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Series
Pigeon (Picture books) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Pigeon is an unflinching and hilarious look at a child's potential for mischief. In a plain palette, with childishly elemental line drawings, Willems has captured the essence of unreasonableness in the very young.
Author
Language
English
Description
On Writing Well, which grew out of a course that William Zinsser taught at Yale, has been praised for its sound advice, its clarity, and for the warmth of its style. It is a book for anybody who wants to learn how to write or who needs to do some writing to get through the day, as almost everybody does. Whether you want to write about people or places, science and technology, business, sports, the arts, or about yourself in the increasingly popular...
Author
Language
English
Description
Verbal Judo is the martial art of the mind and mouth that can show you how to be better prepared in every verbal encounter. Listen and speak more effectively, engage people through empathy (the most powerful word in the English language), avoid the most common conversational disasters, and use proven strategies that allow you to successfully communicate your point of view and take the upper hand in most disputes.
Verbal Judo offers a creative
...5) Rhetoric
Author
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
[1954]
Language
English
Description
Written sometime in the 4th Century BC, Aristotle's "Rhetoric" is the definitive treatise on the art of persuasive public speaking. The art of oratorical persuasion was an essential skill for the successful politician during the days of ancient Greece and Aristotle's "Rhetoric" is considered one of the greatest works from antiquity on the subject. Like many of the surviving works attributable to Aristotle, "Rhetoric" was not intended for public dissemination,...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
A widely admired writer and teacher of writing, Verlyn Klinkenborg now gives us a distillation of that experience in an distinctive book that will help anyone who wants to write, write better, or have a clearer understanding of what it means for them to be writing. Klinkenborg believes that most of our received wisdom about how writing works is not only wrong but an obstacle to our ability to write. Here he sets out to help us unlearn that "wisdom"--about...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Covering 625 distinct categories, this hands-on guide provides nearly a thousand ready-to-use letters for every conceivable situation--from seeking out new business to collecting debts to extending congratulations. To compose the perfect letter in a snap, all a stymied writer needs to do is find the appropriate topic in the index, read the brief lead-in comments, and follow the blueprint.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Stanley Fish, the notoriously brash and brilliant English and Law professor, has authored dozens of academic books on subjects ranging from Milton to freedom of speech. In 2011, Fish turned his eye to a more popular subject, the art of writing great sentences. His short, wise book How to Write a Sentence became an instant New York Times Bestseller and continues to be read by students and aspiring writers. Adam Haslet called the book, "deeper and...
Author
Publisher
The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
In this book, we will examine all the elements needed to get the creative process moving, including choosing an idea, firming up the plot, and strengthening the narrative voice. Another topic discussed will be the process of working with others on a final draft in order to achieve the best possible story. We will also explore various literary techniques and how they can enhance your writing when combined with basic story elements. Narrative writing...
Author
Publisher
The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
In this book, we will explore various methods for focusing on, investigating, organizing, and writing about a topic so that you can explain your opinions in a convincing manner. We will investigate ways to involve the audience and make your writing more exciting by using figurative language such as similes, metaphors, hyperbole, and personification. Anecdotes and rhetorical questions are other devices that make persuasive pieces more expressive....
15) Teaching argument writing, grades 6-12: supporting claims with relevant evidence and clear reasoning
Author
Publisher
Heinemann
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Offers teaching strategies and resources to instruct sixth- through twelfth-graders on how to prepare and write strong arguments and evaluate the arguments of others, providing step-by-step guidance on arguments of fact, judgment, and policy, and including advice to help students understand how judgments get made in the real world, how to develop and support criteria for an argument, and related topics.
Author
Publisher
Prentice Hall
Pub. Date
[1990]
Language
English
Description
Contains advice on writing effective business and social letters in forty subject areas, with lists of words, phrases, sentences, and paragraphs relevant to each topic, and sample letters that may be reproduced and modified for individualized use
Author
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
John Wood sees it with numbing regularity: the query letter that comes close to making a sale - until the writer makes some avoidable mistake and dooms the pitch to rejection. So the Modern Maturity senior editor wrote this letter-writer's guidebook. Read it, learn from it, use the secrets it reveals to write queries too customized, too exciting, too good to turn down. As you publish more, your professional correspondence will increase. With the help...
Author
Publisher
Three Rivers Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
An introduction to the art of rhetoric explains how persuasion can profoundly influence personal and professional successes and reveals an array of techniques employed by such personalities as Aristotle and Winston Churchill.