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Informationen zum Autor Mary Lou Conlin completed her education at the University of Nebraska! Lincoln! and Case Western Reserve University! Cleveland! earning a B.A. and M.A. in English! and a Ph.D. in education with concentrations in special education! reading! and curriculum. Conlin worked for over twenty-five years teaching English Composition and developing curriculum for developmental reading and writing at Cuyahoga Community College in Cleveland! Ohio. She developed individualized reading and writing instruction! and also established a Learning Center staffed with instructional assistants and tutors who provided both individual and small group instruction. In addition! Conlin developed computer-assisted instruction and tracking in the early 1980s.Her publications include PATTERNS! PATTERNS PLUS! CONCEPTS OF COMMUNICATION: WRITING! and CONCEPTS OF COMMUNICATION: READING. The Concepts texts! a modular series! became the basis for the individualized program provided through the Learning Center. Other publications include SIMON PERKINS OF THE WESTERN RESERVE! a biography of an early land agent of the Western Reserve published by the Western Reserve Historical Society. Klappentext Forty short selections for essay-level developmental writers focus on work and the workplace. Writing activities focus on the types of writing that students will be required to do when they start to work! such as reports! memorandums! business letters! and charts and graphs. Zusammenfassung Forty short selections for essay-level developmental writers focus on work and the workplace. Writing activities focus on the types of writing that students will be required to do when they start to work! such as reports! memorandums! business letters! and charts and graphs. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Work--What Is It?The JournalThe EssayThe SummaryNickie McWhirter! What You Do Is What You AreRobert Murray Davis! Work and PlayBonnie Smith-Yackel! My Mother Never WorkedAna Vaciana-Suarez! Working Just to Live Is Perverted into Living Just to Work2. Choosing a CareerThe TableThe ReportAlan M. Webber! Choices: Vocation! Career! or JobRebecca Knight! Liberal Arts Gave Me a Liberal Dose of Life LessonsJoannie M. Schrof! Different Paths to SuccessMatthew Mariani! Cooperative Education: Learn More! Earn More! Prepare for the WorkplaceBarbara Moses! Find Work That You Love3. Family and Gender IssuesBusiness LettersCokie Roberts! A Woman's PlaceEbony Magazine! Women Who Stay at Home and Love It!Joan K. Peters! Being There: The Father QuandryJames A. Levine and Todd L. Pittinsky! What Today's Fathers WantElizabeth McGuire! Still Seeking the Perfect Balance4. EthicsMemorandumsO.C. Ferrell and Gareth Gardiner! What Is Ethics Anyway?Calvin Trillin! The Twenty-Dollar BillMichael Korda! Defining SuccessEllen Goodman! It's Failure! Not SuccessSociety Magazine! Unethical Workers and Illegal ActsJohn Davidson! The Business of Ethics5. Time Management! Problem Solving and Decision MakingThe Time LogProblem Solving Decision MakingTime ManagementBarbara Ehrenreich! The Cult of BusynessEdwin Bliss! Managing Your TimeProblem SolvingLois Duncan! How Not to Lose Friends over MoneyMichael Barrier! Putting the Lid on ConflictsDecision MakingWinston Fletcher! It's Time to Make up Your MindGeanne Rosenberg! Truth and Consequences6. Discrimination and HarassmentPie Charts! Bar Charts! and Line GraphsK.C. Cole! Women and PhysicsAndrew Sullivan! Do We Need These Laws?Elizabeth Birch! Earth to AndrewPeter Passell! Why Black Men Have Lost GroundMay Ann Farrell! Know Your Rights--And Go for the JobAnne Fisher! After All This Time! Why Don't People Know What Sexual Harassment Means?7. Technology and the WorkplaceEmailInternet ResearchUSA Today Magazine! The Ins and Outs of E-MailKimberley S. Young! Caught in the NetDeborah Branscum! [e-mail] C. Baig! ...

Product details

• Authors: Conlin, Mary Conlin, Mary Lou Conlin
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.12.2000
• EAN: 9780395929209
• ISBN: 978-0-395-92920-9
• No. of pages: 222
• Subjects: Education and learning > Adult education/adult education classes > Adult education class / course materials (language); Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Lifestyle, personal development