Writing category: 7965 books
Mastering the Craft of Writing
How to Write With Clarity, Emphasis, and Style
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Make Every Word Memorable!
To be remembered for your words, you need to write with skill and style. Whether you're crafting a novel, composing an e-mail, or creating a technical report, Mastering the Craft of Writing presents 52 practical techniques to improve your prose. Spend a week with...
Writing Good Plain English
A Straightforward Guide
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2013
Written in concise, accessible sections, this good-humoured book explains clearly the essentials of writing good, plain English. Corder takes readers through the entire writing process - from initial idea, through planning, writing, revising and proofreading to the eventual presentation of a piece...
Life Writing
A Writers' and Artists' Companion
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
Life Writing: A Writers' & Artists' Companion is an essential guide to writing biography, autobiography and memoir.
PART 1 explores the history and forms of life writing and the challenges and potential pitfalls of the genre.
PART 2 includes tips by bestselling writers: Diana Athill,...
Writer's Block Unblocked
Seven Surefire Ways to Free Up Your Writing and Creative Flow
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
You don't have to experience writer's block. Ever! You don’t have to sweat over a blank page. You don’t have to wonder where your next word is coming from. You can write -- naturally, eloquently and flowingly. Become one of Mark David's many writer's-block success stories: Free up your creative...
Creative Writing and Stylistics
Creative and Critical Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
In this innovative fusion of practice and criticism, Jeremy Scott shows how insights from stylistics can enrich the craft of creative writing. Focusing on crucial methodological issues that confront the practicing writer,
Creative Writing and Stylistics:
- introduces key topics from stylistics;
-...
Writing Poetry from the Inside Out
Finding Your Voice Through the Craft of Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2007
In Writing Poetry from the Inside Out, poet and national poetry workshop leader, Sandford Lyne, offers the writing exercises, guidance, and encouragement you need to find the poet inside you. Lyne's techniques, which he developed through twenty years of teaching poetry workshops, flow from an understanding...
Originality, Imitation, and Plagiarism
Teaching Writing in the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2009
"At long last, a discussion of plagiarism that doesn't stop at 'Don't do it or else,' but does full justice to the intellectual interest of the topic!"
---Gerald Graff, author of Clueless in Academe and 2008 President, Modern Language Association
This collection is a timely intervention...
A Self Made of Words
Crafting a Distinctive Persona in Nonfiction Writing
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Confident or fretful, solemn or sassy, tough or tender, casual or formal: the self you project in writing—your persona—is the byproduct of numerous decisions you make about what to say and how to say it. Though any single word or phrase or sentence might make little difference within the scope...
by Kate Walker
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2013
A totally new way to Teach & Learn story craft & creative writing. Exercises honed in the classroom by a well-published, professional author. For Teachers - Home Schoolers - Young Solo Writers. No pre-class prep. Open the book & read. Sample download will give you the intro plus Exercise...
Writing About Literature
Essay and Translation Skills for University Students of English and Foreign Literature
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2005
Writing about Literature combines detailed practical and scholarly advice with a sense of the scope and creative possibilities of literary criticism, empowering the student reader to make his or her own discoveries and experiments with language. In addition, it gives valuable guidance on adult language...
Writing South Carolina
Selections from the First High School Writing Contest
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
"How should we improve the state of South Carolina?" That invitingly open-ended question served as the basis for the first annual South Carolina High School Writing Contest as the call went out in fall 2013 to juniors and seniors across the Palmetto State, encouraging them to take a stance...
Write a Novel in 10 Minutes a Day
Acquire the habit of writing fiction every day
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
LEARN HOW TO WRITE FICTION BY WRITING EVERY DAY
Would you like to write but have no spare time?
Do you not know where to begin?
Write A Novel In 10 Minutes A Day will help you sculpt a full-length piece of creative writing in just ten minutes a day. Starting with a daily practical...
by Collins
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
Collins Webster’s Easy Learning Writing is an accessible guide to successful writing in the English language. With clear, concise explanations of everything from the basics of sentence and paragraph structure, to writing résumés, letters and essays, this e-book is an indispensable guide for the...
by Cheryl Sterling
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Have you always wanted to write a book but didn’t know where to start?
Don’t waste your life thinking about writing a book when you can do it!
Are you ready to start writing a book?
You’re at the right place.
The Plot Thickens offers you myriad methods of plotting. Whether you...