Language Arts & Disciplines : Composition & Creative Writing

Based on workshops developed by the Plain English Foundation, this is a practical, well-tested manual for anyone who needs to get it right the first time when they're writing reports, tenders, letters and other documents at work. more...

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A practical guide to all aspects of feature writing for journalists and freelance writers. more...

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A classic handbook for anyone who needs to write, Writing With Power speaks to everyone who has wrestled with words while seeking to gain power with them. Here, Peter Elbow emphasizes that the essential activities underlying good writing and the essential exercises promoting it are really not difficult at all. Employing a cookbook approach, Elbow provides the reader (and writer) with various recipes: for getting words down on paper, for revising, for dealing with an audience, for getting feedback on a piece of writing, and still other recipes for approaching the mystery of power in writing. In a new introduction, he offers his reflections on the original edition, discusses the responses from people who have followed his techniques, how his methods may differ from other processes, and how his original topics are still pertinent to todays writer. By taking risks and embracing mistakes, Elbow hopes the writer may somehow find a hold on the creative process and be able to heighten two mentalities--the production of writing and the revision of it.  more...

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Brian Huot's aim for this book is both ambitious and provocative. He wants to reorient composition studies' view of writing assessment. To accomplish this, he not only has to inspire the field to perceive assessment?generally not the most appreciated area of study?as deeply significant to theory and pedagogy, he also has to counter some common misconceptions about the history of assessment in writing. more...

Price: $21.95

With unusual exercises designed to stimulate creativity and overcome writing fears, this book will help writers push the boundaries of their fiction writing to achieve exciting results. more...

Price: $15.99