Writing Skills

Tracing the growth of ancient biography from the fifth century to the first century B.C., Arnaldo Momigliano asks fruitful questions about the orig...

This updated edition of the best-selling book Because Writing Matters reflects the most recent research and reports on the need for teaching writin...

This book continues the Written Standard Chinese series. It resumes from the end of Book One and is designed to build vocabulary and bring the stud...

This book begins the Written Standard Chinese series. It introduces 300 basic characters, using pinyin romanization and both traditional and simpli...

This book begins the Written Standard Chinese series. It introduces 300 basic characters, using pinyin romanization and both traditional and simpli...

Drawing upon the experience of some forty of the nation's finest journalists, all alumni of the Knight-Bagehot Fellowship in Economics and Business...

This book looks at aspects of L2 research that influence error correction, finding that second language acquisition takes time and that second lang...

The Syntax of Sports is that course you wish you took in college—even if you aren’t a sports fan. It’s interesting. It’s practical. It’s inspiring....

What can we learn from baseball great Ted Williams about how to improve our writing? What can we learn we from the iconic ESPN show SportsCenter ab...

In Genre-Based Writing, author Christine Tardy defines genre and genre-based writing instruction and the five principles of a genre-based pedagogy....

Short-Form Creative Writing: A Writer’s Guide and Anthology is a complete introduction to the art and craft of extremely compressed works of imagin...

Based on ""The Outline of Graded Chinese Characters"" as promulgated by the Examination Section in the Office of the National Committee for Chinese...

Everyone has a story to tell. Fearless Confessions is a guidebook for people who want to take possession of their lives by putting their experience...

Malin Pereira’s collection of eight interviews with leading contemporary African American poets offers an in-depth look at the cultural and aesthet...

Malin Pereira’s collection of eight interviews with leading contemporary African American poets offers an in-depth look at the cultural and aesthet...

The authors of this book analyze the Mass-Observation Project as a way of understanding the nature of writing and the social conditions within whic...