Creative writing Books
Griffin Publishing Stein On Writing
Book SynopsisStein on Writing provides immediately useful advice for all writers of fiction and nonfiction, whether they are newcomers or old hands, students or instructors, amateurs or professionals. As the always clear and direct Stein explains here, This is not a book of theory. It is a book of usable solutions--how to fix writing that is flawed, how to improve writing that is good, how to create interesting writing in the first place. With examples from bestsellers as well as from students'' drafts, Stein offers detailed sections on characterization, dialogue, pacing, flashbacks, trimming away flabby wording, the so-called triage method of revision, using the techniques of fiction to enliven nonfiction, and more.
£17.99
Little, Brown & Company This Year You Write Your Novel
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£8.99
Little Brown and Company Do I Make Myself Clear A Practical Guide to
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£17.09
Pearson Education (US) Pathways
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsNOTE: Both Brief and Comprehensive Tables of Contents are listed below. BRIEF CONTENTS Part I: Getting Started 1. An Introduction to Writing 2. The Reading-Writing Connection Part II: Sentence Basics and Development 4. Complete Sentences Versus Fragments 5. Run-On Sentences and Comma Splices 6. Combining and Expanding Your Ideas 7. Using Adjectives and Adverbs to Describe 8. Using Modifiers to Add Detail Writers’ Workshops: Using Language Effectively Part III: Common Sentence Problems and How to Avoid Them 9. Revising Confusing and Inconsistent Sentences 10. Using Verbs Correctly Writers’ Workshops: Digital Literacy in the Wired Classroom Part IV: Paragraph Basics, Development, and Revision 11. Planning and Organizing 12. Drafting and Revising 13. Developing, Arranging, and Connecting Details 14. Using Methods of Organization Writers’ Workshops: Using Visuals in Your Writing 15. Revising Paragraphs Part V: Essay Basics, Development, and Common Problems 16. Essay Basics and Development 17. Avoiding Common Problems in Essays Part VI: A Thematic Reader Part VII: Reviewing the Basics COMPREHENSIVE CONTENTS Part I: GETTING STARTED Chapter 1. An Introduction to Writing Writing Understanding What Writing Is and Is Not Beginning Tips for Generating Ideas Beginning Tips for Organizing Your Ideas
£147.51
Grassroots with Readings
Book SynopsisWant to learn the skills that colleges value and employers want? You can, with GRASSROOTS, 12th Edition and its digital learning tools. Author Susan Fawcett has successfully guided over three million students to become better writers, helping them in turn earn better grades in their courses across the curriculum. This book's clear instruction, relevant examples, engaging practices, eye-catching visuals and samples of first-rate student writing will help you, too. You'll find tips to make you a better reader and intriguing professional readings as well as practices and visual images on subjects that students asked for, like robotics, career opportunities and traits of successful people.
£999.99
Cengage Learning Perspectives on Contemporary Issues W Apa7e
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£88.20
Evergreen with 2021 MLA Update Card
Book SynopsisEVERGREEN, which has brought success to thousands of students across the country, takes you through the writing process step by step. The book provides you with clear instructions, numerous models of student writing, helpful diagrams and visuals, and plenty of practice exercises. This edition includes a new focus on improving your papers through writing better thesis statements. Photographs accompany and enhance the readings and encourage thoughtful consideration of advertisements, websites, and illustrations. Twenty readings at the end of the book, by authors who represent many different backgrounds and ethnic groups, discuss topics as diverse as multitasking, creating apps, preparing for the zombie apocalypse, and more.
£125.10
WW Norton & Co Vex Hex Smash Smooch
Book SynopsisA writing handbook that celebrates the infinite pizzazz of verbs.
£999.99
WW Norton & Co On Becoming a Novelist
Book Synopsis"One of the greatest creative writing teachers we've ever had." --Frederick Busch
£12.28
WW Norton & Co Thinking Like Your Editor How to Write Great
Book SynopsisDistilled wisdom from two publishing pros for every serious nonfiction author in search of big commercial success.Trade Review"Avoids feeding fantasies in favor of detailing necessities." -- Library Journal"Starred Review. Useful advice on every page." -- Publishers Weekly"Rabiner and Fortunato take you through the corporate Oz of the publishing world, behind the smoke and mirrors." -- Dale Maharidge, author of And Their Children After Them, winner of the 1990 Pulitzer Prize in nonfiction"What a smart and useful book Thinking Like Your Editor is." -- Gerald Howard, editorial director, Broadway Books"[W]ill be the standard text for non-fiction authors." -- Herbert P. Bix, author of Hirohito, winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize"In 45 years in publishing I have never read better advice than this book offers. Bravo!" -- Hugh Van Dusen, HarperCollins Publishers"The path from good idea to great book is anything but a straight line, Rabiner and Fortunato know every precipice and crevice." -- John Paulos, author of A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper"Likely to become the gold standard for anyone hoping to be successful in trade publishing." -- Juliet B. Schor, author of The Overworked American"[S]hould be required reading for any writer of serious nonfiction." -- Laura N. Brown, president, Oxford University Press USA"This smart, straight-talking, profoundly encouraging book is an invaluable guide for authors and editors alike." -- Sara Bershtel, Associate Publisher, Metropolitan Books
£12.99
WW Norton & Co FLASH
Book SynopsisAn engaging and frank guide to writing the very short story, full of sound advice, exemplary models and provocative exercises.Trade Review"FLASH! Writing the Very Short Story by John Dufresne identifies the qualities that make for excellent flash fiction and guides would-be writers with exercises and examples through the world of the very short story. A perfect guide for any writer interested in trying this popular form." -- Writers' Forum magazine
£13.29
W. W. Norton & Company ReadingWriting Canada Short Fiction and
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£999.99
W. W. Norton & Company The Norton Pocket Book of Writing by Students
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£999.99
Random House USA Inc Conquering the College Admissions Essay in 10
Book SynopsisThe definitive guide to writing an amazing essay and mastering the college applications process.Writing a memorable personal statement can seem like an overwhelming project for a young college applicant, but college essay coach Alan Gelb's organized and encouraging step-by-step instructions take the intimidation out of the process, enabling applicants to craft a meaningful and polished college admissions essay. Gelb teaches students to identify an engaging topic and use creative writing techniques to compose a vivid statement that will reflect their individuality. A consistent top-seller in the college prep category, Conquering the College Admissions Essay in 10 Easy Steps has been revised to include extra information on supplemental and waitlist essays. This much-needed handbook will help applicants win over the admissions dean, while preparing them to write better papers once they've been accepted.For more, visit the author’s website at w
£999.99
Penguin Putnam Inc Building Great Sentences
Book SynopsisTrade Review“The most erudite, readable book anyone has ever written on the sentence.”—Adrian Blevins, associate professor of English, Colby College “An Elements of Style for the prodigious, Building Great Sentences is a service to writers and a joy to read.”—R.M. Berry, professor, Florida State University
£16.20
Dover Publications Inc. The Elements of Style
Book SynopsisThis is the book that generations of writers have relied upon for timeless advice on grammar, diction, syntax, and other essentials. In concise terms, it identifies the principal requirements of proper style and common errors.
£6.83
Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale Find Your Voice
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£15.65
Random House USA Inc The Virginia Woolf Writers Workshop Seven Lessons
Book SynopsisIn this brilliantly imagined book, author Danell Jones mines the diaries, essays, correspondence, and fiction of a literary legend to create an unforgettable master class in the art of writing. Using Virginia Woolf’s own words, this inspiring, instructive, and entertaining guide will delight fans, students, and teachers alike—and at last give Woolf a classroom of her own. Imagine what it might be like if Virginia Woolf were teaching a writers’ workshop. What would she say? What elements of her own experience would writers today find valuable? Now one need only to look within these pages to find out. For here, perched at the podium of a classroom, Woolf shares her wisdom on a range of matters, including: The value of experimentationHow to use a journal for inspirationThe importance of reading, walking, and practicingMethods for learning from great writersAlso included are “writing sparks”—exercises for
£12.60
Pearson Learning Solutions A Handbook for Writing Formal Papers From Concept
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£999.99
Writers' Rooms Writers of the Depths
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£999.99
Random House USA Inc Letters to a Writer of Color
Book SynopsisA vital collection of essays on the power of literature and the craft of writing from an international array of writers of color, sharing the experiences, cultural traditions, and convictions that have shaped them and their work“Electric essays that speak to the experience of writing from the periphery . . . a guide, a comfort, and a call all at once.”—Laila Lalami, author of Conditional Citizens Filled with empathy and wisdom, instruction and inspiration, this book encourages us to reevaluate the codes and conventions that have shaped our assumptions about how fiction should be written, and also challenges us to apply its lessons to both what we read and how we read. Featuring: • Taymour Soomro on resisting rigid stories about who you are• Madeleine Thien on how writing builds the room in which it can exist• Amitava Kumar on why authenticity isn’t a license we carry in o
£14.45
Penguin Putnam Inc Burn After Writing Purple With Cats
Book SynopsisThe national bestseller. Write. Burn. Repeat. Now with new covers to match whatever mood you’re in.This book has made me laugh and cry, filled me with joy, and inspired me.-TikTok user camrynbanksInstagram, WhatsApp, Snapchat, TikTok, VSCO, YouTube...the world has not only become one giant feed, but also one giant confessional. Burn After Writing allows you to spend less time scrolling and more time self-reflecting. Through incisive questions and thought experiments, this journal helps you learn new things while letting others go. Imagine instead of publicly declaring your feelings for others, you privately declared your feelings for yourself?Help your heart by turning off the comments and muting the accounts that drive you into jealousy for a few moments a night. Whether you are going through the ups and downs of growing up, or know a few young people who are, you will flourish by finding free expressi
£12.75
Penguin Putnam Inc Burn After Writing Skulls
Book SynopsisThe national bestseller. Write. Burn. Repeat. Now with new covers to match whatever mood you’re in.This book has made me laugh and cry, filled me with joy, and inspired me.-TikTok user camrynbanksInstagram, WhatsApp, Snapchat, TikTok, VSCO, YouTube...the world has not only become one giant feed, but also one giant confessional. Burn After Writing allows you to spend less time scrolling and more time self-reflecting. Through incisive questions and thought experiments, this journal helps you learn new things while letting others go. Imagine instead of publicly declaring your feelings for others, you privately declared your feelings for yourself?Help your heart by turning off the comments and muting the accounts that drive you into jealousy for a few moments a night. Whether you are going through the ups and downs of growing up, or know a few young people who are, you will flourish by finding free expressi
£13.30
Penguin Putnam Inc Burn After Writing Cowgirl
Book SynopsisThe national bestseller. Write. Burn. Repeat. Now with new covers to match whatever mood you’re in.This book has made me laugh and cry, filled me with joy, and inspired me.-TikTok user camrynbanksInstagram, WhatsApp, Snapchat, TikTok, VSCO, YouTube...the world has not only become one giant feed, but also one giant confessional. Burn After Writing allows you to spend less time scrolling and more time self-reflecting. Through incisive questions and thought experiments, this journal helps you learn new things while letting others go. Imagine instead of publicly declaring your feelings for others, you privately declared your feelings for yourself?Help your heart by turning off the comments and muting the accounts that drive you into jealousy for a few moments a night. Whether you are going through the ups and downs of growing up, or know a few young people who are, you will flourish by finding free expressi
£12.60
Penguin Putnam Inc Burn After Writing Winter Leaves
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£13.60
Penguin Putnam Inc Burn After Writing Magic Stars
Book SynopsisThe national bestseller. Write. Burn. Repeat. Now with new covers to match whatever mood you’re in.This book has made me laugh and cry, filled me with joy, and inspired me.-TikTok user camrynbanksInstagram, WhatsApp, Snapchat, TikTok, VSCO, YouTube...the world has not only become one giant feed, but also one giant confessional. Burn After Writing allows you to spend less time scrolling and more time self-reflecting. Through incisive questions and thought experiments, this journal helps you learn new things while letting others go. Imagine instead of publicly declaring your feelings for others, you privately declared your feelings for yourself?Help your heart by turning off the comments and muting the accounts that drive you into jealousy for a few moments a night. Whether you are going through the ups and downs of growing up, or know a few young people who are, you will flourish by finding free expressi
£12.60
Penguin Putnam Inc Burn After Writing Snowy Forest
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£13.60
Penguin Putnam Inc Burn After Writing SMores
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£999.99
Penguin Putnam Inc Burn After Writing Moon Phases
Book SynopsisThe national bestseller.Write. Burn. Repeat. Now with new covers to match whatever mood you’re in.This book has made me laugh and cry, filled me with joy, and inspired me.-TikTok user camrynbanks Instagram, WhatsApp, Snapchat, TikTok, VSCO, YouTube...the world has not only become one giant feed, but also one giant confessional. Burn After Writing allows you to spend less time scrolling and more time self-reflecting. Through incisive questions and thought experiments, this journal helps you learn new things while letting others go. Imagine instead of publicly declaring your feelings for others, you privately declared your feelings for yourself? Help your heart by turning off the comments and muting the accounts that drive you into jealousy for a few moments a night. Whether you are going through the ups and downs of growing up, or know a few young people who are, you will flourish by finding free expression--even if through a few tears! Push your limits, reflect on your past, present, and future, and create a secret book that's about you, and just for you. This is not a diary, and there is no posting required. And when you're finished, toss it, hide it, or Burn After Writing.
£12.60
Better Spelling Fourteen Steps to Spelling
Book SynopsisFor more than 20 years, Better Spelling has provided a focused, successful approach to spelling. Students learn to identify common spelling errors and to apply straightforward rules to correct these errors. The text is split into auditory-centered and visual-centered problems. Two diagnostic tests, one problem-word test, and a proofreading test allow students to focus on areas where they need to improve.
£999.99
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Telling Lies for Fun Profit
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£12.34
University Press of Kansas Words Is a Powerful Thing
Book SynopsisBrian Daldorph first entered the Douglas County Jail classroom in Lawrence, Kansas, to teach a writing class on Christmas Eve 2001. This is Daldorph's record of teaching at the jail for the two decades between 2001 and 2020, showing how the lives of everyone involved in the class benefited from what happened every Thursday afternoon.Trade ReviewI get a lot of prisoner anthologies from all over the world and at times they seem to blend together-some are okay, others worthy of serious reflection, and a few reach higher to demand reading and studious thoughtfulness. And then there are those few warrior-spirit poets and fiction writers that cancel my boredom and fatigue and awaken my senses to a higher attention as the pages seem to leap up and grasp me by my shirt collar. This is one of those anthologies; this is one of those books that diminishes all noise baffling us from academics and professors and justice officials writing about prison. These are the voices who know; these are the voices who have been there and have come back with the news that prison will never work, that keeping human beings in cages will never, ever be the solution." - Jimmy Santiago Baca, author of A Place to Stand and Laughing in the Light"Brian Daldorph and his fellow writers have given us a gift. It is not just a collection of creative work, or one teacher's personal reflection. Like poetry itself, this book is words transformed into energy and power. Its pages hum with an electricity that can only come from the synergy between the many truths of incarcerated writers and the complex worlds that they inhabit." - Christopher P. Dum, cofounder of the ID13 Prison Literacy Project and author of Exiled in America: Life on the Margins in a Residential Motel"Daldorph empowers his incarcerated students; his powerful book lets us hear their humanity in their own words and in Daldorph's portrayals of them. As the incarcerated writers investigate their lives, readers do their own investigations and make discoveries about their own humanity. Indeed, the book shows us that those on the 'outside' benefit by spending time with those on the 'inside,' either in person or on the page." - Jayne Thompson, assistant teaching professor of English, Widener University, and coeditor of Letters to My Younger Self: An Anthology of Writings by Incarcerated Men at S.C.I. Graterford and a Writing Workbook"Brian Daldorph's Words Is a Powerful Thing takes readers into a foreboding place-through the electronic doors and cement hallways of the county jail in Lawrence, Kansas-and reveals something unexpected: the intense possibility of beauty and art and poetry behind bars. Daldorph examines how poetry can push students clad in matching anonymous jail-cell jumpsuits toward a greater understanding of truth and hope and selfhood. Words Is a Powerful Thing is a tremendous memoir of Daldorph's fifteen-plus years teaching at the jail but also an intimate look at his students, their poetry, and the human cost of America's carceral system." - Daniel A. Hoyt, author of This Book Is Not for You
£26.27
Penguin Putnam Inc The Kite Runner Play Script
Book SynopsisComing to Broadway July 2022!The script for the stage production of Khaled Hosseini's first and internationally bestselling novel, The Kite Runner, as adapted by playwright Matthew Spangler. The unforgettable, heartbreaking story of the unlikely friendship between a wealthy boy and the son of his father's servant, The Kite Runner is a beautifully crafted novel set in a country that is in the process of being destroyed. Now adapted for the stage, the story is about the power of reading, the price of betrayal, and the possibility of redemption, and is an exploration of the influence of fathers over sons--their love, their sacrifices, their lies.A sweeping saga of family, love, and friendship told against the devastating backdrop of the history of Afghanistan over the last thirty years, The Kite Runner is an unusual and powerful story that has become a beloved, one-of-a-kind classic.This adaptation was first performed at W
£14.45
University Press of America Improving the Expository Writing Skills of
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£65.54
University Press of America Improving the Expository Writing Skills of
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£91.20
Peterson's Guides,U.S. California State University Writing Proficiency
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£13.49
McClelland & Stewart Inc. A Passion for Narrative
Book SynopsisThis book is not intended to persuade you to take up writing novels or short stories - “It’s going to be a lot of work,” Jack Hodgins warns. Nor will it tell you how to market your stories. But it will take you through the problems facing any fiction writer and show you how some of the best writers in English have solved them.The chapters are clear and comprehensive: Finding Your Own Stories; One Good Sentence After Another - on the skills of writing well; Setting; Character - how to make your characters come alive; Plot; Structure - “The Architecture of Story”; Point of View and Voice; Metaphors, Symbols and Allusions; Revising - an all-important chapter that also deals with the impact of writing on a computer; The Story of a Story - where Jack Hodgins talks of his own experience with one of his most famous stories; and the final chapter, And Now What? - Creating Your Own Workshop, which builds on t
£18.40
Avalon Travel Publishing The Player The Rapture the New Age Three
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£10.44
Avalon Travel Publishing Natural Born Killers The Original Screenplay
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£999.99
Avalon Travel Publishing True Romance The Screenplay
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£13.89
Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press Synthesizing Gravity Selected Prose
Book SynopsisThe first-ever collection of essays by one of our most distinguished and distinctive poets, Pulitzer Prize-winner and former Poet Laureate of the United States, Kay Ryan
£20.00
Black Cat Synthesizing Gravity Selected Prose
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£11.39
Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press Jumpers
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£12.34
Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press The Invention of Love
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£12.34
Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press Rock n Roll
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£12.34
Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press The Real Inspector Hound and Other Plays
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£12.99
Teachers' College Press Doing Disciplinary Literacy Teaching Reading and
Book SynopsisLearn how to design discipline-specific literacy instruction that increases academic engagement and supports college and career readiness. This practical resource offers contexts and strategies for addressing a fundamental question that teachers bring to their work with middle and high school learners.Trade Review"Gabriel (Univ. of Connecticut) supplies secondary-education graduate students with a degree of meta-discursive awareness to enable them to function in the classroom with the changing demands of reading, writing, and communication. The conclusion provides a good summary of the implications of disciplinary literacy."—CHOICETable of Contents Contents (Tentative) Foreword Introduction Overview Conclusion 1. What Is Disciplinary Literacy? Why Build Disciplinary Literacy? What Does Disciplinary Literacy Do for Students? Is Disciplinary Literacy Only for Academic Disciplines? Why Should Teachers Learn about Disciplinary Literacies? Why Is Disciplinary Literacy so Important? I Don't Remember being Taught This Way, so Why Should I Teach This Way? The Goal of Disciplinary Literacy Questions for Discussion 2. Pedagogy and Processes for Literacy Development Pedagogy Doing the Work of the Discipline Processes for Literacy Development Understanding Text Complexity Questions for Discussion Resources for Further Reading 3. Doing the Discipline Routines and Practices Why Disciplines Are Not Enough Discourse Follows Communities Resources for Further Reading 4. Text Roundup Examining Routines Unlocking Habits of Mind Activity Guide: Text Roundup Questions for Duscussion Resources for Further Reading 5. Mentor Texts Knowing What to Notice Knowing What to Teach How to Write From a Mentor Text Activity Guide Discussion Questions 6. The Expert Interview Purposes for Expert Interviews Evaluation Questions for Discussions Resources for Further Reading 7. The Oak Tree Activity A "Fine" Example Activity Guide Examples Evaluation Questions for Discussion Resources for Further Reading 8. Text Set Construction Making a Text Set Activity Guide Evaluation Questions for Discussion Resources for Further Reading 9. Text-Dependent Questions A Directed Reading-Thinking Activity Activity Guide Evaluation Questions for Discussion Resources for Further Reading 10. Learning From Non-Print-Based Texts Hierarchies of Representation Teaching the Reading of Non-Print-Based Texts Activity Guide Evaluation Questions for Discussion Resources for Further Reading Chapter 11: Task Analysis and Enhancement Starting With a Pre-Planned Lesson or Activity Starting With a Text Knowing Where Literate Practices Go Purpose and Process Activity Guide Evaluation Discussion Questions Resources for Further Reading Conclusion: Doing the Discipline Preparing Students for the Work of Their Lives Looking Ahead References Index About the Author
£33.26
Teachers' College Press Writing Instruction for Success in College and in
Book SynopsisDescribes an innovative, evidence-based method for preparing students for the demands of college writing called Supporting Strategic Writers (SSW). The goal of SSW is to help students become independent learners who understand the value of strategies and can apply them flexibly in future courses and the workplace.Table of Contents Contents (Tentative) Foreword Preface Development of the Supporting Strategic Writers Program Organization of Our Book ConclusionPart I. Introduction to Supporting Strategic Writers 1. Addressing Challenges in Postsecondary Education: The Genesis of SSW and Research Findings Developmental WritingCollege ExpectationsSupporting Strategic Writers ProjectResearch on Supporting Strategic WritersConclusion 2. Core Instructional Components of Supporting Strategic Writers Core Principles of Strategy InstructionWriting StrategiesMetacognition and MotivationPedagogical MethodsConclusionPart II. SSW Writing Strategies 3. Planning and Drafting for Argumentative Writing Without Sources Collaborative PracticeGuided PracticeConclusion 4. Evaluating and Revising for Argumentative Writing Without Sources Strategies for Evaluation and RevisionIntroduction to a New GenrePreparation for Peer ReviewPeer Review and RevisionReflectionConclusion 5. Challenges of Writing Using Sources; Summary-Response SSW Strategies for Writing Using SourcesInstruction Following the Strategy for Teaching StrategiesConnecting Summary-Response to Writing Essays With SourcesConclusion6. Integrating Ideas From Sources in an Essay Sequence of AssignmentsIntroduction to Writing Using SourcesIntegrate Ideas From Sources With Your Own IdeasPlan Your EssayDraft the EssayFurther AssignmentsSelecting SourcesConclusion Part III A Look to the Future 7. Addressing Challenges in Implementation and Problem-Solving Challenges With the Use of Cognitive StrategiesInstitutional Organizational StructuresEnd of Semester ReflectionConclusion 8. Extending the Strategies to Other Genres and Other Courses Adapting Strategies to Genres Across CoursesExamples of Applying the SSW Strategies in Other CoursesConcluding Thoughts References Index About the Authors
£27.54
