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Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"In the tradition of The Elements of Style comes Trish Hall's essential new work on writing well--a sparkling instructional guide to persuading (almost) anyone, on (nearly) anything. Drawing on her vast experience editing everyone from Nobel Prize winners and global strongmen (Putin) to first-time pundits (Angelina Jolie), Hall presents the ultimate guide to writing persuasively for students, job applicants, and rookie authors looking to get published....
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
Description
How to Argue and Win Every Time is a book that teaches you how to argue in everyday life - at home, in the bedroom, with the boss, with teachers, and with your kids. But it is also a book with sweeping implications for American society, for at its heart, it proposes a new philosophy - that winning is not what you think it is and that your enemy's loss may be your loss as well. Gerry Spence, the noted trial lawyer, says we were born to make the winning...
Author
Publisher
HarperPerennial
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
On Writing Well has been praised for its sound advice, its clarity, and its warmth of style. It is a book for anybody who wants to learn how to write, whether about people or places, science and technology, business, sports, the arts, or about yourself. Its principles and insights have made it a cherished resource for several generations of writers and students. The text warns against common errors in structure, style, and diction, and explains the...
Author
Publisher
Writer's Digest Books
Pub. Date
©1983
Language
English
Description
From the Blurb: Here's the book that covers it all--from dealing with trite phrases, ambiguous references, and the deadly passive verb to making sure you end up saying exactly what you mean. In Getting the Words Right, Theodore Cheney breaks down the unwieldy process called "editing" into three manageable steps: Revision by Reduction, Revision by Rearranging and Revision by Rewording. He shows you how to use each of these techniques to tackle obvious...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Before there were workshops and degrees, how did aspiring writers learn to write? By reading the work of their predecessors and contemporaries, says author and teacher Prose. Prose invites you on a guided tour of the tools and the tricks of the masters. She reads the very best writers and discovers why their work has endured. She takes pleasure in the magnificent sentences of Philip Roth and the breathtaking paragraphs of Isaac Babel; she is moved...
Author
Series
Pigeon (Picture books) volume 1
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
No matter how hard he pleads and begs, the pigeon is not supposed to drive the bus while the driver is away, but pigeon tries every persuasive trick a young child knows to get you to say, "Yes."
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
An enhanced edition of the classic writing manual features humorous art by a popular children's book illustrator and New Yorker cover artist, in a volume that provides visual and whimsical embellishments to the original instructive text.
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
©2007
Language
English
Description
Communications expert Luntz offers a behind-the-scenes look at how the tactical use of words and phrases affects what we buy, who we vote for, and even what we believe in. Luntz has used his knowledge of words to help more than two dozen Fortune 500 companies grow. He tells us why Rupert Murdoch's six-billion-dollar decision to buy DirectTV was smart because "satellite" was more cutting edge than "digital cable," and why pharmaceutical companies transitioned...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown, and Company
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Roy Peter Clark distills decades of experience into 50 tools that will help any writer become more fluent and effective. This book covers everything from the most basic ("Tool 5: Watch those adverbs") to the more complex ("Tool 34: Turn your notebook into a camera") and provides more than 200 examples from literature and journalism to illustrate the concepts. For students, aspiring novelists, and writers of memos, e-mails, PowerPoint presentations,...
Author
Publisher
IVP Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Guinness offers a comprehensive presentation of the art and power of creative persuasion. Christians have often relied on proclaiming and preaching, protesting and picketing. But we are strikingly weak in persuasion-- the ability to talk to people who are closed to what we are saying. He demonstrates how apologetic persuasion requires both the rational and the imaginative. Persuasion is subversive, turning the tables on listeners' assumptions to surprise...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
A companion to "A Field Guide for Getting Lost" explores the ways that people construct lives from stories and connect to each other through empathy, narrative, and imagination, sharing anecdotes about historical figures and members of the author's own family.
Publisher
Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"This user-friendly guide gives struggling students the step-by-step writing help they need to perfect the writing on their college applications, from the all-important personal essays to the supplemental material like short answer questions and resumes"--
Author
Publisher
J.P. Tarcher
Pub. Date
©1983
Language
English
Description
"A course in enhancing creativity and writing confidence. Using right-brain techniques to release your expressive powers: clustering, recurrence, re-vision, image and metaphor, creative tension, the trial web, language rhythm"--Jacket.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Draft No. 4 is a master class on the writer's craft. In a series of playful, expertly wrought essays, John McPhee shares insights he has gathered over his career and has refined while teaching at Princeton University, where he has nurtured some of the most esteemed writers of recent decades. McPhee offers definitive guidance in the decisions regarding arrangement, diction, and tone that shape nonfiction pieces, and he presents extracts from his work,...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
"For more than a quarter of a century, Pat Schneider has helped writers find and liberate their true voices. She has taught all kinds--the award winning, the struggling, and those who have been silenced by poverty and hardship. Her innovative methods have worked in classrooms from elementary to graduate level, in jail cells and public housing projects, in convents and seminaries, in youth at-risk programs, and with groups of the terminally ill. Now,...
Publisher
Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Each year, colleges are inundated with earnest, eager applications. Your own essay may need to shine from among as many as 60,000 others to get noticed! Get inspired by these 55+ unforgettable student essays that got their authors accepted; See what schools like Cornell, Brown, Georgia Tech, Rutgers, Northwestern University, Duke, and many more are looking for in an essay; Read helpful commentary from our experts on what worked--and why. All the...
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Mr. Complain always has something to grumble about, even as he takes a spectacular train ride through mountains, volcanoes, caves, and oceans, but as his trip comes to an end he realizes he genuinely enjoyed the journey and is ready to go again.
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