Organize your life with the bullet journaling phenomenon.Most of us need lists, and different trackers and calendars to keep on top things. A bullet journal brings together all these sources into a single personalized system.How does it work?You simply use bullet points and short notes to list appointment details, tasks, and important information. How will it change my life?If you're sick of piles of notebooks, lists on the pin-board, stickies on your computer, and electronic diaries, this...
Praise for the previous edition: 'Gives an excellent insight into the main issues of creating a website and offers a good foundation of knowledge.' – i.net Producing for Web 2.0 is a clear and practical guide to the planning, set up and management of a website in web 2.0. It gives readers an overview of the current technologies available for online communications and shows how to use them for maximum effect when planning a website. Producing for Web 2.0 sets out the practical toolkit needed f...
An easy way to learn Chinese – with games and activities Most people will tell you understanding Chinese is hard, but we’ve made learning this increasingly important language as simple as can be with fun games and activities. With simple tracing, diagrams, stories and memorable phrases, this book for the absolute beginner will have you mastering pinyin, so you can write and pronounce Chinese words, understanding perfect pitch and tone, simple grammar rules and basic vocabulary. This practical,...
In the digital age, content is no longer confined to the written page. It is spread across web and mobile, taking the form of podcasts, webinars, widgets, and blog posts. Powerful content tells the story of your product or business, but it means nothing if it's not written well, optimized for search and social media, and properly marketed. In Content is Currency, content strategist Jon Wuebben explains the fine art of content development by utilizing the latest Search Engine Optimization (SEO) a...
On Writing the College Application Essay, 25th Anniversary Edition
by Harry Bauld
Designed specifically as an advanced digital solution, Connect Composition offers comprehensive, reliable writing and research content that is searchable, assignable, and most importantly, inviting to students. Connect Composition offers even more value, giving instructors and program administrators the power to assess students, sections, courses, or entire writing programs based on learning outcomes they provide.
By turns gleefully precise and happily contrarian, this is a highly opinionated guide to better communication. In Literally, the Best Language Book Ever, author Paul Yeager attacks with a linguistic scalpel the illogical expressions and misappropriated meanings that are so commonplace and annoying. Identifying hundreds of common language miscues, Yeager provides an astute look at the world of words and how we abuse them every day. For the grammar snobs looking for any port in a storm of subpar s...
All parents want their children to read well and to succeed–and experts agree that improving literacy begins at birth. Reading aloud to your child, sharing simple games and wordplay, and developing letter knowledge start your child off on the right foot for school and life. Now the esteemed Lee Pesky Learning Center has created this easy, accessible reference for parents to help foster better literacy skills in children. Topics are individually tailored for three age ranges–infant, toddler, and...
Organize your life with the bullet journaling phenomenon. Most of us need lists, and different trackers and calendars to keep on top things. A bullet journal brings together all these sources into a single personalized system. How does it work?You simply use bullet points and short notes to list appointment details, tasks, and important information. How will it change my life?If you're sick of piles of notebooks, lists on the pin-board, stickies on your computer, and electronic diaries, this un...
This book contains more than 200 one-liners about the emotions, travails, joys and lunacy every writer knows too well. This collection of pithy phrases, 1 to 3 per page, in a small and gifty package for all writers who will recognize these daily realities and occupational hazards. Anyone who has wrestled the blank page will recognize him or herself in this collection of quirky, clever truisms!
Reference\Book Writing & Publishing LARGE PRINT edition DAN POYNTER'S BOOK PUBLISHING ENCYCLOPEDIA You have questions. This book has answers and they are easy to find. This book is the best investment you could make in your publishing future. It contains thousands of tips and references in an easy-to use alphabetical encyclopedia. It is your "Book Publishing Answer Book." This book will save you time, save you money and make you look brilliant. You will underline, highlight and dog-ear this book...
mmensely helpful and illuminating to any aspiring writer, this special edition of Stephen King’s critically lauded, million-copy bestseller shares the experiences, habits, and convictions that have shaped him and his work. “Long live the King” hailed Entertainment Weekly upon publication of Stephen King’s On Writing. Part memoir, part master class by one of the bestselling authors of all time, this superb volume is a revealing and practical view of the writer’s craft, comprising the basic tools...
The Largest Collection of Successful College Application Essays Available in One Volume These are the essays that helped their authors gain admission to Harvard, Yale, Brown, Columbia, Wellesley, Pomona, and other outstanding schools—followed by invaluable comments by experts in admissions, placement, and college counseling at some of the best learning institutions around the country. This helpful guide includes: • 100 complete essays with professional commentary • Examples of essays on common...
Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, and George Lucas all began their careers making a short film. By contrasting and comparing the differences and similarities between feature films and short films, "Writing Short Films, 2nd Edition", offers readers the essential requirements necessary to make their writing crisp, sharp and compelling. Emphasising characters, structure, dialogue and story, Linda Cowgill dispels the 'magic formula' concept that screenplays can be constructed...