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For several decades and through all nine previous release, this publication remains one of the best and maybe most complete technical writing references for students and industry professionals.  The book has been very highly evaluated thanks to its layout and brevity of the entries contained. The readers in so many countries of the world have already found the present publication very useful since it provides answers to so many technical writing questions.

The authors have mostly focused on technology researches and professional technical documents. It is a very reliable and remarkably versatile stand-alone reference book that shall be used in a variety of circumstances due to the clear language used by the authors and amount of the info contained. You will for sure enjoy using this book and will also sure find it the "Swiss Army knife" for any technical writer. The arrangement of the book has been appreciated by the readers as the whole content is alphabetized for easier and quicker reference.

The publication was found to be very helpful, it provides very extensive examples for most of the topics. A must-have source for people dealing with preparation of technical documentation in English and having a need for a good reference book.

This small and compact vocabulary comprises thirteen pages covering the main areas of the shipping and offshore industry, such as types of marine ships, capacity measurements, offshore terminology, offshore support and supply vessels, general shipping terms, geographical abbreviations, types of affreightment, abbreviations, worldscale.

Bearing in mind the numerous topics addressed by the person who compiled the vocabulary, we may say that the booklet will definitely be of some use by persons working offshore, on board ships and offshore installations as crew members or service specialists; however, the information provided in some sections may be helpful even to the office personnel dealing with preparation of the purchase orders, various reports, requests, communications and other activities that may require proper and thorough understanding of the maritime/offshore industry terminology, including ship nomenclature, abbreviations used etc.

Moreover, the knowledge of the terms is also vitally important for port state control inspectors, marine authority officers, marine surveyors and all other specialists involved in the shipping and offshore industry. We would recommend to download this small vocabulary and keep it.

This well-written and very useful book is intended to help people who are experiencing general difficulties with writing English being non-native speakers. All dos and don'ts have been arranged in alphabetical order for easier navigation, coupled with a comprehensive index and functional cross-references -what this means is that the users will have no any difficulties when searching for the answers.

The book is also supplemented with some useful appendices like tips on writing and laying out a document, basic grammar notes etc. This entertaining guidance book packed with useful information was compiled based on the very long and brilliant experience of the author, Kay Sayce, in assisting people in producing documents in English. The publication addresses all awkward issues, such as the business English, acronyms, letter writing, American English language, clichés and jargon, quotations and hyphens, etc.

The book shows that though there are rules and conventions, they shall rather be used as the basis on which the confidence to explore the whole versatility and richness of the English language shall be built. We would definitely recommend this reference to be used as a tool for any person, whose work involves using good written English, for instance, writers of the reports and other professional papers.

The ultimate intention of the author of this publication was to provide readers with the source of info that covers all core areas of the English language. The book is a remarkably comprehensive intro to the subject, and it is also exploring the ongoing debates in world Englishes, their testing and teaching.

The publication draws on a wide range of tests, examples and other data, e.g. articles from world popular newspapers, and it also includes some classic readings. Most of the important sociopolitical and historical developments in the world Englishes have been covered in this book. The title is very interesting and very well-written. The layout is perfect and makes this book very easy to read. It covers most of the related topics in a very clear format.

The complexity of the English language must never be underestimated and readers should not take the sensitivities surrounding it lightly. The efforts made by the author have resulted in an excellent resource for the students to introduce them to the rapidly growing field of world Englishes. Note that references have been made to the materials straight out from our everyday life, and such approach made the whole content of the volume easily accessible for everyone. 

When I wrote the first edition of this book, I wanted to cram a lot into it. Cookbook became my metaphor: a collection of everything I could think of that was useful and tasty—and set out in self-contained chapters that readers could use in any sequence they want. But now, I see certain coherences I didn't see then. I see first what commentators also noticed most: my so-called "romantic" approach, that is, my emphasis on freewriting, chaos, not planning, mystery, magic, and the intangible.

I am still singing this tune. "Just write, trust, don't ask too many questions, go with it. Put your effort into experiencing the tree you want to describe, not on thinking about which words to use. Don't put your attention on quality or critics. Just write." This is the je ne sais quoi dimension of writing. I always want to talk about what cannot quite be analyzed: the sense of voice in writing, the sense of a writer's presence on the page, the quality that makes a reader actually see or experience what you are saying. That is why I use so much indirection and metaphor. I have designed this book so you can either read it straight through or else skip around.

That is, I have arranged it in what seems to me the most logical order; you will find some cumulative benefits from reading it in the normal sequence. But I have also made each section and chapter fairly complete in itself so you can thread your own path and find the chapters you need for your particular writing tasks or for your own particular temperament or skills.

By reading Section I and the short introductions to the remaining five sections, you will get a good sense of how the whole book works. In addition, almost every chapter ends with a short summary or section of advice which you can consult for more information about what the chapter treats.

We are very glad to introduce a new, easily accessible and pretty straightforward guidance to the terminology of English grammar. This publication released by Oxford has been prepared by three world recognized grammar experts and contains more than 1600 useful and informative entries, with most of them being provided with very clear and comprehensive, but yet concise definitions, supplemented with sample sentences for better understanding.

This is the second release of the publication, which has been revised and significantly updated in comparison with the first one; particular attention has been paid by the authors to the sample sentences mentioned above. There are more than a hundred of new entries covering the current terminology. The appendix contained in the last part of the book gives a list of useful web links.

The book is well defined and perfectly illustrated. It shall be treated as the invaluable resource for English students and teachers, in fact anyone with the interest in grammar of the English language and with the intention to get a proper knowledge of grammar. We all know that grammar is the core, main important, part of any language - it means that every student of English must take it very seriously and concentrate on grammar.  

This is the official edition of the book intended to help people learning English in preparation to GRE exam. It was released by Educational Testing Services just two years ago, so all the contents is very fresh and up-to-date. The book is divided into following parts - About the GRE revised General Test; GRE Analytical Writing; GRE Verbal Reasoning and Practice Questions; GRE Quantitative Reasoning and Practice Questions; GRE Math Review; GRE Practice Tests 1 & 2 together with Answers to them and necessary Explanations.

This publication is a must-have book for anyone studying English language and wishing to get higher score when passing a GRE examination. Try and spend some time every day working on this book and you will succeed. This is the best choice to people looking for the good and authoritative guidance to the GRE test.  

The publication provides readers with the four complete and real tests, numerous (in fact, hundreds) of test questions, descriptions of the quantitative and verbal reasoning, overview of the analytical writing types - in fact, literally everything one needs to know about the GRE test - and, what is most important and valuable, note that all the information is coming straight from the makers of the test.

At the great number of workshops and conferences I organised or co-organised worldwide, one inevitable question was always asked: when will a Maritime English textbook be available covering the essentials to be taught to and learnt by future deck and engineer officers of the merchant marine? The excuses for not having such a book were numerous; insurmountable problems of different national educational systems, lack of time and funds, no publisher interested in that specific field, etc., etc. 

Peter van Kluijven, however, Maritime English lecturer at the Shipping & Transportcollege in Rotterdam, not at all impressed by all these arguments, sat down and did what others kept putting off. Originally meant to provide a sound foundation for his own teaching he was encouraged by the Maritime English Sub-Committee of the International Maritime Lecturers' Association (IMLA) to kill two birds with one stone, namely to let the Maritime English teaching community in his classroom and share his ideas. The outcome is convincing: a well structured, English-monolingual textbook with diversified texts, tasks and projects complemented and supplemented by a CD-ROM reflecting an up-to-date content based communicative methodology of language teaching and learning titled The International Maritime Language Programme (IMLP).

It is also suited for distant learning. The topics cover the essentials a ships officer in a multilingual crew needs to master in order to successfully meet the communication requirements at sea and in ports; the book even introduces the recently IMO adopted Standard Marine Communication Phrases (IMO SMCP 2002) embedded in a well thought out context and with appropriate exercises such as role plays.