Language learning: writing skills

The Conflict Thesaurus: A Writer's Guide to Obstacles, Adversaries, and Inner Struggles (Volume 2) explores more ways to activate story conflict and tension.

What if you could fast-track the reader's understanding of a character without chunky paragraphs of description that kill the story's pace?

Knowing how to write clear prose will help both the student and the adult who wants to try his hand to perform at a higher level.

A one-stop guide to using life-coaching techniques to unleash your writing potential.

The essential guide to sharpening dialogue.

21 days to creative freedom.

This book shows through a simple, practical approach, how to enrich your poems through fine structuring of form.

This book will help you create chiller thrillers with memorable characters and truly chilling plots.

The books in this bite-sized new series contain no complicated techniques or tricky materials, making them ideal for the busy, the time-pressured or the merely curious.

Este libro recopila algunos de mis primeros escritos, en los cuales doy inicio al nacimiento de mi seudnimo: ORFEO ACTUAL [Sensibilidad Personificada].

Get Your Act Together is a book for anyone who wants to be serious about becoming a stand-up comic and wants to do it well.

Struggling with structure?

In her newest book of poems, Dr.

Why does my six year old son hate kisses?

Written in short, accessible sections, this book explains the basics of writing good English.

Colour code your writing for greater success
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A lively and informative 'how to' on writing erotica by a published author.

From A to Zacquisition editor to zap fictionNecessary Words for Writers provides a thorough reference guide that defines and describesthe words and vocabulary most often used in the publishing industry.

Put direct experience in a small package and launch it worldwide.

Award-winning author, Valerie Haynes Perry, has written this book to help you maintain the clarity, self-confidence, and motivation you need to bring your own book into being.

Horror writer and former Gothic Society member, Suzanne Ruthven brings us a step-by-step guide to writing horror fiction.

The easy way to earn a living from writing for magazines and newspapers.

A book of tips, advice and encouragement for writers at all levels.

Marni Freedman invites you to fall in love with the magic that is writing with writer-tested-and-approved tools on story structure, scene creation, plot, voice and character.

How to make your writing group work for you.

In this book, I have set out and explored all forms of topic and moving image media.

Bestselling author Diana Gabaldon divulges the writing secrets behind the sex scenes in her wildly popular Outlander novels.

Brenda Ueland stresses the idea that "Everyone is talented, original, and has something important to say.

Brenda Ueland stresses the idea that "e;Everyone is talented, original, and has something important to say.

'The Elements of Style' (1918), by William Strunk, Jr.

The Elements of Style is an American English writing style guide.

Write clearly.

Over a million copies soldClear writing is the key to clear thinking.

Becoming International: Musings on Studying Abroad in AmericaThis collection of flash nonfiction chronicles the experiences of international students as they leave home, cross borders, and begin their studies in the United States.

Editors and contributors pursue the ambitious goal of including within WAC theory, research, and practice the differing perspectives, educational experiences, and voices of second-language writers.

The Muses Among Us is an inviting, encouraging book for writers at any stage of their development.

This reference guide provides a comprehensive review of the literature on all the issues, responsibilities, and opportunities that writing program administrators need to understand, manage, and enact, including budgets, personnel, curriculum, assessment, teacher training and supervision, and more.

Plato wrote in the Timaeus of time as the moving image of eternity.

We'll See, originally published in France in 1995 as On Verra Bien by le de bleu, is Georges L.

The essays and poems in The Weight of My Armor represent the work of twenty-three members of the Syracuse Veterans' Writing Group, which meets monthly on the Syracuse University campus.

The WPA Outcomes Statement-A Decade Later examines the ways that the Council of Writing Program Administrators' Outcomes Statement for First-Year Composition has informed curricula, generated programmatic, institutional, and disciplinary change, and affected a disciplinary understanding of best practices in first-year composition.

For over twenty-five years, NICOLAS PESQUES has been writing an homage to Juliau, the mountain he sees out his window.

Theory has been used widely in the field of second language writing.

Professionalizing Second Language Writing is an edited collection that bring together perspectives of second language writing specialists who shed light on second language writing as a profession.

Rhetoric Across Borders features a select representation of 27 essays and excerpts from the "e;In Conversation"e; panels at the Rhetoric Society of America's 2014 conference on "e;Border Rhetorics.

Describes mentoring of teachers and scholars in the field of composition and rhetoric.

Working with educators at all academic levels involved in WAC partnerships, the authors and editors of this collection demonstrate successful models of collaboration between schools and institutions so others can emulate and promote this type of collaboration.