Warns against common errors in structure, style, and diction, and explains the fundamentals of conducting interviews and writing travel, scientific, sports, critical, and humorous articles.

Long before there were creative-writing workshops and degrees, how did aspiring writers learn to write? By reading the work of their predecessors and contemporaries, says Francine Prose. In Reading Like a Writer, Prose invites you to sit by her side and take a guided tour of the tools and the tricks of the masters. She reads the work of the very best writers-Dostoyevsky, Flaubert, Kafka, Austen, Dickens, Woolf, Chekhov-and discovers why their work...

Learn to outsmart your classmates with the tips in this exciting, top secret book! The secret tips included in this simple, easy-to-read text will have you writing opinion, fact, narrative, and directions in no time!

"An entertaining history of great oratory" and a primer to rhetoric's key techniques (The New Yorker). Rhetoric gives our words the power to inspire. But it's not just for politicians: it's all around us, whether you're buttering up a key client or persuading your children to eat their vegetables. You have been using rhetoric yourself, all your life. After all, you know what a rhetorical question is, don't you? In Words Like Loaded Pistols,...

The craft of writing offers countless potential problems: The story is too long; the story's too short; revising presents a huge hurdle; writer's block is rearing its ugly head. In HELP! FOR WRITERS, Roy Peter Clark presents an "owner's manual" for writers, outlining the seven steps of the writing process, and addressing the 21 most urgent problems that writers face. In his trademark engaging and entertaining style, Clark offers ten short solutions...

It's the evening before your research paper is due, and you're staring at a big, empty white word document waiting to be filled on your computer screen. The clock is ticking. And you're panicking. Sound familiar? It's a scenario that all college students face, and with it comes stress, dread, pessimism and, of course, writer's block. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, four out of five students are not proficient writers. But...

The GED® test might be the most important exam you ever take-and in order to pass and earn your diploma, you must excel on the Reasoning Through Language Arts (RLA) section of the exam. This comprehensive guide covers every topic you need to master in order to pass all sections of the updated GED® Test RLA section. Inside, you'll find: • A review of every reading comprehension, language, and grammar concept you will find on the RLA exam • A...