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The Associated Press Stylebook and Briefing on Media Lawby Associated PressISBN 0465004881 (0-465-00488-1)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'THE ASSOCIATED PRESS STYLEBOOK AND BRIEFING ON MEDIA LAw'Book summary:Whether you're a student struggling through Composition 101 or a professional writer on a quest for perfection, The Associated Press Stylebook and Briefing on Media Law is always ready to fill the role of trusted advisor to your creative genius. Revised and updated in 2000, this version contains a 40-page section on media law, guides for punctuation and bibliographies, and specialized glossaries for business and sports writing, all in addition to its 280-page generalized stylebook.
Within each section, entries are alphabetized, and searching for an answer is a fairly simple process. Tricky words--those that can be hyphenated (know-how) or not (jukebox), homonyms, nonstandard spellings (mo-ped)--are given their own short entries. Larger categories, such as religions, military titles, the Internet, and datelines, have multiple pages devoted to their explanations, but detail and clarity are brought nicely together in each listing. Many entries concern brand names and trademarks--never again will you question whetherpingpong or Ping-Pong should be used in the flier for your table-tennis tournament.
While a few sections of this book--the ones concerning media law, photo captions, filing the wire, and proofreading marks--will most likely be used by professional and student journalists and editors, the majority of this book is an excellent tool for anyone who ever has to write for the public. Whether it's a newsletter for your badminton league, a training manual for your employees, or a press release detailing your company's quarterly earnings, this stylebook will help you turn out well-written copy that gains the approval of every English teacher you've ever had. --Jill Lightner [via]
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The Associated Press Stylebook and Briefing on Media Law: With Internet Guide and Glossaryby Associated Press, Norm GoldsteinISBN 0738207403 (0-7382-0740-3)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Associated Press Stylebook and Briefing on Media Law: With Internet Guide and Glossary'Book summary:More people write for the Associated Press than for any newspaper in the world, and more writers --over 1,750,000--have bought The AP Stylebook than any other journalism reference. It provides facts and references for reporters, and defines usage, spelling, and grammar for editors. There are separate sections for journalists specializing in sports and business, and complete guidelines for how to write photo captions, proofread text, file copy over the wire, handle copyrights, and avoid libel. This new edition of the Stylebook has been fully updated with fifty new entries and revisions to more than one hundred others in order to keep pace with world events, common usage, and Associated Press procedures. More than 1.7 million copies sold[via]More editions of The Associated Press Stylebook and Briefing on Media Law: With Internet Guide and Glossary:
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The Associated Press Stylebook and Libel Manualby Norm GoldsteinISBN 0201627043 (0-201-62704-3)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Associated Press Stylebook and Libel Manual'Book summary:The world is divided into two types of people: those who wince when they see the words Canadian geese in print, and those who don't. If you are the former, or if you are the latter working for the former, the The Associated Press Stylebook and Libel Manual provides invaluable assistance when you need to get your Canada geese all in a row. Countless newspapers and other publications base their style guides on this manual. The entries are arranged alphabetically and include issues of spelling, punctuation (there is no period in Dr Pepper), grammar, abbreviation, capitalization (Popsicle and Dumpster are, tollhouse cookies aren't), hyphenation (none, surprisingly, in ball point pen), and frequently misused words. There are also longer discussions of things such as Arabic names, chess notation, weather terms, and religious movements. Plus you'll find separate sections on sports writing, business writing, libel, and copyright. [via]
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The Associated Press Stylebook and Libel Manualby Associated Press, the Associated Press, Norm GoldsteinISBN 0201339854 (0-201-33985-4)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Associated Press Stylebook and Libel Manual'Book summary:The world is divided into two types of people: those who wince when they see the words Canadian geese in print, and those who don't. If you are the former, or if you are the latter working for the former, the The Associated Press Stylebook and Libel Manual provides invaluable assistance when you need to get your Canada geese all in a row. Countless newspapers and other publications base their style guides on this manual. The entries are arranged alphabetically and include issues of spelling, punctuation (there is no period in Dr Pepper), grammar, abbreviation, capitalization (Popsicle and Dumpster are, tollhouse cookies aren't), hyphenation (none, surprisingly, in ball point pen), and frequently misused words. There are also longer discussions of things such as Arabic names, chess notation, weather terms, and religious movements. Plus you'll find separate sections on sports writing, business writing, libel, and copyright. [via]
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Associated Press Stylebook: And Libel Manual 1998by Associated PressISBN 0917360168 (0-917360-16-8)
Softcover, Associated Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Associated Press Stylebook: And Libel Manual 1998'Book summary:The world is divided into two types of people: those who wince when they see the words Canadian geese in print, and those who don't. If you are the former, or if you are the latter working for the former, the The Associated Press Stylebook and Libel Manual provides invaluable assistance when you need to get your Canada geese all in a row. Countless newspapers and other publications base their style guides on this manual. The entries are arranged alphabetically and include issues of spelling, punctuation (there is no period in Dr Pepper), grammar, abbreviation, capitalization (Popsicle and Dumpster are, tollhouse cookies aren't), hyphenation (none, surprisingly, in ball point pen), and frequently misused words. There are also longer discussions of things such as Arabic names, chess notation, weather terms, and religious movements. Plus you'll find separate sections on sports writing, business writing, libel, and copyright. [via]
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The Associated Press Stylebook and Libel Manual: Including Guidelines on Photo Captions, Filing the Wire, Proofreaders' Marks, Copyrightby Associated Press, Norm GoldsteinISBN 0201407175 (0-201-40717-5)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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Associated Press Stylebook and Libel Manual: With Appendixes on Photo Captions Filing the Wireby Christopher W. FrenchISBN 0440206014 (0-440-20601-4)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Becoming a Writerby Dorothea Thompson BrandeISBN 0874771641 (0-87477-164-1)
Softcover, J P Tarcher
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Becoming a Writer'Book summary:Even in 1934, Dorothea Brande knew that most writers didn't need another book on "technique" -- and this, before so many more would be published. No, she realized, as John Gardner notes in his foreword, "the root problems of the writer are personality problems," and thus her wise book is designed to simply help you get over yourself and start writing, with techniques ranging from a simple declaration to write every day at a fixed time -- no matter what -- to exercises that come close to inventing the TM and self-actualization movements that would follow a few decades later. [via]
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Bedford Basics: A Workbook for Writersby Diana Hacker, Wanda Van GoorISBN 0312154577 (0-312-15457-7)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bedford Basics: A Workbook for Writers'Book summary:In a workbook format, Bedford Basics incorporates a streamlined version of the text from the highly successful Bedford Handbook with lower-level exercises. Because Bedford Basics follows the handbook's organization, it can easily be used in conjunction with the handbook in a composition sequence or it can stand alone in any developmental writing class. For the new edition, the exercises have been carefully revised after much classroom testing. In addition, several new features have been added to make this book more useful for culturally diverse students, students working on a computer, and students using the book on their own. [via]
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Beginnings, Middles & Endsby Nancy KressISBN 0898799058 (0-89879-905-8)
Softcover, F & W Pubns Inc
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The Craft of Researchby Joseph M. Williams, Wayne C. Booth, Gregory G. ColombISBN 0226065677 (0-226-06567-7)
Hardcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Craft of Research'Book summary:Skillfully done, research can be the solid cornerstone of your term paper (or dissertation, essay, or article); inadequately executed, it can cause your whole project to crumble and fall. Yet essential as research is to the ultimate success of your work, performing it is not an innate talent. The precepts, steps, and skills of solid research are readily acquired if you spend some time with The Craft of Research before you start on your outlines and thesis statements. Written by three distinguished professors in 1995, published by the University of Chicago, and winner of the 1995-96 Critics' Choice Award, The Craft of Research teaches how to plan, carry out, and report on research for any field and at any level. Aimed at assisting student researchers, from raw beginners to accomplished graduate and professional students, the book shows how to choose a topic, plan and organize research, and how to draft and revise a report of findings such that a convincing solution is offered to a significant problem.
The Craft of Research is more than just another instruction manual getting you from topic to outline to notes to report. Recognizing that good research is rarely a simple, sequential procedure, but is instead a complex and intricate process, it discusses the subtle ways in which asking questions about your topic can influence how you draft your report, how a quality introduction can send you back to the library, and how the process of drafting can highlight flaws in your argument that need to be addressed. Clear and explicit, sophisticated and practical, The Craft of Research encourages high standards of scholarly achievement, and spells out the steps by which to get there. --Stephanie Gold [via]
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The Craft of Researchby Wayne Booth, Gregory G. Colomb, Joseph M. WilliamsISBN 0226065685 (0-226-06568-5)
Softcover, University of Chicago Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Craft of Research'Book summary:Skillfully done, research can be the solid cornerstone of your term paper (or dissertation, essay, or article); inadequately executed, it can cause your whole project to crumble and fall. Yet essential as research is to the ultimate success of your work, performing it is not an innate talent. The precepts, steps, and skills of solid research are readily acquired if you spend some time with The Craft of Research before you start on your outlines and thesis statements. Written by three distinguished professors in 1995, published by the University of Chicago, and winner of the 1995-96 Critics' Choice Award, The Craft of Research teaches how to plan, carry out, and report on research for any field and at any level. Aimed at assisting student researchers, from raw beginners to accomplished graduate and professional students, the book shows how to choose a topic, plan and organize research, and how to draft and revise a report of findings such that a convincing solution is offered to a significant problem.
The Craft of Research is more than just another instruction manual getting you from topic to outline to notes to report. Recognizing that good research is rarely a simple, sequential procedure, but is instead a complex and intricate process, it discusses the subtle ways in which asking questions about your topic can influence how you draft your report, how a quality introduction can send you back to the library, and how the process of drafting can highlight flaws in your argument that need to be addressed. Clear and explicit, sophisticated and practical, The Craft of Research encourages high standards of scholarly achievement, and spells out the steps by which to get there. --Stephanie Gold [via]
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The Craft of Research: From Planning to Reportingby Joseph M. Williams, Wayne C. Booth, Gregory G. ColombISBN 0226065839 (0-226-06583-9)
Hardcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Craft of Research: From Planning to Reporting'Book summary:Skillfully done, research can be the solid cornerstone of your term paper (or dissertation, essay, or article); inadequately executed, it can cause your whole project to crumble and fall. Yet essential as research is to the ultimate success of your work, performing it is not an innate talent. The precepts, steps, and skills of solid research are readily acquired if you spend some time with The Craft of Research before you start on your outlines and thesis statements. Written by three distinguished professors in 1995, published by the University of Chicago, and winner of the 1995-96 Critics' Choice Award, The Craft of Research teaches how to plan, carry out, and report on research for any field and at any level. Aimed at assisting student researchers, from raw beginners to accomplished graduate and professional students, the book shows how to choose a topic, plan and organize research, and how to draft and revise a report of findings such that a convincing solution is offered to a significant problem.
The Craft of Research is more than just another instruction manual getting you from topic to outline to notes to report. Recognizing that good research is rarely a simple, sequential procedure, but is instead a complex and intricate process, it discusses the subtle ways in which asking questions about your topic can influence how you draft your report, how a quality introduction can send you back to the library, and how the process of drafting can highlight flaws in your argument that need to be addressed. Clear and explicit, sophisticated and practical, The Craft of Research encourages high standards of scholarly achievement, and spells out the steps by which to get there. --Stephanie Gold [via]
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An Electronic Writer's Reference 5.0by Diana HackerISBN 031240249X (0-312-40249-X)
Hardcover, Bedford/st Martins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'An Electronic Writer's Reference 5.0'Book summary:A digital edition of the most widely adopted handbook in the country, An Electronic Writer's Reference 5.0 combines the class tested coverage and reference features of the print text with the cutting edge convenience of an e-book--resulting in an inter-active e-handbook that's both a guide to research and writing and a reference for the electronic age. [via]
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The Elements of Editing: A Modern Guide for Editors and Journalistsby Arthur PlotnikISBN 0020474105 (0-02-047410-5)
Softcover, Macmillan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Elements of Editing: A Modern Guide for Editors and Journalists'Book summary:156 pages [via]
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The Forest for the Trees: An Editor's Advice to Writersby Betsy LernerISBN 1573228575 (1-57322-857-5)
Softcover, Riverhead Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Forest for the Trees: An Editor's Advice to Writers'Book summary:One feels for Betsy Lerner's writers. Oh, sure, Lerner must be a fabulous agent. But too bad for them: In gaining her as an agent, they lost her as an editor. How rare and wonderful it must have been to have such an advocate, advisor, and, yes, admirer so firmly ensconced in publisher territory (at various times, Houghton Mifflin, Ballantine, Simon & Schuster, and Doubleday). In The Forest for the Trees, Lerner reflects on writing and publishing from an editor's point of view. There are so many books by writers and agents promising to disclose what editors really want; here, finally, is one straight from the source. Like all experienced editors, Lerner has seen writers at their best, and at their worst. "Like shrinks," she says, editors "have a privileged and exclusive view into a writer's psyche, from the ecstasy of acquisition to the agony of the remainder table."
To writers, particularly unpublished ones, editors can seem imposing figures determined to thwart their success. They won't take calls, they don't offer feedback--sometimes they don't respond to queries at all. Guess what: Editors don't lug home hundreds of pounds of manuscripts to read each year because they aren't looking for good writing. "An editor gets off," says Lerner, "on the thrill of discovering a new writer." Editors crave "succinct, well-written cover letters," inspiration that comes from within (as opposed to from the bestseller list), and "catchy, clearly targeted title[s]." They detest unsolicited phone calls, "query letters that sound as if they were penned by Crazy Eddie," and writers who offer to "write it however I want it" (it's "like saying I'll be straight or gay; you tell me, I have no preference"). Lerner is aware of how excruciating it is for a writer to wait for feedback on his or her work. But she also lets writers in on a little secret of her own. "I'm always anxious about the author's response," she confides. "Will he or she take to my editing?" --Jane Steinberg [via]
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Negotiation with the Deadby Margaret Eleanor AtwoodISBN 1400032601 (1-4000-3260-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Negotiation with the Dead'Book summary:Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing may be saddled with an ominous, academic, and vaguely morbid title, but it is really a droll, rambling, and readerly sort of book. The six essays printed here are distillations of lectures that Atwood presented at Cambridge University in 2000. They range through most of the major dilemmas of the art of writing and probe the various perceived duties of the writer--from political apologist to vatic poet.
Atwood fans who are aching for personal revelation will be disappointed by the lectures; only one of them is directly autobiographical, and it reads like a synopsis of the first third of Cat's Eye. Most of Negotiating with the Dead examines the representation of writers (and painters, and musicians, and other creative types) in world literature. The lectures form an impressively comprehensive list of writerly neuroses and allegiances, although there is little here that hasn't been said before. But if this territory will be instantly recognizable to any serious writer, it may surprise hardened readers, prompting a reappraisal of what these strange book-producing creatures really do with their lives. --Jack Illingworth [via]
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On Becoming a Novelistby John GardnerISBN 0393320030 (0-393-32003-0)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'On Becoming a Novelist'Book summary:Picture the poor, young, serious-fiction writer. He toils alone at a pace not so different from that of Lincoln Tunnel traffic at rush hour in New York. His spouse has a "real" job, or perhaps he has a trust fund. His college friends are cashing in on their dot-coms and wondering if he's ever going to join the real world. He is not hell-bent on publication; he is trying to write "serious, honest fiction, the kind of novel that readers will find they enjoy reading more than once, the kind of fiction likely to survive." He's likely to have no idea whether he's succeeding. Nobody understands him.
Well, almost nobody. John Gardner understands him. Gardner's sympathetic On Becoming a Novelist is the novelist's ultimate comfort food--better than macaroni and cheese, better than chocolate. Gardner, a fiction writer himself (Grendel), knows in his bones the desperate questioning of a writer who's not sure he's up to the task. He recognizes the validation that comes with being published, just as he believes that "for a true novel there is generally no substitute for slow, slow baking." Gardner also has strong feelings about what kinds of workshops help (and whom they help), and what kinds hinder. But a full half of Gardner's book is devoted to an exploration of the writer's nature. The storyteller's intelligence, he says, "is composed of several qualities, most of which, in normal people, are signs of either immaturity or incivility." In addition, a writer needs "verbal sensitivity, accuracy of eye," and "an almost demonic compulsiveness." But wait--there's more. A writer needs to be driven, and to be driven, he says insightfully, "a psychological wound is helpful." --Jane Steinberg [via]
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Plotby Ansen DibellISBN 0898799465 (0-89879-946-5)
Softcover, F & W Pubns Inc
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Publication Manual of the American Psychological AssociationISBN 1557987912 (1-55798-791-2)
Softcover, Amer Psychological Assn
Find This BookBook summary:In addition to providing clear guidance on grammar, the mechanics of w riting, and APA style, the Publication Manual offers an authoritative and easy-to-use reference and citation system and comprehensive covera ge of the treatment of numbers, metrication, statistical and mathemati cal data, tables, and figures for use in writing, reports, or presenta tions. [via]
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Hardcover, Amer Psychological Assn - Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association: ISBN 1557982414 (1-55798-241-4)
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Publication Manual of the American Psychological Associationby American Psychological AssociationISBN 0912704578 (0-912704-57-8)
Softcover, The Association
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association'Book summary:Paperback with nice cover, excellent binding and clean inside pages. We ship fast. [via]
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Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Themby Francine ProseISBN 0060777052 (0-06-077705-2)
Softcover, Perennial
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The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Lifeby Julia CameronISBN 1585420093 (1-58542-009-3)
Softcover, J P Tarcher
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life'Book summary:Writing, for Julia Cameron, is neither solely vocation nor avocation: it is a way of life. It comes first thing in the morning, while the horses are waiting to be fed; it happens at the kitchen counter, while the onions are sautéing; it takes place on "dates" at café tables shared with likeminded friends; it unfurls in the mind as the '65 pickup "bucks over the rutted dirt roads like a stiff-legged bronco." The more than 40 brief personal essays that make up The Right to Write are an unyielding affirmation of the writing life and a denigration of all that gets in the way: busy schedules, procrastination, insecurity, lack of writing space, a day job--you get the point. Cameron's commonsense advice is liberating to anyone who has felt hampered by making a big deal out of writing (this "tends to make writing difficult. Keeping writing casual tends to keep it possible"), by not having the time to write ("Get aggressive. Steal time"), or the like. If you find a spirit that compares writing to revelation, prayer, and Zen pursuits, that might just attribute misguided communication to Mercury retrograde simpatico, then you will find much to embrace here. And you will never, never again dream of waiting for that commitment-free sabbatical in the south of France to get your writing project under way. --Jane Steinberg [via]
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A Room of One's Own and Three Guineasby Virginia WoolfISBN 0701128291 (0-7011-2829-1)
Hardcover, Chatto & Windus
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Room of Ones' Ownby Virginia WoolfISBN 1568493665 (1-56849-366-5)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Room of Ones' Own'Book summary:Surprisingly, this long essay about society and art and sexism is one of Woolf's most accessible works. Woolf, a major modernist writer and critic, takes us on an erudite yet conversational--and completely entertaining--walk around the history of women in writing, smoothly comparing the architecture of sentences by the likes of William Shakespeare and Jane Austen, all the while lampooning the chauvinistic state of university education in the England of her day. When she concluded that to achieve their full greatness as writers women will need a solid income and a privacy, Woolf pretty much invented modern feminist criticism. [via]
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Softcover, Harcourt - Room of Ones' Own: ISBN 0151787336 (0-15-178733-6)
Hardcover, Harcourt - Room of Ones' Own: ISBN 0521485908 (0-521-48590-8)
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SELF-EDITING FOR FICTION WRITERS: How to Edit Yourself into Printby Renni Browne, Dave King, George BoothISBN 0060545690 (0-06-054569-0)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'SELF-EDITING FOR FICTION WRITERS: How to Edit Yourself into Print'Book summary:There's not much of the old-style editing going on at publishing houses today. Renni Browne, veteran of William Morrow and other publishers, founded the Editorial Department in 1980 to teach fiction writers the techniques professional editors (many of whom have gone independent) use to prepare a manuscript for publication. In this book, she and senior editor Dave King share their accumulated expertise in a series of brilliantly compact lessons. One page from their simply and markedly improved version of a scene from The Great Gatsby alone would make a compelling advertisement for their techniques. Very highly recommended. --MTB [via]
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Steering the Craft: Exercises and Discussions on Story Writing for the Lone Navigator or the Mutinous Crewby Ursula K. Le GuinISBN 0933377460 (0-933377-46-0)
Softcover, Eighth Mountain Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Steering the Craft: Exercises and Discussions on Story Writing for the Lone Navigator or the Mutinous Crew'Book summary:Ursula K. Le Guin's extraordinary writing primer is full of charm, wit, and opinion. Le Guin likens writing to "steering a craft," and as one reads through this volume, one has the sense of floating down a river, with the waves of Le Guin's words lapping at one's craft. Le Guin veers sharply from the mainstream of contemporary writing manuals by challenging their very definition of story. While it is common to "conflate story with conflict," Le Guin writes, she finds that limiting. "Story is change," she says. While that change may be the result of conflict, it is just as likely to evolve from "relating, finding, losing, bearing, discovering, [or] parting." Le Guin demonstrates this complexity with well-hewn excerpts from the works of such writers as Jane Austen, Mark Twain, J.R.R. Tolkien, Charlotte Brontë, and especially Virginia Woolf. The many aspects of fine fiction writing Le Guin addresses here include the role of the narrative sentence (its "chief duty [is] to lead to the next sentence--to keep the story going"); avoiding exposition doldrums ("break up the information, grind it fine, and make it into bricks to build the story with"); and the concept of "crowding and leaping." While prose should be "crowded with sensations, meanings, and implications," don't forget that "what you leave out is infinitely more than what you leave in."
Accompanying Le Guin's text is a handful of clever writing exercises, each as enticing as its name. Among them are "I am García Márquez," which requires writing with no punctuation; "Chastity," which challenges one to write without adjectives or adverbs; and "A Terrible Thing to Do," which proposes taking an earlier exercise and cutting it--by half. --Jane Steinberg [via]
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Storyby Robert McKeeISBN 0060391685 (0-06-039168-5)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Story'Book summary:Writing for the screen is quirky business. A writer must labor meticulously over his or her prose, yet very little of that prose is ever heard by filmgoers. The few words that do reach the audience, in the form of the characters' dialogue, are, according to Robert McKee, best left to last in the writing process. ("As Alfred Hitchcock once remarked, 'When the screenplay has been written and the dialogue has been added, we're ready to shoot.' ") In Story, McKee puts into book form what he has been teaching screenwriters for years in his seminar on story structure, which is considered by many to be a prerequisite to the film biz. (The long list of film and television projects that McKee's students have written, directed, or produced includes Air Force One, The Deer Hunter, E.R., A Fish Called Wanda, Forrest Gump, NYPD Blue, and Sleepless in Seattle.) Legions of writers flock to Hollywood in search of easy money, calculating the best way to get rich quick. This book is not for them. McKee is passionate about the art of screenwriting. "No one needs yet another recipe book on how to reheat Hollywood leftovers," he writes. "We need a rediscovery of the underlying tenets of our art, the guiding principles that liberate talent." Story is a true path to just such a rediscovery. In it, McKee offers so much sound advice, drawing from sources as wide ranging as Aristotle and Casablanca, Stanislavski and Chinatown, that it is impossible not to come away feeling immeasurably better equipped to write a screenplay and infinitely more inspired to write a brilliant one.--Jane Steinberg [via]
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Style: Lessons in Clarity and Graceby Joseph M. WilliamsISBN 0321479351 (0-321-47935-1)
Softcover, Longman Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace'Book summary:Engaging and direct, Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace is the guidebook for anyone who wants to write well.
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Style: Ten Lessons In Clarity And Graceby Joseph M. WilliamsISBN 0321288319 (0-321-28831-9)
Softcover, Longman Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Style: Ten Lessons In Clarity And Grace'Book summary:The best-selling style book, Style: Ten Lessons in Clarity and Grace, Seventh Edition , presents principles of writing to help students diagnose their prose quickly and revise it effectively. The four sections-Style as Choice, Clarity, Grace, and Ethics-feature new principles of effective prose, chapter summaries for quick and easy review, and group exercises that encourage students to work and learn together. Williams offers these principles as reason-based approaches to improving prose, rather than hard and fast rules to writing well. Style, 7/e, empowers students to use their writing not only as a tool to identify and solve problems, but also as a method for exploring their own thinking. [via]
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Stylebook 2005by Norm GoldsteinISBN 0917360249 (0-917360-24-9)
Softcover, Associated Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Stylebook 2005'Book summary:The spiral-bound style manual is an essential handbook for all writers, editors, students and public relations specialists. [via]
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The Weekend Novelistby Robert Ray, Bret NorrisISBN 0823084507 (0-8230-8450-7)
Softcover, Billboard Books
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The West: Encounters And Transformations to 1550by Michael Maas, Meredith Veldman, Edward Muir, Brian LevackISBN 0321384148 (0-321-38414-8)
Softcover, Longman Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The West: Encounters And Transformations to 1550'Book summary:The West: Encounters & Transformations takes a new approach to telling the story of Western Civilization. Rather than looking at Western Civilization only as the history of Europe from ancient times to the present, this groundbreaking book examines the changing nature of the Westhow the definition of the West has evolved and transformed throughout history.
The West explores the ways Western civilization has changed as a result of cultural encounters with different beliefs, ideas, technologies, and peoples, both outside the West and within it. Presenting a balanced treatment of political, social, religious, and cultural history, this text emphasizes the ever-shifting boundaries of the geographic and cultural realm of the West.
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Woe Is I: The Grammarphobe's Guide to Better English in Plain Englishby Patricia T. O'ConnerISBN 1573226254 (1-57322-625-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Woe Is I: The Grammarphobe's Guide to Better English in Plain English'Book summary:The bestselling grammar book has been updated and revised to include the latest and greatest on the basics and subtleties of English, and features a new chapter on the language of the Internet. [via]
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The Writer's Idea Bookby Jack HeffronISBN 158297179X (1-58297-179-X)
Softcover, F & W Pubns Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Writer's Idea Book'Book summary:Writers will jump start their creativity with over 500 unique idea-generating prompts, from clustering to role-playing to automatic writing, that get the words flowing. [via]
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The Writer's Journey: Mythic Structure for Storytellers and Screenwritersby Christopher VoglerISBN 0941188132 (0-941188-13-2)
Softcover, Ingram Pub Services
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Writer's Journey: Mythic Structure for Storytellers and Screenwriters'Book summary:Christopher Vogler has served as a studio folklore specialist, and here comes up with a book that is, in one regard, much like the screenplays it seeks to strengthen: it's derived from other sources! An acknowledged distillation of, and meditation on, the work of Joseph Campbell, The Writer's Journey approaches the storyteller's craft as one of recounting the hero's mythic journey, replete with roadblocks and life lessons. But why the unspoken assent that movies hew to this structure, when we don't demand the same of plays or books? Could it be that the collective viewing of films is one of our last tribal rituals? [via]
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The Writer's Journey: Mythic Structure for Writersby Christopher VoglerISBN 0941188701 (0-941188-70-1)
Softcover, Ingram Pub Services
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A Writer's Referenceby Diana HackerISBN 031202455X (0-312-02455-X)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Writer's Reference'Book summary:A Writer's Reference by: Diana Hacker [via]
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A Writer's Reference 5e + Cd-rom Electronic Exercises for Writer's Reference 5eby Diana HackerISBN 0312409044 (0-312-40904-4)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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A Writer's Reference: With 2001 Apa Guidelinesby Diana HackerISBN 0312401612 (0-312-40161-2)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Writer's Reference: With 2001 Apa Guidelines'Book summary:0-312-40161-2 DIANA HACKER 4TH EDITION BEDFORD/St. MARTIN'S 1999 424 PAGES [via]
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A Writer's Reference : With 2003 MLA Updateby Diana HackerISBN 0312412622 (0-312-41262-2)
Softcover, Bedford/Saint Martin's
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Writer's Reference : With 2003 MLA Update'Book summary:Writers Guide/Refernce book. [via]
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A Writer's Reference: With Mla's and Apa's 1999 Guidelinesby HackerISBN 0312260377 (0-312-26037-7)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Writer's Reference: With Mla's and Apa's 1999 Guidelines'Book summary:Great for the college student who may need some extra help with grammar and creative writing. [via]
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Writers Reference: Version 4.0 Updated With Mla's and Apa's 1999 Guidelinesby Diana HackerISBN 0312256957 (0-312-25695-7)
Hardcover, Bedford/st Martins
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Writing Fictionby Janet Burroway, Elizabeth Stuckey-FrenchISBN 0321277368 (0-321-27736-8)
Softcover, Longman Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Writing Fiction'Book summary:This comprehensive, informal, practical guide/anthology approaches the elements of fiction from the writer's point of view. Writing Fiction, 5/e, includes freewriting to revision, addressing how writers must work through problems in plot, style, characterization, dialogue, atmosphere, imagery, and point of view to write exciting and fresh stories. The tone of this market-leading text is non-prescriptive and personal, helping students feel comfortable with themselves and their writing. [via]
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Una Habitacion Propiaby Virginia WoolfISBN 843221521X (84-322-1521-X)
Softcover, Planeta Pub Corp
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