Language learning: writing skills

Here's what I tell my students on the first day when I teach one of my creative writing courses: You will be published if you possess three qualitiestalent, passion, and discipline.

Power Sales Writing is a brisk, no-nonsense guide to writing sales messages guaranteed to grab and hold a prospect's attention.

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Multiple award-winner Roger Rosenblatt has received glowing critical acclaim for his exceptional literary worksfrom the hilarious novels Lapham Rising and Beet to his poignant, heartbreaking, ultimately inspiring memoir Making Toast.

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Who is really controlling the pen?

A delightfully discursive, Bill Bryson-esque and personal journey through the groves and the thickets of the English language, by our foremost scholar of the history and structure of the English language.

Comprehensive and clear explanations of key grammar patterns and structures are reinforced and contextualized through authentic materials.

Detailed instruction and analysis covering writing for the widest marketplace in creative writing.

Problem plot lines?

A renewed appreciation of the mystery and promise of writing.

A highly practical exposition of all the major elements of fiction - such as plot, conflict, suspense, the hook, inference, character and dialogue.

Discover Nature’s algorithm of Intelligence to learn problem-solving from intuition to artificial intelligence.

Technically-minded people can struggle with business writing and many businesses get it wrong, losing their readers in avalanches of acronyms and jungles of technical jargon.

Anyone Can Write Is For Every Writer.

The authoritative guide to the craft and business of writing.

Technical writing is about communicating key information to the people who need it.

Breaking down how to write a western, including research and target publishers.

Technical writing is about communicating key information to the people who need it.

Essential Portuguese Grammar will help you get more out of your study of Portuguese.

ox-y-mor-on-i-ca (OK-se-mor-ON-uh-ca) noun, plural: Any variety of tantalizing, self-contradictory statements or observations that on the surface appear false or illogical, but at a deeper level are true, often profoundly true.

The Truth About Creativity provides a practical and example-laden journey through creativity and its talent-releasing benefits for organisations, teams and individuals.

You know there is a novel locked inside of you—chock-full of conflict, humor, irony, enthralling events and fascinating characters.

Quotable thoughts for making a toast, writing a speech, and making a point in discussion

This antiquarian volume contains a comprehensive guide to speaking and writing correctly, with information on grammar, sentence structure, writing letters, common pitfalls, comments on famous pieces of literature and their authors, and much more.

A guidebook to improving grammar includes basic, intermediate, and advanced sections with chapters on resume writing and the study of phraseology.

Good grammar is as critical to a successful personal and professional life as good grooming.

Originally published in the 1920s.

All need to know about lifestyle writing and how to use your own experiences to start your writing career.

"e;The Rhymester or; The Rules of Rhyme"e; is a comprehensive guide to rhyming, being a dictionary of rhymes, an examination of classical measures with comments on burlesque, comic verse, and song-writing.

All you need to know about writing life stories from planning to publication.

In "e;Essays in the Art of Writing"e;, Robert Louis Stevenson explores different literary techniques and offers interesting insights into the writing of "e;Treasure Island"e; (1883) and "e;The Master of Ballantrae"e; (1889).

"e;Write it off, work it out, get it done.

This one-stop practical guide will show you how to write the novel that's in you bursting to get out.

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.

In offices across America, the Masters of Gobbledygook are hard at work.

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.

In offices across America, the Masters of Gobbledygook are hard at work.

Collins Cambridge IGCSE(TM) English as a Second Language Third Edition has been fully updated to support the revised Cambridge IGCSE(TM) and IGCSE (9-1) English as a Second Language syllabuses (0510/0511/0991/0993) for examination from 2024Exam Board: Cambridge Assessment International EducationFor examination from 2024Written and edited by experienced English as a Second Language authors and examinersProvides learner support for the Cambridge IGCSE(TM) and IGCSE (9-1) English as a Second Language syllabuses (0510/0511/0991/0993) for examination from 2024Coverage of each of the four skills of listening, reading, speaking and writingSupportive write-in resource for use in the classroom, as homework, or for self-studyEngaging content to practise and consolidate language skills, grammar and vocabularyThe third edition includes a new section on synonyms to consolidate and expand vocabulary and a new section with speaking skills adviceThis resource is endorsed by Cambridge Assessment International Education to provide learner support for the syllabus for examination from 2024.

Twelve years after it was first published, The Joy of Writing Sex remains the classic writer's resource on creating compelling sex scenes.

The ability to persuade people to agree with you can be crucial to your working life.

From first steps to final submission, this accessible guide takes students through each stage of the assignment-writing process and equips them with the skills they need to construct and develop convincing academic arguments.

The only guide you'll ever need to help you write better letters, whether for business or pleasure.