Composition Creative Writing category: 2214 books
Demythologizing Language Difference in the Academy
Establishing Discipline-Based Writing Programs
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2004
In this volume, Mark Waldo argues that writing across the curriculum (WAC) programs should be housed in writing centers and explains an innovative approach to enhancing their effectiveness: focus WAC on the writing agendas of the disciplines. He asserts that WAC operation should reflect an academy...
Love Writing
How to Make Money Writing Romantic or Erotic Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2010
Love sells and sex sells and you can earn your living writing about them for novels, novellas and short stories as well as serials for magazines, anthologies and websites. This book holds the secrets of how to achieve success. As well as drawing on her experience as a fiction writer and creative writing...
by Boris Fishman
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
The second volume of the four-book series that guides students into the creation of sophisticated short fiction and mature poetry.
Complements Peace Hill Press’s expository series Writing With Skill by providing the imaginative element that many students want.
Unlike most “how to write”...
by Adèle Ramet
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
This book is a first-rate guide for writers who are looking for ways to improve their output. It focuses on: - Fiction writing and the world of genre fiction - science, romance, horror and crime. - Ways of drawing on personal experience in order to write non-fiction articles on a wide variety of topics...
The Power of Writing
Dartmouth '66 in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2015
At the 1966 Dartmouth Seminar, scholars gathered to debate the direction of English Studies in the academy. This debate had far-reaching effects and arguably forever changed writing instruction in the United States. To commemorate the 45th anniversary of this gathering, Dartmouth College hosted an...
Writer's Rehab
A 12-Step Program For Writers Who Can’t Get Their Acts Together
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
Writer’s Rehab is filled with tough love and unvarnished truths about the business of writing. D.B. Gilles gobsmacks both experienced and aspiring writers past self-delusion and towards productivity.
"D.B. Gilles has discovered the eerie correspondences among the 12 stages of the Hero's...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Improving Writing and Thinking through Assessment is designed to help individual faculty and administrators select assessment approaches and measures to maximize their students’ writing and thinking. The book offers useful guidance, through presentation of recommended assessment guidelines and measurement...
Writing Fiction
Creative and Critical Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2007
Exploring writing as a practice, Boulter draws from the work of writers and theorists to show how cultural and literary debates can help writers enhance their own fiction. Negotiating the creative-critical crossover, this is an approachable book that helps students develop practical writing skills and a critical awareness of creative possibilities.
by Boris Fishman
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2012
A gentle, imaginative introduction to the skills all creative writers need.
Breaking down the elements that go into successful imaginative works, The Creative Writer leads aspiring writers through the skills needed to construct each. The assignments, designed to make students more aware of...
by Boris Fishman
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
The third volume of the four-book series that guides students into the creation of sophisticated short fiction and mature poetry.
• Complements Peace Hill Press’s expository series Writing With Skill by providing the imaginative element that many students want.
• Unlike most “how to...
The Meaningful Writing Project
Learning, Teaching and Writing in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
In the face of the continuing discourse of crisis in US education, The Meaningful Writing Project offers readers an affirming story of writing in higher education that shares students’ experiences in their own voices. In presenting the results of a three-year study consisting of surveys and interviews...
Assignments across the Curriculum
A National Study of College Writing
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
In Assignments across the Curriculum, Dan Melzer analyzes the rhetorical features and genres of writing assignments through the writing-to-learn and writing-in-the-disciplines perspectives. Presenting the results of his study of 2,101 writing assignments from undergraduate courses in the natural sciences,...
1,000 Creative Writing Prompts to Unstick Your Brain - Volume 2
1,000 Creative Writing Prompts to Unstick Your Brain, #2
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2018
Write more. Write tighter. Write beyond imagination.
Writers from around the world have enjoyed these prompts that get you thinking beyond your comfort zone. Whether you work through them in order or choose random prompts, you'll discover unexpected avenues for new fiction, poetry, essays,...
Writing-Intensive
Becoming W-Faculty in a New Writing Curriculum
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
In one of the few book-length studies of a major post-secondary writing-across-the-curriculum initiative from concept to implementation, Writing-Intensive traces the process of preparation for new writing requirements across the undergraduate curriculum at Simon Fraser University, a mid-sized Canadian...