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Ten Amazing Reasons Why You Should Learn a Foreign Language

Title: Ten Amazing Reasons Why You Should Learn a Foreign Language Author: Sam Gendreau, Lingholic Full Text & Source: http://www.lingholic.com/ten-amazing-... The Internet, Online, 15/10/2015 Sample Text: 10. Impress people around you Whether at a fancy restaurant with your date ordering dishes … Continue reading →

Microsoft Homepage Offers Free IT Lessons & Downloads

Title: Learn more about digital literacy Author: Microsoft Full Text & Source: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/digita... The Internet, Online, 15/10/2015 Sample Text: Whether you are new to computing or have some experience, Digital Literacy will help you develop a fundamental understanding of computers. … Continue reading →

Citation Machine

Title: Citation Machine automatically generates citations in MLA, APA, Chicago, Turabian, and Harvard. Author: Imagine Easy Solutions Full Text & Source: http://www.citationmachine.net/ The Internet, Online, 15/10/2015 Sample Text: 1 Choose your style Citation Machine supports MLA, APA, Chicago, and Turabian formats … Continue reading →

Archivist

Title: Archivist Author: gradireland Full Text & Source: https://gradireland.com/careers-advic... Sample Text: Assembles, catalogues, preserves and manages historically valuable collections of information, which may exist in a wide variety of formats. Organisations and people accumulate archives, which may be books or … Continue reading →

Fancy A Career In Book Conservation?

Title: Training to become a conservator Author: The Institute of Conservator-Restorers in Ireland (ICRI) Full Text & Source: http://www.conservationireland.org/tr... The Internet, Online, 14/10/2015 Sample Text: Training to become a conservator The profession of conservation involves an amalgam of different traditions … Continue reading →

Booker winner Marlon James tops Tarantino for body count

Title: Booker winner Marlon James tops Tarantino for body count Author: Eileen Battersby, The Irish Times Full Text & Source: http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/boo... The Internet, Online, 14/10/2015 Sample Text: ‘A Brief History of Seven Killings’ is based on attempt to kill reggae king … Continue reading →

The Azores High By Paul Durcan

The women who present the weather forecast on Irish TV- Jean Byrne, Evelyn Cusack, Siobhan Ryan, Nuala Carey- Are the modern-day successors To the music-hall cabaret singers of the late nineteenth century, Whom we see in the paintings of Manet, … Continue reading →

Going Home to Mayo, Winter, 1949 By Paul Durcan

Leaving behind us the alien, foreign city of Dublin My father drove us through the night in an old Ford Anglia, His five-year-old son in the seat beside him, The rexine seat of red leatherette, And a yellow moon peered … Continue reading →

English Grammar

Title: English Grammar Author: Jennifer Frost, English Grammar Full Text & Source: http://www.englishgrammar.org/ The Internet, Online, 13/10/2015 Sample Text: Here you’ll learn all aspects of the English written language, enabling you to improve your writing skills in both personal and … Continue reading →

Using English for Academic Purposes – Punctuation

Title: Punctuation Author:Andy Gillett, UEfAP Full Text & Source: http://www.uefap.com/writing/punc/pun... Sample Text: The sentence and the full stop The full stop is the most important punctuation mark. It shows the end of the sentence. The English language also uses capital … Continue reading →