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2) Writing life stories: how to make memories into memoirs, ideas into essays and life into literature
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English
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"How to Make Memories into Memoirs, Ideas into Essays, and Life into Literature From drawing a map of a remembered neighborhood to signing a form releasing yourself to take risks in your work, Roorbach offers innovative techniques that will trigger ideas for all writers. Writing Life Stories is a classic text that appears on countless creative nonfiction and composition syllabi the world over. This updated 10th anniversary edition gives you the same...
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English
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Online sensation Grammar Girl makes grammar fun and easy in this New York Times bestseller
Are you stumped by split infinitives? Terrified of using "who" when a "whom" is called for? Do you avoid the words "affect" and "effect" altogether? Grammar Girl is here to help!
Mignon Fogarty, a.k.a. Grammar Girl, is determined to wipe out bad grammar-but she's also determined to make the process as painless as possible. A couple of years ago, she created...
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Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
30th anniversary ed., 7th ed., rev. and updated.
Physical Desc
xiii, 321 p. : facsim. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Warns against common errors in structure, style, and diction, and explains the fundamentals of conducting interviews and writing travel, scientific, sports, critical, and humorous articles.
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Language
English
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Expert writing advice from the editor of the Boston Globe best-seller, The Writer's Home Companion
Dissertation writers need strong, practical advice, as well as someone to assure them that their struggles aren't unique. Joan Bolker, midwife to more than one hundred dissertations and co-founder of the Harvard Writing Center, offers invaluable suggestions for the graduate-student writer. Using positive reinforcement, she begins by reminding thesis...
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Publisher
McGraw-Hill
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
2nd ed.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
Five stars for Tell It Slant ... An enlightening, comprehensive, and very satisfying text on writing and shaping creative nonfiction." --Sheila Bender, editor and publisher of writingitreal.com and author of Writing and Publishing Personal Essays When the poet Emily Dickinson wrote, "Tell all the Truth but tell it Slant," she provided today's writers of creative nonfiction some sound advice: tell the truth but don't become mere transcribers of...
10) MLA handbook
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Modern Language Association of America
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
v. : ill. ; 23 cm.
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English
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Series
Publisher
McGraw-Hill
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
2nd ed.
Physical Desc
x, 193 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
A guide to writing a research paper that includes information on how to write a thesis statement, construct a logical paper, conduct online research, document sources, and avoid plagiarism.
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Publisher
Eighth Mountain Press
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
2nd ed.
Physical Desc
187 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Since the first edition came out in 1997, this book has been praised as 'the best book on memoir out there.' It is thought-provoking, explanatory, and practical: each chapter ends with writing exercises. It covers everything from questions of truth and ethics to questions of craft and the crucial retrospective voice. An appendix provides information on legal issues. Judith Barrington, an award-winning memoir writer and acclaimed writing teacher,...
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Series
Publisher
Scholastic Reference
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
224 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Provides strategies for writing successful research reports and essays, including social studies reports, book reports, persuasive essays, personal essays, and descriptive essays.
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Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 596 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Provides a common-sense approach on how to write anything, from college applications to baby announcements, and includes information on how to appropriately craft a message, choose the right words, and the select the most appropriate medium.
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Publisher
Enslow
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
64 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Explores different types of reports, such as research reports, books reports, and lab reports. Explains how to pick the best topic, do the research, organize the information, and present the finished product.
20) Write papers
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Series
Publisher
Career Press
Pub. Date
c1994
Edition
2nd ed.
Physical Desc
127 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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