Author : Gary Provost
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 22,79 MB
Release : 1985-10-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1440672660
This is the one guide that anyone who writes--whether student, business person, or professional writer--should put on the desk beside pencil, pen, typewriter, or word processor. Filled with professional tips and a wealth of instructive examples, this valuable, easy-to-use handbook can help you solve any and all writing problems.
Author : Gary Provost
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 43,4 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780451627216
Gives advice on overcoming writer's block, developing a personal style, finding a good opening, improving one's diction, avoiding mistakes in grammar or punctuation, and editing a manuscript
Author : Paula LaRocque
Publisher : Marion Street Press, Inc.
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 17,98 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780966517637
A fun-to-read guide to writing well from a beloved writing coach, LaRocque's work gently teaches how to write with creativity and flair.
Author : Gary Provost
Publisher : Crossroad Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 13,45 MB
Release : 2020-06-07
Category : Reference
ISBN :
Gary Provost practices what he preaches in Make Your Words Work. He helps you learn to write well by, among other things, writing well himself. His warm, witty, entertaining instruction teams with solid examples as well as exercises. Get the good word now. This is the writing course to help you make your work more powerful, more readable, more salable.
Author : Gary Provost
Publisher : Crossroad Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 38,10 MB
Release : 2015-12-17
Category :
ISBN :
From the author of Beyond Style: Mastering the Finer Points of Writing, Gary Provost's Make Every Word Count is a guide to assist writers of both fiction and nonfiction. Topics include: style, use of jargon, avoiding cliches, tone, intention, characterization, credibility, description, dialogue, viewpoints, and many more.
Author : Linda Williams Aber
Publisher :
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 28,98 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Creative writing
ISBN : 9780439697620
Author : Oak Meadow
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 49,23 MB
Release : 2018
Category :
ISBN : 9781684271009
100 Ways to Improve Your Composition and Creative Writing provides students with engaging writing prompts as well as the clear explanations and instructions needed to guide students toward competent writing skills. Designed with space for completing most writing activities, the easy-to-use structure of 100 numbered assignments (arranged alphabetically by topic) is easily adapted for use with any middle school writing program.
Author : Roy Peter Clark
Publisher : Little, Brown Spark
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 16,94 MB
Release : 2008-01-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0316028401
A 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 fifty short essays on different aspects of writing. In the past decade, Writing Tools has become a classic guidebook for novices and experts alike and remains one of the best loved books on writing available. Organized into four sections, "Nuts and Bolts," "Special Effects," "Blueprints for Stories," and "Useful Habits," Writing Tools is infused with more than 200 examples from journalism and literature. This new edition includes five brand new, never-before-shared tools. Accessible, entertaining, inspiring, and above all, useful for every type of writer, from high school student to novelist, Writing Tools is essential reading.
Author : Judith E. Pearson
Publisher : Crown House Pub Limited
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 40,90 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781845908614
This timely book details the Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) strategies that can transform a tentative, novice writer into a passionate, productive dynamo, adapting the resourceful states, beliefs, cognitive strategies and behaviours of highly accomplished writers. If you are new to the game of writing, if you feel intimidated by a blank page, if you have ever started a writing project but run out of steam, then this book is for you. Your guide is Dr. Judith E. Pearson, an NLP Trainer and author of three books on NLP and over 200 published articles and reviews. Through the magic of NLP you'll discover the thinking patterns and cognitive strategies of accomplished writers. You'll learn the writing process from beginning to end - from romancing your idea to ruthless editing and revision - and you'll learn strategies for overcoming writer's block. The secret to great writing lies in learning how to alternate between three mindsets: Dreamer, Realist and Critic. The author will tell you exactly how to get into each mindset and how to apply it. This book will teach you the NLP models for creativity, tenacity and meticulous attention to detail. Read this book and you'll know how to write persuasively, hypnotically and prolifically.
Author : Theodore M. Bernstein
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 39,30 MB
Release : 1995-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0684826321
A handbook of alphabetized entries which provide answers to questions of use, meaning, grammar, punctuation, precision, logical structure, and color.
