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Want to add blood to your scenes without making a mess? Too many authors get squeamish or sloppy about including the red stuff in their stories. As a research guide, Blood Spatter presents an accurate and accessible gateway into the world of blood spatter and its analysis.

Written as a resource for the professional author, this "Forensics for Fiction" title provides user-friendly approaches to realistic details by covering:

• Terms and techniques of spatter analysis
• Patterns associated with different weapons
• Physical properties...

Writing Program Administration Series - Series Editors: Susan H. McLeod and Margot Soven

A RHETORIC FOR WRITING PROGRAM ADMINISTRATORS (2nd Edition) presents the major issues and questions in the field of writing program administration. The collection provides aspiring, new, and seasoned WPAs with the theoretical lenses, terminologies, historical contexts, and research they need to understand the nature, history, and complexities of their intellectual and administrative work. Each of the thirty-six chapters asks a direct question about an issue WPAs will need or want to answer,...

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CHILDREN'S PICTURE BOOK TO CHARM THE GENERATIONS

Kids and books--they just go together. Children's picture books are an addictive passion You love reading to kids and wish that you could read one of your own. Now, you can make that dream a reality.

Writing illustrated picture books for children can seem deceptively simple. You must tell a complete story in less than 1000 words, and less than 350 words is best. Characters grow and change and keep the reader emotionally invested, while also...

How to write what you want to say: a guide for high school students who know what they want to say but can't find the words provides parents, teachers and students with a unique tool for improving writing and suits students from the middle years of schooling to tertiary level.

The idea for this book came from the author's experiences with her own children, especially Elizabeth, who was pursuing tertiary studies at the time of writing. Students struggle with putting into words what they want to say, especially when the "saying" involves writing. It has been Patricia's...

The concept of institutional mission is central to contemporary academe, and a worthy topic of study for writing program administrators, writing center directors, and writing faculty. For many colleges, mission serves as a marker of identity and accomplishment. It denotes distinctive institutional history and important traditions of learning and service. Institutional mission also evokes a legacy of scholarship and pedagogy that contemporary administrators and faculty can use to recruit students and steward their programs forward.

Yet such legacy practices can be at odds with the...

C. S. Lewis and the Art of Writing is written for readers interested in C. S. Lewis, the writing life, and in becoming better writers. Lewis stands as one of the most prolific and influential writers in modern history. His life in letters offers writers invaluable encouragement and instruction in the writing craft. In Lewis, writers don't just learn how to write, they also learn something about how to live. This volume explores Lewis's life in, as well as his practice of, writing. From his avid reading life, to his adolescent dreams to be a great poet, through his creative failures, to his...

Are you enjoying a successful legal career, but are still not wholly satisfied?

We were all born artists. But what if the path to becoming an attorney circumvents that deeper inner calling to create? What if you want to do both - be an attorney and write novels? Attorney's quietly imagining themselves as the next John Grishom is more common that most people might think. Using Attorney by Day, Novelist by Night, anyone can indulge their dreams to create, bring more passion for...

Students who struggle with putting their ideas into writing need the language that mature writers use. This book provides that language in the form of sentence starters and linking words and phrases. It gives parents, teachers and students a unique tool for improving writing and suits students from the middle years of schooling to tertiary level.

How to write what you want to say: a guide for secondary students who know what they want to say but can't find the words provides parents, teachers and students with a unique tool for improving writing and suits students...

Grammar is complicated. But many textbooks and style guides are often so long and tedious that even English teachers use them as a classroom doorstop.

Grammar 101 is a fun, comprehensive guide focusing on the essentials of grammar. With simple explanations and entertaining examples, you can learn everything you need to know to employ commas, semicolons, and em dashes with confidence. You'll even be prepared to wrangle your run-on sentences and sharpen your syntax with ease.

So whether you're...