A practical, real-world writing book that provides a hands-on approach to business writing. The Process of Writing: Composing Through Critical Thinking focuses on writing as a process. It is designed to develop critical thinking skills: analysis, synthesis, evaluation, and problem solving. This structure helps guide readers in the process of writing while motivating them with success even as the difficulty of assignments increases. Provides practical writing instruction. This enables a variety of readers to determine the purpose for their writing, analyze their audience, and use the organizational patterns appropriate for specific writing tasks. Presents exercises and assignments which gives developing writers necessary practice and reinforces the skills they have learned. Appropriate for any professional who wishes to improve his or her skills in business or technical writing.

The Process of Writing: Composing Through Critical Thinking

Literature & Fiction

Allen, Roberta

Mascolini, Marcia, Ph.D.

History & Criticism

Pearson College Div

For anyone who has ever dreaded the blank page or struggled to find something to write and then agonized over how best to write it, or has simply found writing to be hard work, The Playful Way to Serious Writing breaks down common writing barriers and frees the writer within. Drawing on extensive experience in teaching creative writing and a lifetime of free artistic expression, Roberta Allen, novelist, short story writer, and author of Fast Fiction, has created a unique book of writing exercises packed with hundreds of verbal directives and visual cues. The key, Allen says, is ENERGY, "the force behind the words, the desire to bring forth something that has never before existed." Allen's ENERGY METHOD, which focuses creativity without interruption or that nagging inner critic, can be used for any type of creative effort at any level -- stories, novels, plays, memoirs, sketches, journals, and more. Attractive, engaging, funny, and free ranging, The Playful Way to Serious Writingis more than just a writing guide -- it is an endless sourcebook of ideas and a trusted creative companion.

The Playful Way to Serious Writing

Reference

Encyclopedias & Subject Guides

Mariner Books

With The Playful Way to Knowing Yourself, the creativity coach Roberta Allen at last reveals a practical method for changing, or simply enhancing, the way you look at yourself -- and others. Employing her signature combination of verbal directives and visual cues, Allen has created a dynamic workbook that prompts you to look at yourself from angles and perspectives you would not otherwise see. When traditional barriers are broken down through these refreshing, unpretentious, and gently probing exercises, the results can range from subtle to astonishing. At the very least, you will get surprising glimpses of yourself. At best, you will have deep insights that lead you to action or to accepting yourself just as you are. Allen's "playful way" approach has elicited praise from all corners -- from graduate school professors to best-selling authors to therapists to high school teachers to hundreds of former students. Whether used as a journal or a keepsake or a serious self-help tool, The Playful Way to Knowing Yourself will take you on a delightful, illuminating, and inevitably fulfilling personal journey. In the end you will know yourself better than ever before.

The Playful Way To Knowing Yourself: A Creative Workbook to Inspire Self-Discovery

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Mental Health

HarperOne

Drawing on extensive experience in teaching creative writing and a lifetime of free artistic expression, Roberta Allen, novelist, short story writer, and author of "Fast Fiction, " has created a unique book of writing exercises packed with hundreds of verbal directives and visual cues.

The Playful Way to Serious Writing: An Anything-Can-Happen Workbook to Inspire and Delight

Words, Language & Grammar

travel memoir by novelist Allen with photographs

Amazon Dream

Travel

South America

City Lights Books

The Daughter

United States

Autonomedia

Fiction. Introduction by Luisa Valenzuela. A young American traveler in Belize has a brief affair with a man known only as the German. In THE DREAMING GIRL, Roberta Allen's exquisite and incantatory language slyly manifests how reality may be bent and blurred by desires hidden even to ourselves. "[A] literary descendant of Duras, Allen places her unnamed narrator in an exotic Central American limbo that propels her mind into a mesmerizing state somewhere between memory and fantasy"—Ken Foster, The Village Voice. "A choral work where there are endless variations on the same theme, each beautifully developed... The girl's jungle is not some Henri Rousseau sketch conjured second-hand after an afternoon spent at the Jardin de Plants. Rather it has the precision of field notes written by a solipsistic ecologist"—Mary Mackey, The American Book Review. "Roberta Allen transmits the pain and compensating strangeness of living in vignettes as urgent and enigmatic as telegrams"—John Ashbery.

The Dreaming Girl

Literary

Ellipsis Press

The history of women simmers away on the back burner of time—largely forgotten. Some foremothers left lingering traces in treasured recipes passed down from generation to generation but not mine. My great-grandmothers’ kitchen chronicles can never be retrieved. My grandmothers—one gone twenty-two years before my birth, one by the time I reached two—are nearly as ephemeral. Preserving and cherishing keepsakes was not in my mother’s repertoire. What remains is the merest wisp of what was or might have been. For the generation of women born just after World War II The Recipe Retrospective has captured in time and preserved what otherwise might have once again been lost. Roberta Allen is currently auditioning a bunch of recipes that feature batches of bacon as the main ingredient in her Oak Bay, Canada kitchen. If heaven is personalized, hers includes a celestial kitchen with more than manna on the menu.

Recipe Retrospective

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

Roberta Allen

<div>Filled with erotic waywardness, this latest in the Coffee-To-Go Short-Short Story series is about characters who--wherever they maybe--are never at home.</div>

Certain People (Coffee-To-Go Short-Short Story Series)

Coffee House Press

Set a timer for five minutes, select one of the more than 300 "prompts" at random, then immediately start writing and don't stop until time is up. The rules of Fast Fiction are simple; the results, liberating. By telling you what to write about ("write a story about a coward," "...warmth," or "...a whisper"), the timed exercises focus all your energies on the telling. By imposing a deadline, they force you to write spontaneously, bypassing the inner critic and allowing your voice - as well as surprising images and associations - to emerge on the page. Step by step, Allen shows how to turn your five-minute writings into short short stories - intense fictions that use language with power and precision. She then shows you how to use the timed exercises to built longer stories and novels. You'll see, for example, how one of her students turned eight of his exercises into a chapter for his novel. By looking at your fiction a piece at a time, the writing process becomes less intimidating and more open to experiment. Allen illustrates all the possibilities with examples of students' work, as well as a variety of published shorts - from classics by Anton Chekhov and Robert Walser to contemporary pieces by Joyce Carol Oates and Mark Strand.

Fast Fiction: Creating Fiction in Five Minutes

Story Pr

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