Language Arts & Disciplines

Founder of elite college prep agency Mint Tutors, Ashley Wellington shares hard-hitting essay-writing advice tailored to each student's strengths and potential pitfalls, inspiring students to write as if guided by their own personal college admissions tutor. Your Own Pocket Essay Tutor Ever wish you...

This detailed, example-driven guide illustrates how much technical communicators can do to make written texts more suitable for a global audience. You'll find dozens of guidelines that you won't find in any other source, along with thorough explanations of why each guideline is useful.Author:...

Take your first draft from so-so to sold! You've finished the first draft of your novel--congratulations! Time to have a drink, sit back...and start revising. But the revision process doesn't have to be intimidating. Revision and Self-Editing for Publication, Second Edition gives you the...

Craft Compelling Dialogue When should your character talk, what should (or shouldn't) he say, and when should he say it? How do you know when dialogue--or the lack thereof--is dragging down your scene? How do you fix a character who speaks without the laconic...

"Boozhoo, Ajidamoo" (Hello, Squirrell) is an Ojibwe language picture book written and illustrated by Ojibwe cartoonist, Michael Lyons. Lyons is the author and illustrator of a number of children's books, comic books, and illustrated short stories available on Amazon.com.Author: Michael LyonsPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing...

'This is, in fact, not what you were looking for; but it's much more interesting' Terry Pratchett Much loved for its wit and wisdom since 1870, Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable takes you on a captivating adventure through its trademark blend of language,...

Students will take meaningful lessons from this inspiring story of a gorilla named Ivan who grew up in captivity. The One and Only Ivan: An Instructional Guide for Literature provides rigorous and appealing cross-curricular lessons and activities that work in conjunction with the complex...

A workbook like no other, Holy Grammar teaches basic grammar skills using examples and exercises only from Scripture. Students apply sentence combining techniques to over 200 Bible verses to improve the complexity, correctness, and variety of sentences in their own writing. Designed for use...

How meaning works--from monkey calls to human language, from spoken language to sign language, from gestures to music--and how meaning is connected to truth. We communicate through language, connecting what we mean to the words we say. But humans convey meaning in other ways...

This book was designed for students transitioning from the study of Greek grammar to translation of texts. It was developed in classroom use for classroom use, in the context of an integrated Great Books program in liberal arts and sciences. It is meant for...

No matter what type of fiction you write, what draws readers in is the characters.If the reader doesn't care about the characters, the most gripping plot won't carry the day.So how do you get readers to care?Character diagrams, checklists, and charts can only take...

2022 Updated Second Edition!Most writers struggle with creating a captivating story. The fastest way to improve your writing skills is by applying the "Deep Point-of-View" technique, which can transform any novel from mediocre storytelling into riveting prose.This manual will provide writers with the essential...

An Awesome Book Description is one of the Most Important Tools a Writer Needs to Sell More Books, or to Gain the Attention of an Agent...Whether you're self-publishing, or querying agents and publishers, this guidebook on book descriptions can help! Writing back jacket copy...

Le livreVous désirez écrire (et peut-être publier) depuis longtemps. Vous pensez continuellement à vos personnages, à cette idée brillante qui a un jour émergé de votre esprit, et vous en rêvez peut-être même la nuit...Mais par où commencer ? Comment éviter les pièges lors...

Widely praised for its conversational tone and clear advice, Practically Speaking is the public speaking textbook your students will actually read. Filled with engaging stories and examples, sound scholarship and recent research, and useful tips and tricks, Practically Speaking shows students how to get...

2022 Reprint of the 1952 First Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Modern psychology is able to give new impetus to the study of language and understanding. The psychoanalyst, especially, has many opportunities each day to...

Worldbuilding is more than just maps! Creating a believable secondary world, with consistent internal logic, idioms, taboos, and politics canbe tricky. Luckily, this workbook is here to help you devise the best possible setting for your story! Filled with thought exercises, explanations, question lists,...

David Nunan's dynamic learner-centered teaching style has informed and inspired countless TESOL educators around the world. In this fresh, straightforward introduction to teaching English to speakers of other languages he presents teaching techniques and procedures along with the underlying theory and principles. Complex theories...

Grounded in research on bilingualism and adolescent literacy, this volume provides a much-needed insight into the day-to-day needs of students who are identified as long-term English language learners (LTELs).　LTELs are adolescents who are primarily or solely educated in the U.S. and yet remain identified...

Do you struggle with creating conflict in your novel? You don't have to. Janice Hardy, award-winning author and founder of the popular writing site, Fiction University, takes you deep inside one of the most important aspects of storytelling--conflict. She'll help you understand what conflict...