Seeing and Writing and St. Martin Handbook 2000
Author : Donald A. McQuade
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 22,73 MB
Release : 2001-05-01
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ISBN : 9780312399986
Author : Donald A. McQuade
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 22,73 MB
Release : 2001-05-01
Category :
ISBN : 9780312399986
Author : Andrea A. Lunsford
Publisher : Macmillan Higher Education
Page : 1293 pages
File Size : 30,79 MB
Release : 2020-10-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1319107567
The most rhetorically grounded comprehensive handbook for composition, The St. Martin’s Handbook continues to do what it has always done: Present Andrea Lunsford’s substantial and timely research with student writers for student writers. The ninth edition reflects a nationwide survey of students and teachers related to how young people interact with others from different language and cultural backgrounds and with people with whom they disagree. New material on college expectations helps students think critically about barriers to and benefits of open and respectful dialogue and offers strategies for communicating outside of one’s comfort zone. Attention to gender and pronouns and to language varieties and identities supports students as they learn to write to include rather than to exclude. And throughout the ninth edition, which assumes students are writing traditional and multimodal projects in a mobile world, Andrea Lunsford asks students to see themselves as communicators in a global world. With new student writing, stronger coverage of argument, new material on defensive reading and fact-checking, more visual help with field research, the most up-to-date citation models, and a range of practice activities, The St. Martin’s Handbook helps a wide variety of college writers succeed.
Author : Ronald J. Comer
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 48,32 MB
Release : 2005
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ISBN : 9780312448288
Author : Andrea A. Lunsford
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 878 pages
File Size : 32,78 MB
Release : 1999
Category : English language
ISBN :
A guide to writing for students, presenting a tool for self-analysis; explaining the process of expository and argumentative essays; examining grammar, word choice, punctuation, and mechanics; and discussing research, academic writing, online writing, and multilingual issues.
Author : Andrea A. Lunsford
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 991 pages
File Size : 16,71 MB
Release : 2011-02-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0312602936
Lunsford found that today's students write more than ever before-- and make rhetorically appropriate choices in texts they create outside the classroom. This is the first handbook to help students build on the smart decisions they make as recreational writers in order to succeed in their academic and professional work. It is an all-in-one teaching tool and reference that shows students how to write effectively for any purpose.
Author : Barry Turner
Publisher : Trans-Atlantic Publications
Page : 804 pages
File Size : 28,15 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780333725757
Over 500 entries tap every vein of opportunity in book and magazine publishing, newspapers, poetry, radio, theatre, TV, video and film, as well as giving information on agents, prizes, writers' circles, associations, festivals and much, much more
Author : Donald McQuade
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,14 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Art and literature
ISBN : 9780312578619
Author : Tonette S. Rocco
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 15,47 MB
Release : 2011-03-22
Category : Education
ISBN : 0470393351
Focusing on writing for publication, The Handbook of Scholarly Writing and Publishing discusses the components of a manuscript, types of manuscripts, and the submission process. It shows how to craft scholarly papers and other writing suitable for submission to academic journals. The handbook covers how to develop writing skills by offering guidance on becoming an excellent manuscript reviewer and outlining what makes a good review, and includes advice on follow-through with editors, rejection, and rewrites and re-submittals.
Author : Sol Stein
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 45,84 MB
Release : 2014-02-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1466864990
Your future as a writer is in your hands. Whether you are a newcomer or an accomplished professional, a novelist, story writer, or a writer of nonfiction, you will find this book a wealth of immediately useful guidance not available anywhere else. As Sol Stein, renowned editor, author, and instructor, explains, "This is not a book of theory. It is a book of useable solutions-- how to fix writing that is flawed, how to improve writing that is good, how to create interesting writing in the first place." You will find one of the great unspoken secrets of craftsmanship in Chapter 5, called "Markers: The Key to Swift Characterization." In Chapter 7, Stein reveals for he first time in print the wonderful system for creating instant conflict developed in the Playwrights Group of the Actors Studio, of which he was a founder. In "Secrets of Good Dialogue," the premier teacher of dialogue gives you the instantly useable techniques that not only make verbal exchanges exciting but that move the story forward immediately. You won't need to struggle with flashbacks or background material after you've read Chapter 14, which shows you how to bring background into the foreground. Writers of both fiction and nonfiction will relish the amphetamines for speeding up pace, and the many ways to liposuction flab, as well as how to tap originality and recognize what successful titles have in common. You'll discover literary values that enhance writing, providing depth and resonance. You'll bless the day you read Chapters 32 and 33 and discover why revising by starting at page one can be a serious mistake, and how to revise without growing cold on your manuscript. In the pages of this book, nonfiction writers will find a passport to the new revolution in journalism and a guide to using the techniques of fiction to enhance nonfiction. Fresh, useful, informative, and fun to read and reread, Stein on Writing is a book you will mark up, dog-ear, and cherish.
Author : John Glatt
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 38,29 MB
Release : 2007-04-01
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 1429904712
In the fall of 1999, a twenty-two-year-old woman was discovered naked and bleeding on the streets of a small New Mexico town south of Albuquerque. She was chained to a padlocked metal collar. The tale she told authorties--of being beaten, raped, and tortured with electric shock--was unthinkable. Until she led them to 59-year-old David Ray Parker, his 39-year-old financee Cindy Hendy--and the lakeside trailer they called their "toy box". What the FBI uncovered was unprecedented in the annals of serial crime: restraining devices, elaborate implements of torture, books on human anatomy, medical equipment, scalpels, and a gynecologist's examination table. But these horrors were only part of the shocking story that would unfold in a stunning trial... Cries in the Desert is the true story of "The Toy Box Killer"--a shocking story of torture and murder in the New Mexico desert.