Writing Skills

The professional's quick-reference handbook for writing business and technical reports Professionals in business, government, and technical fields ...

There was a time when good writing would be defined simply by adverting to a few literary classics. That kind of strategy is less helpful these day...

Headway Academic Skills can be used independently or alongside a general English course book such as New Headway or New Headway Plus. The course fo...

"From these rituals come notes; from those notes come poems; and from those poems comes not just a view into his process, but an entrance into anot...

Plot must be as much about the emotions of the characters as it is about the events of the story. That's the message in "The Art of Plotting", whic...

Writing programs in prisons and rehabilitation centers have proven time and again to be transformative and empowering for people in need. Halfway h...

A Plain-English Guide to Government Writing Whether you’re in the public or private sector, good writing skills are critical to your success in the...

Techniques of Writing Business Letters, Memos, and Reports is a concise supplemental text covering the basics of effective business writing in thes...

Today, the surprisingly elastic form of the memoir embraces subjects that include dying, illness, loss, relationships, and self-awareness. Writing ...

With Writing without Teachers (OUP 1975) and Writing with Power (OUP 1995) Peter Elbow revolutionized the teaching of writing. His process method--...

Harvey S. Wiener shows how parents can encourage their children to write with a home program that can be used from preschool through high school. B...

For years, Robert Wolf traveled around the Midwest and the South teaching small town folk, farmers, and homeless individuals to write about their l...

With Writing without Teachers (OUP 1975) and Writing with Power (OUP 1995) Peter Elbow revolutionized the teaching of writing. His process method--...

Nine commissioned essays introduce the non-specialist to the rapidly evolving field of composition studies, discussing the nature of the field, the...

Everyday we write countless memos, letters, and reports without a second thought. Likewise, we give presentations, both, formal and informal. Often...

In Hearing Ourselves Think, cognitive process research moves from the laboratory to the college classroom, where its rich research tradition contin...

Executive functions are a set of cognitive processes we use to act on information, manage resources, and plan and monitor our own behaviour, all wi...

The worlds of readers and writers on the one hand and listeners and speakers on the other differ in many ways. What happens when the stories, belie...

Directed specifically to the needs of academic authors, this realistic handbook is a guide to publishing success for both beginning and seasoned sc...

Well-known journal editors and Communication scholars Alison Alexander and W. James Potter provide an insider′s guide to getting published in schol...

Inside Writing prepares students to produce a variety of academic texts, while focusing on key academic vocabulary from the Academic Word List. Eac...

Oxford Discover Writing and Spelling introduces students to a wide range of creative and academic text types and guides them through the writing pr...

Inside Writing prepares students to produce a variety of academic texts, while focusing on key academic vocabulary from the Academic Word List. Eac...

Headway Academic Skills can be used independently or alongside a general English course book such as New Headway or New Headway Plus. The course fo...

Headway Academic Skills can be used independently or alongside a general English course book such as New Headway or New Headway Plus. The course fo...

This accessible and wide-ranging book is an invaluable introductory guide through the choices to be made when deciding how to report research. Writ...