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Publisher
LearningExpress
Language
English
Description
This eBook provides extensive practice to help sharpen all aspects of your grammar and writing, from capitalization and punctuation to sentence structure and essay construction. All questions include detailed answer explanations or writing samples.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In this portable, brief, and lucid guide to presenting, Wyeth counsels how to calm a thumping heart and reveals techniques on preparation, delivery, and visual aids as he gives you vivid stories and rubber meets the road advice. And he does more than simply ease your dread, he inspires you with historical accounts and incisive observations on the power and purpose of speaking well. From advice on the pitch and pace of your speaking voice to admonishments...
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Communications expert Luntz offers a behind-the-scenes look at how the tactical use of words and phrases affects what we buy, who we vote for, and even what we believe inches Luntz has used his knowledge of words to help more than two dozen Fortune 500 companies grow. He tells us why Rupert Murdoch's six-billion-dollar decision to buy DirectTV was smart because "satellite" was more cutting edge than "digital cable," and why pharmaceutical companies...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The right words are oxygen to our ideas, but the digital era, with all of its TTYL, LMK, and WTF, has been cutting off that oxygen flow. The compulsion to be precise has vanished from our culture, and in writing of every kind we see a trend towards more--more speed and more information but far less clarity. Evans provides practical examples of how editing and rewriting can make for better communication, even in the digital age.
Series
Publisher
Teaching Company
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Lectures by Dr. David Zarefsky, Professor of Argumentation and Debate and Professor of Communication Studies, Northwestern University, cover the history of rhetoric and debate as well as analysis of different types of arguments in various situations.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown Spark
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"America's favorite writing coach and bestselling author returns with an "indispensable" guide (Diana K. Sugg, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter) to writing clearly and honestly in a world full of lies, propaganda, and misinformation. The darker and more dystopian the future appears, the more influential public writers become. But with so much content vying for our attention, and so much misinformation and propaganda polluting public discourse, how...
29) Visual writing
Author
Publisher
LearningExpress
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Visual writing can teach you how to organize your thoughts for effective writing and communication with word webs, maps, flow charts, Venn diagrams, sequential charts, plot diagrams, sample topics, model essays, and more!
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A guide to writing long-form nonfiction, written by the legendary New Yorker author and teacher, is presented as a series of lighthearted essays that share insights into the lessons he has learned on the writing process during his years at Princeton University.
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Crushing national Debt? Climate Change? No: the greatest danger to our way of life is the decline of grammar. Thus preaches the inimitable Mr Gwynne as he shows us the way out of this sorry state. "Grammar is the science of using words rightly, leading to thinking rightly, leading to deciding rightly, without which-as both common sense and experience show-happiness is impossible. Therefore, happiness depends at least partly on good grammar." So...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"25 Great Sentences and How They Got That Way is for word lovers, readers interested in encountering new authors or revisiting favorite works, and aspiring writers. The author, a master English teacher at Horace Mann for several decades, leads readers on a delightful tour of sentences by authors in the canon, using deft analysis and humor to "look under the hood" and allow us to see what makes a sentence great"--
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
c2013.
Language
English
Description
Short forms of writing have always existed--from ship logs and telegrams to prayers and haikus. But in this ever-changing digital age, short form writing has become an essential skill. Whether the writing is formal or informal, Clark covers how to write effective and powerful titles, headlines, essays, sales pitches, Tweets, letters, and much more.
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