Writing category: 7965 books
Monsters Under the Bed
Critically investigating early years writing
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Monsters Under the Bed is an essential text focussing on critical and contemporary issues surrounding writing for ‘early years’ children. Containing a critically creative and a creatively critical investigation of the cult and culture of the child and childhood in fiction and non-fictional writing,...
Writing across Contexts
Transfer, Composition, and Sites of Writing
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
Addressing how composers transfer both knowledge about and practices of writing, Writing across Contexts explores the grounding theory behind a specific composition curriculum called Teaching for Transfer (TFT) and analyzes the efficacy of the approach. Finding that TFT courses aid students in transfer...
Writing Center Talk over Time
A Mixed-Method Study
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2018
In the last 15 to 20 years, writing centers have placed greater importance on tutor training, focusing on teaching tutors best practices in fostering student writers’ engagement and writing skills. Writing Center Talk over Time explores the importance of writing center talk and demonstrates the...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
From scholars working in a variety of institutional and geographic contexts and with a wide range of student populations, Retention, Persistence, and Writing Programs offers perspectives on how writing programs can support or hinder students’ transitions to college. The contributors present individual...
by Cynthia Muchnick
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Peterson's Writing Successful College Applications offers outstanding suggestions and detailed expert advice to help students create a college application package that will help them stand out from a crowd of competitive candidates.
‘It’s more than just the essay.’ This guide reviews...
Module I – Creative Writing Techniques
A full compendium of synthesized theory, relevant examples and practical exercises Beginner to Lower Intermediate
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2014
The Module I – Creative Writing Techniques, Beginner to Lower Intermediate, is a highly valuable manual and private general writing coaching. It provides examples and exercises for those who wish to work in publishing and master professional writing in the English language.
The manual comprises...
by Joanna Penn
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2015
Would you like to make a living with your writing?
This book will show you how.
I spent 13 years working as a cubicle slave in the corporate world. I was miserable in my job and my creativity was stunted by the crushing daily grind.
Then I started writing books and blogging, using...
by Nick Daniel
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
Earn Top Copywriting Dollars Writing for the Health MarketThe health market is one of the most lucrative niches for copywriters - and it's growing fast. This book - written by a leading health copywriter - reveals dozens of proven strategies for writing health promotions that earn big...
Strategic Writing
Multimedia Writing for Public Relations, Advertising and More
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
In its fourth edition, Strategic Writing emphasizes the goal-oriented mission of high-quality public relations and media writing with clear, concise instructions for more than 40 types of documents. This multidisciplinary text covers writing for public relations, advertising, sales and marketing,...
John Gardner on Writing
On Becoming a Novelist, On Writers & Writing, and On Moral Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2013
Three books in one volume: Advice and reflections on modern fiction from “one of the greatest creative writing teachers we’ve ever had” (Frederick Busch).
In On Becoming a Novelist, John Gardner advises the aspiring fiction author on such topics as the value of creative writing workshops,...
by Verlyn Klinkenborg
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
Most of what you think you know about writing is useless. It’s the harmful debris of your education—a mixture of half-truths, myths, and false assumptions that prevents you from writing well. Drawing on years of experience as a writer and teacher of writing, Verlyn Klinkenborg offers an approach...
by Cathy Harris
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2012
This book contains all the ins and outs of the writing and publishing industry. It was written for writers, poets, publishers, ghostwriters, editors, proofreaders, typesetters, copywriters, freelancers, syndicated columnists and other aspiring authors who are ready to get their names in print.Every...
How to Write a Novel in Ten Days
A WMG Writer's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
Even in today’s fast-paced world, the myth that writing fast equals writing badly—or, conversely, writing well equals writing slowly—persists. Now, USA Today bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith aims to shatter this myth once and for all with this latest WMG Writer’s Guide.
In...
by Ben Bova
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2011
Ben Bova, best-selling author and six-time Hugo Award winner for Best Editor explains step by step all the elements you need to write profesionally selling science fiction. Bova was editor of both Analog and Omni magazine, two of the best-ever markets for short fiction, as well as a best-selling novelist...