A Basic Study of Writing
A Basic Study of Writing

Author: Janet G. Balfour

Publisher: Xulon Press

Published: 2009-06

Total Pages: 78

ISBN-13: 1607917912

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If you have a desire or need to improve your writing skills or need a little help getting started, this book is for you. You will discover that writing will be much easier when you learn how to:  Pick out a topic  Use writing tools  Use the 5 step writing process for both non-fiction and fiction  Use better words and phrases  Write poetry Everyone has at least one book inside just waiting to get out. Write your story and let the world know that you have something to say. After graduating from the University of Colorado, Janet G. Balfour was an elementary school teacher until she retired. Now she writes books to share her knowledge of reading and writing. Also, she gives presentations about a better way to teach reading, the five step writing process, activities that parents can use to keep their children learning, and what parents can do to help with homework. Other books by Janet G. Balfour: Books for parents:  Help! My Kid's Schoolwork is Driving Me Crazy!  Read to Your Kids! Books for children:  Read 24/7  Not Another Writing Assignment!

Basic Writing as a Political Act
Basic Writing as a Political Act

Author: Linda Adler-Kassner

Publisher: Hampton Press (NJ)

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13:

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An empirical study of basic writing in the contemporary academy. It examines perceptions of in-school writing and how basic writing programmes have been created and maintained by drawing on basic writing syllabi and programmes in different American colleges and universities.

The Basics of Media Writing
The Basics of Media Writing

Author: Scott A. Kuehn

Publisher: CQ Press

Published: 2016-12-08

Total Pages: 729

ISBN-13: 1506308120

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The Basics of Media Writing: A Strategic Approach helps readers develop the essential writing skills and professional habits needed to succeed in 21st-century media careers. This research-driven, strategy-based media writing textbook digs deeply into how media professionals think and write in journalism, public relations, advertising, and other forms of strategic communication. Authors Scott A. Kuehn and Andrew Lingwall have created two comprehensive writing models to help students overcome their problems in finding and developing story topics by giving them “starting points” to begin writing. The Professional Strategy Triangle model shows students how to think critically about the audience, the situation, and the message before starting a news story or persuasive piece and the FAJA four-point model asks students a series of questions about their story type (Fact, Analysis, Judgment, or Action) to guide them to the right angle or organizational structure for their message. Rooted in classical rhetorical methods, this step-by-step technique enables readers to strategically approach each writing task, no matter the format.

Keywords in Writing Studies
Keywords in Writing Studies

Author: Paul Heilker

Publisher: University Press of Colorado

Published: 2015-02-15

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 1457193485

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Keywords in Writing Studies is an exploration of the principal ideas and ideals of an emerging academic field as they are constituted by its specialized vocabulary. A sequel to the 1996 work Keywords in Composition Studies, this new volume traces the evolution of the field’s lexicon, taking into account the wide variety of theoretical, educational, professional, and institutional developments that have redefined it over the past two decades. Contributors address the development, transformation, and interconnections among thirty-six of the most critical terms that make up writing studies. Looking beyond basic definitions or explanations, they explore the multiple layers of meaning within the terms that writing scholars currently use, exchange, and question. Each term featured is a part of the general disciplinary parlance, and each is a highly contested focal point of significant debates about matters of power, identity, and values. Each essay begins with the assumption that its central term is important precisely because its meaning is open and multiplex. Keywords in Writing Studies reveals how the key concepts in the field are used and even challenged, rather than advocating particular usages and the particular vision of the field that they imply. The volume will be of great interest to both graduate students and established scholars.

Stylish Academic Writing
Stylish Academic Writing

Author: Helen Sword

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2012-04-02

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 0674069137

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Elegant data and ideas deserve elegant expression, argues Helen Sword in this lively guide to academic writing. For scholars frustrated with disciplinary conventions, and for specialists who want to write for a larger audience but are unsure where to begin, here are imaginative, practical, witty pointers that show how to make articles and books a pleasure to read—and to write. Dispelling the myth that you cannot get published without writing wordy, impersonal prose, Sword shows how much journal editors and readers welcome work that avoids excessive jargon and abstraction. Sword’s analysis of more than a thousand peer-reviewed articles across a wide range of fields documents a startling gap between how academics typically describe good writing and the turgid prose they regularly produce. Stylish Academic Writing showcases a range of scholars from the sciences, humanities, and social sciences who write with vividness and panache. Individual chapters take up specific elements of style, such as titles and headings, chapter openings, and structure, and close with examples of transferable techniques that any writer can master.

The Art of Teaching Writing
The Art of Teaching Writing

Author: Lucy Calkins

Publisher: Heinemann Educational Publishers

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13:

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Cloth Edition. The Art of Teaching Writing, New Edition, has major new chapters on assessment, thematic studies, writing throughout the day, reading/writing relationships, publication, curriculum development, nonfiction writing and home/school connections. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Writing Empirical Research Reports
Writing Empirical Research Reports

Author: Melisa C. Galvan

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-10-04

Total Pages: 195

ISBN-13: 1351968629

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• Designed for students who will be writing research proposals, reports, theses, and dissertations. • The 15 chapters cover 191 guidelines for effective scientific writing. The guidelines are fully illustrated with easy-to-follow examples. • The guidelines describe the types of information that should be included, how this information should be expressed, and where various types of information should be placed within a research report. • End-of-chapter questions help students master the writing process.

Naming What We Know
Naming What We Know

Author: Linda Adler-Kassner

Publisher: University Press of Colorado

Published: 2015-06-15

Total Pages: 267

ISBN-13: 0874219906

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Naming What We Know examines the core principles of knowledge in the discipline of writing studies using the lens of “threshold concepts”—concepts that are critical for epistemological participation in a discipline. The first part of the book defines and describes thirty-seven threshold concepts of the discipline in entries written by some of the field’s most active researchers and teachers, all of whom participated in a collaborative wiki discussion guided by the editors. These entries are clear and accessible, written for an audience of writing scholars, students, and colleagues in other disciplines and policy makers outside the academy. Contributors describe the conceptual background of the field and the principles that run throughout practice, whether in research, teaching, assessment, or public work around writing. Chapters in the second part of the book describe the benefits and challenges of using threshold concepts in specific sites—first-year writing programs, WAC/WID programs, writing centers, writing majors—and for professional development to present this framework in action. Naming What We Know opens a dialogue about the concepts that writing scholars and teachers agree are critical and about why those concepts should and do matter to people outside the field.