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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780817320904Author Suzanne Kesler RumseyFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint University Alabama PressPublisher University Alabama PressWeight(grams) 152g

In this engrossing memoir, poet and literacy scholar Eli Goldblatt shares the intimate ways reading and writing influenced the first thirty years of his life - in the classroom but mostly outside it. Writing Home: A Literacy Autobiography traces...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250892133Author Beth KemptonFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint St. Martin's EssentialsPublisher St. Martin's EssentialsWeight(grams)...

Why does it seem as if everyone is writing memoirs, and particularly women? The current popularity of memoir verifies the common belief that we each have a story to tell. And we do...especially women. Memoirs are not only representations of women's...

**Winner of the 2022 William Randolph Hearst Award for Outstanding Service in Professional Journalism** "People have forgotten how to be funny," says Chris Vogler in his foreword to What Are You Laughing at? Luckily, experienced and award-winning humor...

Revised and updated throughout, this 10th-anniversary edition of Can Creative Writing Really Be Taught? is a significantly expanded guide to key issues and practices in creative writing teaching today. Challenging the myths of creative writing...

With recent advances in digital technology, a number of exciting and innovative approaches to writing lives have emerged, from graphic memoirs to blogs and other visual-verbal-virtual texts. This edited collection is a timely study of new approaches to...

For courses in first-year composition and rhetoric. Grammar as a valuable tool for the writer Rhetorical Grammar encourages writers to recognize and use the grammatical and stylistic choices available to them, and to understand the rhetorical...

This text examines the most economically critical and politically sensitive issues of China's reform process - labour market development, changing industrial relations, and labour-state and labour-capital conflict. It suggests that a system is emerging...

The books in this bite-sized new series contain no complicated techniques or tricky materials, making them ideal for the busy, the time-pressured or the merely curious. Inspired Creative Writing is a short, simple and to-the-point guide to learning the...

Scientific endeavor begins with asking questions about the nature of the world around us and gathering data, but this work cannot be complete without effectively communicating the conclusions and data found. Communicating Rocks: Writing, Speaking, and...

This is a guide to English usage for readers and writers, professional and amateur, established and aspiring, formal trainees and those trying to break in; students of English, both language and literature, and their teachers.In Quite Literally, Wynford...

There are more outlets than ever for writers to spread their messages and share their work, more opportunities to speak out and be seen. Writers expose themselves freely and willingly in a way that would have been unfathomable fifty years ago, and more...

Covering all of the major genres, The Bloomsbury Introduction to Creative Writing is a complete introductory manual for students of creative writing. Now in its second edition, the book features an updated and expanded chapter on writing for digital...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781319058494Author Charles T. BrusawPage Count 640Imprint Bedford/Saint Martin'sPublisher Macmillan Learning

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375722769Author Random HouseFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Random House ReferencePublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 423gDimensions(mm)...

This writing guide, by the author of Pearson's best-selling Short Guide to Writing about Biology along with two well-known chemists, teaches students to think as chemists and to express ideas clearly and concisely through their writing. ...

"The most consistent of all series in terms of language control, length, and quality of story." David R. Hill, Director of the Edinburgh Project on Extensive Reading.You only want to study the 4,500 year-old Irish megalithic...

First Published in 2002. It is easy to see that we are living in a time of rapid and radical social change. It is much less easy to grasp the fact that such change will inevitably affect the nature of those disciplines that both reflect our society and...

Arguing that the presidency is not defined by the Constitution - which doesn't use the term - but by what presidents say and how they say it, "Deeds Done in Words" has been the definitive book on presidential rhetoric for more than a decade. "Presidents...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781425815288Author Torrey MaloofFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Shell Educational PublishingPublisher Shell Educational Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399528279Author Elizabeth LyonFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint TarcherPerigeePublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802150899Author Tom StoppardFormat PaperbackPage Count 99Imprint Grove PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressWeight(grams) 113g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995739024Author Karen WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 238Imprint LibrotasPublisher LibrotasWeight(grams) 281gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 13mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780991167449Author Arlene MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Bigwords101Publisher Bigwords101Weight(grams) 195gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 8mm

How Not to Write is a wickedly witty book about grammar, usage, and style. William Safire, the author of the New York Times Magazine column "On Language," homes in on the "essential misrules of grammar," those mistakes that call attention to the major...

Revell argues passionately for the transformation that imaginative experience elicits through poetry. The art of poetry is not about the acquisition of wiles or the deployment of strategies, it's about taking the information of the senses and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062731692Author Hallie BurnettFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 176gDimensions(mm)...

It is easy to be paralyzed by the possibilities and responsibilities of academic work or distracted into one fascinating alley after another without cumulative insight. Even when well underway too many scholars sink into necessary details and do not...

Providing comfort food and inspiration for the aspiring novelist, How To Write a Novel in 20 Pies offers novelist and writing coach Amy Wallen's insider secrets on living the writing life. Filled with chapters about writing, revising, submitting to an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780440504917Author Syd FieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 366Imprint Delta (imprint of Dell Publishing)Publisher Dell BooksWeight(grams) 301g

This introductory creative writing text uses a unique, multi-genre approach to provide students with a broad-based knowledge of their craft, treating them as professional writers. Beginning by discussing elements common to all genres, this book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781610359900Author Robert W BlyFormat PaperbackPage Count 326Imprint Linden Publishing Co IncPublisher Linden Publishing Co Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781939210197Author Mary BuckhamFormat PaperbackPage Count 308Imprint Cantwell Publishing, LLCPublisher Cantwell Publishing, LLCWeight(grams)...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911187905Author Tim de LisleFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint CONNELL PUBLISHING LTDPublisher CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611804072Author Natalie GoldbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781582977966Author Dinty W. MooreFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Writer's Digest BooksPublisher F&W Publications IncWeight(grams) 313gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780786880577Author Joel EngelFormat PaperbackPage Count 298Imprint HyperionPublisher HyperionWeight(grams) 363g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999722531Author Sacha BlackFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Atlas Black PublishingPublisher Atlas Black PublishingWeight(grams) 240gDimensions(mm)...