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Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Voice First: A Writer's Manifesto offers writers and teachers of writing an opportunity to not only engage their voices but to understand and experience how developing their range of voices strengthens their writing"--
Author
Publisher
Abrams Image
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"This all-new definitive guide to writing imaginative fiction takes a completely novel approach and fully exploits the visual nature of fantasy through original drawings, maps, renderings, and exercises to create a spectacularly beautiful and inspiring object. Employing an accessible, example-rich approach, Wonderbook energizes and motivates while also providing practical, nuts-and-bolts information needed to improve as a writer. Aimed at aspiring...
Author
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
There seems to be widespread agreement that--when it comes to the writing skills of college students--we are in the midst of a crisis. In Why They Can't Write, John Warner, who taught writing at the college level for two decades, argues that the problem isn't caused by a lack of rigor, or smartphones, or some generational character defect. Instead, he asserts, we're teaching writing wrong. Warner blames this on decades of educational reform rooted...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury USA
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Why write when it sometimes feels that so few people really read--read as if their lives might be changed by what they're reading? Why write, when the world wants to be informed, not enlightened; to be entertained, not inspired? Writing is backbreaking, mindbreaking, lonely work. So why? Because writing, as celebrated professor Mark Edmundson explains, is one of the greatest human goods. Real writing can do what critic R. P. Blackmur said it could:...
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