Product Description

If you find writing essays difficult and leave them to the last minute, if you panic as the deadline for submission approaches then this is the book for you. The second edition of this best selling guide will enable you to develop key skills in reading, writing and reasoning.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #64728 in Books
• Published on: 1996-11-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 235 pages

Review
"Teachers working with young children, needing to inform themselves better about an aspect of the teaching of reading, will findthe reading suggestions for each entry very useful." - SpokenEnglish "...for students and teachers new to this complexfield, the handbook will provide an accessible and informative sourceof reference." - Child Education "RobinCampbell has been able to offer teachers, intending teachers andteacher-educators a remarkably usable book that should pay great dividends."- Reading "...a useful addition to ateacher-training or in-service library." - Educational Psychology "Students will find this book a little gem in helpingthem...to cometo grips with the many strands that have to be interwoven to teach reading effectively, and to understand the complexityof their role in the process and the skills they need to acquire." - Child Language Teaching and Therapy

About the Author
Gavin Fairbairn is Professor of Ethics and Language at Leeds Metropolitan University and was formerly Professor of Education at Liverpool Hope University College, to which he moved from a Chair of Professional Development in Nursing and Midwifery at the University of Glamorgan. Prior to that he worked for many years in teacher education in Wales, following a career in social work and special education. He has published extensively in education, and in applied philosophy and ethics, where he has a special interest in the ethical issues that arise in the caring professions. He has acted as a reviewer for a number of journals for many years, and as an advisor to publishers he has reviewed numerous book proposals about both educational and ethical topics. His books include (with David Canter) Becoming an Author: a guide to academics and other professionals and Contemplating Suicide: the language and ethics of self harm. His most recent book with Susan Fairbairn, Writing Your Abstract: a guide for would-be conference presenters, was published in 2005.

Christopher Winch is Professor of Education at Nene College, Northampton. He has published widely in philosophy, linguistics and education. He is the author (with Robert Solomon) of Calculating and Computing for Social Science and Arts Students, also published by the Open University Press, Language, Ability and Educational Achievement (Routledge 1990) and Quality and Education (Blackwell 1996).

Customer Reviews

Enjoyable; and it tought me a lot
I tend to try and alternate between books which require thinking and books which don't when reading. When I read this however I had just read the 900 page Cryptonomicon (though it is not particularly hard to read). It is a credit to the authors' of this book that I found it enjoyable enough to happily read it at that time. Of course the main purpose of this book is to make you a better writer and thinker; not to make you enjoy it. I found that the book made many good points about writing and made me alert to some mistakes in my style. It is a book which does not try and give you any answers but tells you the options available to you and lets you make up your own mind about what is best for you in the situation at hand. Overall a very good book which serves its purpose well. I would like to mention that in a subject such as this it will teach a few nothing, but many that think they are in the few would learn a great deal.