Composition Creative Writing category: 2214 books
by Kevin J. Porter, Michael Bernard-Donals, Jeff Rice
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2016
This collection is organized around the concept of abduction, a logical operation introduced by Charles Sanders Peirce that explains how new ideas are formed in response to an uncertain future. Responding to this uncertain future with rigor and insight, each essay imagines new methods, concepts, and...
Now Write! Nonfiction
Memoir, Journalism and Creative Nonfiction Exercises from Today's Best Writers
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2009
An essential handbook for nonfiction writers, featuring the trusted personal writing exercises of today's masters of creative non-fiction, including Gay Talese, Reza Aslan, John Matteson, Tilar Mazzeo, and many more!
Beginners and seasoned writers alike will relish the opportunity to use the...
Writing Life Stories
How To Make Memories Into Memoirs, Ideas Into Essays And Life Into Literature
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2008
How to Make Memories into Memoirs, Ideas into Essays, and Life into Literature
From drawing a map of a remembered neighborhood to signing a form releasing yourself to take risks in your work, Roorbach offers innovative techniques that will trigger ideas for all writers.
Writing Life...
by Tim Atkinson
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Whether you’re an established writer or a beginner, whether you see writing as a potential source of income, the road to stardom or as a personally rewarding spare-time occupation, this book will guide you through the writing process from the ideas stage through to the finish-line and on to the...
The Creativity Market
Creative Writing in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
This book focuses on creative writing both as a subject in universities and beyond academia, with chapters arranged around three organising sub-themes of practice, research and pedagogy. It explores the ‘creative’ component of creative writing in the globalised marketplace, making the point that...
The Soul of Place
A Creative Writing Workbook: Ideas and Exercises for Conjuring the Genius Loci
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
In this engaging creative writing workbook, novelist and poet Linda Lappin presents a series of insightful exercises to help writers of all genres-literary travel writing, memoir, poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction-discover imagery and inspiration in the places they love.
Lappin departs from...
Complete Creative Writing Course
Your complete companion for writing creative fiction
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2014
LEARN HOW TO WRITE CREATIVELY WITH THIS COMPREHENSIVE AND PRACTICAL COURSE.
The only comprehensive Creative Writing title on the market that goes beyond introducing the basic genres to offering a complete journey along the writing path, including material on editing, redrafting and polishing...
Cracking the AP English Language & Composition Exam, 2019 Edition
Practice Tests & Proven Techniques to Help You Score a 5
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO HELP SCORE A PERFECT 5. Ace the AP English Language & Composition Exam with this comprehensive study guide—including 2 full-length practice tests with complete explanations, thorough content reviews, targeted strategies for every section of the exam, and access to online extras.
Everything...
Inspired creative writing
52 brilliant ideas from the master wordsmiths
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In Inspired creative writing Alexander reveals some brilliant insights into making your writing more effective. Drawing on his years of experience as a writer, editor and publisher, Alexander shares insider tips on every aspect of writing, from overcoming writer's block, to creating characters so real...
by Susan Wise Bauer
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2014
This third volume of the groundbreaking writing series prepares students for advanced work in rhetoric and composition. Straightforward, detailed instructions lead students through brainstorming, researching, and constructing original compositions.
Building on the first two levels of Writing...
Everyone Can Write
Essays toward a Hopeful Theory of Writing and Teaching Writing
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2000
With Writing without Teachers (OUP 1975) and Writing with Power (OUP 1995) Peter Elbow revolutionized the teaching of writing. His process method--and its now commonplace "free writing" techniques--liberated generations of students and teachers from the emphasis on formal principles of grammar that...
by Angela Booth
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
Want to become more creative?Creativity is essential for writers.In this book we'll aim to increase our creativity to unlock your imagination and build the writing career of your dreams. New writer? This book will help you to avoid the missteps all writers experience when they're...
Creative Writing Studies
Practice, Research and Pedagogy
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2007
The chapters in this book range across all three areas of its subtitle practice, research and pedagogy – testifying to the integrated nature of creative writing as a university discipline. Writers from the USA, the UK and Australia concentrate on the most critical issues facing this popular, fast-developing...
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...