Heinlein's Rules
Heinlein's Rules

Author: Dean Wesley Smith

Publisher: Wmg Publishing

Published: 2016-03-07

Total Pages: 76

ISBN-13: 9781561467525

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With more than a hundred published novels and more than seventeen million copies of his books in print, USA Today bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith follows five simple business rules for writing fiction. And now, he shares how those rules helped shape his successful career. In this WMG Writer's Guide, Dean takes you step-by-step through Heinlein's Rules and shows how following those rules can change your writing-and career-for the better. Simple rules, yet deceptively hard to follow. Do you have the courage to take a hard look at your writing process and follow Heinlein's Rules? Dean shows you how. "Dean Wesley Smith's blog gives both a slightly different view of the publishing world than I'd seen before and detailed hands-on "here's how to get from A to B" instruction." - Erin M. Hartshorn, Vision: A Resource for Writers

Principles of Scientific Writing and Biomedical Publication
Principles of Scientific Writing and Biomedical Publication

Author: Phil B. Fontanarosa

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2024

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 0197783031

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"Publication of biomedical research is essential for improvement and advancement of medical science and clinical practice. The history of scientific publication, including journals devoted to medical science, dates to the 1600s. The number of peer-reviewed scientific journals is estimated to be in the tens of thousands, and the number of journals, especially with the increasing creation of open access publications, continues to expand. Yet, despite the long history of and ubiquitous nature of scientific publications, the core principles involved in biomedical publication as well as the specific skills of writing and manuscript preparation are not commonly taught in a formal or comprehensive way in medicine, public health, or research curricula"--

Elements of Indigenous Style
Elements of Indigenous Style

Author: Gregory Younging

Publisher: Brush Education

Published: 2018-03-01

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 1550597167

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Elements of Indigenous Style offers Indigenous writers and editors—and everyone creating works about Indigenous Peoples—the first published guide to common questions and issues of style and process. Everyone working in words or other media needs to read this important new reference, and to keep it nearby while they’re working. This guide features: - Twenty-two succinct style principles. - Advice on culturally appropriate publishing practices, including how to collaborate with Indigenous Peoples, when and how to seek the advice of Elders, and how to respect Indigenous Oral Traditions and Traditional Knowledge. - Terminology to use and to avoid. - Advice on specific editing issues, such as biased language, capitalization, and quoting from historical sources and archives. - Case studies of projects that illustrate best practices.

Garner on Language and Writing
Garner on Language and Writing

Author: Bryan A. Garner

Publisher: American Bar Association

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 884

ISBN-13: 9781604424454

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Since the 1987 appearance of A Dictionary of Modern Legal Usage, Bryan A. Garner has proved to be a versatile and prolific writer on legal-linguistic subjects. This collection of his essays shows both profound scholarship and sharp wit. The essays cover subjects as wide-ranging as learning to write, style, persuasion, contractual and legislative drafting, grammar, lexicography, writing in law school, writing in law practice, judicial writing, and all the literature relating to these diverse subjects.