Composition Creative Writing category: 2214 books
by Lynn McNamee
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
Did you write what you meant to write? Is your meaning clear, or will readers misunderstand?
This style guide helps authors to make sure their writing is clear on the sentence level. “Just to Be Clear: Writing What You Mean” covers the following topics:
Dangling Participles
Misused...
by Garry Disher
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2019
Garry Disher is one of Australia's best-known authors and has written more than fifty literary novels, crime thrillers, short story collections and children's and young adult books. In Writing Fiction he shares some of the techniques of plot, character and style that he has perfected over three decades...
Learning to Write with Purpose
Effective Instruction in Grades 4-8
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Communicating ideas and information is what makes writing meaningful—yet many upper elementary and middle school students write in a vacuum, without considering the aims of their writing or the needs of their readers. This highly informative, teacher-friendly book presents a fresh perspective on...
by Garth Sundem
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2018
Develop enthusiastic and efficient writers with proven methods to meet the needs of all students with research-based strategies and ready-to-implement best practices in writing instruction. A practical guide for new teachers and pre-service educators, topics include classroom organization, writing...
Writing South Carolina, Volume 2
Selections from the Second Annual High School Writing Contest
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
“All of you who contributed to this book write much better than I did in high school.” That remarkable observation was made by Pat Conroy in the foreword to the first collection of student writing generated by the South Carolina High School Writing Contest, and it embodies the contest’s goals:...
by Susan Wise Bauer
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
These workbooks provide lessons, student worksheets, and teacher instructions for every day of writing instruction. Each covers one year of study.
Used along with Writing with Ease, the workbooks complete the elementary-grade writing curriculum. Level Three is the third of a planned four-volume set to accompany Writing with Ease.
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Writing Nonfiction
Essential Information on Researching, Organizing, and Writing Narrative Nonfiction
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Writing Nonfiction gives narrative nonfiction writers the tools they need to elevate their storytelling to the next level.
This guide will define narrative nonfiction, list the literary building blocks and teach you how to research your desired subject. Next,...
by Lorraine Mace
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2010
An easy-to-use comprehensive guide for writers on preparing and presenting their work to agents, publishers and print media. Regardless of the writer's level or ability, there is something extremely daunting about putting together a submission. It doesn't matter if it is for an article for a magazine,...
by James P. Davis
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
The Rowman & Littlefield Guide to Writing with Sources offers the most thorough and up-to-date discussion of plagiarism and the proper use of sources available today. The new edition incorporates the latest revisions to MLA, CSE, and CMS styles and the lexicon of electronic materials. This succinct...
Whine Less, Write More
The No-Excuses Guide to Getting Your Butt in the Chair, Your Head Out of the Clouds & Your Words onto Paper
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2017
If you want to write but feel you're too old, too young, too tired, too busy, too uneducated, too boring, listen up: It's time to stop whining and start writing!
Having taught and coached thousands of writers during their 20-year journalism careers, Linda Formichelli and Diana Burrell, authors...
by George Ehrenhaft Ed. D.
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
This thoroughly revised edition of Barron’s Writing Workbook for the New SAT prepares students for the writing sections of the newly redesigned SAT: The SAT Writing and Language Test and The SAT Essay. It includes:
Spellbinding Sentences
A Writer's Guide to Achieving Excellence and Captivating Readers
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2015
Elevate Your Writing From So-So To Spectacular!
Great writing requires more than an original idea, compelling characters, or a scintillating plot. An author needs all of these to be successful, but writing--and writing well--also demands an entirely different skill set.
Spellbinding...
by Annie Caulfield
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
Writing for Radio -- A Practical Guide offers advice and inspiration for anyone thinking of writing or beginning to write for radio. The book focuses mainly on radio drama techniques, with advice from producers and experienced writers, but also covers documentary writing, radio soaps, radio comedy...
Writing bestselling children's books
52 brilliant ideas for inspiring young readers
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2007
Some people think that writing for kids is easy short books, no big words, non-existent attention spans and then fill in any gaps with pictures. But nothing could be further from the truth. Children are the harshest critics imaginable. Give a grown-up a copy of Ulysses to read and theyll pretend to...