Literature Study Guides 文學導讀

Literature Study Guides

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Notes

Cliff notes

Spark Notes

Bookwolf

eNotes

The Bibliomania Study Guides
Monkey Notes 
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VideoSparknotes

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Simonds History of American Literature

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A brief history of English literature

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Literary Criticism

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Essays

What Eliot Means to Me

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Journals

English

The English Literature Journal

International Journal of English and Literature

Modern Language Quarterly

New Voices In Classical Reception Studies

American Notes and Queries: 
A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews

Early Modern Literary Studies

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Water

Water

Ted Talks

How pollution is changing the ocean's chemistry

A robot that eats pollution

Reviving New York's rivers — with oysters!

Meet the Water Canary

Michael Pritchard: How to make filthy water drinkable

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Ted Ideas

The largest river on Earth is invisible — and airborne

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Videos

Water Changes Everything

Water - Who Needs It?

What If You Stopped Drinking Water?

Water Crisis

Water, The World Water Crisis

India Water Crisis - Environmental Action Project

Water Conservation

Water conservation tips - How to conserve water at home

How Seawater Desalination Works 

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Water Warriors: Restoring Traditional Earthen Dams for Rainwater Harvesting and Groundwater Replenishment (Rajasthan, India)

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CNN

Ted Turner: Time to finally protect wetlands, streams

From toilet to tap: Getting a taste for drinking recycled waste water

This machine makes drinking water from thin air

400,000 in Toledo, Ohio, water scare await test results
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BBC

Water ATMs bring clean water to Delhi

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Candi's English Teaching Blog (Home)

Candi's English Teaching Blog

Topics on English Teaching and Learning

Journals in English Teaching and Applied Linguistics

Tools for English Teaching and Learning
English Learning
Topic-based Materials for English Teaching

About Candi

Candi's Educational Background

Candi's Academic Work

Awards Received by Candi

Candi's Chinese Publications
Candi's English Translation of Chinese Poems
Candi’s Photo Albums

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The SCE of Chinese Culture University 
中國文化大學推廣部

The SCE (School of Continuing Education) of CCU 
is located at the center of Taipei City, 
close to Daan Forest Park.

Business and Economy

Business and Economy

Business

Ted Talks
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The Handy Guide to the Gurus of Management

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How to build a business that lasts 100 years
5 ways to lead in an era of constant change
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What really motivates people to be honest in business

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The way we think about charity is dead wrong

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Will automation take away all our jobs?

4 ways to build a human company in the age of machines

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Economy
Ted Talks

The Global Power Shift
Dambisa Moyo: Is China the new idol for emerging economies?
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How to Spend Your Money
Saving for tomorrow, tomorrow
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The Economy of Trust

Rachel Botsman: The currency of the new economy is trust

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Understanding World Economics
Dilip Ratha: The hidden force in global economics: sending money home
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The future of money
The next manufacturing revolution is here
How the blockchain will radically transform the economy
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Creative problem-solving in the face of extreme limits

A small country with big ideas to get rid of fossil fuels
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Tim Jackson: An economic reality check
Yochai Benkler: The new open-source economics
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Mariana Mazzucato: Government -- investor, risk-taker, innovator

Richard Wilkinson: How economic inequality harms societies

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Biomimicry

Biomimicry

仿生科技

Ted Talks

The secrets of nature's grossest creatures, channeled into robots

The future of flying robots

Janine Benyus: 12 sustainable design ideas from nature

Biomimicry: Business Innovations Inspired by Nature

What ants teach us about the brain, cancer and the Internet

Michael Pawlyn: Using nature's genius in architecture

 CNN

At Harvard, swarming robots that mimic termites
Stealing from nature: Incredible new tech inspired by biology
Videos

What is Biomimicry?

 Biomimicry. When Nature Inspires Design



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Communication

Communication

Ted Talks
How I turn negative online comments into positive offline conversations

Your body language may shape who you are

Comedy is translation

How great leaders inspire action
Tim Berners-Lee: The next web

Rufus Griscom + Alisa Volkman: Let's talk parenting taboos

Kate: Hartman: The Art of Wearable Communication

The secret structure of great talks

Sherry Turkle: Connected, but alone?

Hannah Brencher: Love letters to strangers

Miguel Nicolelis: Brain-to-brain communication has arrived. How we did it

Julian Treasure: 5 ways to listen better

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Social Media and Its Effect on Communication

How to Start

3 Ways to Improve Your Communication Skills

Effective Communication:

Improving Communication Skills in Your Work and Personal Relationships

Ay Cuddy: Your body language shapes who you are

4 Powerful Ways to Use Body Language for Better Relationships

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Collocations Dictionaries; Collocation/Corpus Search Engines; Corpus Analysis Tools

Collocations Dictionaries  Collocation/Corpus Search Engines
Corpus Analysis Tools

Collocations Dictionaries

● The BBI Combinatory Dictionary of English

● Oxford Collocations Dictionary for Students of English--Online Search

● Free Online Collocations Dictionary

● Macmillan Collocations Dictionary

● ozdic.com: the English Collocations Dictionary Online

      ● Sports Dictionary of English-Chinese & Chinese-English Collocations

Collocation /Corpus Search Engines

● Collocations Search

● JustTheWord

● Sketch Engine

● BYU Corpora (The mostly widely used corpora)

● WebCorp Live

● Corpuseye

● Complete Lexical Tour

● Corpus Concordance English

● TCSE (Ted Corpus Search Engine)

● TIME Magazine Corpus

● Search for Sentences Used by VOA's Special English Program Scripts

● TANGO

● TOTALrecall

● Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA)

● British National Corpus

● British Academic Spoken English (BASE)

● British Academic Written English Corpus (BAWE)

● CARE (Concordancer for Academic wRitten English)

● PERC Corpus Online

● Business Letter Corpus Online KWIC Concordancer 

● Corpus of American Soap Operas

● MICASE (Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English)

● Corpus of of Historical American English

● Strathy (Corpus of Canadian English)

●  International Corpus of English 

Academia Sinica Balanced Corpus of Modern Chinese

● A Collection of Chinese Corpora and Frequency Lists 

(1. Chinese Internet; 2. Lancaster Corpus of Mandarin Chinese;

3. Corpus of Business Chinese)

Student Corpora

 MICUSP (Michigan Corpus of Upper-level Student Papers)

The Corpus of Academic Learner English (CALE)

Corpus Analysis Tools
Tools for Corpus Linguistics

(Simple Concordance Program)

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