Posted by qpen on April 15, 2010
From Booklist
Emerson, author of the Lady Appleton and Diana Spaulding mystery series, turns her hand to how it’s done in this useful guide to writing historical crime fiction. Drawing on her own works and those of her fellow historical-mystery writers (Kerry Greenwood, Alan Gordon, Carola Dunn, and others), she lays out, in commonsense sequence, the stages of planning and writing a historical mystery. Chapters on choosing setting and character, research, crafting a plot, and s (more…)
Posted by qpen on April 9, 2010
From Booklist
Emerson, author of the Lady Appleton and Diana Spaulding mystery series, turns her hand to how it’s done in this useful guide to writing historical crime fiction. Drawing on her own works and those of her fellow historical-mystery writers (Kerry Greenwood, Alan Gordon, Carola Dunn, and others), she lays out, in commonsense sequence, the stages of planning and writing a historical mystery. Chapters on choosing setting and character, research, crafting a plot, and s (more…)
Posted by qpen on February 19, 2010
Review
Writing about our feelings and putting our emotions on paper can help improve our health, as recent scientific evidence suggests. Chia Martin has used this approach, along with conventional therapies, in her experience with cancer. Her story is a vivid reminder of the importance of psychological and spiritual issues in health-care. — Larry Dossey, M.D. author, Reinventing Medicine and Healing Words
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Posted by qpen on February 11, 2010
From Publishers Weekly
Ignore the title, which is bad. It’s okay, even, to ignore the writing exercises. Barbara Abercrombie’s Writing Out the Storm: Reading and Writing Your Way Through Serious Illness or Injury is a moving, unsentimental portrait of the author with breast cancer, as she navigates her fear of death and love of writing with intelligence and grace; it’s a worthwhile book for anyone who’s ever thought about writing or thought about sickness. With excerpts from the (more…)
Posted by qpen on January 24, 2010
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This digital document is a journal article from Journal of Second Language Writing, published by Elsevier in 2005. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.Description: Recent studies on Chinese-English contrastive rhetoric have argued that there is actually little to contrast and the traditional qi (beginning), cheng (transition), zhuan (turning), he (synthesis) str (more…)
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Posted by qpen on November 7, 2009
Download the Instructor’s Guide for Writing Your Way Through College today and discover a convenient roadmap to helping students succeed with academic writing. Writing academic essays in college often seems mysterious to students who do not yet understand the process of developing an idea into a finished piece of reasoned prose. Writing Your Way Through College demystifies that process and enables teachers to help students “invent the university” as they reinvent thems (more…)
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Posted by qpen on November 3, 2009
Designed for teachers who want to teach writing effectively to students of different ability levels, this resource offers lessons, leveled organizers, and writing models to make planning and gathering materials a cinch. Seventeen units cover topics from structuring paragraphs to using elaboration to develop ideas, to persuasive essay writing. Helps ALL students master the writing skills and concepts they need to succeed on standardized tests and beyond.
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Posted by qpen on October 30, 2009
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Posted by qpen on October 20, 2009
Review
“In a way [Unstuck] forces you to scrutinize yourself, the book is like a hard day at the therapist’s office: You feel a little vulnerable, but ready to take the next step.”– San Francisco WeeklyWriters’ Praise for Unstuck”My book would not exist without Jane Anne Staw. She creatively, lovingly, and patiently guided me past my convoluted blocks. And she can do it for you. Unstuck will transform your relationship to your writing and wisely help free you into your true writing (more…)
Posted by qpen on September 22, 2009
Download the Instructor’s Guide for Writing Your Way Through College today and discover a convenient roadmap to helping students succeed with academic writing. Writing academic essays in college often seems mysterious to students who do not yet understand the process of developing an idea into a finished piece of reasoned prose. Writing Your Way Through College demystifies that process and enables teachers to help students “invent the university” as they reinvent themselv (more…)
