Composition Creative Writing category: 2214 books
by Ellen Schendel, William J. Macauley
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
No less than other divisions of the college or university, contemporary writing centers find themselves within a galaxy of competing questions and demands that relate to assessment—questions and demands that usually embed priorities from outside the purview of the writing center itself. Writing...
Re/Writing the Center
Approaches to Supporting Graduate Students in the Writing Center
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2019
Re/Writing the Center illuminates how core writing center pedagogies and institutional arrangements are complicated by the need to create intentional, targeted support for advanced graduate writers. Most writing center tutors are undergraduates, whose lack of familiarity with the genres, preparatory...
Assessing Student's Digital Writing
Protocols for Looking Closely
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In this book, Troy Hicks—a leader in the teaching of digital writing—collaborates with seven National Writing Project teacher consultants to provide a protocol for assessing students’ digital writing. This collection highlights six case studies centered on evidence the authors have...
The Teacher-Writer
Creating Writing Groups for Personal and Professional Growth
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The Teacher-Writer shows how teachers can pursue and sustain personally and professionally worthwhile writing practices, even amidst the many demands associated with teaching. It meets teachers wherever they are—as novice teachers just beginning to pursue writing, as teachers emerging from a...
by Bernard Selling
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
Many writing instructors and workbooks make basic assumptions about writing—that you need to have a good grasp of grammar, to read widely, and to write objectively—before you can tell a story. These assumptions are wrong. They invoke fear in would-be writers, who are afraid of being judged and...
by Sandra Murphy, Mary Ann Smith
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This innovative resource provides teachers with a road map for designing a comprehensive writing curriculum that meets Common Core standards. The authors zero in on several “big ideas” that lead to and support effective practices in writing instruction, such as integrating reading, writing,...
The Copywriter's Handbook
A Step-By-Step Guide To Writing Copy That Sells
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
The classic guide to copywriting, now in an entirely updated third edition
This is a book for everyone who writes or approves copy: copywriters, account executives, creative directors, freelance writers, advertising managers . . . even entrepreneurs and brand managers. It reveals dozens of...
A Little Book on Form
An Exploration into the Formal Imagination of Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
An acute and deeply insightful book of essays exploring poetic form and the role of instinct and imagination within form—from former poet laureate, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winning author Robert Hass.
Robert Hass—former poet laureate, winner of the National Book Award, and...
Next Word, Better Word
The Craft of Writing Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
This accessible writer's guide provides a helpful framework for creating poetry and navigates contemporary concerns and practices. Stephen Dobyns, author of the classic book on the beauty of poetry, Best Words, Best Order, moves into new terrain in this remarkable book. Bringing years of experience...
by Victoria Hanley
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
Do you wish you had a published writer's secrets at your fingertips, ready to help you achieve your goals of publication, success, and the chance to be the next great teen writer? In Seize the Story: A Handbook for Teens Who Like to Write, Victoria Hanley, award-winning author of young adult fiction,...
The True Secret of Writing
Connecting Life with Language
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
Sit. Walk. Write. These are the barest bones of Natalie Goldberg’s revolutionary writing and life practice, which she presents here in book form for the first time. A whole new slant on writing that she developed since the publication of her classic Writing Down the Bones, True Secret workshops...
On Writing
Notes from the world of books, 1995-2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
Why do authors write? How do they go about it? What is good writing?In On Writing, Robert McCrum collects together his questions and reflections on the nature of writing from his Observer newspaper column. In them he explores the sometimes tricky relationship between writing and commerce, looks at the...
Writing Tools
55 Essential Strategies for Every Writer
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2008
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...
by Kate Krake
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2016
You want to be a better writer.
You want to develop your writing skills.
You want to learn how to think like a writer, to craft powerful stories, to entertain, to inspire and amaze.
Here are 101 writing exercises to help you do all of those things.
101 Writing Exercises for fiction is an action...