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Have you ever responded to a want-ad in the newspaper If so, you probably sent the company a letter telling them about your interest in and qualifications for the job along with your resume. A cover letter is an introduction to your resume and a request to be interviewed for a job. It s an opportunity for you to highlight specific experiences or qualifications you have that aren t explained in your resume. Unlike a resume, a cover letter is subjective—it s your opinion of how your background prepares you for the job. Moreover, a cover letter is often the first encounter you have with a company, so you want to make good first impression. 

When nonnative speakers of English have trouble with reading comprehension tests, it s often because they iack the cuiturai, iinguistic, and historical frame of reference that native speakers have. People who have not lived in or been educated in the United States often don t have the background information that comes from reading American newspapers, magazines, and textbooks. 

Michael found that his skills, background, and interests were well matched to this consulting firm. When he went to his interview, he was well prepared to discuss the company with his interviewer. Because he read so many newspaper articles, he could speak intelligently about recent happenings at the firm and ask his interviewer smart questions. Ultimately, he landed the job. 

Since American comic books—as opposed to the newspaper comic strips—emerged at roughly the same time, this medium provided an even more popuiar outlet for conveying atomic information to the American pubiic. But here, it is necessary to lay a bit of background. The comic books, as we now know them, evolved in the mid-1930s from a merger between the newspaper comic strips and the parallel world of pulp fiction. Comic book writers and artists borrowed the... 

The students involved in the project were fourteen to fifteen years old. The two science classes were mixed-ability classes with twenty and twenty-eight students, respectively, from mixed soeio-economie backgrounds. The analysis presented is based on the short texts written in the elass of twenty-eight students. (The first texts were written after a elass diseussion on three newspaper headlines.) Students were given ten minutes and a sheet of paper with the question "How does a researeher work " They were given this task both before the open experiment started and after the project was completed. In total the data consist of twenty-three pre-study texts and twenty-three post-study texts, all between one third to a full hand-written page. The analysis of the texts was based on the following three research questions ... 

This chapter provides an overview of the construction industry and practices in the Gulf Corporation Countries and includes examples from various countries. The chapter is based on literature review that newspaper articles and relevant construction statistical data. As we learned in preparing this paper, there is very limited detailed information available on the construction industry in GCC countries. The first part of the chapter provides a background to the GCC. The second part covers practices in the construction industry and role of the public and private sectors in the construction market. The third section discusses the impacts of the industry on construction and labor markets. The chapter concludes with an assessment of the weakness and advantages of the construction industry in GCC countries. 

Newspapers and magazines. Most newspapers carry articles on scientific and technological themes, either occasionally or on a regular basis, best written by journalists who have a background in science but this is not always possible. An individual journalist s professional standing will depend on getting articles published. This is a competitive environment, and the likelihood of publication of... 

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