Composition Creative Writing category: 2214 books
by Kenneth Steven
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2010
You do not need a degree in English literature to write poetry, nor do you need to possess the right accent. All you need is imagination, sensitivity, inspiration and dedication.
If you’re an aspiring poet, this concise, informative handbook will be a valuable reference source. As a complete...
by Rebecca G. Harper
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Create an innovative and collaborative classroom environment where students enjoy writing, with this standards-based resource. Third through twelfth grade scholars will learn key strategies to improve their writing skills based on their interests in technology, social media, and other contemporary...
by Andrew Butcher
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2017
Do you have a story idea inside you that you're dying to write, but you're not sure where to start?
Are you already writing a novel, but the story has become too complicated and you don't know how to make progress?
Maybe you already have your own novel outlining process, but you simply...
Dancing on the Head of a Pen
The Practice of a Writing Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
A compelling combination of advice and inspiration, Dancing on the Head of a Pen will challenge and encourage writers, artists, musicians, painters—anyone drawn to a life of artistic expression.
Digging deeply into his own writing habits, failures, and successes, Robert Benson helps you choose...
The Business of Writing
Professional Advice on Proposals, Publishers, Contracts, and More for the Aspiring Writer
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
Whether you’re unclear on what to expect from your first book deal or just a little puzzled by your editor’s whims, The Business of Writing is the book for you. In it, literary agent and publishing veteran Jennifer Lyons empowers aspiring and experienced writers with everything they need to know...
Tell Me How It Reads
Tutoring Deaf and Hearing Students in the Writing Center
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
Deaf students are attending mainstream postsecondary institutions in increasing numbers, raising the stakes for the complicated and multifaceted task of tutoring deaf students at these schools. Common tutoring practices used with hearing students do not necessarily work for deaf people. Rebecca Day...
Second Language Writing Research
Perspectives on the Process of Knowledge Construction
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
In this original volume, eighteen researchers from different parts of the world reflect on their own research projects, providing insights into key methodological issues in research on second language writing. By offering a glimpse into the process of constructing and negotiating knowledge in the...
Naming What We Know, Classroom Edition
Threshold Concepts of Writing Studies
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
Naming What We Know, Classroom Edition examines the core principles of knowledge in the discipline of writing studies, using the lens of “threshold concepts”—concepts that are critical for epistemological participation in a discipline. This edition focuses on the working definitions of thirty-seven...
by Lindsey Stover
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
Writing romance and commercial fiction means knowing the rules, and this book will help you learn them and get there. If you're wondering where to start, what to do, what not to do, how to find your author brand... this book has it all and more. Just take it from the 12 bestselling authors who wrote...
The Art & Craft of Writing Christian Fiction
The Complete Guide to Finding Your Story, Honing Your Skills, & Glorifying God in Your Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Let's face it: Christian fiction is fun. Even if you're writing a serious-minded study of man's inhumanity to man, there is something exhilarating about story; about creating people and worlds and events; about telling a tale that keeps readers enraptured and maybe - just maybe - leaves them fortified...
The Memoir and the Memoirist
Reading and Writing Personal Narrative
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2007
The memoir is the most popular and expressive literary form of our time. Writers embrace the memoir and readers devour it, propelling many memoirs by relative unknowns to the top of the best-seller list. Writing programs challenge authors to disclose themselves in personal narrative. Memoir and personal...
Doing Time, Writing Lives
Refiguring Literacy and Higher Education in Prison
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2018
Doing Time, Writing Lives offers a much-needed analysis of the teaching of college writing in U.S. prisons, a racialized space that—despite housing more than 2 million people—remains nearly invisible to the general public. Through the examination of a college-in-prison program that promotes the...
by Red Adept Publishing
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
3 Beyond the Style Manual Guides
Hook, Tagline, and Sinker, by Kris James
Hook, Tagline, and Sinker is a guide for anyone who wants to learn how to write concise, targeted, catchy book descriptions.
Potential readers’ first introduction to your writing occurs when they experience...
Writing Spiritual Books
A Bestselling Writers Guide to Successful Publication
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2010
In Writing Spiritual Books, Hal Zina Bennett, who has coached such well-known writers as Shakti Gawain, Judith Orloff, and Jerry Jampolsky, shows readers how to focus on their spiritual experience in a way that will enlighten and captivate others. Including both anecdotal and prescriptive material...