Clark's Easy Guide to Academic Writing
Author | : Lorna Clark |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 2017-08-24 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9781641368018 |
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Author | : Lorna Clark |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 2017-08-24 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9781641368018 |
Author | : Roy Peter Clark |
Publisher | : Little, Brown Spark |
Total Pages | : 153 |
Release | : 2013-08-27 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 031620434X |
America's most influential writing teacher offers an engaging and practical guide to effective short-form writing. In How to Write Short, Roy Peter Clark turns his attention to the art of painting a thousand pictures with just a few words. Short forms of writing have always existed-from ship logs and telegrams to prayers and haikus. But in this ever-changing Internet age, short-form writing has become an essential skill. Clark covers how to write effective and powerful titles, headlines, essays, sales pitches, Tweets, letters, and even self-descriptions for online dating services. With examples from the long tradition of short-form writing in Western culture, How to Write Short guides writers to crafting brilliant prose, even in 140 characters.
Author | : Alexander Clark |
Publisher | : SAGE |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 2018-03-12 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1526449048 |
Want to be an effective, successful and happy academic? This book helps you hone your skills, showcase your strengths, and manage all the professional aspects of academic life. With their focus on life-long learning and positive reflection, Alex and Bailey encourage you to focus on your own behaviours and personal challenges and help you to find real world solutions to your problems or concerns. Weaving inspirational stories, the best of research and theory, along with pragmatic advice from successful academics, this book provides step-by-step guidance and simple tools to help you better meet the demands of modern academia, including: Optimising your effectiveness, priorities & strategy Workflow & managing workload Interpersonal relationships, and how to influence Developing your writing, presenting and teaching skills Getting your work/life balance right. Clear, practical and refreshingly positive this book inspires you to build the career you want in academia.
Author | : George Ernest CLARK (and MAC LEAN (William Richard James)) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 58 |
Release | : 1887 |
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ISBN | : |
Author | : Roy Peter Clark |
Publisher | : Little, Brown Spark |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2008-01-10 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0316028401 |
A special 10th anniversary edition of Roy Peter Clark's bestselling guide to writing, featuring five bonus tools. Ten years ago, Roy Peter Clark, America's most influential writing teacher, whittled down almost thirty years of experience in journalism, writing, and teaching into a series of fifty short essays on different aspects of writing. In the past decade, Writing Tools has become a classic guidebook for novices and experts alike and remains one of the best loved books on writing available. Organized into four sections, "Nuts and Bolts," "Special Effects," "Blueprints for Stories," and "Useful Habits," Writing Tools is infused with more than 200 examples from journalism and literature. This new edition includes five brand new, never-before-shared tools. Accessible, entertaining, inspiring, and above all, useful for every type of writer, from high school student to novelist, Writing Tools is essential reading.
Author | : Bill Kirton |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 211 |
Release | : 2006-12-04 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1134154593 |
This is a basic, short guide that helps students make the transition to writing at college or university as simple as possible, providing them with the basic skills they need to write in an effective academic style. The authors draw on their own work to demystify the academic writing process that many students, in all disciplines, find daunting. By understanding exactly what obstacles students face when approaching writing at university they offer proven advice that is simple, uncomplicated and easily achievable. Clear and accessible, this book gives students step-by-step advice to overcome the main hurdles. It covers: overcoming apprehension – then making sure you know exactly what you are supposed to do planning reading – managing your time and keeping your focus, helping you get the material that needs to be in your work getting organised – you are ready to write the first draft, take a break and finally come back and edit it. Jargon-free, the book helps students at all levels of higher education to write clearly and persuasively, expressing both opinions and findings.
Author | : Roy Peter Clark |
Publisher | : Little, Brown Spark |
Total Pages | : 245 |
Release | : 2011-09-21 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0316192759 |
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 to each problem. Out of ideas? Read posters, billboards, and graffiti. Can't bear to edit yourself? Watch the deleted scenes feature of a DVD, and ask yourself why those scenes were left on the cutting-room floor. Help! For Writers offers 210 strategies to guide writers to success.
Author | : George Ernest Clark |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 72 |
Release | : 1887 |
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Author | : Samantha M. Clark |
Publisher | : Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2019-06-25 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1534412565 |
“A poignant story.” —School Library Journal “An unforgettable, life-affirming tale.” —Booklist The Graveyard Book meets Hatchet in this eerie novel about a boy who is stranded on a mysterious beach, from debut author Samantha M. Clark. A boy washes up on a mysterious, seemingly uninhabited beach. Who is he? How did he get there? The boy can’t remember. When he sees a light shining over the foreboding wall of trees that surrounds the shore, he decides to follow it, in the hopes that it will lead him to answers. The boy’s journey is a struggle for survival and a search for the truth—a terrifying truth that once uncovered, will force him to face his greatest fear of all if he is to go home. This gripping adventure will have readers hooked until its jaw-dropping and moving conclusion. Samantha M. Clark’s first novel heralds the arrival of an exciting new voice.
Author | : Stewart Clark |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 715 |
Release | : 2016-05-20 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1317391160 |
The Routledge Student Guide to English Usage is an invaluable A–Z guide to the appropriate use of English in academic contexts. The first part of the book covers approximately 4000 carefully selected words, focusing on groups of confusable words that sound alike, look alike or are frequently mixed up. The authors help to solve academic dilemmas, such as correct usage of the apostrophe and the crucial difference between infer and imply. Examples of good usage are drawn from corpora such as the British National Corpus and the Corpus of Contemporary American English. The second part covers the key characteristics of formal English in a substantial reference section, comprising: • stylistic features • punctuation • English grammar • the use of numbers • email writing. This is the essential reference text for all students working on improving their academic writing skills. Visit the companion website for a range of supporting exercises: www.routledge.com/cw/clark.