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Author: Sands Hall Publisher: ISBN: 9780972722575 Category : Authorship Languages : en Pages : 0
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A collection of essays and exercises by award-winning novelist and writing instructor Sands Hall, author of the bestselling novel Catching Heaven and the play Fair Use. Sands has developed these resources during her years teaching at the Iowa Summer Writing Festival, the Squaw Valley Community of Writers, and the University of California at Davis.
Author: Kendall Dunkelberg Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 1137610964 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 190
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This introductory creative writing text uses a unique, multi-genre approach to provide students with a broad-based knowledge of their craft, treating them as professional writers. Beginning by discussing elements common to all genres, this book underscores the importance of learning good writing habits before committing to a genre, encouraging writers to look beyond their genre expectations and learn from other forms. The book then devotes one chapter to each of the major literary genres: fiction, poetry, drama and creative nonfiction. These style-specific sections provide depth as they compare the different genres, furnishing students with a comprehensive understanding of creative writing as a discipline and fostering creativity. The discussion concludes with a chapter on digital media and an appendix on literary citizenship and publishing. With exercises at the end of each chapter, a glossary of literary terms, and a list of resources for further study, A Writer's Craft is the ideal companion to an introductory creative writing class. It has been listed as one of the 'Best Books for Writers' by Poets and Writers magazine.
Author: Sands Hall Publisher: ISBN: 9780972722575 Category : Authorship Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
A collection of essays and exercises by award-winning novelist and writing instructor Sands Hall, author of the bestselling novel Catching Heaven and the play Fair Use. Sands has developed these resources during her years teaching at the Iowa Summer Writing Festival, the Squaw Valley Community of Writers, and the University of California at Davis.
Author: American Society of Journalists and Authors Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Harper & Row ISBN: Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 424
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In Tools of the Writer's Trade members of the American Society of Journalists and Authors tell all about the equipment and services they find the best, including advice on: computers, hardware and software; copiers and their accessories; information sources; travel tips; stationery. . .and much more.
Author: Susan Pesznecker Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide ISBN: 0738711454 Category : Body, Mind & Spirit Languages : en Pages : 266
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Would you like to craft your own Book of Shadows? Write a story? Create Pagan rituals or Wiccan spells for special occasions? And ultimately infuse your writing with added beauty, style, and power? Get your creativity flowing as you step into a boundless world where magick comes alive through the written word. Clear, step-by-step instructions will guide you through each phase of creating beautiful and powerful magickal works. Drumming up ideas Keeping a magickal journal Freewriting Choosing a composition form Revising drafts to a refined polish This book on magickal writing offers an array of exercises, tips and terms, and writing samples to help you craft stories, devotional poems, spells, chants, prayers, blessings, meditations, and rituals. By mastering the techniques in this book, your every word will crackle with energy, vibrancy, and true power. Praise: "With the help of this book, your writing and magickal skills will expand and grow...You will be a true magickal writer." --Richard Webster, award-winning author of Write Your Own Magic
Author: Marcia Sheehan Freeman Publisher: Maupin House Publishing, Inc. ISBN: 1934338818 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 122
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For Multiple Grades Models for Teaching Writing-craft Target Skills is your go-to guide for writing-craft instruction through exemplary and accessible literature models. Writing-craft Target Skills--those specific techniques that all good writers use to effectively craft clear and compelling fiction and non-fiction--are best taught through explicit modeling. Locating the appropriate mentor texts for every skill, however, can be a daunting and time-consuming task. This innovative resource puts more than 450 valuable literature models at your fingertips and matches them to thirty-three fundamental writing-craft Target Skills. To add variety and versatility to your K-8 writing classroom, Models for Teaching Writing-craft Target Skills includes a wide assortment of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry selections, ranging from picture books to intermediate texts. This revised and updated second edition also includes more than seventy Spanish literature models that are ideal for ESL/ELL writing-craft instruction. Save yourself time and energy by referencing four literature-model matrices, which alphabetically list fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and Spanish-text models. Each genre-specific matrix identifies multiple writing-craft skills so you can easily reference how to use many of the models to teach a variety of writing techniques. Models for Teaching Writing-craft Target Skills: Helps you fully utilize the strong connection between reading and writing; Increases the power of modeling in your writing-workshop lessons; Pre-selects and organizes a set of appropriate literature models to help you teach writing craft effectively; and Features Spanish literature models for teaching writing-craft skills to ESL/ELL students.
Author: Shelley S. Peterson Publisher: Portage & Main Press ISBN: 1553792394 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 191
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As the amount of curriculum in today’s classrooms expands and teaching time seems to shrink, teachers are looking for ways to integrate content area and writing instruction. In this revised and expanded edition of Writing Across the Curriculum, Shelley Peterson shows teachers how to weave writing and content area instruction together in their classrooms. The author provides practical and helpful ideas for classroom teachers and content-area specialists to easily incorporate writer’s workshop while teaching in their subject area. New features in this second edition include: • Websites that can be used to teach writing (e.g., wiki’s, weblogs, and digital storytelling) • Examples from grades 4-8 classrooms that show how science, social studies, health, and mathematics teachers can also be teachers of poetry, narrative, and non-narrative writing • New assessment scoring guides • Information on working with struggling writers and supporting English Language Learners • Graphic organizers, templates, and mini-lessons that engage students in learning
Author: Dina Anastasio Publisher: Benchmark Education Company ISBN: 1608596184 Category : Languages : en Pages : 28
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What is that scary noise coming from the cave? Will any of the kids vacationing at this rocky beach be brave enough to go inside? How will the Oak Street kids keep Jamal's secret from Ms. Tilly?
Author: Sherry Ellis Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 1101117834 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 289
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A collection of personal writing exercises and commentary from some of today's best novelists, short story writers, and writing teachers, including Jill McCorkle, Amy Bloom, Robert Olen Butler, Steve Almond, Jayne Anne Phillips, Virgil Suarez, Margot Livesay, and more. What's the secret behind the successful and prolific careers of critically acclaimed novelists and short story writers Amy Bloom, Steve Almond, Jayne Anne Phillips, Alison Lurie, and others? Divine assistance? Otherworldly talent? An unsettlingly close relationship with the Muse? While the rest of us are staring at blank sheets of paper, struggling to come up with a first sentence, these writers are busy polishing off story after story and novel after novel. Despite producing work that may seem effortless, all of them have a simple technique for fending off writer's block: the writing exercise. In Now Write!, Sherry Ellis collects the personal writing exercises of today's best writers and lays bare the secret to their success. - In "The Photograph," Jill McCorkle divulges one of her tactics for handling material that takes plots in a million different directions; - National Book Award-nominee Amy Bloom offers "Water Buddies," an exercise for writers practicing their craft in workshops; - Steve Almond, author of My Life in Heavy Metal and Candyfreak, provides a way to avoiding purple prose in "The Five-Second Shortcut to Writing in the Lyric Register"; - and eighty-three more of the country's top writers disclose their strategies for creating memorable prose. Complemented by brief commentary from the authors themselves, the exercises in Now Write! are practical and hands-on. By encouraging writers to shamelessly steal proven techniques that have yielded books which have won National Book Awards, Pulitzers, and Guggenheim grants, Now Write! inspires the aspiring writer to write now.
Author: Sands Hall
Author: Kendall Dunkelberg
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Author: American Society of Journalists and Authors
Author: Susan Pesznecker
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Author: Marcia Sheehan Freeman
Author: Shelley S. Peterson
Author: Dina Anastasio
Author: Sherry Ellis