The second edition of Essaying the Past features a variety of updates and enhancements to further its standing as an indispensible resource to all aspects of researching and writing historical essays.

Author: Jim Cullen

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

ISBN: 9781444351408

Category: History

Page: 210

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The second edition of Essaying the Past features a variety of updates and enhancements to further its standing as an indispensible resource to all aspects of researching and writing historical essays. Includes expert advice on writing about history, conducting good research, and learning how to think analytically Includes a new chapter addressing common situations that represent steps in the transition from a rough first draft to a final version Covers important topics such as framing questions, developing a strong introduction and topic sentences, choosing good evidence, and the crucial role of revision Includes an annotated case study that takes the reader through one student’s process of writing an essay, illustrating how strategies in the text can be successfully implemented New edition features updates to cultural references, a newly written preface, and reorganized table of contents

This is an essential book for everyone who wants to write clearly about any subject and use writing as a means of learning.

Author: William Zinsser

Publisher: Harper Collins

ISBN: 9780062244697

Category: Language Arts & Disciplines

Page: 272

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This is an essential book for everyone who wants to write clearly about any subject and use writing as a means of learning.

Author: Robert Graham

Publisher: Macmillan International Higher Education

ISBN: 9781137517081

Category: Creative writing

Page: 306

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What do we mean by that? Isn't my book complete? You might well respond. Well, actually, no, we would and do reply. There is more work to be done, especially if this is your first book, and you are newbie in the book world.

Author: Phd Marjory Lyons

Publisher:

ISBN: 099973203X

Category:

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Welcome to our book on taking the last steps in completing your book. What do we mean by that? Isn't my book complete? You might well respond. Well, actually, no, we would and do reply. There is more work to be done, especially if this is your first book, and you are newbie in the book world. The next steps involve choices.

44 activities to help teach creative thinking, self-expression, and writing skills. Students think through a story or idea, draw a concept, then write about it. Level One includes parents, meals, pets, and dreams.

Author: Jean Marzollo

Publisher: Frank Schaffer Publications Incorporated

ISBN: 0822469464

Category: Juvenile Nonfiction

Page: 48

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44 activities to help teach creative thinking, self-expression, and writing skills. Students think through a story or idea, draw a concept, then write about it. Level One includes parents, meals, pets, and dreams.

Author: Kimberley Hardin

Publisher:

ISBN: 1524922935

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What makes this guide so distinctive, though, is the way it consistently asks you to reflect on your work, and stresses the importance of being able to articulate the processes of writing.

Author: Robert Graham

Publisher: Macmillan International Higher Education

ISBN: 9780230207899

Category: Language Arts & Disciplines

Page: 280

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If you are a writer of fiction, this practical handbook will teach you how to acquire your own writer's tool-box. Here you will learn all about developing your craft. The wide-ranging exploration of fiction-writing skills contains many unique features, such as the focus on reflective learning and tuition on advanced skills including foreshadowing, transitions and producing short story cycles. Throughout, the approach is centred on three kinds of activity: - examining the theory of particular fiction writing skills - analysing the practice of these skills in examples of published work - practising the use of skills in fiction-writing exercises. What makes this guide so distinctive, though, is the way it consistently asks you to reflect on your work, and stresses the importance of being able to articulate the processes of writing. Packed with wisdom about the art of fiction and filled with writing exercises, How To Write Fiction (And Think About It) examines the work of today's finest authors to teach you everything you need to know about writing short stories or longer fiction. Whether you are a student, a would-be professional author, or a general reader who simply likes to write for pleasure, this guide will equip you with a portfolio of key fiction-writing skills.

Author: Rudolf Flesch

Publisher: Berkley

ISBN: 0451141938

Category: English language

Page: 352

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A rich compilation of the previously uncollected Russian and English prose and interviews of one of the twentieth century's greatest writers, edited by Nabokov experts Brian Boyd and Anastasia Tolstoy. “I think like a genius, I write like ...

Author: Vladimir Nabokov

Publisher: Knopf

ISBN: 9781101874929

Category: Literary Collections

Page: 576

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A rich compilation of the previously uncollected Russian and English prose and interviews of one of the twentieth century's greatest writers, edited by Nabokov experts Brian Boyd and Anastasia Tolstoy. “I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child": so Vladimir Nabokov famously wrote in the introduction to his volume of selected prose, Strong Opinions. Think, Write, Speak follows up where that volume left off, with a rich compilation of his uncollected prose and interviews, from a 1921 essay about Cambridge to two final interviews in 1977. The chronological order allows us to watch the Cambridge student and the fledgling Berlin reviewer and poet turn into the acclaimed Paris émigré novelist whose stature brought him to teach in America, where his international success exploded with Lolita and propelled him back to Europe. Whether his subject is Proust or Pushkin, the sport of boxing or the privileges of democracy, Nabokov’s supreme individuality, his keen wit, and his alertness to the details of life illuminate the page.

This instructive text will be useful to students who need to satisfy a science writing proficiency requirement in the context of a science course, a course in technical writing, advanced composition, or writing for the profession.

Author: Marilyn F. Moriarty

Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning

ISBN: 0867205105

Category: Science

Page: 263

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Written and extensively class tested with NSF/NIH support, this timely and useful text addresses a crucial need which is acknowledged in most universities and colleges. It is the need for students to learn to write in the context of their field of study; in this case science. Although numerous "how to" writing books have been published, few, if any, address the central pedagogical issues underlying the process of learning to think and write scientifically. The direct connection between this writing skill and that of critical thinking is developed with engaging style by the author, an English professor. Moriarty's book is an invaluable guide for both undergraduate and graduate science students. In the process of learning the specific requirements of organization demanded by scientific writing, students will develop strategies for thinking through their scientific research, well before they sit down to write. This instructive text will be useful to students who need to satisfy a science writing proficiency requirement in the context of a science course, a course in technical writing, advanced composition, or writing for the profession.

The author encourages businesspeople to use private free-style journal writing to stimulate creative thought and practical solutions in a business environment. Original. 25,000 first printing.

Author: Mark Levy

Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers

ISBN: 1576750833

Category: Business & Economics

Page: 142

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The author encourages businesspeople to use private free-style journal writing to stimulate creative thought and practical solutions in a business environment. Original. 25,000 first printing.

Encourages scientists to write confidently and explains the principles that make communicating research easier.

Author: D. R. Lindsay

Publisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING

ISBN: 9780643100466

Category: Science

Page: 122

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Telling people about research is just as important as doing it. But many researchers, who, in all other respects, are competent scientists, are afraid of writing. They are wary of the unwritten rules, the unspoken dogma and the inexplicably complex style, all of which seem to pervade conventional thinking about scientific writing. This book has been written to expose these phantoms as largely smoke and mirrors, and replace them with principles that make communicating research easier and encourage researchers to write confidently. It presents a way of thinking about writing that emulates the way good scientists think about research. It concentrates on the structure of articles, rather than simply on grammar and syntax. So, it is an ideal reference for researchers preparing articles for scientific journals, posters, conference presentations, reviews and popular articles; for students preparing theses; and for researchers whose first language is not English. Scientific Writing = Thinking in Words expounds principles that produce scientific articles in a wide range of disciplines that are focused, concise and, best of all, easy to write and read. As one senior scientist observed, "This book not only made me a better writer; it made me a better scientist".

An expert guide for learning how to strategically plan, organize, and build documents of any kind around a central core message using blueprints, outlines, step-by-step precision, and professional writing standards.

Author: Peter M Ingle

Publisher:

ISBN: 0974634905

Category: Language Arts & Disciplines

Page: 120

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There are plenty of books about writing, but most of them focus on grammar, usage, and style. They don't tell you how to plan, organize, outline--how to actually build--documents. This book fills that need by providing specific tools for writing documents in stages. You can use these tools to build books, manuals, and proposals as well as theses and term papers. The sooner you grasp the principles behind this method and start using the tools, the sooner you will master the writing process. It is often said that writing is a spontaneous release which is stifled by too much thinking. This book says otherwise. It acknowledges that writing is a creative--a highly creative--process, but that spontaneity without strategy is almost always a weakness when it comes to writing. THINK BEFORE YOU WRITE book demonstrates that when you are definite about what you want to say and you have a strategy for saying it, you will be more confident and your writing will be more clear. You will gain command of your process and come to see writing in a new way.

Using this book, you will to learn more about the habit of writing.

Author: Louise Tondeur

Publisher:

ISBN: 1999805496

Category: Language Arts & Disciplines

Page: 130

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Using this book, you will to learn more about the habit of writing. You will think about how to write, and how to create, and you'll to try out you lots of practical activities along the way. You will end up with your own writers' toolkit - a set of tools you can use again and again in your writing life.

This book will show you how to take your great ideas and craft them into a clear point of view which can influence others. The book is organised into three parts: 1.

Author: Grant Butler

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

ISBN: 9781118219034

Category: Business & Economics

Page: 200

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In a competitive age, thought leadership has emerged as a subtle but powerful way to grow your business, establish credibility and demonstrate expertise, build your profile and forge relationships with prospects and customers. Thought leadership material can take many forms, including public speaking, websites, the media, advertising, writing books, online forums, webinars and blogging. This book will show you how to take your great ideas and craft them into a clear point of view which can influence others. The book is organised into three parts: 1. Think: Defines thought leadership and how to transform your great ideas into effective thought leadership material. 2. Write: Shows you how to articulate your ideas into effective communication. 3. Grow: Demonstrates how thought leadership can be marketed to grow your business and profile. Key features: Shows you how to go from expert to influential thought leader Written by Grant Butler, former Australian Financial Review journalist and now managing director of Australia's largest corporate writing firm. Explains techniques used by politicians, public figures and the CEOs of our biggest companies. Think Write Grow studies the techniques of the great communicators of recent times, from Barack Obama and Boris Johnson to Tim Flannery and Malcolm Turnbull.

What does it mean to say to someone, “i am thinking of you”? And what does it
mean to write it? Do assertions of this kind betray our kinship, however distant,
with the nineteenth-century evangelists of thought- power, believing with them
that ...

Author: Adela Pinch

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

ISBN: 9781139489089

Category: Literary Criticism

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Nineteenth-century life and literature are full of strange accounts that describe the act of one person thinking about another as an ethically problematic, sometimes even a dangerously powerful thing to do. In this book, Adela Pinch explains why, when, and under what conditions it is possible, or desirable, to believe that thinking about another person could affect them. She explains why nineteenth-century British writers - poets, novelists, philosophers, psychologists, devotees of the occult - were both attracted to and repulsed by radical or substantial notions of purely mental relations between persons, and why they moralized about the practice of thinking about other people in interesting ways. Working at the intersection of literary studies and philosophy, this book both sheds new light on a neglected aspect of Victorian literature and thought, and explores the consequences of, and the value placed on, this strand of thinking about thinking.

"... this is surely one of the more thoughtful books on magazine journalism.

Author: Peter Jacobi

Publisher: Indiana University Press

ISBN: 0253211115

Category: Language Arts & Disciplines

Page: 247

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"... this is surely one of the more thoughtful books on magazine journalism. Highly recommended." —Library Journal "An excellent how-to, guaranteed to satisfy requests from would-be authors." —Booklist "... provides writers with hundreds of ideas to help stimulate their creative approach to magazine article writing." —WRITERS' Journal "All kinds of writers will want to keep this volume on their handiest reference shelf." —Arts Indiana "For any aspiring magazine writer, or even a practiced one, this book is a treasury of inspiration and solid, eye-opening instruction." —Herald-Times "More than just another writer's guide to marketing an article, or coming up with salable ideas, [the book] is actually an idea promoter in that it illustrates the basic principles of good magazine article writing, uses examples from well-known publications, and offers strategies for leading into an involving piece." —The Midwest Book Review In this indispensable text, veteran journalist Peter Jacobi offers students hundreds of ideas to help them become more creative in their approach to thinking, planning, and writing magazine articles. Packed with useful advice and top-notch examples, this book takes a practical, hands-on approach to help beginning writers turn everyday subjects into compelling features.

Spend a moment thinking about how this was done , and how and when it will be
referred to in the future . Filtering and shaping experience You cannot write
without filtering information : as we write , we think about what to write and how to
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Author: Arthur Brookes

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

ISBN: 0521589797

Category: Education

Page: 192

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Writing activities for elementary to intermediate learners.

Dear Ann Landers , Dear Ann Landers : HEILU THINK Every day , all over the
United States , people read advice columns in their daily newspapers . ... WRITE
Write a letter to the well - known advice columnist , Ann Landers . In your letter ...

Author: Hilarie N. Staton

Publisher: Good Year Books

ISBN: 067318028X

Category: Language Arts & Disciplines

Page: 120

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Educational resource for teachers, parents and kids!

It will be clear that my argument for writing without audience awareness is not
meant to undermine the many good ... When we think about them as we write, we
think of more and better things to say—and what we think somehow arrives more
 ...

Author: Peter Elbow

Publisher: Oxford University Press

ISBN: 9780195355871

Category: Language Arts & Disciplines

Page: 412

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With Writing without Teachers (OUP 1975) and Writing with Power (OUP 1995) Peter Elbow revolutionized the teaching of writing. His process method--and its now commonplace "free writing" techniques--liberated generations of students and teachers from the emphasis on formal principles of grammar that had dominated composition pedagogy. This new collection of essays brings together the best of Elbow's writing since the publication of Embracing Contraries in 1987. The volume includes sections on voice, the experience of writing, teaching, and evaluation. Implicit throughout is Elbow's commitment to humanizing the profession, and his continued emphasis on the importance of binary thinking and nonadversarial argument. The result is a compendium of a master teacher's thought on the relation between good pedagogy and good writing; it is sure to be of interest to all professional teachers of writing, and will be a valuable book for use in composition courses at all levels.