Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy
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Rhetoric: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartRhetoric was once an essential part of western education. Aristotle wrote an important treatise on it and Demosthenes remains famous to this day for his skills as a rhetorician. But skill with rhetori… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Toye, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: May 08 2013
- ISBN10: 0199651361
- Language: English
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Irony and Sarcasm
$15.95 Add to cartA biography of two troublesome words.
Isn’t it ironic? Or is it? Never mind, I’m just being sarcastic (or am I?). Irony and sarcasm are two of the most misused, misapplied, and misunderstood words in o
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Kreuz, Roger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: February 18 2020
- ISBN10: 0262538261
- Language: English
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Being Michael Swanwick
$20.95 Add to cartIn 2001, Michael Swanwick published the book-length interview Being Gardner Dozois. Now Swanwick himself becomes the subject of inquiry. During a year of conversations, Alvaro Zinos-Amaro (Traveler of
- Author: Zinos-Amaro, Alvaro
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: November 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1958880140
- Language: English
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Gather: Richard Van Camp on the Joy of Storytelling
$17.95 Add to cartMaster storyteller and bestselling author Richard Van Camp on how to tell a good story
Gathering around a campfire, or the dinner table, we humans have always told stories. Through the stories we tell- Series: Writers on Writing #3
- Author: Camp, Richard Van
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 162
- Publish Date: May 14 2021
- ISBN10: 0889777004
- Language: English
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Writing Fiction for Dummies
$24.99 Add to cartA complete guide to writing and selling your novel
So you want to write a novel? Great That’s a worthy goal, no matter what your reason. But don’t settle for just writing a novel. Aim high. Write a n
- Series: For Dummies
- Author: Ingermanson, Randy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: December 01, 2009
- ISBN10: 0470530707
- Language: English
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Sweat the Technique: Revelations on Creativity from the Lyrical Genius
$16.99 Add to cartOn the heels of Kendrick Lamar’s Pulitzer Prize, as the world begins to recognize the creative side of Hip-Hop, comes a writing guide from a musician and “The greatest MC of all time,” Rakim.
The music
- Author: Rakim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 15 2020
- ISBN10: 0062850245
- Language: English
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Speaking American: How Y’All, Youse, and You Guys Talk: A Visual Guide
$17.99 Read moreFrom the creator of the New York Times dialect quiz that ignited conversations about how and why we say the words we say, a stunning and delightful exploration of American language.
Did you know that … [more below]
- Author: Katz, Josh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0358359937
- Language: English
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The Craft of Scene Writing: Beat by Beat to a Better Script
$18.95 Add to cartA professional screenwriter’s master class in writing the most critical and challenging script element–the individual scene. No one comes out of a movie talking about structure. What audiences love a… [more below]
- Author: Mercurio, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1610353307
- Language: English
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Writing about Your Life: A Journey Into the Past
$18.99 Add to cartAn ingeniously constructed teaching memoir from the author of the bestselling On Writing Well — “You learn without knowing it.” (Frank McCourt, author of Angela’s Ashes)
Written with elegance, warmth,… [more below]- Author: Zinsser, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: March 28 2005
- ISBN10: 1569243794
- Language: English
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The Infographic Guide to Grammar: A Visual Reference for Everything You Need to Know
$16.99 Add to cartMastering grammar is now easier than ever with this fully illustrated guide that covers the most important rules in grammar and punctuation–making even the most confusing rules easy to understand.
T- Series: Infographic Guide
- Author: Kern, Jara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 04 2020
- ISBN10: 1507212380
- Language: English
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Blueprint for a Memoir: How to Write a Memoir for the Marketplace
$18.99 Add to cartTop book coach Jennie Nash teaches you how to think about memoir in a whole new way.
“The surest thing a writer has, in a genre that’s never that sure, is Jennie’s hard won, no-stone-left-unturned Blue
- Author: Nash, Jennie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 290
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1733251162
- Language: English
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Core Skills Algebra Workbook Grades 8-10
$21.24 Add to cartThese all-inclusive skills resources provide the focused practice students need to apply, reinforce, and review skills in reading, math, and test-taking. Answer key included.
- Series: Core Skills Mathematics
- Author: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: December 20 2020
- ISBN10: 0544261828
- Language: English
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Spoken Soul: The Story of Black English
$17.95 Add to cartIn Praise of Spoken Soul: The Story of Black English
“Spoken Soul brilliantly fills a huge gap. . . . a delightfully readable introduction to the elegant interweave between the language and its culture
- Author: Rickford, John Russell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0471399574
- Language: English
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The Glamour of Grammar: A Guide to the Magic and Mystery of Practical English
$19.99 Add to cartEarly 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… [more below]
- Author: Clark, Roy Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 08 2011
- ISBN10: 0316027901
- Language: English
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Three Simple Lines: A Writer’s Pilgrimage Into the Heart and Homeland of Haiku
$22.95 Add to cartOne of the world’s foremost writing teachers invites readers on a joyful journey into the reading and origins of haiku
A haiku is three simple lines. But it is also, as Allen Ginsberg put it, three l… [more below]
- Author: Goldberg, Natalie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 05 2021
- ISBN10: 1608686973
- Language: English
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The Art of Time in Fiction: As Long as It Takes
$15.00 Add to cartFiction imagines for us a stopping point from which life can be seen as intelligible, asserts Joan Silber in The Art of Time in Fiction. The end point of a story determines its meaning, and one of the
- Series: Art Of…
- Author: Silber, Joan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: June 23 2009
- ISBN10: 1555975305
- Language: English
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The Associated Press Guide to Punctuation
$18.99 Add to cartIn 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 t- Author: Cappon, Rene J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: January 07 2003
- ISBN10: 0738207853
- Language: English
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The World Is Waiting for You: Graduation Speeches to Live by from Activists, Writers, and Visionaries
$22.15 Read moreInspiring commencement speeches from Wynton Marsalis, Toni Morrison, Gloria Steinem, and others: “The perfect gift for grads-to-be” (O, The Oprah Magazine).
“The voices of conformity speak so loudly.- Author: Grove, Tara
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 01 2015
- ISBN10: 1620970902
- Language: English
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Writing the Breakout Novel Workbook: Hands-On Help for Making Your Novel Stand Out and Succeed
$19.99 Add to cartMake Your Novel Stand Out from the Crowd
Noted literary agent and author Donald Maass has done it again His previous book, Writing the Breakout Novel, offered novelists of all skill levels and genre- Author: Maass, Donald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 230
- Publish Date: June 01 2004
- ISBN10: 158297263X
- Language: English
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Romance Your Brand: Building a Marketable Genre Fiction Series
$14.99 Add to cartFor the first time ever in print, Zoe York breaks down how she plans a series–something she has done ten times over. Romance Your Brand is an adaptation of an intensive four-week course, now availabl
- Series: Publishing How to #1
- Author: York, Zoe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 164
- Publish Date: December 17 2019
- ISBN10: 1989703232
- Language: English
