Hello Dani, Are you headhunter?
I work in Limeira and I would to change my job... If you know some opportunity... I will apreciate... Regards. Leandro Ferreira 2010/8/18 Daniela Dias/ RH <[email protected]> > Edu, > > My accomplice in "head hunter" :) > > I loved this text. > > I work researching resumes in English within LinkedIn. Although I do > not have a good English (my english is horrible), it is visible some > profiles written in poor English. > > Regards! > > Dani > > 2010/8/18 Eduardo Costa <[email protected]> > > > > > > Successful English > > > > ________________________________ > > > > Learning to write, part 1 > > > > Posted: 17 Aug 2010 01:33 PM PDT > > > > Jazz musician Paul Desmond once said that “Writing is like jazz. It can > be learned, but it can’t be taught.” Desmond understood something very > important about writing: good writing doesn’t come from direct instruction. > And the writers, writing teachers, and language specialists I know agree. If > you want to learn where good writing comes from and how to write better, be > sure to read all of the Learning to write articles. > > > > What is writing? > > > > A few weeks ago, I wrote that reading is making sense of text. When you > read, you read to understand the writer’s ideas. > > > > When you become the writer, you are responsible to create text that makes > sense to your readers. According to one of America’s great writing teachers, > your goal “is to get your ideas from your mind into someone else’s mind as > clearly, speedily, and economically as possible.” > > > > Many people think of writing as a language activity when, in fact, it’s > more about thinking – having good, clear ideas and organizing them so > someone else can easily understand them. Writing helps make your thinking > clear. When you write, you discover what you know or don’t know about your > subject – in other words, you learn. William Zinsser, another well-known > writing teacher, says it like this: > > > > We write to find out what we know and what we want to say. I thought of > how often I had made clear to myself some subject I had previously known > nothing about by just putting one sentence after another – by reasoning my > way [step by step] to its meaning. I thought of how often writing even the > simplest document – a letter, for instance – had clarified my half-formed > ideas. Writing and thinking and learning were the same process. > > > > Starting at the very beginning > > > > Almost every week someone sends me an e-mail to tell me they’re having > trouble writing and to ask for help. When they do, the most common problem > is simply this – not enough English. > > > > If you want to write English well, you need a good supply of English. We > who live in southern California know the importance of reservoirs. Southern > California is dry, almost a desert. The water we use comes from lake-like > reservoirs that are filled each year when spring sunshine melts the snow in > the mountains. Our ability to live well depends on a good supply of water > from these reservoirs. Your ability to write well depends on having an > English language reservoir that is full of enough to supply the kind of > thinking and writing you want to do. > > > > There is only one way to fill your English reservoir – reading. The more > you read, the more your vocabulary will grow. The more you read, the more > your grammar and spelling will improve. The more you read, the more you will > discover about putting your ideas into sentences and paragraphs so they make > sense and say what you want to say. The more you read, the more your ability > to write will emerge. > > > > Getting started > > > > If your reservoir, or supply, of English is low, begin now to fill it. > Set up a regular reading schedule – at least 20 or 30 minutes a day. If you > have time and can read more, great! Your English will grow faster. > > > > If you’re not sure what to read or how to read, look at these articles: > > > > The power of reading and listening > > Using popular fiction to improve your English > > A word every language learner should know > > Expert answers – how to meet a new word > > > > NOTE: If you have specific questions about writing, please ask them in > the comment section at the end of this article. If possible, I’ll include > answers in future articles. > > > > Warren Ediger > > > > References: David Lambuth et al, The Golden Book on Writing (1963); > William Zinsser, Writing to Learn (1988) and On Writing Well, 7th ed. 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