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Basic Books
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"The style of The Associated Press is the gold standard for news writing. With the AP Stylebook in hand, you can learn how to write and edit with the clarity and professionalism for which their writers and editors are famous. The AP Stylebook will help you master the AP's rules on grammar, spelling, punctuation, capitalization, abbreviation, word and numeral usage, and when to use 'more than' instead of 'over.' To make navigating these specialty chapters...
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John Wiley & Sons
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"While world-renowned for the precision and clarity it lends to scholarly writing, keeping track of APA style's exacting standards can be demanding (at times even excruciating!) for initiates and seasoned writers alike. Created and governed by the American Psychological Association, it provides a universal style for formatting, citations, and footnotes in psychological research, behavioral and social science journals, and beyond. Getting up to speed...
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English
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“The Writer's Workshop” takes an approach to teaching writing that is new only because it is so old.
Today, rhetoric and composition typically proceed by ignoring what was done for 2,500 years in Western education. Gregory Roper, on the other hand, helps students learn to write in the way the great writers of the past themselves learned: by carefully imitating masters of the craft, including Cicero, Thomas Aquinas, Charles Dickens, Sojourner...
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"How to Write Short both instructs and delights, in equal measure. On every page there is some useful advice and an amusing observation or illustration. Read this book!" Look at tattoos, epitaphs, product slogans, and advice columns. Keep a daybook devoted to your favorite short writing. Try writing an ad for your favorite local restaurant. Test its persuasiveness by showing it to someone who has never eaten there before. You might wind up with a...
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If you are one of those who love to write, but struggle to do so - this is the book for you!
Packed with amazing tips and tricks, to get you unstuck from 'writer's block' and to improve your writing in dozens of little ways, there are tips about all aspects of writing, for both fiction and non-fiction authors.
You will love the positive impact that these quick, easy to apply tips have on your writing.
Mutiple best selling author, Kim Lambert,...
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Farnsworth's Classical English Rhetoric was the definitive guide to the use of rhetorical devices in English. It became a best-seller in its field, with over 20,000 copies in print. Here now is the natural sequel, Farnsworth's Classical English Metaphor-the most entertaining and instructive book ever written about the art of comparison. A metaphor compares two things that seem unalike. Lincoln was a master of the art (A house divided against itself...
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Self-published authors are coming to realise that a stable career is about a backlist of titles and keeping that backlist selling.
But how do you do this? Invariably, advice given by other authors includes holding promotions and lowering the price of the first book in series, or even making it free. However, few people mention one of the most powerful ways to keep your backlist selling: the author mailing list.
This is where Mailing Lists Unboxed...
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English
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How do you create a fictional world that readers will want to visit? How do you paint a picture that springs to life on the page? William Bernhardt explains how to use description and setting to enhance your story without slowing the pace. Bernhardt discusses showing without telling, providing descriptive details that inform character, and integrating visuals and action with "stealth description." In his direct, no-nonsense style, Bernhardt explains...
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I know what you're feeling right now...
Chances are good, if you clicked on this title, you're confused, frustrated, overwhelmed... maybe even angry.
Not because I know something about you personally. Not because I'm spying on you, or I've re-programmed your Alexa or Siri to dictate your conversations to me and keep them on my hard drive. No. I know what you're feeling, because it's the same thing we're all feeling right now.
How do I know this?
Because...
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English
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From his best selling series, The Art of World Building, author Randy Ellefson has collected some of his best advice from every chapter in small, bite-sized tips. All three books are represented in the topics covered: Creating Life - analogues, species/races, gods, monsters, word figures, plants, animals, and undead. Creating Places - planets, continents, land features, sovereign powers, settlements, land travel, water travel, space travel, time and...
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English
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How to Write a Non-fiction Book in 60 Days is ideal for consultants, workshop leaders, speakers, or freelance writers, who want to write a solid first draft of a non-fiction book - in 60 days. Do you have a book just waiting to come out? Are you procrastinating because you think it will take you years to write it? This book will show you how to write a comprehensive first draft - a draft you can send to an agent or publisher or one you can edit and...
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"Authoritative as it is amusing, this book distills everything Benjamin Dreyer has learned from the hundreds of books he has copyedited, including works by Elizabeth Strout, E. L. Doctorow, and Frank Rich, into a useful guide not just for writers but for everyone who wants to put their best foot forward in writing prose. Dreyer offers lessons on the ins and outs of punctuation and grammar, including how to navigate the words he calls 'the confusables,'...
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English
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Have a great idea for a novel, but don't know where to start? Have you started your novel, but got bogged down after only the first few pages and don't know how to go on? Then this book is for you!
Chapter One is a beginning writing course. This book can be used in conjunction with the course or instead of it. You can use this book in two ways: the super-easy way by reading the "Basics" and getting right to work, or get a little more in-depth by...
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With powerful, practical, stepbystep writing exercises, a wealth of examples, and stories of personal transformation through journaling, Writing and Being demonstrates that intentional, guided journaling is a profound way to discover one's authentic self. Beyond mere diary writing, these creative journaling methods help readers chart a path for a better future. The book begins by providing tips for the logistics of journal keeping, and includes suggestions...
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Creative, intriguing short stories to make students think and wonder what if. . .
Stories Without End engages students with literature through intriguing short stories that make them think and wonder. What if we could teleport anywhere in the world whenever we wanted to? Will robots ever replace human teachers? Why are some people optimists while others are pessimists? Where does our personality come from?
Stories Without End engages students with...
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In her first non-fiction book, Amazon bestselling author Amanda Clemmer shares her tips for bringing your novel to the next stage--whether that means publishing or simply having a finished draft of your masterpiece.
Multiple options are discussed for the future of your book, and each chapter includes helpful exercises that you can apply to your story here and now to improve it and move it forward.
Warning: Don't read this book unless you're ready...
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Many people have trouble coming up with writing ideas. It is not because they lack writing skills, rather it is because they don't have a way to generate unlimited writing ideas. You need some good writing tools.
If you want to improve your writing, and never run out of ideas to write and blog about, this is a book for you. You can use these writing skills for blogging, business writing, or personal writing. It doesn't matter what you are writing...
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Everybody loves shortcuts. Don't deny it; I know you do. Think of how many times you've been driving somewhere with a buddy, and you hit a traffic jam. How great did it feel when you could say, "Take a right at the next road. I know a shortcut."
This is a shortcut for every-day life. If you use a keyboard to type, this book will save you time, lots of time.
You may have tried a text expansion app before, and maybe you didn't have much luck, but this...
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