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"Writing Without Bullshit is the first comprehensive guide to writing for todays world: a noisy environment where everyone reads what you write on a screen. The average news story now gets only 36 seconds of attention. Unless you change how you write, your emails, reports, and Web copy dont stand a chance. In this practical and witty book, youll learn to front-load your writing with pithy titles, subject lines, and opening sentences....
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English
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A thoroughly revised and updated edition of this comprehensive guide to writing personal and professional documents with clarity, confidence, and style. Award-winning journalist Lamb transforms reluctant writers into skilled wordsmiths by providing compelling examples of nearly every type of document and form of written communication.
8) Writing life stories: how to make memories into memoirs, ideas into essays, and life into literature
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Writer's Digest Books
Pub. Date
[2008]
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English
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From the Publisher: Writing Life Stories is a classic text that appears on countless creative nonfiction and composition syllabi the world over. This updated 10th anniversary edition gives readers the same friendly instruction and stimulating exercises along with updated information on current memoir writing trends, ethics, Internet research, and even marketing ideas. Readers will discover how to turn their untold life stories into vivid personal...
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Peterson's
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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"The Associated Press Guide to News Writing, is the standard professional resource for both novice and experienced news writers. This practical handbook is the ideal writing style guide for all reporters, writers, editors, and English and journalism students. It covers all the essentials of good news writing, according to the styles and guidelines set forth by the Associated Press--with lively examples from today's newspapers. This authoritative guide...
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Writers Digest
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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"Great writing requires more than an original idea, compelling characters, or a scintillating plot. An author needs all of these to be successful, but writing--and writing well--also demands an entirely different skill set. Spellbinding Sentences arms you with the tools you need to master the power of the English language. In this book, you'll learn the different qualities of words and the many ways those words can be combined to create sentences...
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English
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"They Say / I Say teaches students the rhetorical moves found in persuasive writing across all disciplines. The authors focus on the central rhetorical move that gives the book its title: how to begin with what others have said ("they say") in order to set up one's own argument ("I say"). The approach is practical and effective, and the language is engaging and jargon-free."--Publisher's website.
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Kogan Page Ltd
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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How to Write Reports and Proposals is essential reading for achieving effective writing techniques. Getting a message across on paper and presenting a proposal in a clear and persuasive form are vital skills for anyone in business, and this book provides practical advice on how to impress, convince and persuade your colleagues or clients. Fully updated for 2019, this 5th edition now features even more practical exercises, useful templates, and top...
18) Writing smart
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Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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Step-by-step approaches for all types of writing, from essays to academic assignments to workplace emails. Includes chapters covering: fundamental grammar rules and terms; how to construct sentences and choose the right words; the best ways to approach exam essays, research papers, and professional emails; processes for editing and revising your own work to achieve the best possible result.
19) MLA handbook
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The Modern Language Association of America
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"The ninth edition of the MLA Handbook is a textbook and reference guide that offers student writers and writing instructors guidance on creating works-cited-list entries in MLA style using the template of core elements. It features advice on punctuation, grammar, inclusive language, formatting research papers, and in-text citations. Includes an appendix of sample works-cited-list entries, illustrations, and an index"--
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Little, Brown Spark
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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A collection of over a hundred writing tips gleaned from fifty popular writing books. Chapters are devoted to each key strategy. Author expands and contextualizes original authors' suggestions and shares how each tip helped other authors improve their skills.
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