Composition Creative Writing category: 2214 books
Masterclasses in Creative Writing
Inspirational instruction and exercises for writers of fiction
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
What often holds aspiring writers back is the lack of confidence to get started. How do I structure my story? How do I bring my characters to life and make them believable? How do I write convincing dialogue?
In this dip-into book a professional, award-winning writer and lecturer on creative...
Creative Writing for Critical Thinking
Creating a Discoursal Identity
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
This book explores narrative imagination and emotion as resources for learning critical meta-reflection. The author examines the learning trajectories of several students as they engage in learning to think critically through a new approach to creative writing, and details how learning through writing...
A New Writing Classroom
Listening, Motivation, and Habits of Mind
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2014
In A New Writing Classroom, Patrick Sullivan provides a new generation of teachers a means and a rationale to reconceive their approach to teaching writing, calling into question the discipline's dependence on argument.
Including secondary writing teachers within his purview, Sullivan advocates...
by Michelle Ballif, D. Diane Davis, Roxanne Mountford
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2010
This volume explores how women in the fields of rhetoric and composition have succeeded, despite the challenges inherent in the circumstances of their work. Focusing on those women generally viewed as "successful" in rhetoric and composition, this volume relates their stories of successes...
Transiciones
Pathways of Latinas and Latinos Writing in High School and College
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2015
Transiciones is a thorough ethnography of seven Latino students in transition between high school and community college or university. Data gathered over two years of interviews with the students, their high school English teachers, and their writing teachers and administrators at postsecondary institutions...
Monsters Under the Bed
Critically investigating early years writing
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Monsters Under the Bed is an essential text focussing on critical and contemporary issues surrounding writing for ‘early years’ children. Containing a critically creative and a creatively critical investigation of the cult and culture of the child and childhood in fiction and non-fictional writing,...
The Writing Prompts Workbook, Grades 11-12
Story Starters for Journals, Assignments and More
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2014
As eleventh and twelfth graders continue to study the more complex aspects of writing, it's important to remember to work on creativity and imagination as well. The Writing Prompts Workbook is a collection of imaginative situations and questions that will get your students and children to come up...
Part Wild
A Writer's Guide to Harnessing the Creative Power of Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
“A must-read for any aspiring or seasoned writer.” —Huffington Post
We all have the call to create. The question is…why don’t we answer it?
We all come pre-loaded with a creative spark that drives us to innovate, explore, express, and make our unique contribution to the world....
by Richard Goodman
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
"I have a faith in language," said the poet W. S. Merwin. "It's the ultimate achievement that we as a species have evolved so far." Language is a deep ocean of living words, as varied as undersea life. It is a gift inherited by each person when he or she is born; it can be corrupted...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011
The one guide every creative nonfiction writer needs to turn to when being "creative."
Writers of memoir and narrative nonfiction are experiencing difficult days with the discovery that some well-known works in the genre contain exaggerations--or are partially fabricated. But what...
by Edgar Allan Poe
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2014
*This Book is annotated (it contains a detailed biography of the author). *An active Table of Contents has been added by the publisher for a better customer experience. *This book has been checked and corrected for spelling errors.
"The Philosophy of Composition" is an...
1,000 Creative Writing Prompts for Holidays
Festive Ideas for Blogs, Scripts, Stories and More
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014
Have You Ever Had Writer's Block? Do You Want a Book That Could Keep It Away for Good? Writing prompts are questions and hypothetical situations that are able to cure writer's block instantly. This book gives you exactly one thousand idea-generating prompts that focus on most memorable...
by MobileReference
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Boost Your grades with this comprehensive Study Guide. You will use it from high school to college and beyond.Audience:Intended for everyone interested in improving their writing and presentation skills, particularly high school and college students.FEATURES:- An essentialguide for students struggling...
by Kate Walker
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
Not another book about coming up with ideas for stories, but how to actually WRITE them! These exercises are crafted around the specific process whereby students learn to write. (See introduction.) Low stress for teachers & students alike.
No pre-class prep. Open the booklet and read. For Classroom...