Now Write! Mysteries (Now Write!)
by Sherry Ellis and Laurie Lamson
The essential handbook for writers of whodunits, techno- thrillers, cozies, and everything in between-featuring never-before- published personal writing exercises from some of today's bestselling and award-winning mystery writers. Now Write! Mysteries, the fourth volume in the acclaimed Now Write! writing guide series, brings together numerous bestselling authors-including winners of and nominees for the Edgar, Hugo, and Shamus awards,-for the definitive guide to writing mysteries, thrillers, an...
What is the role of the war reporter today? Through interviews with prominent war and foreign correspondents such as John Pilger, Robert Fisk, Mary Dejevsky and Alex Thomson The War Correspondent delves into the most dangerous form of journalism. From Crimea to Vietnam, the Falklands to the Gulf and Afghanistan, Iraq and the War on Terror, the books examines the attractions and risks of war reporting; the challenge of objectivity and impartiality in the war zone; the danger that journalistic...
Un manual imprescindible para escribir bien. El Libro de estilo de El País no es una gramática ni un diccionario al uso. Se trata simplemente de una pequeña Constitución, de un contrato con los lectores, un código interno que dota al periódico de personalidad propia y facilita la tarea a quienes se informan con él; lo que no obsta para que sirva además como referencia a todas las personas que aspiran a una escritura esmerada. La obra incluye por un lado los pilares éticos del diario y la mane...
The definitive handbook for the novelist who is ready to revise This wise and friendly guide shows writers how to turn first-draft manuscripts into the novels of their dreams. A critic, longtime teacher, and award-winning novelist, Sandra Scofield illustrates how to reread a work of fiction with a view of its subject and vision, and how to take it apart and put it back together again, stronger and deeper. Scofield builds her explanations around helpful concepts like narrative structure, char...
Interested in journalism and creative writing and want to write a book? Read inspiring stories and practical advice from America’s most respected journalists.The country’s most prominent journalists and nonfiction authors gather each year at Harvard’s Nieman Conference on Narrative Journalism. Telling True Stories presents their best advice—covering everything from finding a good topic, to structuring narrative stories, to writing and selling your first book. More than fifty well-known writers o...
The Broadview Pocket Guide to Writing - Canadian Edition
by Doug Babington, Don LePan, Maureen Okun, and Nora Ruddock
This is the most readable and affordable pocket handbook that is designed specifically for Canadian students. Included are summaries of key grammatical points; a glossary of usage; advice on various forms of academic writing; coverage of punctuation and writing mechanics; helpful advice on how to research academic papers; and much more. For the fifth edition, coverage of the MLA, APA, Chicago, and CSE styles of documentation has been substantially revised to reflect the most recent updates, incl...
Specialty Journal Paper Composition Notebook Knitting Paper 4
by Kai Specialty Variety Journal Paper
El método para escribir una novela, el hábito que transformará tu vida. Numerosos escritores experimentado han visto multiplicada su creatividad al adoptar la rutina que propone este libro: escribir siete minutos al día durante 21 días seguidos. Un método que te incita a encontrar modos inéditos de crear y te ayuda a escribir sin pausa para permitir que salga el libro que llevas dentro. Una práctica que, además, proporciona recursos para el autoconocimiento. En suma, una linterna en dos direcc...
The time management secrets that experts and top professionals use. Get results fast with this quick, easy guide to the fundamentals of Time Management.Includes how to:• Identify your biggest priorities and find time to achieve them• Deal with the biggest hidden time-wasters• Communicate effectively with colleagues and clients• Cope with information overload• Take control of your inbox and voicemail
An updated and expanded edition of the acclaimed writing guide for scientistsThe Scientist's Guide to Writing explains the essential techniques that students, postdocs, and early-career scientists need to write more clearly, efficiently, and easily. Now fully updated and expanded, this incisive primer offers practical advice on such topics as generating and maintaining writing momentum, structuring a scientific paper, revising a first draft, handling citations, responding to peer reviews, managi...
The Screenplay Workbook is an instructional manual that contains proprietary worksheets, charts, and fill-in lists designed to help screenwriters focus while writing a screenplay. The worksheets will help the screenwriter with the creation of characters, plots, and concepts - joining all of these aspects together seamlessly. The Screenplay Workbook brings together every element needed to not only start a screenplay, but - even more importantly - to successfully finish one.
Shanghai Street Style (Street Style)
by Toni Johnson-Woods and Vicki Karaminas
Find Your Story, Write Your Memoir
by Lynn Miller and Lisa Lenard-Cook
How to Write Clearly (Cambridge Companions to Literature)
by Edwin Abbott Abbott
Susan Goldsmith Wooldridge is a poet and teacher who conducts workshops privately, as well as in the California Poets in the Schools program. Her exuberant, critically acclaimed teaching guide takes instructors, writers, and general readers into the very heart and intensity of life and the craft of expressing what one feels through the written word.
The Short Prose Reader W/ Connect Composition Essentials 3.0 Access Card
by Gilbert Muller and Harvey Wiener
"Like a Tucker Max with heart, Jason Mulgrew's wildly popular blog gives rise to a memoir of startling insight, comedy, and irreversible, unconscionable stupidity"--
On the Internet, if you're not read, you're dead. Written by an internationally-acclaimed specialist in this field, Killer Web Content gives you the strategies and practical techniques you need to get the very best out of your Web content. Accessible, concise and practical, it will make your website really work for you. This book helps readers to: * provide visitors to their website with the right content at just the right time * write compelling Web content that users really respond to and want...
Any avid reader will understand the joy of finding an 'unputdownable' book, and will have asked themselves the question, what next? With 100,000 new books published each year - in addition to the enormous wealth of literature already in print - this can be difficult. "The Bloomsbury Good Reading Guide" features more than 350 major authors, from Margaret Atwood to Emile Zola, through Bruce Chatwin, to Aldous Huxley, and Neville Shute. At the end of each entry, a 'Read On' section directs readers...