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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Improving Writing and Thinking through Assessment is designed to help individual faculty and administrators select assessment approaches and measures to maximize their students’ writing and thinking. The book offers useful guidance, through presentation of recommended assessment guidelines and measurement...
The Everything Improve Your Writing Book
Master the written word and communicate clearly
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
Do you struggle with research papers for school? Is business writing one of your weak areas? Are you at a loss for what to include in thank-you notes? The Everything Improve Your Writing Book, 2nd Edition can help! With a few simple rules and a little guidance, you, too, can write clearly and concisely.
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Rhetorics for Community Action
Public Writing and Writing Publics
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Rhetorics for Community Action: Public Writing and Writing Publics, by Phyllis Mentzell Ryder, offers theory and pedagogy to introduce public writing as a complex political and creative action. To write public texts, we have to invent the public we wish to address. Such invention is a complex task,...
Get Writing Children's Fiction
Ideas, Tips and Exercises for Writers of Children's Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
The aim of this book is to get you writing. It's full of inspiration, tips and writing exercises for anyone who wants to write children's fiction. Included are tips from other published writers, useful links and answers to questions you've always wanted to ask.
Includes chapters on:
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The Quick Fix Guide to Academic Writing
How to Avoid Big Mistakes and Small Errors
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
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Whether you’re writing a paper, essay, assignment, or dissertation, this short and punchy book helps you improve your writing skills through minimal effort.
Providing you with a quick set of writing rules to follow, this tried...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2018
The Internationalization of US Writing Programs illuminates the role writing programs and WPAs play in defining goals, curriculum, placement, assessment, faculty development, and instruction for international student populations. The volume offers multiple theoretical approaches to the work of writing...
Writing in a Nutshell
The Complete Series Collection
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2019
Don't need paperbacks? Then save $$$ by snapping up the complete collection of the Writing in a Nutshell series in digital format, revised and updated in 2019.
In Bird by Bird, Anne Lamott says a writer needs to focus on short assignments to avoid feeling overwhelmed. She refers to the one-inch...
Welcome to the Writer's Life
How to Design Your Writing Craft, Writing Business, Writing Practice, and Reading Practice
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018
Always wanted to be a writer? Stop wasting time and start your writing life today!
With warmth and humor, the author welcomes you into the writer’s life as someone who has been there on the other side looking in. Like a freshman orientation for writers, this book includes an in-depth exploration...
by John Hennessy
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
Are you stuck when putting words to screen? Does it frustrate you that you cannot stay focussed on your writing task?
Are you looking for a way to earn your living from writing? This guide can help!
Writing can be a hard and lonely activity. Aspiring authors can make a lot of mistakes...
Writing in Online Courses
How the Online Environment Shapes Writing Practices
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
For scholars interested in the intersection of writing and online instruction, Writing in Online Courses: How the Online Environment Shapes Writing and Practice examines both the theoretical and practical implications of writing in online courses. The essays in this collection reflect upon what the...
by David Kmiec, Bernadette Longo
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
Helps both engineers and students improve their writing skills by learning to analyze target audience, tone, and purpose in order to effectively write technical documents
This book introduces students and practicing engineers to all the components of writing in the workplace. It teaches readers...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Enhancing Writing Skills includes conference presentation papers from the Carnegie Writers, Inc. 1st Annual Conference. The anthology provides published and aspiring writers resources for sustaining, enhancing and evaluating their writing skills. The chapter themes focus on genrebased writing, creativity...
by Alexandria Peary, Tom C Hunley
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2015
The creative writing workshop: beloved by some, dreaded by others, and ubiquitous in writing programs across the nation. For decades, the workshop has been entrenched as the primary pedagogy of creative writing. While the field of creative writing studies has sometimes myopically focused on this single...
by Nicole Caswell, Jackie Grutsch McKinney, Rebecca Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
The first book-length empirical investigation of writing center directors’ labor, The Working Lives of New Writing Center Directors presents a longitudinal qualitative study of the individual professional lives of nine new directors. Inspired by Kinkead and Harris’s Writing Centers in Context (1993),...