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Rethinking Language and Gender Research

Theory and Practice

By: Victoria Bergvall

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Rethinking Language and Gender Research

Theory and Practice

By: Victoria Bergvall

Rethinking Language and Gender Research is the first book focusing on language and gender to explicitly challenge the dichotomy of female and male use of language. It represents a turning point in language and gender studies, addressing the political and social consequences of popular beliefs about women's language and men's language and proposing new ways of looking at language and gender. The essays take a fresh approach to the study of subjects such as language and sex and the use of language to produce and maintain power and prestige. Topics explored in this text include sex and the brain; the language of a rape hearing; teenage language; radio talk show exchanges; discourse strategies of African American women; political implications for language and gender studies; the relationship between sex and gender and the construction of identity through language. A useful introductory chapter sets the articles in context, explaining the relationships that exist between them, and full cross-referencing between articles and an extensive index allow for easy access to information. The interdisciplinary approach of the text, the wide-range of methodologies presented, and the comprehensive review of the current literature will make this book invaluable reading for all upper-level undergraduate students, postgraduate students and researchers in the fields of linguistics, sociolinguistics, gender and cultural studies.

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Routledge

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1317889789

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"O ma Carmen"

Bizet's Fateful Gypsy in Portrayals from 1875 to the Present

By: Victoria Etnier Villamil

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"O ma Carmen"

Bizet's Fateful Gypsy in Portrayals from 1875 to the Present

By: Victoria Etnier Villamil

Qu'est-ce que c'est?" (What is it?) mezzo-soprano Celestine Galli-Marie asked when offered the title role in the 1875 premier of Bizet's new opera, Carmen. She was only the first in a long line of performers to ask. In the 140+ years since, each singer has crafted her own portrayal of the inscrutable Gypsy. The famous soprano Geraldine Farrar wrote: "Each one of us probably sees something that the others have not seen--or thinks she does--and that 'something' is her individual Carmen." This book explores the history of operatic portrayals of Bizet's elusive enchantress, tracing the development of vocal and dramatic interpretations from generation to generation around the globe.

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McFarland

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1476663246

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Communicating Gender Diversity

A Critical Approach

By: Victoria Leto DeFrancisco,Catherine Helen Palczewski

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Communicating Gender Diversity

A Critical Approach

By: Victoria Leto DeFrancisco,Catherine Helen Palczewski

Intends to better equip readers with tools with which they can examine, and make sense of, the intersections of communication and gender. This text covers the variety of ways in which communication of and about gender and sex enables and constrains people's intersectional identities.

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1412925592

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Gender in Communication

A Critical Introduction

By: Catherine Helen Palczewski,Danielle D. McGeough,Victoria Pruin DeFrancisco

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Gender in Communication

A Critical Introduction

By: Catherine Helen Palczewski,Danielle D. McGeough,Victoria Pruin DeFrancisco

Gender in Communication: A Critical Introduction embraces the full range of diverse gender identities and expressions to explore how gender influences communication, as well as how communication shapes our concepts of gender for the individual and for society at large. Authors Catherine Helen Palczewski, Danielle D. McGeough, and Victoria Pruin DeFrancisco equip readers with the critical analysis tools to form their own conclusions about the ever changing processes of gender in communication. This comprehensive gender communication book is the first to extensively address the roles of religion, the gendered body, single-sex education, an institutional analysis of gender construction, social construction theory, and more. The Fourth Edition has streamlined the text to make it more accessible to students without sacrificing the sophistication of the book′s trademark intersectional approach.

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1071894978

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Acceptance and Commitment Approaches for Athletes’ Wellbeing and Performance

The Flexible Mind

By: Ross G. White,Andrew Bethell,Lewis Charnock,Stephen Leckey,Victoria Penpraze

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Acceptance and Commitment Approaches for Athletes’ Wellbeing and Performance

The Flexible Mind

By: Ross G. White,Andrew Bethell,Lewis Charnock,Stephen Leckey,Victoria Penpraze

Elite sport can be an unforgiving and harsh environment. This book explores psychological predictors of wellbeing and performance excellence in elite level athletes, and presents an innovative approach for optimizing mental wellbeing and sporting performance. Jointly developed by performance psychologists, clinical psychologists and sport scientists the Flexible Mind approach draws on contemporary psychological theory and research to help athletes build ‘psychological flexibility’ - the ability to experience challenging thoughts and emotions and still be true to one’s values. A range of case studies relating to different sports are used to demonstrate how three core components - Being Present, Being Open and Doing What Matters - can improve athletes’ performance and wellbeing. This book will be a game-changing resource for sports psychologists, mental health practitioners, coaches and support staff who are committed to helping athletes to excel and stay well.

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Springer Nature

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3030649423

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9783030649425

Shakespeare on screen : Macbeth

By: Sarah HATCHUEL,Nathalie VIENNE-GUERRIN,Victoria BLADEN

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Shakespeare on screen : Macbeth

By: Sarah HATCHUEL,Nathalie VIENNE-GUERRIN,Victoria BLADEN

This addition to the Shakespeare on Screen series reveals the remarkable presence of Macbeth in the global Shakespearean screenscape. What is it about Macbeth that is capable of extending beyond Scottish contexts and speaking globally, locally and “glocally”? Does the extensive adaptive reframing ofMacbeth suggest the paradoxical irrelevance of the original play? After examining the evident topic of the supernatural elements—the witches and the ghost—in the films, the essays move from a revisitation of the well-known American screen versions, to an analysis of more recent Anglophone productions and to world cinema (Asia, France, South Africa, India, Japan, etc.). Questions of lineage and progeny are broached, then extended into the wider issues of gender. Finally, ballet remediations, filmic appropriations, citations and mises-en-abyme of Macbeth are examined, and the book ends with an analysis of a Macbeth script that never reached the screen. Ce nouvel ouvrage de la série « Shakespeare à l’écran » révèle la présence remarquable de Macbeth dans le paysage filmique shakespearien à l’échelle mondiale. Comment expliquer qu’une pièce dont l’intrigue est ancrée dans une nation, l’Écosse, ait pu être absorbée par des cultures aussi diverses ? Les multiples adaptations de Macbeth suggèrent-elles, de manière paradoxale, une moindre pertinence de la pièce originelle ? Après avoir exploré la représentation des éléments surnaturels (les sorcières et le fantôme), le volume revisite les films américains « canoniques », les productions anglophones plus récentes et les versions d’autres aires culturelles (Asie, France, Afrique du Sud, Inde, Japon, etc.) Les questions de lignée et de descendance sont abordées, puis prolongées dans des articles sur la représentation du genre. Les versions dansées, les appropriations, les citations et les mises en abyme de Macbeth sont ensuite analysées, et ce parcours mène à un étrange objet – un scénario non filmé.

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Presses universitaires de Rouen et du Havre

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9791024000404

Coptic Interference in the Syntax of Greek Letters from Egypt

By: Victoria Beatrix Maria Fendel

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Coptic Interference in the Syntax of Greek Letters from Egypt

By: Victoria Beatrix Maria Fendel

Egypt in the early Byzantine period was a bilingual country where Greek and Egyptian (Coptic) were used alongside each other. Historical studies along with linguistic studies of the phonology and lexicon of early Byzantine Greek in Egypt testify to this situation. In order to describe the linguistic traces that the language-contact situation left behind in individuals' linguistic output, Coptic Interference in the Syntax of Greek Letters from Egypt analyses the syntax of early Byzantine Greek texts from Egypt. The primary object of interest is bilingual interference in the syntax of verbs, adverbial phrases, clause linkage as well as in semi-formulaic expressions and formulaic frames. The study is based on a corpus of Greek and Coptic private letters on papyrus, which date from the fourth to mid-seventh centuries, originate from Egypt and belong to bilingual, Greek-Coptic, papyrus archives.

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Oxford University Press

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0192695835

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9780192695833

Ellicott City

By: Janet Kusterer,Victoria Goeller

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Ellicott City

By: Janet Kusterer,Victoria Goeller

In 1772, the Ellicott brothers purchased land and water rights in the valley along the banks of the Patapsco River for $3 an acre. They constructed mills, started the National Road, and brought the railroad to what was then called Ellicott's Mills.

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Arcadia Publishing

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0738543098

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9780738543093

How to Be Me At 40!?!?

By: Victoria Vega

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How to Be Me At 40!?!?

By: Victoria Vega

This wonderful spoof plays on the difficulty some women have in letting go of their youth. One day you are this young 20-year-old, and before you know it, you are 40 and constantly being told to act your age! You may feel the same way inside that the author does: Age 40 just snuck up without any warning to shatter your ego. How to be Me at 40?! is one woman's approach on how she is coping - or not coping - with the fact that she is reaching this milestone in life. The book was written with the aspiration of making those of us who do not find aging to be graceful, to at least be something we can laugh about. Hopefully, turning 40, and then 50, 60 and so on, will be a little less painful when you can face the future with humor.

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Strategic Book Publishing

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1612049443

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Misinformation and Disinformation

Detecting Fakes with the Eye and AI

By: Victoria L. Rubin

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Misinformation and Disinformation

Detecting Fakes with the Eye and AI

By: Victoria L. Rubin

This book, geared towards both students and professionals, examines the synthesis of artificial intelligence (AI) and psychology in detecting mis-/disinformation in digital media content, and suggests practical means to intervene and curtail this current global ‘infodemic’. This interdisciplinary book explores technological, psychological, philosophical, and linguistic insights into the nature of truth and deception, trust and credibility, cognitive biases and logical fallacies and how, through AI and human intervention, content users can be alerted to the presence of deception. The author investigates how AI can mimic the procedures and know-hows of humans, showing how AI can help spot fakes and how AI tools can work to debunk rumors and fact-check. The book describes how AI detection systems work and how they fit with broader societal and individual concerns. Each chapter focuses attention on key concepts and their inter-connection. The first part of the book seeks theoretical footing to understand our interactions with new information and reviews relevant empirical findings in behavioral sciences. The second part is about applied knowledge. The author looks at several known practices that guard us against deception, and provides several real-world examples of manipulative persuasive techniques in advertising, political propaganda, and public relations. She provides links to the downloadable executable files to three AI applications (clickbait, satire, and falsehood detectors) via LiT.RL GitHub, an open access repository. The book is useful to students and professionals studying AI and media studies as well as library and information professionals. Examines how artificial intelligence (AI) and psychology can aid in detecting mis-/disinformation and the language of deceit in digital media content; Suggests practical computational means to intervene and curtail the global ‘infodemic’ of fake news; Presents how AI can sift, sort, and shuffle digital content, to reduce the amount of content needed to be reviewed by humans.

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3030956563

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9783030956561

Entrepreneurial Training for the Unemployed

Lessons from the Field

By: Victoria Singer

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Entrepreneurial Training for the Unemployed

Lessons from the Field

By: Victoria Singer

First Published in 1999. This title examines one publicly funded training program by describing the complex, dynamic process of fostering small business ownership. This case study focuses on the behaviors and environments that influence entrepreneurial success and show how a teaching methodology can contribute to an environment that encourages entrepreneurship. This study provides, not only an example of the efficacy of entrepreneurial training but suggests findings beyond business start-up as measures of program results.

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Routledge

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113568278X

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Pediatric Physical Examination - E-Book

By: Karen G. Duderstadt,Victoria F. Keeton

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Pediatric Physical Examination - E-Book

By: Karen G. Duderstadt,Victoria F. Keeton

Known for its accuracy, consistency, and portability, Pediatric Physical Examination: An Illustrated Handbook, 4th Edition teaches the unique range of skills that Nurse Practitioners and primary care providers need to assess children of all ages. Spiral-bound for quick reference in clinical settings, this photo-rich, step-by-step guide to physical examination prepares you to expertly examine children from birth through adolescence. Body system chapters begin with fetal development and take you through the key developmental stages of childhood. This edition features new sections with Telehealth Tips and Considerations for Special Populations in many chapters, as well as expanded coverage of maltreatment, mental health, and social disparities of health. - Expert guidance for the pediatric physical exam employs the "quiet-to-active" approach, starting with the listening parts of the physical exam and moving on to the hands-on components, the physical assessment approach that yields the best results in the pediatric age group. - Quick-reference features include special tables/boxes, such as Information Gathering, Conditions, Pediatric Pearls, Red Flags, Interprofessional Collaboration Notes, Evidence-Based Practice, and EHR Documentation. - Easy-to-use layout provides quick access to concise guidance for the pediatric physical exam. - Richly illustrated, full-color format facilitates readability and learning with more than 300 photos and line drawings of assessment techniques and common assessment findings. - Inclusive and ethnically diverse illustrations better represent the diverse populations pediatric health care providers work with every day. - NEW! Telehealth Tips section added to chapters reflects the greatly expanded use of telehealth visits in clinical practice. - NEW! Information on maltreatment, mental and behavioral health, and social determinants of health explored throughout the chapters. - NEW! Considerations for special needs populations added to most chapters. - NEW! Guidance on use of screen time for early childhood and advice for families.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0323930824

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9780323930826

AIDS at 30

By: Victoria A Harden

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AIDS at 30

By: Victoria A Harden

Society was not prepared in 1981 for the appearance of a new infectious disease, but we have since learned that emerging and reemerging diseases will continue to challenge humanity. AIDS at 30 is the first history of HIV/AIDS written for a general audience that emphasizes the medical response to the epidemic. Award-winning medical historian Victoria A. Harden approaches the AIDS virus from philosophical and intellectual perspectives in the history of medical science, discussing the process of scientific discovery, scientific evidence, and how laboratories found the cause of AIDS and developed therapeutic interventions. Similarly, her book places AIDS as the first infectious disease to be recognized simultaneously worldwide as a single phenomenon. After years of believing that vaccines and antibiotics would keep deadly epidemics away, researchers, doctors, patients, and the public were forced to abandon the arrogant assumption that they had conquered infectious diseases. By presenting an accessible discussion of the history of HIV/AIDS and analyzing how aspects of society advanced or hindered the response to the disease, AIDS at 30 illustrates for both medical professionals and general readers how medicine identifies and evaluates new infectious diseases quickly and what political and cultural factors limit the medical community's response.

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Potomac Books, Inc.

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1612345166

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It Happened in the Florida Keys

Stories of Events and People that Shaped History

By: Victoria Shearer

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It Happened in the Florida Keys

Stories of Events and People that Shaped History

By: Victoria Shearer

From the wreck of the USS Alligator to the mystery of the marooned dolphins, It Happened in the Florida Keys looks at intriguing people and episodes from the history of this island chain. Discover why the Key Largo dive community decided to have the largest ship in the world ever to be intentionally sunk deposited six miles offshore the Florida Keys. Read about the incredible discovery of a sunken seventeenth-century Spanish galleon’s treasure worth an estimated $450 million. Learn how some poultry running wild wreaked havoc on the city of Key West, and sparked the emotionally charged “chicken wars”. Relive three fascinating summers when Keys residents rubbed elbows with Hollywood stars as their favorite haunts were transformed into fictional sets for a popular television series.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1493040251

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9781493040254

Jewels

A Secret History

By: Victoria Finlay

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Jewels

A Secret History

By: Victoria Finlay

Throughout history, precious stones have inspired passions and poetry, quests and curses, sacred writings and unsacred actions. In this scintillating book, journalist Victoria Finlay embarks on her own globe-circling search for the real stories behind some of the gems we prize most. Blending adventure travel, geology, exciting new research, and her own irresistible charm, Finlay has fashioned a treasure hunt for some of the most valuable, glamorous, and mysterious substances on earth. With the same intense curiosity and narrative flair she displayed in her widely-praised book Color, Finlay journeys from the underground opal churches of outback Australia to the once pearl-rich rivers of Scotland; from the peridot mines on an Apache reservation in Arizona to the remote ruby mines in the mountains of northern Burma. She risks confronting scorpions to crawl through Cleopatra’s long-deserted emerald mines, tries her hand at gem cutting in the dusty Sri Lankan city where Marco Polo bartered for sapphires, and investigates a rumor that fifty years ago most of the world’s amber was mined by prisoners in a Soviet gulag. Jewels is a unique and often exhilarating voyage through history, across cultures, deep into the earth’s mantle, and up to the glittering heights of fame, power, and wealth. From the fabled curse of the Hope Diamond, to the disturbing truths about how pearls are cultured, to the peasants who were once executed for carrying amber to the centuries-old quest by magicians and scientists to make a perfect diamond, Jewels tells dazzling stories with a wonderment and brilliance truly worthy of its subjects.

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Random House Trade Paperbacks

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0345466950

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Human Factors on the Flight Deck

A Practical Guide for Design, Modelling and Evaluation

By: Katie J. Parnell,Victoria A. Banks,Rachael A. Wynne,Neville A. Stanton,Katherine L. Plant

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Human Factors on the Flight Deck

A Practical Guide for Design, Modelling and Evaluation

By: Katie J. Parnell,Victoria A. Banks,Rachael A. Wynne,Neville A. Stanton,Katherine L. Plant

This book presents the Human Factors methodologies and applications thereof that can be utilised across the design, modelling and evaluation stages of the design lifecycle of new technologies entering future commercial aircraft. As advances are made to the architecture of commercial aircraft cockpits, Human Factors on the Flight Deck argues that it is vitally important that these new interfaces are safely incorporated and designed in a way that is usable to the pilot. Incorporation of Human Factors is essential to ensuring that engineering developments to avionic systems are integrated such that pilots can maintain safe interactions while gaining information of value. Case study examples of various technological advancements during their early conceptual stages are given throughout to highlight how the methods and processes can be applied across each stage. The text will be useful for professionals, graduate students and academic researchers in the fields of aviation, Human Factors and ergonomics.

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CRC Press

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1000867757

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9781000867756

Polluto 10

By: Victoria Hooper

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Polluto 10

By: Victoria Hooper

Polluto is the award-winning literary magazine from Dog Horn Publishing. Since 2008 we have been scouring the dark, twisted and just plain weird corners of the world for the kind of writing that we love. Clutch your credit-chips close and head on over to see what Polluto has on offer: a world of malls, stretching endlessly into one another. Systems of oppression, both real and fictional. Corporations of the future, Flooded London, money and privilege, a human life claimed for art. A mathematician feverishly tattooing his formulae onto prisoners of war. Workers on special offer: cheap-labour, clone-labour and corpse-labour. And bear in mind, valued customers, that nothing comes for free!

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Lulu.com

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1907133305

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9781907133305

My Functional Skills: Revision and Exam Practice for English Level 1

By: Victoria Eckert

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My Functional Skills: Revision and Exam Practice for English Level 1

By: Victoria Eckert

Target success in Level 1 English with this brand-new functional skills revision and exam practice guide. Suitable for all functional skills courses, this guide explains the key content you need to understand the topics on your course, so you can revise effectively and practise for your exams with the types of questions you will be asked. Now I get it! Grasp even the most difficult topics with clear and simple explanations and questions to test your understanding How do I answer this? Learn how to unpick the types of exam questions you will face with clear guidance on how to structure your answers So what do I need to do to pass? Improve your exam skills with hundreds of practice questions for you to try, as well as worked examples and model answers to check you are on the path to success With a revision planner, exam countdown timetable to help you pace your revision and glossary of all key terms, My Functional Skills has all you need to approach your exams with real confidence.

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Hodder Education

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1398387312

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My Functional Skills: Revision and Exam Practice for English Level 2

By: Victoria Eckert

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My Functional Skills: Revision and Exam Practice for English Level 2

By: Victoria Eckert

Target success in Level 2 English with this brand-new functional skills revision and exam practice guide. Suitable for all functional skills courses, this guide explains the key content you need to understand the topics on your course, so you can revise effectively and practise for your exams with the types of questions you will be asked. Now I get it! Grasp even the most difficult topics with clear and simple explanations and questions to test your understanding How do I answer this? Learn how to unpick the types of exam questions you will face with clear guidance on how to structure your answers So what do I need to do to pass? Improve your exam skills with hundreds of practice questions for you to try, as well as worked examples and model answers to check you are on the path to success With a revision planner, exam countdown timetable to help you pace your revision and glossary of all key terms, My Functional Skills has all you need to approach your exams with real confidence.

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1398387339

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