family of institutions known as minority-serving institutions: Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Tribal Colleges and Universities, Hispanic Serving Institutions, and Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institutio...

This collection of enlightening and stimulating articles, written by some of the most important figures in school librarianship, demonstrates how teacher-librarians, classroom teachers, and administrators can work together to create a 21st century school library media program. With topics that emphasize student success, leadership, partnerships, curriculum design, collaborative planning and teaching, literacy, 21st century skills, emerging technologies, and so much more, this compendium br...

Lucy likes to try new things but she hasn’t figured out what’s smart and what’s not.One day, she makes a really big mistake and it takes a lot of help from her friends in the forest to make her feel better.Lucy and the Big Mistake is a simple story about choices, mistakes and unconditional love.

Old flames reignite and new passions burn when lovers follow their hearts back to the place they once called home….“Whale Island” by Cathy LambFamily secrets and imposing friends are making Chalese feel like an outsider in her very own home on beautiful Whale Island. But it’s only when a shocking revelation makes her feel truly lost that she opens her heart to the possibilities the past offers—including a chance at love with the last man she...

Youth is wasted on the young, isn't it?In this version of London, there is a small, private clinic. Behind its layers of security, procedures are taking place on poor, robust teenagers from northern Estates in exchange for thousands of pounds - procedures that will bring the wealthy dead back to life in these young supple bodies for fourteen days.It's an opportunity for wrongs to be righted, for fathers to meet grandsons, for scientists to see their work co...