Language learning: writing skills

Everyday we write countless memos, letters, and reports without a second thought.

Too often both composition teachers and their students experience knowledge and authority as lying outside their rhetorical interactions with others.

In Hearing Ourselves Think, cognitive process research moves from the laboratory to the college classroom, where its rich research tradition continues and an important new set of instructional approaches emerges.

With Writing without Teachers (OUP 1975) and Writing with Power (OUP 1995) Peter Elbow revolutionized the teaching of writing.

Executive functions are a set of cognitive processes we use to act on information, manage resources, and plan and monitor our own behaviour, all with the aim of achieving an end goal.

Executive functions are a set of cognitive processes we use to act on information, manage resources, and plan and monitor our own behaviour, all with the aim of achieving an end goal.

A good research paper is more than just a clear, concise, scientific expose.

Write a successful CV, cover letter, and job application following the advice in this practical guide.

Write a successful CV, cover letter, and job application following the advice in this practical guide.

This book provides students of all levels with essential and easy-to-follow guidance on how to plan, research, and write essays, dissertations, and exams.

This book provides students of all levels with essential and easy-to-follow guidance on how to plan, research, and write essays, dissertations, and exams.

How to Write is an introductory guide to writing, aimed at people who think they can't write, or for whom writing is an ordeal.

How to Write is an introductory guide to writing, aimed at people who think they can't write, or for whom writing is an ordeal.

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Though we all think we know what good writing is when we see it, it's difficult to define it precisely; and without a satisfactory definition, it becomes problematical to assess as well as to teach.

In Writing Without Teachers, well-known advocate of innovative teaching methods Peter Elbow outlines a practical program for learning how to write.

Though we all think we know what good writing is when we see it, it's difficult to define it precisely; and without a satisfactory definition, it becomes problematical to assess as well as to teach.

An interactive workbook for beginners to learn how to write and read Korean quickly!

Do you want to have more meaningful conversations in French?

Do you want to have more meaningful conversations in French?

Reinforce your written Chinese with this practice book for the best-selling Tuttle Learning Chinese Characters.

The first study to explore deeply and intimately the complex and multifaceted nature of creative writing practice, The Scholarship of Creative Writing and Practice offers a new route in scholarly inquiry for creative writing studies, probing beyond pedagogical methods (with which most of the field's scholarship is occupied) to explore the writing life as it is experienced by a wealth of international writer/academics.

The first study to explore deeply and intimately the complex and multifaceted nature of creative writing practice, The Scholarship of Creative Writing and Practice offers a new route in scholarly inquiry for creative writing studies, probing beyond pedagogical methods (with which most of the field's scholarship is occupied) to explore the writing life as it is experienced by a wealth of international writer/academics.

Shortlisted for the ASFLA (Australian Systemic Functional Linguistics Association) M.

Fanfiction and Fan Practices for Language Teaching and Learning explores fanfiction as a tool for language learning, harnessing fans' enthusiasm and creativity while engaging in practices such as fanfiction writing, fan translation, and fanart in another language.

Fanfiction and Fan Practices for Language Teaching and Learning explores fanfiction as a tool for language learning, harnessing fans' enthusiasm and creativity while engaging in practices such as fanfiction writing, fan translation, and fanart in another language.

2026 NYC Big Book Award Teaches step-by-step writing practices that foster deep connection with place, seasonal rhythms, and the natural world Provides practical prompts and exercises designed to cultivate wild language, ecological literacy, and personal transformation Offers creative journaling techniques to process climate grief, restore belonging, and participate in the renewal of EarthLISTEN DEEPLY to awaken your wild imagination and free your untamed voice as your visions comingle with the voice of the Earth.