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A Practical Guide to Poetry Forms is a practical handbook on poetry forms, giving informative details on the construction of the major set forms. It also includes exercises, all within the scope of the beginner, yet stimulating enough to engage the more experienced poet.
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English
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A shimmering jewel of a book about writing from two-time Booker Prize finalist Deborah Levy
Blending personal history, gender politics, philosophy, and literary theory into a luminescent treatise on writing, love, and loss, Things I Don't Want to Know is Deborah Levy's witty response to George Orwell's influential essay "Why I Write." Orwell identified four reasons he was driven to hammer at his typewriter - political purpose, historical impulse,...
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Wiley Publishing, Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
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xv, 310 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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English
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"Technical Writing For Dummies is a master class on how to build a career writing user manuals, e-learning, streaming, simulations, and more. It even zooms into the metaverse. Whether you're new to the field, a seasoned professional, or a technical person who needs to write, this guide arms you with the skills you need to cash in on this flourishing world of technical writing. This isn't your average how-to. It's a compendium of innovative industry...
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English
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is publishing a monthly series of e-only essays to correspond with Katherine Paterson's two-year term as the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature. The subjects of the essays include: writing and literature for young people, the wonder and imagination found within great books, common questions novice writers ask, and Katherine's own personal experiences throughout her historic career.
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English
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Gabby daydreams to tune out her parents' arguments, but when her parents divorce and she begins a new school, daydreaming gets her into trouble. Her mother scolds her for it, her teacher keeps telling her to pay attention, and the other kids tease her ... until she finds a friend who also daydreams and her teacher decides to work a daydreaming-writing session into every school day. With a notebook "thick with daydreams," Gabby grows more confident...
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English
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"[This book] twists together transcripts, emails, and documents into an investigation of a missing college girl, also weaving in the mysteries of how the narrator 'Joseph Knox' came to be in possession of these files and what fate befell the original author, as well as why Knox might not be telling us everything he knows. Zoe Nolan disappeared from Manchester University in 2011. Her story was sad, certainly, but hardly sensational, Joseph Knox thought....
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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During a creative writing unit at Longfellow School, the students in Mrs. Brisbane's class practice using their imagination with their very own writing journals--and Humphrey finds out that writing from his imagination is harder than it looks--
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English
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The renowned British novelist’s “casual and wittily acute guidance” on reading—and writing—great fiction (Harper’s Magazine).
Renowned for such classics as A Room with a View, Howards End, and A Passage to India, E. M. Forster was one of Britain’s—and the world’s—most distinguished fiction writers, a frequent nominee for the Nobel...
Renowned for such classics as A Room with a View, Howards End, and A Passage to India, E. M. Forster was one of Britain’s—and the world’s—most distinguished fiction writers, a frequent nominee for the Nobel...
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2022.
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339 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
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English
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"The Philosophy of Modern Song is Bob Dylan's first book of new writing since 2004's Chronicles: Volume One and since winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016. Dylan, who began working on the book in 2010, offers a master class on the art and craft of songwriting. He writes over sixty essays focusing on songs by other artists, spanning from Stephen Foster to Elvis Costello, and in between ranging from Hank Williams to Nina Simone. He analyzes...
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English
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"An absolutely fascinating blend of history, design, sociology, and cultural poetics—highly recommended."—Maria Popova, Brain Pickings
A charming and indispensable tour of two thousand years of the written word, Shady Characters weaves a fascinating trail across the parallel histories of language and typography.Whether investigating the asterisk (*) and dagger (†)—which alternately illuminated and
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English
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The main aim of this book is to make writing in general and in particular essay, article and paper writing as easy as possible. By achieving this target, the learners can reduce various kinds of long and complicated clauses in verbless clauses, phrases and even in compound noun or nouns.
Writing in Short, Readable and Elegant Style:
- helps English learners develop their knowledge to improve their skills in writing.
- provides an accessible reference...
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
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2 online resources (2 video files, 33 min.) : digital, stereo., sound, color
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English
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A trigger series to practise taking minutes and notes. A program designed to develop memory and recall, learning to take notes and minutes, as well as improving writing skills. Ideal for office employees, support staff and anyone who attends a meeting and is required to take minutes. The six segments provide viewers with situations so they can practise taking minutes. This program is designed to be used for groups and individuals training to take...
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The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2016.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (33 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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See how non-artistic proofs are immensely important when crafting a historical essay, especially since history is subjective, and the way you tell the story shapes how it will be understood. The non-artistic proofs of research and data set the scene for a historical essay, which connects personal memory to a larger project of human history. Professor Cognard-Black shares samples of strong historical essays with a compelling use of non-artistic proofs...
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