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The Writer's Brainstorming Kit
Thinking in New Directions
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
Ever have problems brainstorming a book with just yourself?
Can’t break out of those old, familiar tropes and stereotypes? The Writer’s Brainstorming Kit, Thinking in New Directions is your solution to rejuvenate your writing and kick those old, worn-out ideas to the curb.
No idea...
by Arthur Asa Berger
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Just as a distinctive literary voice or style is marked by the ease with which it can be parodied, so too can specific aspects of humor be unique. Playwrights, television writers, novelists, cartoonists, and film scriptwriters use many special technical devices to create humor. Just as dramatic writers...
by Robert Truscott
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
REA’s Essentials provide quick and easy access to critical information in a variety of different fields, ranging from the most basic to the most advanced. As its name implies, these concise, comprehensive study guides summarize the essentials of the field covered. Essentials are helpful when preparing...
by John Walters
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2016
From the author's introduction:
"For me, writing is metaphysical because it is inseparable from who I am and my conception of the universe and my place in it. My interpretation of writing goes far beyond the definitions of hobby, job, or career - it is rather in the nature of a calling. ...
Second Language Writing Research
Perspectives on the Process of Knowledge Construction
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
In this original volume, eighteen researchers from different parts of the world reflect on their own research projects, providing insights into key methodological issues in research on second language writing. By offering a glimpse into the process of constructing and negotiating knowledge in the...
Naming What We Know, Classroom Edition
Threshold Concepts of Writing Studies
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
Naming What We Know, Classroom Edition examines the core principles of knowledge in the discipline of writing studies, using the lens of “threshold concepts”—concepts that are critical for epistemological participation in a discipline. This edition focuses on the working definitions of thirty-seven...
by Lindsey Stover
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
Writing romance and commercial fiction means knowing the rules, and this book will help you learn them and get there. If you're wondering where to start, what to do, what not to do, how to find your author brand... this book has it all and more. Just take it from the 12 bestselling authors who wrote...
by Patricia Martin
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
Are you writing a paper and confused by your teacher’s instruction? Do you want to help your teenager with a school essay but feel lost as to what advice to give? Are you returning to school yourself, after years away, and find that first essay assignment overwhelming? Is there a local or state issue...
by Pete Geissler
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016
I wrote The Power of Writing Well to address everything managers, leaders, engineers, scientists and others need to be better senders and receivers, not to cover everything they need to know about the language or to be the perfect sender or receiver; nobody is.The many books on writing and...
The Art & Craft of Writing Christian Fiction
The Complete Guide to Finding Your Story, Honing Your Skills, & Glorifying God in Your Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Let's face it: Christian fiction is fun. Even if you're writing a serious-minded study of man's inhumanity to man, there is something exhilarating about story; about creating people and worlds and events; about telling a tale that keeps readers enraptured and maybe - just maybe - leaves them fortified...
More Five Minute Writing
50 Inspiring Exercises In Creative Writing in Five Minutes a Day
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
This follow-up book to Margret Geraghty's bestselling The Five Minute Writer contains 50 more inspirational exercises to inspire you to write - even if you have only five minutes a day to spare.
Margret also includes a new feature: snippet triggers, which she has designed in order to show readers...
The Memoir and the Memoirist
Reading and Writing Personal Narrative
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2007
The memoir is the most popular and expressive literary form of our time. Writers embrace the memoir and readers devour it, propelling many memoirs by relative unknowns to the top of the best-seller list. Writing programs challenge authors to disclose themselves in personal narrative. Memoir and personal...
Doing Time, Writing Lives
Refiguring Literacy and Higher Education in Prison
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2018
Doing Time, Writing Lives offers a much-needed analysis of the teaching of college writing in U.S. prisons, a racialized space that—despite housing more than 2 million people—remains nearly invisible to the general public. Through the examination of a college-in-prison program that promotes the...
Writing Spiritual Books
A Bestselling Writers Guide to Successful Publication
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2010
In Writing Spiritual Books, Hal Zina Bennett, who has coached such well-known writers as Shakti Gawain, Judith Orloff, and Jerry Jampolsky, shows readers how to focus on their spiritual experience in a way that will enlighten and captivate others. Including both anecdotal and prescriptive material...