Writing category: 7965 books
Crossing Divides
Exploring Translingual Writing Pedagogies and Programs
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Translingualism perceives the boundaries between languages as unstable and permeable; this creates a complex challenge for writing pedagogy. Writers shift actively among rhetorical strategies from multiple languages, sometimes importing lexical or discoursal tropes from one language into another to...
Around the Texts of Writing Center Work
An Inquiry-Based Approach to Tutor Education
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Around the Texts of Writing Center Work reveals the conceptual frameworks found in and created by ordinary writing center documents. The values and beliefs underlying course syllabi, policy statements, website copy and comments, assessment plans, promotional flyers, and annual reports critically...
by Robert K Swisher Jr
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2017
This book is based on a creative writing course I taught at a small university in the 1980’s. Because the course repudiated the majority of things the other English and Creative Writing Professors held as gospel truth they were constantly peeved off at me as to what they considered my disregard...
by Deborah Philips, Debra Penman, Liz Linnington
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1999
Writing Well is a practical handbook of creative writing exercises which forms the basis of an indirect, nonconfrontational approach specifically intended for therapeutic use within the mental health field. Although people with emotional or psychological problems can find creative writing particularly...
Provocations of Virtue
Rhetoric, Ethics, and the Teaching of Writing
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
In Provocations of Virtue, John Duffy explores the indispensable role of writing teachers and scholars in counteracting the polarized, venomous “post-truth” character of contemporary public argument. Teachers of writing are uniquely positioned to address the crisis of public discourse because...
by Alessandra Bancroft
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
Break Into The Biggest, Most Lucrative Writing Genre of Them All!
Are you looking to get into publishing and increase your chances of becoming a successful author? Why not start with romance? Romance is the most popular and best-selling genre of all fiction stories, accounting for the majority...
Write Your Story
How to Jump Start Your Writing Career
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2017
Writing is grueling. It’s heart wrenching. To write is to reach deep into your soul and to sit with what you find. To examine life from every angle. To write is to live, but we must always remember to live if we are to write well.
Is writing easy? No. Nothing worthwhile ever is. But when...
Writing About Writing
A Teacher's Handbook to Writing Workshop
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2015
This handbook for teachers of young children guides teachers in preparing, modeling and beginning the writing process which leads to Writing Workshop and publishing of children's books. This book is a flexible step by step guide which begins with getting started, implementing Journal Writing, children's...
by Angela Booth
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2016
If you've ever dreaded writing, or felt that writing was too hard, you'll love the Easy-Write Process.The Easy-Write Process changed my life; I developed it over several years of struggling with writing.I studied creativity and mind states. I learned to meditate. I forced myself to write...
The Writing Prompts Workbook, Grades 11-12
Story Starters for Journals, Assignments and More
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2014
As eleventh and twelfth graders continue to study the more complex aspects of writing, it's important to remember to work on creativity and imagination as well. The Writing Prompts Workbook is a collection of imaginative situations and questions that will get your students and children to come up...
First Grade Writing Prompts for Holidays
A Creative Writing Workbook
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2014
The holidays are an exciting time for children in the classroom and the home. The rich history and fun celebrations of holidays make students excited both for parties and learning. The Writing Prompts for Holidays series is a collection of imaginative situations and questions related to 20 major...
Write Your Novel From The Middle
A New Approach For Plotters, Pantsers and Everyone in Between
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
A powerful secret and a fresh approach to writing bestselling fiction!
What's the best way to write a "next level" novel? Some writers start at the beginning and let the story unfold without a plan. They are called "pantsers," because they write by the "seat of the...
Writing for Social Scientists
How to Start and Finish Your Thesis, Book, or Article: Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2008
Students and researchers all write under pressure, and those pressures—most lamentably, the desire to impress your audience rather than to communicate with them—often lead to pretentious prose, academic posturing, and, not infrequently, writer’s block.
Sociologist Howard S. Becker has...
by Toby Welch
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2011
Writing prompts can help you get into a writing groove. Instead of staring at a blank page, prompts give you the kick in the butt you need to get writing. Use the prompts in this book in numerical order or jump around to a question that sparks your creativity. Get writing!