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Help! For Writers: 210 Solutions to the Problems Every Writer Faces by Roy Peter Clark
Category: Reference Dictionaries Words
The craft of writing offers countless potential problems: The story is too long; the story's too short; revising presents a huge hurdle; writer's block is rearing its ugly head. In HELP! FOR WRITERS, Roy Peter Clark presents an 'owner's manual' for writers, outlining the seven steps of the writing proce ...Show more
Help! for Writers: 210 Solutions to the Problems Every Writer Faces by Roy Peter Clark
Category: Reference Dictionaries Words
The craft of writing offers countless potential problems: The story is too long; the story's too short; revising presents a huge hurdle; writer's block is rearing its ugly head. In HELP! FOR WRITERS, Roy Peter Clark presents an 'owner's manual' for writers, outlining the seven steps of the writing proce ...Show more
How to Write Short: Word Craft for Fast Times by Roy Peter Clark
Category: Reference Dictionaries Words
In HOW TO WRITE SHORT, Roy Peter Clark turns his attention to the art of painting a thousand pictures with just a few words. Short forms of writing have always existed--from ship logs and telegrams to prayers and haikus. But in this ever-changing Internet age, short form writing has become an essential ...Show more
How to Write Short: Word Craft for Fast Times by Roy Peter Clark
Category: Writing
In HOW TO WRITER SHORT,Roy Peter Clark turns his attention to the art of painting a thousand pictures with just a few words. Short forms of writing have always existed - from ship logs and telegrams to prayers and haikus. But in this ever-changing internet age short-form writing has become an essential ...Show more
Murder Your Darlings - And Other Gentle Writing Advice from Aristotle to Zinsser by Roy Peter Clark
Category: Languages and Reference
From one of America's most influential teachers, a collection of the best writing advice distilled from fifty language books -- from Aristotle to Strunk and White.With so many excellent writing guides lining bookstore shelves, it can be hard to know where to look for the best advice. Should you go with ...Show more
Murder Your Darlings: And Other Gentle Writing Advice from Aristotle to Zinsser by Roy Peter Clark
Category: Languages and Reference
From one of America's most influential writing teachers, a collection of 50 of the best writing strategies distilled from 50 writing and language books -- from Aristotle to Strunk and White. With so many excellent writing guides lining bookstore shelves, it can be hard to know where to look for the ...Show more
Tell It Like It Is - A Guide to Clear and Honest Writing by Roy Peter Clark
Category: Reference
America's favorite writing coach and bestselling author returns with an "indispensable" guide (Diana K. Sugg, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter) to writing clearly and honestly in a world full of lies, propaganda, and misinformation. The darker and more dystopian the future appears, the more influential ...Show more
Tell It Like It Is - A Guide to Clear and Honest Writing by Roy Peter Clark
Category: Literature
America's favourite writing coach and bestselling author returns with an "indispensable" guide (Diana K. Sugg, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter) to writing clearly and honestly in a world full of lies, propaganda, and misinformation.The darker and more dystopian the future appears, the more influential p ...Show more
The Art of X-Ray Reading: How the Secrets of 25 Great Works of Literature Will Improve Your Writing by Roy Peter Clark
Category: Reference
Where do writers learn their best moves? They use a technique that Roy Peter Clark calls X-ray reading, a form of reading that lets you penetrate beyond the surface of a text to see how meaning is actually being made. In THE ART OF X-RAY READING, Clark invites you to don your X-ray reading glasses and j ...Show more
The Glamour of Grammar: A Guide to the Magic and Mystery of Practical English by Roy Peter Clark
Category: Languages and Reference
Early in the history of English, the words 'grammar' and 'glamour' meant the same thing: the power to charm. Roy Peter Clark, author of Writing Tools, aims to put the glamour back in grammar with this fun, engaging alternative to stuffy instructionals. In this practical guide, readers will learn everyth ...Show more
Writing Tools: 50 Essential Strategies for Every Writer by Roy Peter Clark
Category: Languages and Reference
Tools Not Rules' says Roy Peter Clark, vice president and senior scholar at the Poynter Institute, the esteemed school for journalists and teachers of journalists. Clark believes that everyone can write well with the help of a handful of useful tools that he has developed over decades of writing and tea ...Show more
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