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Critical Thinking
Developing the Intellectual Tools for Social Justice
2019
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Critical Thinking presents, defines and explains the intellectual skills and habits of mind that comprise critical thinking and its relationship to social justice. Each of the sequential chapters includes detailed examples and learning exercises that guide the reader step by step from intellectual competency, to critical thinking, to cultural cognition, and to critical awareness necessary for social justice.The book documents and explains the scope of multiple crises facin...
2025
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Build future-ready writing skills with AI, DEIA, and practice-based tools for social work communication.This comprehensive guide helps students master professional writing for social work by integrating critical thinking, diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA), and generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools. Each chapter aligns with social work foundation areas, from research to policy, practice, and more. Students develop writing skills for prac...
2012
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"Many social work students today lack the basic writing skills they will need to practice effectively with clients. This user-friendly guide to effective writing skills focuses specifically on the types of writing social work practitioners are required to do—agency reports, client documentation, court letters, grant writing applications, and more—in everyday practice. It includes abundant real-world examples drawn from all arenas of social work practice.The text helps stude...
2017
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This invaluable guide helps social workers develop the writing skills necessary for a successful career. Actual examples drawn from all arenas of social work demonstrate strong and problematic writing. Organized around the core social work curriculum, the book’s examples are applicable to every foundation course. Each example begins with field notes and proceeds through drafts to the final version, with explanations about corrections. Readers learn by doing through exercises interspersed t...
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
A Portrait in Letters of an American Visionary
2010
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When Daniel Patrick Moynihan died in 2003 the Economist described him as "a philosopher-politician-diplomat who two centuries earlier would not have been out of place among the Founding Fathers." Though Moynihan never wrote an autobiography, he was a gifted author and voluminous correspondent, and in this selection from his letters Steven Weisman has compiled a vivid portrait of Moynihan's life, in the senator's own words.Before his four terms as Senator from New York, Moy...
2017
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Underscores the critical importance of effective writing in the justice system and how to achieve itThis user-friendly guide to effective writing for the justice system teaches readers to write cogently and accurately across the spectrum of criminal justice-related disciplines. With an examination of common writing problems that interfere with good reporting and documentation, it underscores the importance of skilled written communication as a cornerstone of compet...
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- Collins Academic Skills
2014
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Improve your reading and referencing skills*The Collins Academic Skills Series – winner of the ELTon 2014 Innovation in Learner Resources Award.*Collins Academic Skills Series: Research will give you the skills you need for successful academic reading and referencing.Learn how to• choose the right sources• access information• think critically when reading texts• make concise notesCollins Academic Skills Series: Research will help ...
2015
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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 p...
2016
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20,000 copies sold on Amazon as of May 2020!The Only Academic Phrasebook You'll Ever Need is a short, no-nonsense, reader-friendly bank of academic sentence templates. It was written for both graduate and undergraduate students who know the basics of academic writing but may still struggle to express their ideas using the right words.The Only Academic Phrasebook You'll Ever Need contains 600 sentence frames organized around the typical sections of an academic paper. For exa...
2015
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The justification for using games in the classroom has been well demonstrated as benefiting students in a variety of ways. These benefits range from cognitive aspects of language learning to more co-operative group dynamics. The benefits are as follows:Affective:- games lower the affective filter- they encourage creative and spontaneous use of language- they also promote communicative competence- games are both motivating and funCognitive:
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- Achieving QTS Series
2018
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The clock is ticking and before you know, it will be September! Use our popular study guides Passing the Numeracy Skills Test and Passing the Literacy Skills Test to get those pesky skills tests done and dusted asap. This fifth edition includes a full practice test, more practice questions and more question and answer commentary. Also included is more guidance on grammar, punctuation and spelling practice for the test.You’ll be more confident
2014
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Discover a simple step-by-step system for finally becoming fluent in English!Do you struggle with your English fluency?Are you frustrated because your English is not at the level you want it to be?If you're someone who wants to finally be fluent in English, then you're about to discover a simple process for developing your fluency fast!Download this book now and read instantly on your PC, Mac, Smartphone, Tablet or Kindle!"Simple English Fluency Syst...