Language Arts & Disciplines - Style Manuals
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The Sound of Story: Developing Voice and Tone in WritingWhat is the sound of story?Voice in writing can seem elusive and hard to define. It's more than just style it's rhythm, energy, attitude, and the unique fingerprint of a narrator or character. Voice is shaped by culture and history as much as the...
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The Writer's Practice: Building Confidence in Your Nonfiction Writing"Unique and thorough, Warner's handbook could turn any determined reader into a regular Malcolm Gladwell." --Booklist For anyone aiming to improve their skill as a writer, a revolutionary new approach to establishing robust writing practices inside and outside the classroom, from the author of...
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Verb Your Enthusiasm: How to Master the Art of the Verb and Transform Your Writing"Personable, smart, and, yes, enthusiastic... a masterclass you can take at your own pace." - Ron Charles "This verb-filled outing reads like a dream." - Publishers Weekly (starred) "An almost shockingly adroit guide to how to make every word count." --Benjamin Dreyer, author of...
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Wild Mind: Living the Writer's LifeNatalie Goldberg, author of the bestselling Writing Down The Bones, teaches a method of writing that can take you beyond craft to the true source of creative power: The mind that is "raw, full of energy, alive and hungry." Here is compassionate, practical, and...
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Wired for Story: The Writer's Guide to Using Brain Science to Hook Readers from the Very First SentenceThis guide reveals how writers can utilize cognitive storytelling strategies to craft stories that ignite readers' brains and captivate them through each plot element. Imagine knowing what the brain craves from every tale it encounters, what fuels the success of any great story, and...
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Write Away: One Novelist's Approach to Fiction and the Writing LifeHere's what I tell my students on the first day when I teach one of my creative writing courses: You will be published if you possess three qualities--talent, passion, and discipline.In Write Away, New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth George offers would-be writers exactly...
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Write Like You Mean It: Start Strong, Maintain Momentum, and (Finally!) Get It DoneSomewhere between the idea and the finished page, most writers get lost. This book is your map.Writing projects don't fizzle out from lack of talent. Writers struggle because they can't see the path forward, and no one has ever shown them the way. Whatever...
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Write Your Book - Publish Your Book - Promote Your BookWhen I was doing publicity for my books, I met many people at book signings, on television and radio shows - and believe it not, on the street or in a supermarket who told me the same thing. "As soon as I have time...
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Writing as a Way of Healing: How Telling Our Stories Transforms Our LivesIn this inspiring book, based on her twenty years of research, highly acclaimed author and teacher Louise DeSalvo reveals the healing power of writing. DeSalvo shows how anyone can use writing as a way to heal the emotional and physical wounds that are an...
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Writing as a Way of Life: A Book about Art, Craft, and DevotionIn Writing as a Way of Life: A Book About Art, Craft, and Devotion, novelist and memoirist Brian Morton (Starting Out in the Evening) provides writers with a guidebook for finding the psychic equipment they'll need to remain committed to their craft over the...
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Writing for Busy Readers: Communicate More Effectively in the Real WorldWriting well is for school. Writing effectively is for life. Todd Rogers and Jessica Lasky-Fink offer the most valuable practical writing advice today. Building on their own research in behavioral science, they outline cognitive facts about how people actually read and distill them into...
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Writing for Story: Craft Secrets of Dramatic NonfictionThe new "nonfiction"--the adaptation of storytelling techniques to journalistic articles in the manner of Truman Capote, Tom Wolfe, and John McPhee--is an innovative genre that has been awarded virtually every Pulitzer Prize for literary journalism since 1979. And now Jon Franklin, himself a two-time...
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Writing Tools (10th Anniversary Edition): 55 Essential Strategies for Every WriterA special 10th anniversary edition of Roy Peter Clark's bestselling guide to writing, featuring five bonus tools. Ten years ago, Roy Peter Clark, America's most influential writing teacher, whittled down almost thirty years of experience in journalism, writing, and teaching into a series of...
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Your Stripped Bare Guide to Citing & Using History SourcesThis work is an abbreviated distillation of the evidence analysis found in Mrs. Mills' classic work, Evidence Explained: Citing History Sources from Artifacts to Cyberspace, Fourth Edition (2024). This guide is stripped down to the bare essentials you need to know to do reliable...
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