Responds to repeated requests by Retirees - both Seniors and Baby Boomers - who long to become published authors and have repeatedly requested a simplified, comprehensive, single-volume guidebook to lead them through the confusing publishing process from initial planning to final success.
Creative writing is controversial - with issues of whether creative writing can or should be taught on the one hand, and discussion about its contribution to social inclusion and regeneration on the other. This book provides a comprehensive and accessible guide to these issues and their context.
Art and design students face a wide range of writing tasks - from reflective and self-promotional pieces to reviews, essays and dissertations. This book sets out to take writing away from its 'academic-only' label and nurture its creative role in the process of art and design.
Unravels the process of writing academic papers. This book tells readers what good papers look like and how they can be written. It offers practical and tested strategies for good academic writing. It provides the knowledge on writing across various disciplines.
Offers guidance on how to improve your skills by describing the different approaches you can take to different assignments. This title offers examples of analysing assignments, and also discusses the note-taking, mind-mapping, and various types of reading which should go into any preparation.
Written in an accessible style, Writing for Computer Science is not only an engaging introduction to the doing and describing of research, but is a handy guide for working scientists. It is an invaluable reference, supplying a comprehensive overview on how to undertake and present research.
Aims to take users from scratch to having a base in the language within six months, and to feel comfortable in as little as three months. This book features a method that comprises two phases: the passive phase, in which users repeat what they hear and read, and the active phase, in which users begin to create sentences and imagine themselves.
Written from the perspective of a successful writer, psychotherapist, and practising Zen Buddhist, these pieces convey encouragement, inspiration, and solid advice to help both experienced authors and novices navigate the sometimes tumultuous terrain of writing.
Revised and updated, the second edition of this book carefully tackles each stage of essay writing from interpretation of the question, to the research, planning, writing and revision, teaching students not just how to improve their study skills, but their thinking skills too.
Endeavoring to synthesize what has been learned about writing in all nations, this work reflects a wide scope of international research activity, with attention to writing at all levels of schooling and in all life situations. It is useful for scholars and researchers of writing, and to anyone who teaches writing in any context at any level.
To achieve in their higher education studies students have to develop research and writing skills. Without these skills it is unlikely that students will achieve the levels required to move beyond undergraduate studies. This book adapts local examples to ensure relevance for students in South African institutions.
Presenting a range of written materials, this user-friendly course aims to develop reading strategies and the ability to write texts of various types, while imparting an understanding of important aspects of German society. It is suitable both for classroom use and independent study, with feedback and answer key supplied at the back of the book.
Suitable for students with essays to write, this title includes topics such as: how to read selectively; how to take notes effectively; how to understand the 'academic speak' in essay questions; how to structure your work; and how to use and cite your sources accurately.
Helps build students' confidence in their own writing. This book addresses the preparation and writing of assignments and research projects. It provides a toolkit containing reference materials on areas including punctuation, grammar and academic terminology.
Provides a pedagogical framework for students to write memorable non-fiction that emphasises voice and creativity, working in tandem with observation, research, memory, and point of view. This text is useful for creative writing or composition courses with an emphasis on creative non-fiction.
Offers comprehensive coverage of the writing process, critical thinking, argumentation, writing in the disciplines, English for speakers of other languages, common sentence errors, grammar and style, punctuation and mechanics, and college survival skills. This title includes the information on writing in a digital environment.
A step-by-step guide to all the stages of writing an academic essay. This book deals with gathering, evaluating and organising information; writing effective introductions and concluding paragraphs; and, revising and editing. It includes practical tips and advice for every student in full-time or part-time education.
Whether you are returning to studying after a break, or need help adjusting your writing skills to meet the needs of your Education course, this guide helps you improve your literacy skills. Suitable for the students on Education courses, it uses examples of students' work to highlight common problems, and provides guidance on how to improve.
Aimed at academics, this book offers practical advice. It defines what academic writing is, and the process of getting started through to completion, covering topics such as gaining momentum, reviewing and revising, self-discipline, writing regularly, and writers' groups and retreats.
Helps you learn the fundamentals of writing the characters of traditional Japan, borrowed from Chinese (Kanji). This book lists each Kanji with its radical, its number of strokes, the different pronunciations of the character, and its meaning. It includes appendices such as the Table of Radicals, and the Index listing Kanji by number of strokes.
Synthesizes the knowledge on writing development in children and adolescents and the processes underlying successful learning and teaching. This work includes both cognitive and sociocultural perspectives. It presents salient theoretical models; describes research methodologies and analytic tools; and identifies key directions for future research.
Grounded in the belief that an understanding of the rhetorical situation - the writer, reader, message, context, and exigence (reason for writing) - this comprehensive handbook provides the starting point for effective writing and reading. It moves students through the steps that constitute successful writing.
Using a process-writing approach, this text helps students master writing skills and gain confidence as writers. It also helps students broaden their repertoire of related speech acts, vocabulary, grammatical structures, and stylistic elements through three major sections.
A guide to writing Spanish-language documents. It provides you with the practical skills and confidence you need to write such Spanish-language documents as: applications and cover letters; curricula vitae; Business and bank documents; Personal and business e-mails; personal letters, greeting cards, and postcards; and, advertisements.
Helps learn the how-to's of effective writing for fashion reports and forecasts, fashion show scripts, print ads, radio and television segments, public relations, catalogues, direct mail, trade and consumer magazines, and the Internet. This title features profiles of fashion industry professionals who use writing in their jobs.
Intended as a supplement for courses that requires writing. This book models a system for creating prose. It argues that the bad writing results from our attempts to imitate Official Style. It shows how to "translate" official style into plain, understandable English through the application of a series of simple rules.
Engagingly written and filled with judicious examples, this short, practical, inexpensive handbook combines advice on writing clearly and plainly, structuring a piece of argumentative writing, and avoiding grammatical and other common mechanical errors -- including those in"ing and citing.
A good writing style is of great importance to an examiner and pupils must demonstrate their abilities in word choice, sentence structure, tone, imagery, punctuation etc. This book aims to explain the techniques required to become a good writer. It also teaches pupils how to recognise the demands of a question.
Offers an approach to assist German learners at various levels of proficiency in developing their writing skills in eight different genres. This title includes information and activities for structuring sentences, paragraphs, and entire texts, building vocabulary, and raising awareness of cultural issues related to writing for specific audiences.
Spelled or spelt? Boudicca or Boadicea? Can you really give someone 'fulsome praise'? How do you write a good headline? And just where do all those apostrophes and foreign accents go? This is a guide to English which provides answers to these and hundreds of similar questions.