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Academic success Aspiring writer's collection Business communication series Communication essentials (Films Media Group) English collection Lawrence of Arabia (New York, N.Y.) Path to publication Public mind Reading, thinking. And concept development Ultimate media librarian collectionSummary: Faced with a mountain of research to conduct, reading to do, and papers to write, students must work both efficiently and shrewdly. This three-section program tells how to identify and cite reliable online and offline sources of information, carve textbook chapters into manageable chunks, and outline and revise papers-all elements that are essential to getting the job done well. Correlates to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Reading rate and comprehension can mean the difference between success and failure to students. Three strategies for improving both are presented in this program. The first suggests reading during the day, for short periods in a quiet place, for maximum efficiency. One method demonstrates how to divide words into groups on a page as an effective way of improving reading rate. The SQ3R Strategy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: A torrent of e-mails, faxes, memos, reports, contracts, and newsletters threatens to drown the typical new hire in a sea of paper and text. With simple methods for tackling an immense volume of content, this program helps students manage workplace reading tasks quickly and efficiently without overlooking important information. Featured tips show viewers how to stay focused, prioritize reading...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: This teleconference for teachers, administrators, and parents addresses the issues of improving comprehension; cognitive coaching; the link between thinking, reading, and writing; and the integration of instruction and assessment. The program features Syracuse University Professor Harold Herber, Professor Dorothy Strickland of Rutgers University, Robert Peterkin of Harvard University's Urban...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: If Mark and his colleagues are to meet a tight research deadline, they will have to read faster-and smarter-than ever. This dramatization illustrates the value of taking a time-saving approach to reading, which includes using skimming and active reading techniques, taking advantage of reader-friendly devices designed to help pinpoint information, and diligently concentrating on the content...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: It may be the single greatest cause of disagreement, and even moral disdain, between family members, neighbors, and entire nationalities-but the way we raise our children is also tied to deeply ingrained beliefs and traditions. This program examines the subject, focusing on wide disparities between cultures in the matter of parenting and child-rearing. From India's Tihar prison, where some...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: Heading for Peace continues the biography of T. E. Lawrence from the year 1917 as he and the Arabs continue to attack and undermine the Turks. Upon Turkish surrender, the Balfour Declaration paves the way for a Jewish homeland in Palestine and Lawrence leads the Arabs in an allied race for the city. But soon after, British duplicity is exposed. Now a celebrated figure to the British public,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2003
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Summary: Human beings were never born to read. This program seeks to understand how the brain, which has evolved no hardwired "reading center," made the leap to literacy; why reading well-crafted writing is so profoundly important to intellectual and emotional development; and whether the Internet, with its blogs and videos and games, is placing novels-a prime type of reading material for nurturing the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: "Kids will build confidence and avoid summer slide as they master early literacy skills with interactive games, challenges, and storybooks. Summer Reading helps kids stay motivated, maintain reading skills, and learn all summer long!"
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J LAUNCHPAD KINSummary: In segment one of this volume, authors Mark Childress, Janet Fitch, and Glen David Gold read and talk about their previously unpublished works. In the second segment, "Conversations," Oakley Hall-founder of the Squaw Valley Community of Writers, author of 24 novels, and former writing teacher-presents 15 tips that every writer needs to know, beginning with Write every day, Observe and listen,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: This program examines the power of professional pollsters to influence public opinion. Public opinion pollsters and market researchers serve virtually every facet of American culture. Nearly everyone-from the makers of cake mix to television executives and candidates for public office-seeks to become the intimate of our private opinions for the purposes of their own strategies. In the hands of...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007