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Thursday, September 2, 2010

Nonfiction Writing: From the Inside Out (SHS0439513685) Category: Scholastic Teaching Resources

Posted by qpen on May 30, 2010

Nonfiction Writing: From the Inside Out (SHS0439513685) Category: Scholastic Teaching Resources

Item #: SHS0439513685. Nonfiction Writing: From the Inside OutHelp students write nonfiction using the techniques of top authors. This book combines writers’ advice with many lessons on craft. Includes assessment and management advice, 7 x 9. 336 pages. Grades 3 and up.Customers also search for: Classroom;Resource Books;SCHOLASTIC;Teacher’s Aids, 078073513680

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News from the north.(techniques of children’s historical fiction): An article from: The Horn Book Magazine [HTML] (Digital)

Posted by qpen on May 9, 2010

News from the north.(techniques of children's historical fiction): An article from: The Horn Book Magazine

This digital document is an article from The Horn Book Magazine, published by Horn Book, Inc. on May 1, 1996. The length of the article is 1396 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.From the supplier: Skillful authors reveal the past to children by focusing on the details of character’s lives (more…)

Writing backward: modern models in historical fiction.(children’s literature): An article from: The Horn Book Magazine [HTML] (Digital)

Posted by qpen on April 27, 2010

Writing backward: modern models in historical fiction.(children's literature): An article from: The Horn Book Magazine

This digital document is an article from The Horn Book Magazine, published by Horn Book, Inc. on January 1, 1998. The length of the article is 3188 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.From the supplier: Social change and historical revisionism often penetrate even the best children’s litera (more…)

Writing Fiction: The Practical Guide from New York’s Acclaimed Creative Writing School (Paperback)

Posted by qpen on April 19, 2010

Writing Fiction: The Practical Guide from New York's Acclaimed Creative Writing School

From Publishers Weekly

The faculty of the Gotham Writers’ Workshop-which now has 6,000 students not only in New York City but around the world (with online classes)-use an original approach in this how-to: Raymond Carver’s classic story “Cathedral” (reprinted in the book) serves as a basis for their discussion of technique. The contributors are not household names, but all are published authors of fiction. Chapters touch on all the essentials: character development, pacing, dialo (more…)

Telling True Stories: A Nonfiction Writers’ Guide from the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University (Paperback)

Posted by qpen on April 6, 2010

Telling True Stories: A Nonfiction Writers' Guide from the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University

Inspiring stories and practical advice from America?s most respected journalists The country?s most prominent journalists and nonfiction authors gather each year at Harvard?s Nieman Conference on Narrative Journalism. Telling True Stories presents their best advice?covering everything from finding a good topic, to structuring narrative stories, to writing and selling your first book. More than fifty well-known writers offer their most powerful tips, including: (more…)

Plot & Structure: (Techniques And Exercises For Crafting A Plot That Grips Readers From Start To Finish) (Write Great Fiction) (Paperback)

Posted by qpen on April 1, 2010

Plot & Structure: (Techniques And Exercises For Crafting A Plot That Grips Readers From Start To Finish) (Write Great Fiction)

The second book in the Write Great Fiction series, Plot & Structure offers clear and concise information on creating a believable and engaging plot that readers can’t resist. Written by award-winning thriller and suspense author James Scott Bell, this handy instruction guide provides: * Easy-to-understand techniques on every aspect of plotting and structure, from brainstorming story ideas to building scenes, and from using subplots to crafting knock-out endings * Engaging (more…)

Copywriting Assignments from Americas Best Advertising Copywriters (Paperback)

Posted by qpen on January 28, 2010

Copywriting Assignments from Americas Best Advertising Copywriters

A discussion of all aspects of conducting a research project in marketing, this volume emphasizes methodology and provides extensive discussions of applications – including applications for statistical techniques. The book takes a decisional research orientation and features a strong treatment of analysis (particularly multivariate analysis) and extensive coverage of primary data collection and measurement and scaling issues.

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Preparing educators for online writing instruction: principles and processes.: An article from: Journal of College Reading and Learning [HTML] (Digital)

Posted by qpen on December 19, 2009

Preparing educators for online writing instruction: principles and processes.: An article from: Journal of College Reading and Learning

This digital document is an article from Journal of College Reading and Learning, published by Thomson Gale on September 22, 2005. The length of the article is 1410 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.Citation DetailsTitle: Preparing educators for online writing instruction: principles and (more…)

The Business Style Handbook: An A-to-Z Guide for Writing on the Job with Tips from Communications Experts at the Fortune 500 (Paperback)

Posted by qpen on December 5, 2009

The Business Style Handbook: An A-to-Z Guide for Writing on the Job with Tips from Communications Experts at the Fortune 500

Review

“A handy up-to-date guide for professional business correspondence, including e-mail and memos.” — Amazon’s Listmania, Laure-Madeleine”An excellent read. No other book covers this topic with greater clarity and scope, presented by lively and intelligent authors.” — Mercury Retail, New Zealand”Parents of college grads can present a gift that will do more than collect dust on a coffee table.” — Savannah Now, Pamela E. Walck”This book helps graduates make the transition .. (more…)

Ghostwriters From The Inside Out – The Secrets Pros Use To Crank Out Profit Generating Info Products! Mission-Surf (Kindle Edition)

Posted by qpen on December 3, 2009

Ghostwriters From The Inside Out - The Secrets Pros Use To Crank Out Profit Generating Info Products! Mission-Surf

Give Me 45 Minutes And I’ll Teach You How To Hunt Down “Mysterious” (But Talented) Ghostwriters To Research, Write, And Proofread Your Info Products!You don’t have to write your own ebooks to sell them for 100% of the profits! Click on the button below and I’ll introduce you to the world of ghostwriters – where you can find someone to put in the “elbow grease” for you.Ghostwriters are writers who sit in the shadows and let YOU take credit for the work THEY do for you. Athletes a (more…)

The Everything Guide To Writing Copy: From Ads and Press Release to On-Air and Online Promos–All You Need to Create Copy That Sells (Everything: Language and Literature) (Paperback)

Posted by qpen on November 30, 2009

The Everything Guide To Writing Copy: From Ads and Press Release to On-Air and Online Promos--All You Need to Create Copy That Sells (Everything: Language and Literature)

The Everything Guide to Writing Copy is a step-by-step guide to writing effective copy for a variety of media including print, Web, radio, trade journals, and much more. Packed with tips and tricks used by the pros, this valuable resource teaches you to promote products and services, build brands, and write copy that boosts your company’s bottom line. Features expert strategies for you to: Write compelling headlines, tag lines, and leads Avoid common copywriting m (more…)

The Recession-Busting Guide To Making Money Online From Home (Paperback)

Posted by qpen on November 29, 2009

The Recession-Busting Guide To Making Money Online From Home

Imagine walking into a coffee shop and meeting 19 people at one large table, each of whom works from home for a living and each of whom does something different. Some sell mortgages, others write resumes, and some sell crafts, all from the comfort of their home. Now think for a minute if you could get each person, all 19 of them, to write a plan for building the online business that they perform from home complete with the rates they charge, the places they advertise, and the in (more…)

Sometimes the Magic Works: Lessons from a Writing Life (Paperback)

Posted by qpen on November 21, 2009

Sometimes the Magic Works: Lessons from a Writing Life

Amazon.com Review
In Sometimes the Magic Works, author Terry Brooks mixes advice on writing with stories from his personal experience in publishing. A seasoned fantasy writer with 19 books under his belt, including the New York Times bestseller The Sword of Shannara, Brooks began his second career in middle age when he gave up his law practice to pursue writing full time. His move was fueled by an obsession with writing, (“If I don’t write, I become restless and ill-tempered”), insp (more…)

Writing from Sources (Paperback)

Posted by qpen on November 19, 2009

Writing from Sources

Writing from Sources provides students with a complete guide to the skills of doing research and integrating the results confidently and effectively into their own prose, while providing instructors with all the readings and prompts they need for a complete course in source-based writing. To teach students a reliable process for working with sources, the book builds systematically from simpler skills such as finding a topic and looking for sources to more demanding ones such as choosi (more…)

Making Money from Copywriting (Insider Guide) (Paperback)

Posted by qpen on November 15, 2009

Making Money from Copywriting (Insider Guide)

A useful guide for anyone who wants to make copywriting a business – either as a part-time or full-time career. For practising copywriters, find out how to build and extend your business into related areas.

About the Author

Jason Deign has been a successful professional copywriter for over a decade and has worked with blue-chip companies both in Britain and internationally.

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