Author : Richard Lederer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 24,9 MB
Release : 1995-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 0671526707
Offers practical tips to improve writing skills and avoid common grammar and syntax errors.
Author : Jodi Wheeler-Toppen
Publisher : NSTA Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 48,36 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Education
ISBN : 1936959976
Writing skills are high on the list of real-world requirements for all studentsOCoincluding science students. Every scientific discipline needs professionals who can ably communicate in writing. Scientists must be able to describe their proposed studies for funding considerations, track their observations and results in their own notes, describe their experimental protocols for their peers to replicate, and synthesize their work to the wider world community."
Author : Yocheved Rottenberg
Publisher :
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 35,91 MB
Release : 2020-12-03
Category :
ISBN :
Therapeutic writing allows us access to our inner world through unique exercises that enable us to grow, understand ourselves, and change our lives for the better.Using proven writing techniques alongside authentic Jewish sources culled from a wealth of Torah wisdom, Write Your Way Home will guide you to effective writing exercises that will help you develop greater inner satisfaction, better relationships with the people around you, and a deeper connection to God.
Author : Rachel Toor
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 41,29 MB
Release : 2017-08-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 022638392X
“Toor’s style is friendly, funny, and genuinely compelling, exhorting students to go deeper with their writing even (and especially) when the stakes are high.” —School Library Journal Writing, for most of us, is bound up with anxiety. It’s even worse when it feels like your whole future—or at least where you’ll spend the next four years in college—is on the line. It’s easy to understand why so many high school seniors put off working on their applications until the last minute or end up with a generic and clichéd essay. The good news? You already have the “secret sauce” for crafting a compelling personal essay: your own experiences and your unique voice. The best essays rarely catalog how students have succeeded or achieved. Good writing shows the reader how you’ve struggled and describes mistakes you’ve made. Excellent essays express what you’re fired up about, illustrate how you think, and illuminate the ways you’ve grown. More than twenty million students apply to college every year; many of them look similar in terms of test scores, grades, courses taken, extracurricular activities. Admissions officers wade through piles of files. As an applicant, you need to think about what will interest an exhausted reader. What can you write that will make her argue to admit you instead of the thousands of other applicants? A good essay will be conversational and rich in vivid details, and it could only be written by one person—you. This book will help you figure out how to find and present the best in yourself. You’ll acquire some useful tools for writing well—and may even have fun—in the process.
Author : Tucker Max
Publisher : Lioncrest Publishing
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 17,8 MB
Release : 2021-04-15
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1544514050
Ready to write your book? So why haven’t you done it yet? If you’re like most nonfiction authors, fears are holding you back. Sound familiar? Is my idea good enough? How do I structure a book? What exactly are the steps to write it? How do I stay motivated? What if I actually finish it, and it’s bad? Worst of all: what if I publish it, and no one cares? How do I know if I’m even doing the right things? The truth is, writing a book can be scary and overwhelming—but it doesn’t have to be. There’s a way to know you’re on the right path and taking the right steps. How? By using a method that’s been validated with thousands of other Authors just like you. In fact, it’s the same exact process used to produce dozens of big bestsellers–including David Goggins’s Can’t Hurt Me, Tiffany Haddish’s The Last Black Unicorn, and Joey Coleman’s Never Lose a Customer Again. The Scribe Method is the tested and proven process that will help you navigate the entire book-writing process from start to finish–the right way. Written by 4x New York Times Bestselling Author Tucker Max and publishing expert Zach Obront, you’ll learn the step-by-step method that has helped over 1,500 authors write and publish their books. Now a Wall Street Journal Bestseller itself, The Scribe Method is specifically designed for business leaders, personal development gurus, entrepreneurs, and any expert in their field who has accumulated years of hard-won knowledge and wants to put it out into the world. Forget the rest of the books written by pretenders. This is the ultimate resource for anyone who wants to professionally write a great nonfiction book.
Author : Jason Reynolds
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 24,74 MB
Release : 2017-10-24
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1481438271
“An intense snapshot of the chain reaction caused by pulling a trigger.” —Booklist (starred review) “Astonishing.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “A tour de force.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) A Newbery Honor Book A Coretta Scott King Honor Book A Printz Honor Book A Time Best YA Book of All Time (2021) A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winner for Young Adult Literature Longlisted for the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature Winner of the Walter Dean Myers Award An Edgar Award Winner for Best Young Adult Fiction Parents’ Choice Gold Award Winner An Entertainment Weekly Best YA Book of 2017 A Vulture Best YA Book of 2017 A Buzzfeed Best YA Book of 2017 An ode to Put the Damn Guns Down, this is New York Times bestselling author Jason Reynolds’s electrifying novel that takes place in sixty potent seconds—the time it takes a kid to decide whether or not he’s going to murder the guy who killed his brother. A cannon. A strap. A piece. A biscuit. A burner. A heater. A chopper. A gat. A hammer A tool for RULE Or, you can call it a gun. That’s what fifteen-year-old Will has shoved in the back waistband of his jeans. See, his brother Shawn was just murdered. And Will knows the rules. No crying. No snitching. Revenge. That’s where Will’s now heading, with that gun shoved in the back waistband of his jeans, the gun that was his brother’s gun. He gets on the elevator, seventh floor, stoked. He knows who he’s after. Or does he? As the elevator stops on the sixth floor, on comes Buck. Buck, Will finds out, is who gave Shawn the gun before Will took the gun. Buck tells Will to check that the gun is even loaded. And that’s when Will sees that one bullet is missing. And the only one who could have fired Shawn’s gun was Shawn. Huh. Will didn’t know that Shawn had ever actually USED his gun. Bigger huh. BUCK IS DEAD. But Buck’s in the elevator? Just as Will’s trying to think this through, the door to the next floor opens. A teenage girl gets on, waves away the smoke from Dead Buck’s cigarette. Will doesn’t know her, but she knew him. Knew. When they were eight. And stray bullets had cut through the playground, and Will had tried to cover her, but she was hit anyway, and so what she wants to know, on that fifth floor elevator stop, is, what if Will, Will with the gun shoved in the back waistband of his jeans, MISSES. And so it goes, the whole long way down, as the elevator stops on each floor, and at each stop someone connected to his brother gets on to give Will a piece to a bigger story than the one he thinks he knows. A story that might never know an END…if Will gets off that elevator. Told in short, fierce staccato narrative verse, Long Way Down is a fast and furious, dazzlingly brilliant look at teenage gun violence, as could only be told by Jason Reynolds.
Author : Neal Shusterman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 49,60 MB
Release : 2012-02-21
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1439115257
Full of roller-coaster twists and turns, Neal Shusterman's page-turner is an Orpheus-like adventure into one boy's psyche. Sixteen-year-old Blake and his younger brother, Quinn, are exact opposites. Blake is the responsible member of the family. He constantly has to keep an eye on the fearless Quinn, whose thrill-seeking sometimes goes too far. But the stakes get higher when Blake has to chase Quinn into a bizarre phantom carnival that traps its customers forever. In order to escape, Blake must survive seven deadly rides by dawn, each of which represents a deep, personal fear--from a carousel of stampeding animals to a hall of mirrors that changes people into their deformed reflections. Blake ultimately has to face up to a horrible secret from his own past to save himself and his brother--that is, if the carnival doesn't claim their souls first!
Author : John Fairfax
Publisher : St Martins Press
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 45,44 MB
Release : 1981-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780312858339
Members of England's Arvon Foundation offer both beginning and established writers tips for improving creative writing through organization, revision, self-evaluation, development of ideas, and the use of images
Author : Gary Roe
Publisher :
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 35,18 MB
Release : 2021-09-10
Category :
ISBN : 9781950382477
Your world has changed. Someone special is missing. How do you do this? What does this mean? Who are you now? What's next? Multiple award-winning author, speaker, and grief specialist Gary Roe experienced multiple, devastating losses in childhood. Gary says, "By the time I was a teenager, I was slogging through each day carrying a massive amount of grief. Then my dad dropped in front of me of a heart attack. He was a single father and my one functional parent. When this lightning bolt struck, I thought my life was over." Then Gary picked up a pen and started writing. The next day, he wrote some more. "I found myself emoting as I wrote. Sadness, confusion, anger, fear, anxiety, and guilt spewed out of me, one word at a time. I felt lousy, but expressing what was inside me felt good and relieving." Unfortunately, the losses just kept coming. And Gary kept writing. Now, almost a half-century and 20 books later, Gary gives us a gift - a unique grief workbook born of his extensive personal and professional experience of using writing as a tool to recover from the losses of life. Whether you're an avid journal writer or have never used writing to process difficult events, you'll find the Grieving the Write Way Journal and Workbook a heartfelt, compassionate, and practical resource for your grief journey. In Grieving the Write Way, you'll learn... The role writing can play in your grief and healing process. How writing can steady your heart enough to express your emotions in a productive way. How writing can slow your mind down enough to get your thoughts on paper and begin to process them. To practice writing as a safe place to express and process questions, doubts, and fears. To use writing as an avenue to vent frustrations about your relationships in an honest and uncensored manner. How to use writing to work through your thoughts, wonderings, and concerns about the future. Writing can become a powerful habit that can help us navigate life in general. What we don't express stays locked in our hearts and often becomes the baggage that weighs us down. Grieving the Write Way is about you and the terrible loss you're enduring. It was written to help you... Express your heart, mind, and soul. Navigate the relational changes and upsets you're facing. See that you're not alone, you're not crazy, and that you will make it through this. Take the next steps in your grief process, whatever they might be. In these pages, you'll get many opportunities to experience the benefits of writing about your loss and what's happening in your heart and mind. Take the next step. Read on...and write.
Author : Kathleen Adams
Publisher :
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 34,43 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Diaries
ISBN : 9780967655208
