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<p>Real learning happens when middle school students are encouraged to create knowledge through classroom experiences filled with personal meaning. How can you, as a teacher, offer your classes purposeful assignments that build understanding without sacrificing the content you’re required to teach? In a word, choice.</p><p>In <i>”What Choice Do I Have?”</i> you’ll discover how giving students a voice in how they learn and what they learn from opens up your classroom to inquiry and engagement while offering authentic teachable moments. Terry Bigelow and Michael Vokoun’s smart, ready-to-implement, and classroom-tested activities will find a place next to your planning book because they give you and your students multiple entry points for both the development of language arts skills and the comprehension and retention of content. Their choice-based activities and projects: <ul><li>span reading, writing, listening, speaking, and vocabulary</li><li>contain specific directions for usage</li><li>draw on the latest scientifically based research in support of student choice</li><li>are illustrated by classroom vignettes that show how real teachers use them every day. </li><li>can be used in all secondary classrooms and includes specific adaptations for<ul><li>differentiated instruction</li><li>English language learners (ELL)</li><li>exceptional student education (ESE)</li></ul></li></ul>Give your students ownership over learning and watch them engage in the most important learning, their own. Read Bigelow and Vokoun and discover the power of choice.</p>

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Concise but thorough, this popular business communication text is packed with practical advice to help students improve their writing and speaking skills. Shorter than most other business communications texts, “Writing & Speaking at Work,” 4e draws from the author’s years of experience as a college instructor and consultant in business and government. It delivers practical insight and instruction that will equip students with the tools to be effective communicators no matter where their careers may take them. Instead of detailing the various communications theories, it focuses on the two critical communication needs of business people: writing and speaking.

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It seems like in recent years “Paragraph Writing Help” Software and other innovative word processing tools finally help us on improving our grammar writing skills. Writing is generally considered more formal than speaking so it is important to maintain it correct and professional. The following article describes the latest technological developments in language writing and editing processors.

Short background

The following solution is basically designed to analyze text blocks for any grammar problems, so that they transform correct, fluent, and professional. It is a challenging task and indeed developing an advanced “Paragraph Writing Help” Software is considered quit complex. Many of these programs compare your content against a huge DB that contains ‘proper text versions’ of millions of words, sentences, and phrases. In most cases these solutions enables us to do the following: grammar check, misspelling and typos correction, and suggesting proper punctuation.

Important benefits

This instant writing proofreading technology provides several important advantages:

* Helping us to avoid embarrassing grammar mistakes.
* Providing extra capabilities which do not exist in conventional word processors.
* Significantly enhancing the capabilities of our existing text editors.
* Helping people who use writing as their main working tool whether at home or in the office.
* Improving our inter-personal communication skills.

There are probably many other benefits that are not covered here, as this powerful tool constantly changes, bringing us new ideas and additional solutions that help us on improving our English writing.

Conclusion

One of the great opportunities provided by this sophisticated “Paragraph Writing Help” Software is improving our writing style, making it correct, fluent, and impressive. This technology not only helps us on improving our writing skills, but transforming our writing assignments interesting and enjoyable. We can only expect this program to further develop itself, simply because writing is one of the most important tools that help us fulfill our daily assignments.

Gil Lavitov
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By using an advanced Sentence Writing Tool we can easily improve our basic writing, editing, and proofreading skills. Writing is generally considered more formal than speaking so it is important to maintain it correct and professional. The following article will show you how by using a software solution you will be able to improve your writing skills.

Introduction

Let’s quickly examine and see what Sentence Writing Tool is all about – it is a solution that edits, proofreads, and enriches your English writing so it becomes fluent, correct, and appealing. Up to several years ago grammar checking technology was very basic, but today it provides better performance based on advanced language processing algorithms. In most cases these solutions enables us to do the following: grammar check, misspelling and typos correction, and suggesting proper punctuation.

Benefits

There is no doubt that most of us can find it useful:

* Enriching our English vocabulary.
* Improving our writing style.
* Helping us to avoid embarrassing grammar mistakes.
* Assisting ESL learners assimilating English grammar rules.
* Improving our inter-personal communication skills.

There are probably many other benefits that are not covered here, as this program constantly changes, bringing us new ideas and additional solutions that help us on improving our English writing.

Conclusion

This sophisticated Sentence Writing Tool definitely becomes practical as most of us may easily find it useful for their daily business and personal writing assignments. Advanced NLP (Natural Language Processing) solutions save us precious time that we usually spend on proofreading and editing our emails, documents and other writing assignments. We can only expect this solution to further develop itself, simply because writing is one of the most important tools that help us fulfill our daily assignments.

Gil Lavitov
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An innovative Automatic Writing Corrector is designed to enhance the basic editing and proofreading functionalities of conventional word processors. Writing is generally considered more formal than speaking so it is important to maintain it correct and professional. Want to learn how technology can easily help you on improving your writing skills? Read the following article.

Overview

Automatic Writing Corrector analyzes our (digital) writing, searching for possible mistakes such as common grammatical or spelling errors, and suggests proper corrections. How can it correct your grammar? The idea is comparing your sentences with their own ‘proper’ sentences variations analyzed by a sophisticated algorithm. In most cases these solutions enables us to do the following: grammar check, misspelling and typos correction, and suggesting proper punctuation.

What is in it for us?

There is no doubt that most of us can find it useful:

* Improving sentence construction with correct grammar and punctuation.
* Improving the image we want to project through our writing.
* Improving our inter-personal communication skills.
* Enabling us to better express our thoughts and ideas.
* Significantly enhancing the capabilities of our existing text editors.

There are probably many other benefits that are not covered here, as this solution constantly changes, bringing us new ideas and additional solutions that help us on improving our English writing.

Summary

If we summarize the main benefit provided by this powerful Automatic Writing Corrector – it is helping us on identifying possible writing errors before we deliver or publish our writing assignments. Grammar processing technology is quite complex, but fortunately latest developments in this field make it transparent for the end users. We can only expect this technology to further develop itself, simply because writing is one of the most important tools that help us fulfill our daily assignments.

Gil Lavitov
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Hooked on Spanish Deluxe is a three-level program that teaches 4- to 6-year olds basic Spanish vocabulary words and other useful expressions and phrases. Using CD-ROMs for independent instructions and practice, the program also includes colorful workbooks filled with games and activities that offer kids an opportunity to introduce Spanish to their family and friends. Hosted by a cast of loveable characters, kids will have a blast learning to speak Spanish.

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California like the rest of the country has many non-English or limited English speaking residents particularly within the Latino population. To capture these markets many companies often employ bilingual individuals. Sometimes these bilingual individuals chose to take advantage of the limited English speaking for greater profitability to the business and to line their own pockets.

While limited English speaking customers may seem like easy targets, California law provides for tough sanctions and expansive protection of these customers.

Under California law any person engaged in a trade or business who negotiates primarily in Spanish, Chinese, Tagalog, Vietnamese, or Korean, orally or in writing, are required to deliver to the other party to the contract or agreement and prior to the execution, a translation of the contract or agreement in the language in which the contract or agreement was negotiated, which includes a translation of every term and condition in that contract or agreement, among other types of goods and services , this is true if entering into one of the following contracts:

(1) Retail installment sales, defined as the sale of goods or furnishing of services by a retail seller to a retail buyer for a deferred payment price payable in installments;

(2) a loan or extension of credit secured other than by real property, or unsecured, for use primarily for personal, family or household purposes;

(3) a lease, sublease, rental contract or agreement, or other term of tenancy contract or agreement, for a period of longer than one month, covering a dwelling, an apartment, or mobilehome, or other dwelling unit normally occupied as a residence.

(4) A contract or agreement, containing a statement of fees or charges, entered into for the purpose obtaining legal services, when the person who is engaged in business is currently licensed attorney.

In a recent case in imperial county, (Alba Graciano v. Robinson Ford Sales, Inc., Superior Ct. Case No. L-01452) a non-English speaking person bought a car from a car dealer. The salesman apparently attempted to take advantage of the buyer and the buyer proved in court that the deal was for 0% interest loan on a $12,000 car.

The documents were prepared in English with no Spanish translation and the salesman increased the price to $17,865.00. The car buyer filed a lawsuit for violation of consumer laws.

The jury made a modest award and was to decide on punishment, but a settlement was reached with the buyer for $45,000.00, but the court still had to award attorney fees and costs which were at $249,365.36. The court reduced the attorney fees to $27,570, but on appeal the Court or Appeal held that the attorney fees cannot be reduced, because it would be going against the intent of the legislature which is to protect consumers.

On top of approximately $235,000.00 in attorney fees the Court of Appeal also ordered payment of the costs and attorney fees associated with the appeal itself. One salesman’s error over a $17,865 care cost the dealer about $300,000.

There is an exception for persons engaged in a trade or business who negotiate primarily in a language other than English, but has his or her own interpreter. To qualify for the exception the interpreter must not be a minor and must be able to speak and read fluently with full understanding both English and the other language.

If failure to comply the person aggrieved may rescind the contract or agreement in the manner provided by California law. In addition to these remedies other remedies may also apply depending on the goods and services and applicable statutes.

Arnold Hernandez
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I am researching for the careers in US that don’t involve a lot of writing, speaking, and intensive use of computer. I am looking for some examples for particularly female workers.

How ’bout learning to tell lies, you could legally steal from everyone and call your self a Stock Market CEO!

Our continuing series of “So You Want To Become a Public Speaker”; we will look at Public Speaking Pre-Preparation. How many seminars have you gone to and paid good money to participate to find the speaker reading from cards, or reading from an overhead presentation? And let us not forget the “and, ums, ah’s”.

I went to a seminar once and it was so bad that I found myself counting how many “and’s and um’s” were being stated. I really cannot remember what the subject was. I found myself viewing the seminar participants sleeping, writing, day dreaming and so on. Have you ever been to one of those? There are really only two major causes for this type of poor performance.

1. Just there to get paid

That is to me the most disgusting reason of all. If you’re just there to get paid and not passionate about your speaking career GET OUT! People pay good money for seminars and expect to hear a good presenter with good information. Nuf said!

2. Bad preparation

Pre-Preparation is critical to your delivering a good presentation. In Public Speaking the pre-preparation, or lack of, will be noticed by your audience.

So, we are going to address pre seminar preparation.

So now you have the subject matter for your next seminar. You know the venue and the time allotted for your presentation. What else do you need to know?

Elements of Pre Prep

Know your audience; – their age group, gender, ethnicity, education, income level. You may ask yourself, “Why do I need to know all that information?”

The more your presentation is geared towards your audience the more impact and success you will have in its delivery and the less chance of a blunder. Example; There was a speech given by a government official where a question was raised on how the presenter thought about a specific person. Me personally, I felt the response was well stated, but was offensive to some with regard to “he is articulate” and was taken as a racial thing. There was rhubarb about that whole thing.

In this new politically correct (PC) world one must be careful of the words used. Unless you are a well known controversial speaker, one must address this issue in your pre-prep.

Can you see the value of knowing your audience before presenting?

To find out audience information, contact the seminar planner, they would have a good idea of your audience.

Speech Preparation – Okay you have your subject, now what? Organizing your speech is one of the most important skills to learn. Good organization is often the key to understanding. The audience is more likely to understand your message if it is well organized.

Write out your speech. Writing for public speaking isn’t so different from other types of writing. You want to hold your audience’s attention, communicate your ideas in a logical manner and use reliable evidence to support your point.

When you write a speech understand your audience is made up of listeners. They have only one chance to comprehend what you’re presenting. Your speech must be well-organized and easily understood, and your delivery must fit the audience. Again with the audience!

Practice, Practice, Practice! – In my eyes this is the most important part of public speaking! To put this in straight talk, “you need to nail this!” “You only have one shot. You blow it here and you’re all done.” I’m not joking!

If this is a new subject for you need to start practicing this presentation 1 week before show time! Your reputation is riding on every presentation you present regardless of the public speaking venue. Ask a friend over to help, it may cost you’re a dinner or beer, present it and ask for honest feedback.

You really don’t want to read off cue cards or read off you Power Point presentation. Your audience can read the onscreen presentation. It does not hurt to glance up if you loose your place. But again if you practiced this presentation enough you shouldn’t have to.

Equipment Requirements – Understand your venue. Seating capacity, number of expected participants, size of room and acoustics play a huge roll on your planned delivery. Also find out about existing sound equipment, projectors, screens and lighting.

Once you have gathered all this information you can start your pre-prep for equipment needed like wireless microphone systems and adaptability to existing sound equipment, USB presentation projector, laptop, extra batteries, extra bulb, USB flash drive (backup for your presentation), and screen.

There is nothing worst than getting to your public speaking venue and you don’t have the correct equipment for your presentation. Backup, back-up backup! Basically be prepared for the worst!

Pre-preparation is critical to your public speaking career. Know your audience, write out your speech in a logical manner, practice, practice, practice and then practice some more. Understand your venue and have the required equipment there to present your best presentation ever!

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Dale A. Simmons
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