How to Reduce Stress: 10 Relaxation Techniques To Reduce Stress On-the-Spot By Jeannette MoningerWebMD Feature Relax. You deserve it, it's good for you, and it takes less time than you think. You don't need a spa weekend or a retreat. Grammar Girl Mignon Fogarty is the founder of the Quick and Dirty Tips network and creator of Grammar Girl, which has been named one of Writer's Digest's 101 best websites for writers multiple times. The Grammar Girl podcast has also won Best Education Podcast multiple times in the Podcast Awards, and Mignon is an inductee in the Podcasting Hall of Fame. Mignon is the author of the New York Times best-seller "Grammar Girl's Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing" and six other books on writing. She has appeared as a guest on the "Oprah Winfrey Show" and the "Today Show" and has been featured in the New York Times, Business Week, the Washington Post, USA Today, CNN.com, and more. She was previously the chair of media entrepreneurship in the Reynolds School of Journalism in Reno, NV.
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Paragraph Writing Exercises In Process Writing, we have emphasized the fact that it is very hard for the teacher to concentrate on both the grammar and the organization errors on a student paper and still not discourage the student with those red marks all over the paper. Instead, we have suggested that the students should be able to comment on and edit their own paper to a certain extent. The advantages of such an approach would be raising awareness of the student and reducing the workload of the teacher. The exercises we have here are organized in such a way that the students will concentrate on only one thing (e.g. organization, grammar, vocabulary choice, etc.) at a time. For each type of mistake, we first repeat the information presented in detail in Paragraph Development and The Essay, and then provide a writing exercise about it. For each type, the student first sees the original writing.
Ancient Names - Behind the Name ACHILLESmGreek Mythology (Latinized), Ancient Greek (Latinized)From the Greek Αχιλλευς (Achilleus) which is of unknown meaning, perhaps derived from Greek αχος (achos) "pain" or else from the name of the Achelous River. This was the name of a warrior in Greek legend, one of the central characters in Homer's 'Iliad'. The bravest of the Greek heroes in the war against the Trojans, he was eventually killed by an arrow to his heel, the only vulnerable part of his body.... [more] ADAfEnglish, German, Polish, Hungarian, Italian, Finnish, Ancient GermanicOriginally a short form of Germanic names such as ADELAIDE or ADELINA which begin with the element adal meaning "noble".
les symboles phonétiques les symboles phonétiques In the phonetic alphabet, a single symbol or letter corresponds to a single sound, unlike the traditional alphabets of English or French. The phonetic alphabet is provided here as a means for indicating pronunciation more consistently and precisely. Note that a single French sound may correspond to several different spellings or combinations of letters. l'élision Vowels which are replaced by an apostrophe in the writing system are said to be elided. 10 Writing Exercises to Tighten Your Writing By Brittiany Cahoon Writing projects can be like children. You love them dearly, but sometimes they irritate you to the point that you just need a break. Working on something fresh and new can invigorate your mind and give you a new approach to your work.
Jules Verne Dictionary - A Who's Who in the World of Jules Verne This is a Who's Who in the world of Jules Verne. The foundation for this page is a listing of the characters from Jules Verne's novels, stories and plays. This is a work in progress, and there are many gaps at the moment (April 2004 - still a work in progress) OWL Writing Exercises Welcome to the updated OWL exercise pages. For the past year and a half, we have been working on updating the OWL page design and OWL navigation based on our OWL Usability Project findings. As part of this process, we have also been working on correcting and updating our exercises.
Solar System - Names of the Planets Back to main page SPACE SOLAR SYSTEMJiri W a g n e r , Jr., wag@volny.cz Names of the Planets For brevity's sake I've omitted the articles commonly used in some languages. The Mandarin words mean (approximately): "The Brightest; Star of Water; Star of Metal; Sphere of Ground (Earth); Star of Fire; Star of Wood; Star of Soil (Dirt); Star of the King of Heaven; Star of the King of the Ocean; Star of the King of Hell". The Korean, Japanese, Mandarin and Cantonese lines are pronounications.