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Writing with Style (Speak-Write Series)
 | author: Rebecca Stott Simon Avery asin: 0582382424 binding: Paperback list price: $18.80 USD amazon price: $18.80 USD |
This is a practical book designed to be used by writers of all kinds to develop their own writing skills. It shows that advanced writing skills are best learned from studying the prose styles and techniques of already established writers and reveals the many small-scale changes that a writer can make to a text in order to achieve certain effects. Provides general principles for effective prose writing. Focus is highly practical and geared to different styles of everyday writing and examples are drawn from a range of different contexts, cultures and historical periods. read more »
Successful Writing
 | author: Maxine C. Hairston asin: 0393971961 binding: Paperback list price: $36.95 USD amazon price: $36.95 |
Practical, concise advice for advanced writers who want to further strengthen and polish their writing. In straightforward and vigorous language, Successful Writing offers expert help, whether students are writing within their college major or they are preparing to write on the job. Highlights of the Fourth Edition: * "Document Design", a new chapter that targets the visual elements of writing: planning reader friendly documents, arranging layouts, choosing type, and incorporating graphics and illustrations. read more »
Writing about Business and Industry
 | asin: 0195073789 binding: Hardcover list price: $59.95 USD amazon price: $59.95 |
Writing about Business and Industry brings together timeless essays and readings that exemplify excellence in writing about the history, theory, and practice of business. Beverly Schneller, coeditor of Writing about Science, has gathered the works of an extraordinary range of talentedminds--Adam Smith, Lewis and Clark, George Orwell, Henry Ford, Beatrice Webb, as well as many others--to instruct and encourage those seeking to become polished writers in business, technical, economic, and related fields. These colorful selections bring specialized composition to life for the read more »
The Life and Writings of Betsey Chamberlain: Native American Mill Worker
 | author: Judith A. Ranta asin: 155553564X binding: Paperback list price: $19.95 USD amazon price: $19.95 USD |
During the 1830s and 1840s, Betsey Guppy Chamberlain (1797-1886), a mixed-race writer of English and Algonkian heritage, labored in the textile mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, where she penned colorful stories and sketches for two workers' magazines -- the Lowell Offering and The New England Offering. A courageous and pioneering author, Chamberlain wrote the earliest known Native American fiction and published some of the earliest prose to challenge the persecution of Native people and affirm their dignity and worth. read more »
Working with Words in Business and Legal Writing
 | author: Lynne Agress asin: 0738205621 binding: Paperback list price: $13.50 USD amazon price: $13.50 USD |
A quick, witty, and comprehensive reference guide to grammar and style for the business writer. Written to help the business person gain a grammatical advantage on his or her competition, Working with Words in Business and Legal Writing is a quick and complete guide to writing clear and concise e-mails, letters, and reports. By using real-world before-and-after examples from her workshop, Dr. Lynne Agress examines and explains the most common grammatical pitfalls in business writing and helps the reader focus on avoiding confusing and incorrect language. Some of the topics Dr. read more »
How to Say It Style Guide
 | author: Rosalie Maggio asin: 073520313X binding: Paperback list price: $7.95 USD amazon price: $7.95 |
Instant answers for composing perfect prose Providing quick and succinct solutions to the most common writing problems, this perfect companion to the How to Say It® series gives readers all the information they need to write powerful and persuasive prose. The book begins with a brief introductory chapter covering 18 rules every writer must know, from organizing your thoughts and finding the best word for the purpose at hand, to being consistent and the importance of revising and rewriting. read more »
The Entrepreneur's Guide to Writing Business Plans and Proposals (The Entrepreneur's Guide)
 | author: K. Dennis Chambers asin: 0275994988 binding: Hardcover list price: $39.95 USD amazon price: $39.95 USD |
Entrepreneurs--and entrepreneurial companies--live or die by the quality of their plans and proposals. Whether it's to get funding for a new product line or business from a client, writing hard-hitting prose that answers essential questions and makes specific requests is an indispensable skill. Entrepreneur, ad man, and writing teacher Dennis Chambers shows how entrepreneurs can persuade people, through skillful writing, to pony up capital or contracts. This ability--which can be learned--is rare in today's media-saturated world. read more »
Letters to a Young Journalist (Art of Mentoring)
 | author: Samuel J. Freedman asin: 0465024556 binding: Hardcover list price: $22.95 USD amazon price: $17.21 USD |
From one of America's most respected journalists--and a revered professor at Columbia University's School of Journalism--a lively and inspiring look at the art and craft of journalism Over the course of a thirty-year career, Samuel Freedman has excelled both at doing journalism and teaching it, and he passionately engages both of these endeavors in the pages of this book. As an author and journalist, Freedman has produced award-winning books, investigative series, opinion columns, and feature stories and has become a specialist in a wide variety of fields. read more »
