• The only resource of its kind. This essential how-to guide for education students and teacher candidates includes tips for academic writing (including essays), as well as professional writing for audiences unique to the teaching profession (parents, students, administrators, etc.).
• Concise. This text features a concise overview of research and writing for students, for a reasonable price, that can be used as a resource for a student's entire academic and teaching career.
• Unique coverage. In addition to a comprehensive introduction to academic writing, Making Sense in Education includes chapters on Giving an Oral Presentation; Active Listening, Group Work, and Co-operative Learning; Creating an Education Portfolio and Reflective Writing; and Curriculum Planning and Reporting Student Work. New coverage includes unit and lesson planning, active listening with parents, and how to create newsletters and e-portfolios.
• New appendix of online resources for educators. The new appendix provides a list of websites, organized by topic, for further instruction, examples, and discussion of writing and listening topics specific to education.
• Up-to-date APA guidelines. Making Sense in Education provides the most current guidelines for documentation in the education discipline, including coverage of APA style.

   
The Making Sense series offers clear, concise guides to research and writing for students at all levels of undergraduate study. The volumes in the Making Sense series-covering the humanities courses, social sciences, life sciences, engineering, psychology, religious studies, and education-are intended for students in any undergraduate course with a research and writing component, but are especially appropriate for those at the first-year level.?
   
Intended for education students, Making Sense in Education provides detailed information on proper grammar, punctuation, writing styles for a variety of formats, and APA documentation while also addressing education-specific topics such as preparing feedback for students, creating education portfolios, active listening while communicating with parents, curriculum planning, and more. This revised edition includes more education-specific examples throughout, a new appendix with online resources for further reading, and an expanded glossary to help students throughout their academic and teaching careers.