Accessible to a broad range of users, this book covers the writing process from generating content through document design. It focuses on the influence of audience, content, and purpose on writing choices and encourages development of critical thinking and critical reading skills. Concise and reader-friendly, this book contains numerous examples, and the most recent information on documentation for Internet sources. An inductive/intuitive presentation of major concepts allows the reader to relate concepts to their own experience. The writing process is emphasized throughout, with concepts organized in the order that writers confront them. The book focuses on research skills, including strategies for doing research on the Internet, evaluating sources, and using specific Internet sites. Questions of usage important to speakers of English as a Second Language are addressed. For professionals who wish to improve their written communication and analysis skills.

Common Sense: A Handbook and Guide for Writers

Reference

Polnac, Lennis

Grant, Lyman

Cameron, Tom

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

PRENTICE/HALL

This book is an exceptionally wide-ranging alphabetically arranged collection of stories spanning all genres of short fiction. It includes myth, fairy tale, humor, western, detective, Magic Realism, gothic, fantasy, folktale, and film. This edition presents a wide variety of selections by writers from diverse backgrounds that represent a true cross-section of the population and represent a broader, more current selection of contemporary fiction. Features a variety of relatively new writers and some older writers whose work is gaining new audiences: T. C. Boyle, Alice Carey, Oscar Cesares, Charles Chetnutt, E. M Forster, Nikolai Leskov, Mary McCarthy, Jonathan Nolan, Dorothy Parker, Banana Yoshimoto, and Anzia Yezierska. Includes new works to the context readings essays or excerpts from non-fiction section: by Walter Benjamin, Raymond Carver, E.M. Forester, and Joyce Carol Oates, all great critics and theorists of narrative. Stresses women writers, writers of color, and gay and lesbian writers:includes works by Isabel Allande, Sandra Cisneros, Ana Castillo, Leslie Dick, Mary Wilkins Freeman, Mary Gaitskill, Susan Glaspell, Gish Jen, Mary Shelley, Leslie Marmon Silko, Susan Sontag, Jeanette Winterson, Sherman Alexie, Julio Cortázar, Carlos Fuentes, Ernest J. Gaines, Dagoberto Gilb, Hanif Kureishi, Tomás Rivera, Salman Rushdie and more. For literature and film enthusiasts.

Short Fiction: Classic and Contemporary

Literature & Fiction

Bohner, Charles H.

Essays & Correspondence

Longman

Last Work: A Meditation Inspired by the Final Paintings of Neal Adams

Poetry

Blurb

Lyrical poetry on the process of aging and the transition from one life-stage to another, on the passing of time and its relentless impact on masculinity and the male image, and on on the place of the solitary individual in 21st Century America.

Old Men on Tuesday Mornings

Alamo Bay Press

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