Kategoria BISAC: Language Arts & Disciplines >> Writing - General

In this book you'll learn:

1. Why most people who want to start a movement with their message fail.
2. The critical steps to build a tribe that spreads your message and takes massive action.
3. How to fund a...

BAD GRAMMAR AND BRASS MONKEYS is a practical guide through the obstacle course of grammar, spelling, punctuation, proofreading and editing your work. It uses endless examples (including differences between British and American English) to illustrate explanations, instead of providing a tedious list of grammar rules to memorize and give you endless headaches.

Are you sick and tired of spending hour after hour writing an essay, often finishing it at the last minute, only to have it returned with less than a stellar grade, all too often accompanied with unkind remarks?...

The ability to convey information in a succinct manner is critical to success in any career.

Communicating Science is an introductory communication guide that provides students with a foundation for writing, reviewing, and presenting scientific information. Topics include grammar, presenting scientific information, learning theory, research methodology, preparing scientific documents for scientific and public audiences, editing, and peer review. The appendices present review questions, technology guides, assignments, and assessment rubrics.

Communicating...

Want to Complete Your Book in under a Month?

A surprising number of writers begin books only to get stuck during the first draft. Sources suggest that 81% of us want to write a book, but only 3% finish.

Successful writers need a method to get it done. Otherwise, an unfinished manuscript languishes in a drawer.

Write a Non-fiction Book in Four Weeks provides a process to help you write quickly and know you will have an audience.

In this book you will discover how to:

...

COMMUNITY LITERACY JOURNAL 10.2 (Spring 2016) The journal understands "community literacy" as the domain for literacy work that exists outside of mainstream educational and work institutions. It can be found in programs devoted to adult education, early childhood education, reading initiatives, lifelong learning, workplace literacy, or work with marginalized populations, but it can also be found in more informal, ad hoc projects. For COMMUNITY LITERACY JOURNAL, literacy is defined as the realm where attention is paid not just to content or to knowledge but to the symbolic means by...

A Primer for Poets and Readers of Poetry guides young poets toward a deeper understanding of how poetry can function in their lives, while also introducing the art in an exciting new way. Structuring the presentation from life toward art, Orr urges poets to "turn worlds into words" and then give those words a dramatic structure.

Using such poems as Theodore Roethke's "My Papa's Waltz" and Robert Hayden's "Those Winter Sundays," the Primer encourages young writers to approach their "thresholds"--those places where disorder meets order, where shaping imagination can...

The definitive guide to writing an amazing essay and mastering the college applications process.

Writing a memorable personal statement can seem like an overwhelming project for a young college applicant, but college essay coach Alan Gelb's organized and encouraging step-by-step instructions take the intimidation out of the process, enabling applicants to craft a meaningful and polished college admissions essay. Gelb teaches students to identify an engaging topic and use creative writing techniques to compose a vivid statement that will reflect their individuality. A...

Writers of the modern essay can trace their chosen genre all the way back to Michel de Montaigne (1533-92). But save for the recent notable best seller How to Live: A Life of Montaigne by Sarah Bakewell, Montaigne is largely ignored. After Montaigne--a collection of twenty-four new personal essays intended as tribute--aims to correct this collective lapse of memory and introduce modern readers and writers to their stylistic forebear.
Though it's been over four hundred years since he began writing his essays, Montaigne's writing is still fresh, and his use of the form as a...