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  • The Art and Craft of Feature Writing

    Based on The Wall Street Journal Guide

    Storytelling—how to catch and hold a reader’s interest through artful narration of factual materialWilliam E. Blundell, one of the best writers on one of America's best-written papers—The Wall Street Journal—has put his famous Journal Feature-Writing Seminars into this step-by-step guide for turning out great articles. Filled with expert instruction on a complex art, it provides beginners with a ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Editors on Editing

    What Writers Need to Know About What Editors Do

    Edited by Gerald Gross ...
    The classic guide to the book publishing process, with essays by over three dozen professional editors: “Terrific.”—Judith Appelbaum, author of How to Get Happily PublishedFor decades, Editors on Editing has been indispensable for editors, aspiring editors, and especially writers who want to understand the publishing process, from how manuscripts are chosen for publication to what lunch with an ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Edit Yourself: A Manual for Everyone Who Words with Words

    "A strong new entry for the reference shelf of anyone who writes to be understood—or would like to."—Pittsburgh PressIn the first part of this useful book, the author shows how to solve common problems of writing. The reader will learn how to recognize common problems of writing. The reader will learn how to recognize words and phrases that should be cut; how to shorten cumbersome sentences; how ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Better Spelling in 30 Minutes a Day

    Series series Better English
    Become a stellar speller with these self-tests, exercises, examples, and tips for spotting errors quickly!Do you use the dictionary more than you think you should? Are the business memos you write filled with embarrassing spelling mistakes? Have you received low grades on papers because of poor spelling? Starting with diagnostic exercises to help you understand your trouble spots, this easy-to-use ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Better Punctuation in 30 Minutes a Day

    Series series Better English
    To achieve your goals, words alone aren’t enough. You need punctuation too!Who cares about commas, semicolons, dashes, and hyphens? Well, you should. A misplaced punctuation mark can confuse physicians and surgeons, cause thousands of dollars in legal fees, misinform judges, puzzle bankers, misguide stockbrokers, and even ruin a recipe.Luckily, you don’t need a teacher with a mouthful of jargon to ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Error and the Academic Self

    The Scholarly Imagination, Medieval to Modern

    by Seth Lerer ...
    How and why did the academic style of writing, with its emphasis on criticism and correctness, develop? Seth Lerer suggests that the answer lies in medieval and Renaissance philology and, more specifically, in mistakes. For Lerer, erring is not simply being wrong, but being errant, and this book illuminates the wanderings of exiles, émigrés, dissenters, and the socially estranged as they helped ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • The Layers of Magazine Editing

    Unlike the myriad writing manuals that emphasize grammar, sentence structure, and other skills necessary for entry-level editing jobs, this engaging book adopts a broader view, beginning with the larger topics of audience, mission, and tone, and working its way down, layer by layer, to the smaller questions of grammar and punctuation. Based on Michael Evans's years of experience as an editor and ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Book Unbound

    Editing and Reading Medieval Manuscripts and Texts

    Series series Studies in Book and Print Culture
    In The Book Unbound, scholars and editors examine how best to use new technological tools and new methodologies with artefacts of medieval literature and culture. Taking into consideration English, French, Anglo-Norman, and Latin texts from several periods, the contributors examine and re-evaluate traditional approaches to and conclusions about medieval books and the cultural texts they contain - ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • How Not to Write: The Essential Misrules of Grammar

    These fifty humorous misrules of grammar will open the eyes of writers of all levels to fine style.How Not to Write is a wickedly witty book about grammar, usage, and style. William Safire, the author of the New York Times Magazine column "On Language," homes in on the "essential misrules of grammar," those mistakes that call attention to the major rules and regulations of writing. He tells you ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Honesty in the Use of Words

    What makes great writing great writing is not spelling or grammar or syntax, but honesty. Not the careless honesty of our emotions, but the intellectual honesty that results from careful thoughts combined with a firm insistence that we write only true things. The honest writer always seeks to avoid deception, always believes writing the truth is more important than proving a point. Honesty in the ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Print Journalism

    A Critical Introduction

    Edited by Richard Keeble ...
    Print Journalism provides an up-to-date overview of the skills needed to work within the newspaper and magazine industries.This critical approach to newspaper and magazine practice highlights historical, theoretical, ethical and political debates and includes tips on the everyday skills of newspaper and magazine journalists, as well as tips for online writing and production.Crucial skills ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Revision

    History, Theory, and Practice

    Edited by Alice Horning, Anne Becker ...
    Series series Reference Guides to Rhetoric and Composition
    Explores the wide range of scholarship on revision while bringing new light to bear on enduring questions in composition and rhetoric. ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Encyclopaedia of Editing

    by Nayyar Shamsi ...
    Editing is not only a task of adding and deleting of words but also a tough as well as responsible one also. While editing, many a thing has to be taken into consideration. use of proper words and style checking of facts, power of observation ,and analysis, awareness of the goings-on in He four corners of the world, etc. are some of the essential constituents which go in making an editor. And ... Read more

    $75.99 USD

  • Encyclopaedia of Editing

    by Nayyar Shamsi ...
    Editing is not only a task of adding and deleting of words but also a tough as well as responsible one also. While editing, many a thing has to be taken into consideration. use of proper words and style checking of facts, power of observation ,and analysis, awareness of the goings-on in He four corners of the world, etc. are some of the essential constituents which go in making an editor. And ... Read more

    $75.99 USD

  • Encyclopaedia of Editing

    by Nayyar Shamsi ...
    Editing is not only a task of adding and deleting of words but also a tough as well as responsible one also. While editing, many a thing has to be taken into consideration. use of proper words and style checking of facts, power of observation ,and analysis, awareness of the goings-on in He four corners of the world, etc. are some of the essential constituents which go in making an editor. And ... Read more

    $75.99 USD

  • The Associated Press Guide To Punctuation

    In the no-nonsense, authoritative tradition of the best-selling AP Stylebook, the top editors at the AP have written the definitive guide to punctuation.More people write for the Associated Press than for any other news service, and more writers take their style and word-usage cues from this world-famous institution than from any other journalism source. From the when and how of the ampersand to ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Complete Idiot's Guide to Journalism

    An Insider Look at the Media Revolution—and Your Place in It

    Breaking news! This is like having J-school in a book.In recent years, news reporting has dramatically changed. While the basic “who, what, when, where, and why” of journalism is still relevant, aspiring journalists are now asking “how?” The 21st century of blogs, instant internet access, and 24-hour news shows with minute–by–minute updates has made reporting a whole new—and very competitive ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Fact Checker's Bible

    A Guide to Getting It Right

    These days fact-checking can seem like a lost art. The Fact Checker's Bible arrives not a moment too soon: it is the first—and essential—guide to the important but increasingly neglected task of checking facts, whatever their source.We are all overwhelmed with information that claims to be factual, but even the most punctilious researcher, writer, and journalist can sometimes get it wrong, so ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Manuscript Makeover

    Revision Techniques No Fiction Writer Can Afford to Ignore

    Professional editor and author Elizabeth Lyon offers aspiring novelists the guidance and instruction they need to write and edit well-crafted and compelling stories that will stand out from the competition and attract the attention of agents and publishers, including:- Stand-out style techniques, from accessing an authentic voice to applying techniques of "wordsmithing" that transform prose- How ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Complete Idiot's Guide to Publishing Children's Books, 3rd Edition

    Here is the comprehensive guide to writing, publishing, and selling for the ever-expanding and always exciting children’s market—now in a new and updated third edition.• Includes new chapters on self-publishing and on "how to choose a how-to," plus revision and updates throughout• Offers practical advice on getting started--and on dealing with out-of-print books• Covers picture books, chapter ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Artful Edit: On the Practice of Editing Yourself

    by Susan Bell ...
    "Bell's prose is elegant and wonderfully readable in this artful guide."—Publishers WeeklyThe Artful Edit explores the many-faceted and often misunderstood—or simply overlooked—art of editing. The book brims with examples, quotes, and case studies, including an illuminating discussion of Max Perkins's editorial collaboration with F. Scott Fitzgerald on The Great Gatsby. Susan Bell, a veteran book ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Spunk & Bite

    Today's writer needs more than just a solid knowledge of usage and composition to write successfully. Bestselling author Arthur Plotnik reveals the secrets to attention-grabbing, unforgettable writing, in this trade paperback edition.Updated with all-new writing exercises, Spunk & Bite will help writers take books, articles, business reports, memos, and even e-mail messages to the next level. ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Sin Boldly!

    Dr. Dave's Guide To Acing The College Paper

    by Dave Williams ...
    Cheeky, original, and decidedly practical, this guide to effective writing is perfect for anyone who wants to hone their communication skills -- college-bound or in the working world.Jammed with sage advice, genuine encouragement, and surprising examples of how to write and how not to write, this book gives beginning writers and confident students alike an easy-to-follow roadmap for improving one ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Self-Editing for Fiction Writers, Second Edition

    How to Edit Yourself Into Print

    Hundreds of books have been written on the art of writing. Here at last is a book by two professional editors to teach writers the techniques of the editing trade that turn promising manuscripts into published novels and short stories.In this completely revised and updated second edition, Renni Browne and Dave King teach you, the writer, how to apply the editing techniques they have developed to ... Read more

    $13.99 USD