Clear & Lively Writing
Author : Priscilla L. Vail
Publisher :
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 50,44 MB
Release : 1981
Category : English language
ISBN :
Author : Priscilla L. Vail
Publisher :
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 50,44 MB
Release : 1981
Category : English language
ISBN :
Author : Priscilla Vail
Publisher : Walker
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 32,6 MB
Release : 1994-09-01
Category : Games
ISBN : 9780802774361
This book is for all those who want to improve writing skills or play with different forms of written expression. It is for teachers or tutors in classrooms and resource rooms. It is for those who run enrichment programs for gifted and talented students. It is for those who provide extracurricular enrichment in community centers, libraries, or schools. It is for students of any age. It is for parents whose children are receiving inadequate or confusing instruction. It is for families who want a pool of word games for automobile trips or dinner table enjoyment.
Author : Lucile Vaughan Payne
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 15,54 MB
Release : 1969-03-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0451627121
An essential refernce for writers—both new and experienced—that will help improve your writing skills and style and help you say exactly what you want to say. Students, teachers, businessmen, aspiring authors, and complaining consumers all have one thing in common—the need to express successfully ideas, opinions, arguments, problems, explanations, or instructions through the medium of the written word. And The Lively Art of Writing is the perfect guide to the mastery of this essential skill. It will answer all of your questions, provide you with the best techniques, and offer important information about: • Choosing a subject • Working with words • The sound of sentences • The power of paragraphs • Essentials of style • Essays, theses, and term papers • And much, much more...
Author : Beth Means
Publisher :
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 15,27 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Education
ISBN :
Author : Lucile Vaughan Payne
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 40,19 MB
Release : 1982
Category : English language
ISBN :
Author : Penelope Lively
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 29,64 MB
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 080219737X
“A powerful, moving and beautifully wrought novel about the ways in which lives are molded by personal memory and the collective past.” —The Boston Globe Winner of the Man Booker Prize Elderly, uncompromising Claudia Hampton lies in a London hospital bed with memories of life fluttering through her fading consciousness. An author of popular history, Claudia proclaims she’s carrying out her last project: a history of the world. This history turns out to be a mosaic of her life, her own story tangled with those of her brother, her lover and father of her daughter, and the center of her life, Tom, her one great love found and lost in war-torn Egypt. Always the independent woman, often with contentious relationships, Claudia’s personal history is complex and fascinating. As people visit Claudia, they shake and twist the mosaic, changing speed, movement, and voice, to reveal themselves and Claudia’s impact on their world. “Emotionally, Moon Tiger is kaleidoscopic, deeply satisfying. The all too brief encounter between Claudia and Tom will surely rate as one of the most memorable of contemporary fictional affairs. This is one of the best novels I have read for years.” —The London Sunday Telegraph “It pulls us in; it engages us and saddens us. It is also unexpectedly funny . . . It leaves its traces in the air long after you’ve put it away.” —The New York Times Book Review “One of the very best Booker winners . . . it asks hard questions about memory and history and personal legacy; it’s stylistically demanding and inventive . . . a wonderful book.” —The Guardian
Author : Daniel Farb
Publisher : University of Health Care
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 MB
Release : 2004-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781594910876
Writing Clearly is a lively presentation of how to write clearly includes lots of examples of how to focus your thoughts and create clearly understood writing. It contains many of Dr. Farb's own writing techniques and contains exercises drawn from business periodicals. You will learn how to make clear, forceful sentences, use grammatical principles that affect clarity, arrange sentences into logical paragraphs, assemble paragraphs into documents, and do basic proof-reading. Estimated time: 2-4 hours. 143 pages on CD. 20 pages in the manual. You must have Internet Explorer 4.0 or higher running on your computer. Supported operating systems are Windows 95, 98, 98 SE, ME, 2000, or XP. The CD is licensed to play once on any Windows computer; the borrower may purchase the program after that. One library reference activation is included in the price.
Author : Lucile Vaughan Payne
Publisher :
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 36,19 MB
Release : 1982
Category : English language
ISBN : 9780695202774
Author : Judy Reeves
Publisher : New World Library
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 18,4 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1577319362
First published a decade ago, A Writer's Book of Days has become the ideal writing coach for thousands of writers. Newly revised, with new prompts, up-to-date Web resources, and more useful information than ever, this invaluable guide offers something for everyone looking to put pen to paper -- a treasure trove of practical suggestions, expert advice, and powerful inspiration. Judy Reeves meets you wherever you may be on a given day with: * get-going prompts and exercises * insight into writing blocks * tips and techniques for finding time and creating space * ways to find images and inspiration * advice on working in writing groups * suggestions, quips, and trivia from accomplished practitioners Reeves's holistic approach addresses every aspect of what makes creativity possible (and joyful) -- the physical, emotional, and spiritual. And like a smart, empathetic inner mentor, she will help you make every day a writing day. Named one of the five hottest writing books by Writer's Digest
Author : Francis-Noël Thomas
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 41,20 MB
Release : 2017-03-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1400887356
Everyone talks about style, but no one explains it. The authors of this book do; and in doing so, they provoke the reader to consider style, not as an elegant accessory of effective prose, but as its very heart. At a time when writing skills have virtually disappeared, what can be done? If only people learned the principles of verbal correctness, the essential rules, wouldn't good prose simply fall into place? Thomas and Turner say no. Attending to rules of grammar, sense, and sentence structure will no more lead to effective prose than knowing the mechanics of a golf swing will lead to a hole-in-one. Furthermore, ten-step programs to better writing exacerbate the problem by failing to recognize, as Thomas and Turner point out, that there are many styles with different standards. In the first half of Clear and Simple, the authors introduce a range of styles--reflexive, practical, plain, contemplative, romantic, prophetic, and others--contrasting them to classic style. Its principles are simple: The writer adopts the pose that the motive is truth, the purpose is presentation, the reader is an intellectual equal, and the occasion is informal. Classic style is at home in everything from business memos to personal letters, from magazine articles to university writing. The second half of the book is a tour of examples--the exquisite and the execrable--showing what has worked and what hasn't. Classic prose is found everywhere: from Thomas Jefferson to Junichirō Tanizaki, from Mark Twain to the observations of an undergraduate. Here are many fine performances in classic style, each clear and simple as the truth. Originally published in 1994. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.