Writing Skills

Educators, academics, or business persons will find this book convenient and irreplaceable--a must to have on hand, whether writing for the first t...

Crafting Compositions guides students through the entire writing process, with exercises in planning, drafting, responding and revising, and polish...

Pedagogies of Public Memory explores opportunities for writing and rhetorical education at museums, archives, and memorials. Readers will follow st...

Reading & Writing for Academic Success was designed to present high-level academic content-based instruction to students who are preparing to p...

Practical, comprehensive, and readable, Secrets for a Successful Dissertation is designed for doctoral candidates at or near the beginning of the d...

Scientific and Technical Communication is a major textbook that represents a new focus area in communication studies. It integrates multidisciplina...

Does traditional argument still have a place in the composition classroom? How can the process of argument be used productively by students? In thi...

The critical approach to L2 writing is arguably one of the most significant recent developments in L2 writing pedagogy. A. Suresh Canagarajah provi...

Does traditional argument still have a place in the composition classroom? How can the process of argument be used productively by students? In thi...

Reading & Writing for Academic Success was designed to present high-level academic content-based instruction to students who are preparing to p...

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

Pasos 2: Spanish Intermediate course is a best-selling, multi-format adult learning programme for classroom and home use. Fully revised and updated...

Writing News for Broadcast is the Strunk and White of broadcast newswriting books. Long considered the gold standard of broadcast journalism textbo...

A Pulitzer Prize-winning author's revelatory celebration of the novel - at once an anatomy of the art of fiction, a guide for readers and writers a...

Exam Board: AQA Level: GCSE Grade 9-1 Subject: English Language ...

The crash of an Amtrak train near Baltimore, the collapse of the Hyatt hotel in Kansas City, the incident at Three Mile Island, and other large-sca...

This comprehensive and detailed analysis of second language writers' text identifies explicitly and quantifiably where their text differs from that...

When Linda Spence asked her aging mother to write her life story, her mother stared at a blank sheet of paper and asked—“How? Where do I begin?” In...

When Linda Spence asked her aging mother to write her life story, her mother stared at a blank sheet of paper and asked—“How? Where do I begin?” In...

Plain Style is an amusing and instructive guide to written English by the late Christopher Lasch, author of The Culture of Narcissism, The True and...

Memory has long been ignored by rhetoricians because the written word has made memorization virtually obsolete. Recently however, as part of a revi...

Designed for courses on theories and methods of teaching college writing, this text is distinguished by its emphasis on giving teachers a foundatio...

Memory has long been ignored by rhetoricians because the written word has made memorization virtually obsolete. Recently however, as part of a revi...

On Second Language Writing brings together internationally recognized scholars in a collection of original articles that, collectively, delineate a...

Comprised of a study spanning over five years, this text looks at four engineering co-op students as they write at work. Since the contributors hav...

On Second Language Writing brings together internationally recognized scholars in a collection of original articles that, collectively, delineate a...

Comprised of a study spanning over five years, this text looks at four engineering co-op students as they write at work. Since the contributors hav...

The crash of an Amtrak train near Baltimore, the collapse of the Hyatt hotel in Kansas City, the incident at Three Mile Island, and other large-sca...

In an increasingly demanding world of literacy, it has become critical that students know how to write effectively. From the requirements of standa...

The goal of teaching writing is to create independent and self-motivated writers. When students write more often, they become better at writing. Th...

This new series of three books aims to develop the writing skills of students learning Modern Standard Arabic, enabling them to move from forming c...

This book takes on a daunting task: How do writing teachers continue to work toward preparing students for academic and real-world communication si...

Writing is hard work. Teaching it can be even harder. As most teachers know, writer's workshop doesn't always go as planned, and many find there ar...

Student writing has long been viewed as a problem in higher education in the UK. Moreover, the sector has consistently performed poorly in the Nati...

Some teachers love grammar and some hate it, but nearly all struggle to find ways of making the mechanics of English meaningful to kids. As a middl...

This book takes on a daunting task: How do writing teachers continue to work toward preparing students for academic and real-world communication si...

Academics Writing recounts how academic writing is changing in the contemporary university, transforming what it means to be an academic and how, a...

An important challenge to what currently masquerades as conventional wisdom regarding the teaching of writing.There seems to be widespread agreemen...

This book examines errors in writing from several different perspectives. The most important perspective is contextual: what may be an error in one...

Although speech departments have "owned" delivery for the last 100 years, those who teach writing, especially English departments, can gain a great...

This distinctive monograph examines the dynamic rhetorical processes by which scientists shape, negotiate, and position their work within an interd...

How to Write a Philosophy Paper is a handbook which provides students with a ready arsenal of analytical and compositional techniques. It is intend...

Professional Report Writing is probably the most thorough treatment of this subject available, covering every aspect of an area often taken for gra...