Writing

The peoples of the British Isles gave to the world the foundations on which modern manufacturing economies are built. This is quite an assertion, but history shows that, in the late eighteenth century, a remarkable combination of factors and...

Legendary writing coach Jack Hart spent twenty-six years at the Oregonian and has taught students and professionals of all stripes, including bloggers, podcasters, and more than one Pulitzer Prize winner. Good writing, he says, has the same basic...

Two Australian scientists played a vital yet largely unknown role in the Allied victory in the Second World War. Almost eight decades later, Wizards of Oz finally tells their story.In this fast-paced and compelling book, Brett Mason reveals how two...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780979419812Author Dorothy AllisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Tin House BooksPublisher Tin House BooksWeight(grams) 314gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Poetry: A Writers' Guide and Anthology is a complete introduction to the art and craft of writing poetry. The authors map out more than 25 key elements of poetry including image, lyric, point of view, metaphor, and movement and use these elements as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646220854Author Melissa FebosFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint CatapultPublisher Catapult

For those that have mastered the basics of memoir and wish to probe this brand of creative nonfiction further, Writing the Radical Memoir uses salient theories about memory and the self to challenge assumptions about how we remember and tell the truth of...

A winning combination of how-to guide and reference work, The Only Business Writing Book You'll Ever Need addresses a wide-ranging spectrum of business communication with its straightforward seven-step method. These easy-to-follow steps save you time...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593331996Author Daniel C. KoboldtFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060391683Author Robert McKeeFormat HardbackPage Count 466Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

If you read only one book on business writing, make it this one. Chapters by the twelve partners of the Dark Angels Collective set out a comprehensive approach to writing more effectively for business. For nearly twenty years the Dark Angels programme...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781932907117Author James BonnetFormat PaperbackPage Count 275Imprint Michael Wiese ProductionsPublisher Michael Wiese Productions

Mary Norris has spent more than three decades guarding The New Yorker's grand traditions of grammar and usage. Now she brings her vast experience and sharpened pencil to help the rest of us in a charming language book as full of life as it is of...

For half a century, writers at every stage of their careers have turned to the literary nonprofit organization Poets & Writers for help with their professional development. In this book Poets & Writers provides the authoritative guide for writers that...

Discover the power of (finally) getting unstuck, claiming your clarity, and becoming the person whose life you want to live-all through a simple self-care practice you can build into your daily routine. For anyone who's trying to make sense of their...

The chapters in this book range across all three areas of its subtitle practice, research and pedagogy - testifying to the integrated nature of creative writing as a university discipline. Writers from the USA, the UK and Australia concentrate on the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781402210518Author William BrohaughFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Sourcebooks, IncPublisher Sourcebooks, Inc

Welcome to the age of the incredible shrinking message. Your guide to this new landscape, Christopher Johnson reveals the once-secret knowledge of poets, copywriters, brand namers, political speechwriters, and other professional verbal miniaturists. Each...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780440506584Author Robert J. RayFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group...

Amitava Kumar's Every Day I Write the Book is for academic writers what Annie Dillard's The Writing Life and Stephen King's On Writing are for creative writers. Alongside Kumar's interviews with an array of scholars whose distinct writing offers...

Do you ever find yourself using a word without fully understanding its meaning? What kind of liar is egregious? Do you have a perspicacious mind? Words are a valuable resource and essential to social and business success, yet often we find ourselves...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997283105Author Margot Carmichael LesterFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint Teaching That Makes Sense, IncPublisher Teaching That Makes Sense,...

All writers conduct research. For some this means poring over records and combing, archives but for many creative writers research happens in the everyday world when they scribble an observation on the subway, when they travel to get the feel for a city,...

This groundbreaking new writing series combines time-tested classical techniques-the imitation and analysis of great writers-with original composition exercises in history, science, biography, and literature. Skills Taught: * One- and two-level...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906614775Author Pat BoranFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint Dedalus PressPublisher Dedalus PressWeight(grams) 290g

The Writer's Reader is an anthology of essays on the art and life of writing by major writers of the past and present. These essays offer a wealth of insights into how writers approach their craft and represent a practical resource as well as a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611802689Author Karen BenkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Roost BooksPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams) 358gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781535127226Author Jackson Dean ChaseFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

REVIEW FROM PREVIOUS EDITION: 'A slim and useful student textbook for English Syntax. Although most of the examples are from English, the book introduces general concepts which provide the necessary tools for a basic syntactic analysis of any language...

Writers talk about their work in many ways: as an art, as a calling, as a lifestyle. Too often missing from these conversations is the fact that writing is also a business. The reality is, those who want to make a full or part-time job out of writing are...

"Reliably insightful." - Publishers Weekly The first step to becoming a successful writer is to become a successful reader. Helping you develop your critical skills How to Read Like a Writer is an accessible and effective step-by-step guide to how...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611800449Author Laura DeutschFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)...

In recent years, the world of animation has expanded rapidly, and the market is luring writers who have an eye on the future and an eagerness to work in a medium where the only limitis the depth of one's imagination. With step-by-step instructions and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780910355162Author James Scott BellFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint Compendium PressPublisher Compendium PressWeight(grams) 304gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812975482Author Bret Anthony JohnstonFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 323gDimensions(mm)...

Who is telling the story to whom is the single most important question about any work of fiction; the answer is central to everything from style and tone to plot and pacing. Using hundreds of examples from Jane Austen to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Leo...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780874219890Author Linda Adler-KassnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 266Imprint Utah State University PressPublisher Utah State University PressWeight(grams)...

All students have to write essays and writing the essay itself is a learning experience yet many are never taught how to compose an essay. The act of writing the essay is a learning experience in itself; it develop's the student's thinking ability and...

Each of the twelve chapters of How Poems Get Made examines a specific aspect of the poetic medium: diction, syntax, rhythm, echo, figure, repetition and more. Acclaimed poet and critic James Longenbach shows how a poet may manipulate these most basic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996190367Author William H ColesFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Storyinliteraryfiction.comPublisher Storyinliteraryfiction.comWeight(grams)...