Composition Creative Writing category: 2214 books
Instruction and Assessment for Struggling Writers
Evidence-Based Practices
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011
This unique book focuses on how to provide effective instruction to K-12 students who find writing challenging, including English language learners and those with learning disabilities or language impairments. Prominent experts illuminate the nature of writing difficulties and offer practical suggestions...
by Paul Georgiou
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2015
There are four simple processes which can help anyone to produce coherent, succinct, persuasive reports. These are Grouping, Ordering, Linking and Structuring. All four techniques are simple, easily learned and readily applied to any report-writing project. If you apply these techniques, you will...
Business Writing for Technical People
The most effective ways to get your message across
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2018
Technically-minded people can struggle with business writing and many businesses get it wrong, losing their readers in avalanches of acronyms and jungles of technical jargon. It doesn’t have to be that way. In this book you’ll discover how to give your communication skills an upgrade, exploring...
by Mark E Tyson
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
Preparing to write a novel or a novella can be daunting. Whether you’re a writer who makes up the story as you go along (a pantser) or you’re someone who plans out your plot, or you’re hybrid of both, one aspect of the process remains the same; the book must have a beginning, a middle, and an...
by Bruce Saddler, PhD
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
This practical book provides explicit instructions for teaching sentence-level skills to students who have difficulties in this area. The author explains the key role of sentence combining in the writing process and presents effective techniques for instruction and assessment. Numerous sample lessons,...
Personal Narrative, Revised
Writing Love and Agency in the High School Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In this inspirational book, LaMay shows readers how to transform classrooms and schools into places where youth can explore the intersection between literacy and their lives. This book is the culmination of a literacy curriculum that the author and her high school students wrote dialogically, beginning...
801 Action Verbs for Communicators
Position Yourself First with Action Verbs for Journalists, Speakers, Educators, Students, Resume-Writers, Editors & Travelers
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2004
801 Action Verbs is for communicators, career developers, educators, students, journalists, editors, job-seekers, travelers, resume-writers, novelists, and speakers. Each set of the same 801 action verbs appear in English and several other languages.
Position yourself with action verbs. Write...
Writing Suburban Citizenship
Place-Conscious Education and the Conundrum of Suburbia
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
In the past century, more and more Americans have been migrating from rural areas and urban centers to suburban communities. As a result, the majority of American youth are educated in the suburbs, and the ways in which they learn to be citizens are shaped by their suburban surroundings. Because many...
Liberating Scholarly Writing
The Power of Personal Narrative
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
This book provides an alternative to the more conventional modes of qualitative and quantitative inquiry currently used in professional training programs, particularly in education. It features a very accessible presentation that combines application, rationale, critique, and inspiration—and is...
by Joseph Devlin
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013
This antiquarian volume contains a comprehensive guide to speaking and writing correctly, with information on grammar, sentence structure, writing letters, common pitfalls, comments on famous pieces of literature and their authors, and much more. Written in simple, clear language and full of helpful...
by Daniel Marques
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2015
Seen throughout history, at least most of the times, as lost and overemotional creatures, in some cases even insane, writers have been the target of much social discrimination and misunderstandings.
This kind of discrimination can still be seen in modern times. The reasons may not be clear but, if...
by E.J. Runyon
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Too many books tell you what you need to do during a round of editing...but they very rarely explain why that need exists. Without explanation and examples to help your understanding, craft basics can feel restrictive and unbearable.
You might have already begun writing something you’ve had a great...
Crafting Unputdownable Fiction Boxed Set
Making Description Work Hard For You, Going Deep Into Deep Point of View, Some Like It Hot: Writing Sex and Romance
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2019
This boxed set How To Guide on novel writing is perfect for beginners needing the basics AND seasoned writers looking to dramatically improve their skills.
MAKING DESCRIPTION WORK HARD FOR YOU
Learn how to use description to achieve deep point of view and to create stories and characters readers...
Writing on the Move
Migrant Women and the Value of Literacy
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
In this book, Rebecca Lorimer Leonard shows how multilingual migrant women both succeed and struggle in their writing contexts. Based on a qualitative study of everyday multilingual writers in the United States, she shows how migrants’ literacies are revalued because they move with writers among...