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By Rachel Bard
Newswriting Guide has been an invaluable reference tool for journalism students and teachers for 20 years. In this updated fourth edition, you'll find quick answers to all your questions about the ten basic areas that are vital to student reporters. Style, format, punctuation, quotations, how to write a lead, interviewing techniques-it's all here, in concise, well-organized sections to make it easy to find what you need. It's not just for students: publicity writers, newsletter editors and almost any writer will find it useful and user-friendly. Whether you wonder whether to use an apostrophe in "its" or you need ideas on starting a feature story, Newswriting Guide has the answers. "This is a mini-text that effectively summarizes what the texts have to say. It can be used not only by school paper staffs but by club publicity staffs too, in fact by anyone who has to deal with media on a regular basis. And after a student has read the 'regular' text, this is a handy reminder of the material covered there." -Ed Eaton, Former Head, Journalism Department, Green River Community College.
FORMAT: Softcover
By Anne Hart
The Writer's Bible is a popular textbook, guide, and mentor to fiction, entertainment, and nonfiction writers in the new and print media. The book helps writers write their business plan as well as acquire skills. It's a career planning and writing-skills textbook and a popular book for authors headed for print-on-demand and traditional publishers as well as the electronic media. If you write fiction, nonfiction, drama, learning materials, multimedia, and digital media or for the Internet, you'll find the information in this book useful and timely. Here's how to be your own manuscript doctor and mentor, plan your writing career, acquire the skills to turn your writing into salable work, and acquire knowledge of how print-on-demand publishing works compared to traditional publishing, whether you write for the Internet and the new media (digital media) or for traditional publishing companies or yourself. Plan your writing career and get the skills you'll need to move ahead in the current atmosphere of the literary arena and the world of information dissemination and re-packaging. Every writer needs a Bible and role models as well as a map to navigate places that buy author's works.
FORMAT: Softcover
By Prudy Board
" 101 Tips on Writing and Selling Your First Novel takes you from the baby steps of getting organized to full-blown marketing with well-written, well-organized, information-packed pages that have even the 'greenest' of writers submitting a professional and polished manuscript for publication. Ms. Taylor's readers will be empowered with confidence, having the knowledge that all their bases are covered when submitting their first, and subsequent, novels for publication." -Ingrid Taylor, Small Press Review "As a novice writer, you must have a good grasp of the basics, and now it's here! Not only will 101 TIPS show you how to write, but once your book is ready, how to sell. Allow yourself to be one of the very small percentage of writers who approach agents, editors, and publishers, in a professional manner, with your work ready to be seen!"
-Babs Lakey, Publisher, Futures Mysterious Anthology Magazine, www.fmam.biz "For years I have been struggling with a novel in progress. Prudy Taylor Board's worksheet pages, calendars, making the characters alive and functioning, have all helped me see my novel as a living, moving, productive vehicle. Every writer should have this book and every workshop facilitator should use it as a textbook. It is the most complete "trip ticket" for writers I have come across in 40 years of writing." -Virginia B. Elliott, Naples, Florida
FORMAT: Softcover
By Lee F. Oliver
In a school atmosphere, where faculty must of necessity adhere to rather strict rules of teaching, the author was given the opportunity to work with a group of 50 students in a non-traditional teaching environment. The children were taught to write and appreciate poetry in an experimental setting, with almost unbelievable results. One newspaper reporter, covering one of their meetings, wrote…"Watching Lee Oliver coax words and smiles from the handful of young poets before him is nearly as beautiful as the poems themselves…The youngsters here produce verse that inspires reactions like "they must have had help" or "I bet their parents wrote that"—until you watch them."
FORMAT: Softcover
By Carol Dingle
This remarkable collection of quotations is a treasure trove of discerning wisdom, lovely thoughts, and perceptive wit gleaned from the writing of 162 of England’s finest writers of the past. Both entertaining and thought-provoking, this book acquaints the reader with lumanaries of English literature, including Jane Austen, Francis Bacon, the Brontës, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, Samuel Butler, Lord Byron, Lewis Carroll, G. K. Chesterton, Agatha Christie, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Noël Coward, Charles Dickens, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, George Eliot, Henry Fielding, E. M. Forster, Graham Greene, Thomas Hardy, Aldous Huxley, Ben Jonson, John Keats, D. H. Lawrence, C. S. Lewis, W. Somerset Maugham, George Meredith, John Milton, George Orwell, William Shakespeare, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Tennyson, William Makepeace Thackeray, Evelyn Waugh, H. G. Wells, and Virginia Woolf.
FORMAT: Softcover
By Scott Pickard
Notebook for a Lifetime Learner is a thinking tool designed to be written in and doodled on. The Notebook gives the lifetime learner a place to record ideas, drawings, facts, names, dates, details, in a structured knowledge context.
FORMAT: Softcover
By Phyllis Martin
Fun to read, Quips, Quotes and Savvy Sayings offers a fresh resource for lovers of the language. Phyllis Martin extends the advice about word usage found in Word Watcher's Handbook. Word buffs will find a wealth of techniques and source material for brightening writing, speaking, and even ordinary conversation. The book provides pithy comments and quotations about words, work, and the ways of the world. A special section discusses words derived from the names of people, animals as figures of speech, and clever sayings of children. Last words and epitaphs provide both wit and wisdom. Phyllis Martin's unique personal writing style enlivens the work. Readers will find the particular words, phrases, or illustrations they wish to use by means of the thorough index and then linger to read for entertainment.
FORMAT: Softcover
By Phyllis Martin
Fun to read, Quips, Quotes and Savvy Sayings offers a fresh resource for lovers of the language. Phyllis Martin extends the advice about word usage found in Word Watcher's Handbook. Word buffs will find a wealth of techniques and source material for brightening writing, speaking, and even ordinary conversation. The book provides pithy comments and quotations about words, work, and the ways of the world. A special section discusses words derived from the names of people, animals as figures of speech, and clever sayings of children. Last words and epitaphs provide both wit and wisdom. Phyllis Martin's unique personal writing style enlivens the work. Readers will find the particular words, phrases, or illustrations they wish to use by means of the thorough index and then linger to read for entertainment.
FORMAT: E-Book
By Martha Barnette, Russ Galen
Did you know that the tulip gets its name from a kind of headwear? What's the linguistic link between the lovely gladiolus and a fierce gladiator? A rose by any other name may smell as sweet-but why do we call it a rose? In this charming, witty volume, Martha Barnette leads a tour through the language of the garden, stopping along the way to coax out the many secrets that flowers have to tell about history, culture, psychology, folklore, and science. "Everything in it is delightful to learn. Barnette takes us through languages and across millennia in a charming style that, starting with words describing things we eat, turns out to offer endless food for thought."
-The New Yorker "Sheer etymological garden fun Barnette begins with the flower's name and immediately jumps off the neat garden path into the wild underbrush of mythology, history, folk tales and scientific investigation."
-Linda Yang, The New York Times Book Review "Martha Barnette's anthology (literally, 'a gathering of flowers') is more than just a garden-variety book of word origins. With loving cultivation, the author shows how flower names yield up the fragrance and light stored from the past and tell us whence we came and who we are."
-Richard Lederer "A Garden of Words is one to stroll through, sniffing the blossoms, admiring random artful paths and intriguing byways."
-Calvin Ahlgren, San Francisco Chronicle
FORMAT: Softcover
By Phyllis R. Martin
Word Watcher's Handbook is an entertaining and authoritative book that is packed with guidelines to help the reader eliminate incorrect words and phrases. The Deletionary portion is a definitive blacklist of trite words, feeble phrases and incorrect constructions that should be omitted from every vocabulary.
FORMAT: Softcover
By Barry B. Longyear
"About a year after (my stories began being published), magazine editor George Scithers, suggested to me that since I was so new at being published, I must be very close to what I had to learn to move from fooling around with writing to actually producing professional stories. There are a lot of aspiring writers out there who would like to know just that. Write that book. SFWW-I is that book. It's the book I was looking for when I first started writing fiction."
-Barry B. Longyear
FORMAT: Softcover
By Sharon M. Nelson, Lance Young
A guidebook for reading teachers, tutors, and students that strips away the density of most reading texts, presenting 18 easy-to-understand phonics lessons progressing from simple to more difficult English words. Each lesson describes a phonics concept, provides examples, and gives proper English usage. Presented as a series of lesson plans, the guidebook allows the instructor or tutor to teach directly from the guidebook, or use it to supplement another text. The simple, straightforward presentation is appropriate for elementary education, remedial instruciton, or adult literacy efforts. Lessons progress in difficulty, so that the student can read simple words ater the first two lessons. The final chapters include a basic writing guide and an index of words for phonics practice.
FORMAT: Softcover
By Damon Hollingsworth
Everyone has a wondrous Joy their being, cause of the images of particularity, searching for that view of Heaven. The argument told first'hand, the impression is always heaven can wait. A Man writes hearsies what he thinks the ideal plot, yet a kinship follows through time befriending him to make up folk songs and fairy tales. Me I just wanted my thoughts to find the heart of home and prayer, to let you know life's plain sight secrets.
FORMAT: Softcover
By Daniel Jones
Don't have time to wait for mainstream publishers to discover your talent? Do something about it! Now! How to Write a Best-Seller While Keeping Your Day Job! offers a practical and fun outline for getting your book published. Born of the author's own arduous journey to publication and written with humor and passion, How to Write a Best-Seller While Keeping Your Day Job! is a practical tool for all the writers out there pressed for time and fed up with the mainstream book business. Written during a two-week period by a full-time insurance professional and author of St. Jude's Secret! From the author:
"This piece is meant to offer the grass-roots author an easy, quick-reference guide to creating, publishing and marketing a commercially viable book in today's competitive marketplace, while keeping his or her current job." Featuring 10 Point Attack Plans on Promotion, Publication and The Writing Process, this book offers a common sense approach to today's publishing opportunities. "Many of us know we have a book inside us, but we just don't have time and we know how tough this business is. Daniel's shown us all it can be done."
-Jeanne Jard
River Oaks Bookstore Houston
FORMAT: Softcover
By Daniel Jones
Don't have time to wait for mainstream publishers to discover your talent? Do something about it! Now! How to Write a Best-Seller While Keeping Your Day Job! offers a practical and fun outline for getting your book published. Born of the author's own arduous journey to publication and written with humor and passion, How to Write a Best-Seller While Keeping Your Day Job! is a practical tool for all the writers out there pressed for time and fed up with the mainstream book business. Written during a two-week period by a full-time insurance professional and author of St. Jude's Secret! From the author:
"This piece is meant to offer the grass-roots author an easy, quick-reference guide to creating, publishing and marketing a commercially viable book in today's competitive marketplace, while keeping his or her current job." Featuring 10 Point Attack Plans on Promotion, Publication and The Writing Process, this book offers a common sense approach to today's publishing opportunities. "Many of us know we have a book inside us, but we just don't have time and we know how tough this business is. Daniel's shown us all it can be done."
-Jeanne Jard
River Oaks Bookstore Houston
FORMAT: E-Book
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