Category: Writing

Envision: Persuasive Writing in a Visual World

By: Alfano, Christine,O'Brien, Alyssa

Price: $8.95

Publisher: Longman : September 2004

Seller ID: 430980

ISBN-13: 9780321183279

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Concise, flexible, practical, and innovative: Envision is the first brief guide to argument and research designed for students learning to write in today's visual world. Envision: Persuasive Writing in a Visual World is intended for composition courses focusing on argumentation and researched writing. Taking visual culture as its central theme and context, Envision is concerned with the fundamentals of writing in powerful and effective ways. By exploring and responding to a wide variety of visual texts and artifacts, students using Envision will learn how to analyze and craft arguments, design...
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Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association

By: American Psychological Association

Price: $5.95

Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA) : July 2001

Seller ID: 236331

ISBN-13: 9781557987914

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

In addition to providing guidance on grammar, the mechanics of writing, and APA style, this manual offers an authoritative reference and citation system. It also covers the treatment of numbers, metrication, statistical and mathematical data, tables and figures for use in writing, reports or presentations.
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Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association

By: American Psychological Association

Price: $5.95

Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA) : July 2001

Seller ID: 258112

ISBN-13: 9781557987914

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

In addition to providing guidance on grammar, the mechanics of writing, and APA style, this manual offers an authoritative reference and citation system. It also covers the treatment of numbers, metrication, statistical and mathematical data, tables and figures for use in writing, reports or presentations.
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10 Things Every Writer Needs to Know

By: Anderson, Jeff

Price: $4.95

Publisher: Stenhouse Publishers : October 2011

Seller ID: 566134

ISBN-13: 9781571108104

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Acceptable

Whether writing a blog entry or a high-stakes test essay, fiction or nonfiction, short story or argumentation, students need to know certain things in order to write effectively. In 10 Things Every Writer Needs to Know, Jeff Anderson focuses on developing the concepts and application of ten essential aspects of good writing--motion, models, focus, detail, form, frames, cohesion, energy, words, and clutter.Throughout the book, Jeff provides dozens of model texts, both fiction and nonfiction, that bring alive the ten things every writer needs to know. By analyzing strong mentor texts, young writ...
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100 Prompts for Science Fiction Writers (Writer's Muse)

By: Anderson, Leslie J.,Anderson, Jarod K.

Price: $4.95

Publisher: Union Square & Co. : November 2014

Seller ID: 551046

ISBN-13: 9781454914297

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

Conquer that dreaded writers block!From Jules Verne and H.G. Wells to Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Ursula LeGuin, and William Gibson, science fiction is one of the most enduring and popular genres. Whether on the page or on TV and film (Dr. Who, the Star Trek franchise), it grips the imagination. For a science-fiction author, the dream is to go boldly where no one has gone before, but sometimes the writing seems to be going nowhere at all--and future, alternate, parallel, or speculative worlds just wont come into focus. Fortunately, this guide helps show the way, with 100 prompts for everything...
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Digital Paper: A Manual for Research and Writing with Library and Internet Materials (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing)

By: Andrew Abbott

Price: $8.95

Publisher: University of Chicago Press : August 2014

Seller ID: 314049

ISBN-13: 9780226167787

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Today's researchers have access to more information than ever before. Yet the new material is both overwhelming in quantity and variable in quality. How can scholars survive these twin problems and produce groundbreaking research using the physical and electronic resources available in the modern university research library? In Digital Paper, Andrew Abbott provides some much-needed answers to that question. Abbott tells what every senior researcher knows: that research is not a mechanical, linear process, but a thoughtful and adventurous journey through a nonlinear world. He breaks library re...
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The Elements of Editing: A Modern Guide for Editors and Journalists

By: Arthur Plotnik

Price: $4.95

Publisher: Scribner Paper Fiction : April 1984

Seller ID: 228484

ISBN-13: 9780020474104

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Elements of Editing: A Modern Guide for Editors and Journalists

By: Arthur Plotnik

Price: $4.95

Publisher: Scribner Paper Fiction : April 1984

Seller ID: 311981

ISBN-13: 9780020474104

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association

By: Association, American Psychological

Price: $7.95

Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA) : July 2009

Seller ID: 327081

ISBN-13: 9781433805615

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

The Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association provides invaluable guidance on all aspects of the writing process, from the ethics of authorship to the word choice that best reduces bias in language. Well-known for its authoritative and easy-to-use reference and citation system, thePublication Manual also offers guidance on choosing the headings, tables, figures, and tone that will result in strong, simple, and elegant scientific communication.
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Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association

By: Association, American Psychological

Price: $9.95

Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA) : July 2009

Seller ID: 367344

ISBN-13: 9781433805615

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

The Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association provides invaluable guidance on all aspects of the writing process, from the ethics of authorship to the word choice that best reduces bias in language. Well-known for its authoritative and easy-to-use reference and citation system, thePublication Manual also offers guidance on choosing the headings, tables, figures, and tone that will result in strong, simple, and elegant scientific communication.
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Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association

By: Association, American Psychological

Price: $7.95

Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA) : July 2009

Seller ID: 517587

ISBN-13: 9781433805615

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

The Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association provides invaluable guidance on all aspects of the writing process, from the ethics of authorship to the word choice that best reduces bias in language. Well-known for its authoritative and easy-to-use reference and citation system, thePublication Manual also offers guidance on choosing the headings, tables, figures, and tone that will result in strong, simple, and elegant scientific communication.
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Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing

By: Atwood, Margaret

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Anchor : September 2003

Seller ID: 567684

ISBN-13: 9781400032600

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale In this wise and irresistibly quotable book, one of the most intelligent writers now working in English addresses the riddle of her art: why people pursue it, how they view their calling, and what bargains they make with their audiences, both real and imagined. To these fascinating issues Margaret Atwood brings a candid appraisal of her own experience as well as a breadth of reading that encompasses everything from Dante to Elmore Leonard. An ambitious artistic inquiry conducted with unpretentious charm, Negotiating with the ...
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Writing for Social Scientists: How to Start and Finish Your Thesis, Book, or Article (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing)

By: Becker, Howard S.

Price: $5.95

Publisher: University Of Chicago Press : March 1986

Seller ID: 510374

ISBN-13: 9780226041087

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Social scientists, whether earnest graduate students or tenured faculty members, clearly know the rules that govern good writing. But for some reason they choose to ignore those guidelines and churn out turgid, pompous, and obscure prose. Distinguished sociologist Howard S. Becker, true to his calling, looks for an explanation for this bizarre behavior not in the psyches of his colleagues but in the structure of his profession. In this highly personal and inspirational volume he considers academic writing as a social activity. Both the means and the reasons for writing a thesis or article or b...
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Writing for Social Scientists: How to Start and Finish Your Thesis, Book, or Article: Second Edition (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing)

By: Becker, Howard S.

Price: $5.95

Publisher: University of Chicago Press : December 2007

Seller ID: 507301

ISBN-13: 9780226041322

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Students and researchers all write under pressure, and those pressures--most lamentably, the desire to impress your audience rather than to communicate with them--often lead to pretentious prose, academic posturing, and, not infrequently, writer's block. Sociologist Howard S. Becker has written the classic book on how to conquer these pressures and simply write. First published nearly twenty years ago, Writing for Social Scientists has become a lifesaver for writers in all fields, from beginning students to published authors. Becker's message is clear: in order to learn how to write, take a de...
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The Careful Writer; A Modern Guide to English Usage

By: Bernstein, Theodore Menline

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Atheneum : January 1977

Seller ID: 528695

ISBN-13: 9780689705557

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Art and Craft of Feature Writing: Based on The Wall Street Journal Guide

By: Blundell, William E.

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Plume : November 1988

Seller ID: 493322

ISBN-13: 9780452261587

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Storytelling--how to catch and hold a reader's interest through artful narration of factual material William E. Blundell, one of the best writers on one of America's best-written papers--The Wall Street Journal--has put his famous Journal Feature-Writing Seminars into this step-by-step guide for turning out great articles. Filled with expert instruction on a complex art, it provides beginners with a systematic approach to feature writing and deftly teaches old pros some new tricks about: - How and where to get ideas - What readers like and don't like - Adding energy and interest to tired to...
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The Passionate, Accurate Story: Making Your Heart's Truth into Literature

By: Bly, Carol

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Milkweed Editions : February 1998

Seller ID: 494337

ISBN-13: 9781571312198

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

The Only Writing Series You'll Ever Need: Writing Children's Books

By: Bolton, Lesley, Wait, Lea

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Adams Media : October 2006

Seller ID: 475652

ISBN-13: 9781598690880

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Acceptable

From preparing a dynamite proposal to mastering the craft of storytelling, this text is useful to writers who are filled to the brim with ideas, but with no clue what to do with them
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