Language learning: writing skills

This book focuses on the techniques of good prose writing, suitable for students of English literature and of creative writing.

The Oxford Guide to Effective Writing and Speaking is the essential guide for everyone who needs to communicate in clear and effective English, both written and spoken.

This guide is for anyone who has ever thought of screenwriting.

Step-by-step guidance on how to write effective grants that get the funding you need.

Fascinating and informative - advice to inspire budding writers as well as entertaining Maeve Binchy fans the world over.

This engaging guide will equip students who are non-native speakers of English with the tools and confidence to respond effectively and appropriately to written assignments at university.

Includes tips about everything from agents to electronic publishing.

In these tough economic times companies are downsizing, outsourcing, and merging, and job seekers are facing more competition than ever.

Full teacher support to accompany the Cambridge IGCSE(TM) ICT Student's Book Third Edition for the IGCSE ICT syllabus (0417/0983) for examination from 2023 - the Teacher's Guide content is matched lesson-by-lesson to the Student's Book.

Brittany Perham's first collection, THE CURIOSITIES, fixes its sure and unsettling gaze on daughters and fathers, sisters and brothers, madness, sickness, longing and love.

The latest edition of the bestselling guide to all you need to know about how to get published, is packed full of advice, inspiration and practical information.

Offering a comparative analysis of "e;community-literacy studies,"e; Community Literacy and the Rhetoric of Local Publics traces common values in diverse accounts of "e;ordinary people going public.

Strong characters characters we love and hate, those we despair for at their low moments and egg on to their triumphs are the foundation of any successful script.

Documents how Asian/Asian American teacher-scholars have emerged within and contributed to a number of areas in rhetoric and composition, as well as the National Council of Teachers of English and the Conference on College Composition and Communication in diverse and substantial ways from the 1960s to contemporary times.

This calendarlike practice pad allows you to effectively practice Chinese characters and learn a year's wroth of characters in just minutes a day.

The EPA investigation of a 1994 chemical plant tragedy concluded that "e;the explosion resulted from a lack of written safe operating procedures "e; While good written procedures can't guarantee zero accidents, they can reduce the number of accidents caused by human error.

The second edition of Writing That Makes Sense takes students through the fundamentals of the writing process and explores the basic steps of critical thinking.

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.

Complete Norwegian is a comprehensive ebook + audio language course that takes you from beginner to intermediate level.

A practical teacher guide book for teaching young children to read and write in English.

Writing advice from a New York Times–bestselling author who “knows how the publishing industry works .

This fifth edition has been revised to reflect the impact of digital technology on authorship and publishing.

The murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.

Short-Form Creative Writing: A Writer's Guide and Anthology is a complete introduction to the art and craft of extremely compressed works of imaginative literature.

There are more outlets than ever for writers to spread their messages and share their work, more opportunities to speak out and be seen.

A complete guide to writing psychology articles for publication.

Fourteen chapters researched and authored by scholars working in nine different countries and regions explore the contexts of foreign language writing pedagogy, the diversity of national and regional approaches, the role of universities, departments, and programs in pedagogy, and the cognitive and classroom dimensions of teaching and learning.

Tips for catching and holding an agent's attention.

Composition studies is a rapidly growing and constantly changing field.

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.

Today, the surprisingly elastic form of the memoir embraces subjects that include dying, illness, loss, relationships, and self-awareness.

An updated and expanded edition of the acclaimed writing guide for scientistsThe Scientist's Guide to Writing explains the essential techniques that students, postdocs, and early-career scientists need to write more clearly, efficiently, and easily.

A complete introduction to written Japanese start here with zero knowledge and finish feeling confident!

The latest edition of the bestselling guide to all you need to know about how to get published, is packed full of advice, inspiration and practical information.

The easy way to learn the Japanese writing system!

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

How To Be A Writer is a collection of interviews with famous writers, performers and industry insiders that takes the reader through a writer s day, from getting up to giving in.

As a novelist, memoirist, and associate director of the New York State Summer Writers Institute, Amy Wallen has a few things to say about the writing world, many of them irreverent and snarky.

Poetry and short stories can act as powerful springboards to growth, self-enhancement and healing.

An entertaining, informative, and elegantly designed guide that makes understanding punctuation marks and symbols simple and fun.

Where Drowned Things Live describes the struggles of an untenured professor, Kristin Ginelli, as she tries to counsel a young woman student at her university and get her to reveal who is abusing her.

Set in and around the boomtown of Creede, Colorado, in 1892, Altars of Tomorrow is the final chapter of the Deacon Coburn narrative that began in Days of Purgatory.

Prepare students with complete coverage of the revised Cambridge IGCSETM Chemistry syllabus (0620/0971) for examination from 2023.

Named a Best Book of the Year by: Time * New Yorker * Sunday Times (UK)From New York Times bestselling author Jami Attenberg comes a dazzling memoir about unlocking and embracing her creativityand how it saved her life.

"e;Sexy, smart, skillful.

No writer's or editor's desk is complete without a battered, page-bent copy of the AP Stylebook.