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An enjoyable and effective way to learn Japanese kanji!
This useful reference book helps self-study and classroom students remember the meanings and pronunciations of 520 essential kanji. An otherwise daunting task, memorization is made easier with this book-which uses mnemonic techniques based on the psychology of learning and memory. Key principles include the use of visual imagery, the visualization of short "stories," and the systematic building-block...
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You are about to craft a new story. You have planned it all in your mind's eye. The story. The characters. The twists and turns. But... from what lens will the saga be told? Whose eyes will the reader peer through to provide the greatest experience?
In P.O.V. The Eight Perspectives of Fiction, author Kristin S. Smith explains the different outlooks scribes have at their disposal, illustrating with short stories and excerpts from both her own works...
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We all have the curse of a story that yearns to be written.
The Writer's Bane is a curse and passion, both a want and need to tell a story. In this volume, discover ways to use research to help creates and enrich your characters, world, and plot. Join me as I share my passion for research for creating my work and how it can aid you with your own. Whether you need help with character development, worldbuilding, and making that plot turn in the direction...
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The Press in Prison is a Scalawag Media guidebook for journalists. Illuminating the need for incarcerated voices in journalism, this guide is intended to increase newsroom competency and capacity to work with writers on the inside, integrating reporting from prison into regular reporting cycles.
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The Sentences That Create Us draws from the unique insights of over fifty justice-involved contributors and their allies to offer inspiration and resources for creating a literary life in prison. Centering in the philosophy that writers in prison can be as vibrant and capable as writers on the outside, and have much to offer readers everywhere, The Sentences That Create Us aims to propel writers in prison to launch their work into the world beyond...
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Long recognized as a master teacher at writing programs like VONA, the Loft, and the Stonecoast MFA, with A Stranger's Journey, David Mura has written a book on creative writing that addresses our increasingly diverse American literature. Mura argues for a more inclusive and expansive definition of craft, particularly in relationship to race, even as he elucidates timeless rules of narrative construction in fiction and memoir. His essays offer technique-focused...
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The Writer's Way is a comprehensive and rewarding introduction to the art of creative writing. Its no-nonsense yet accessible tone and practical contents make it the perfect guide, whether you are a raw beginner of you have started writing and are looking for friendly guidance to help develop your talent. Distinguished author Sara Maitland has an extensive background in teaching creative writing and is the perfect companion for this journey of self...
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Stephen B. Heard is professor of biology at the University of New Brunswick in Canada. He is the author of Charles Darwin's Barnacle and David Bowie's Spider: How Scientific Names Celebrate Adventurers, Heroes, and Even a Few Scoundrels. Twitter @StephenBHeard
An updated and expanded edition of the acclaimed writing guide for scientists
The Scientist's Guide to Writing explains the essential techniques that students, postdocs, and early-career...
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A writing skills reference book from the author of Romance In a Month:
Have you ever wanted...
• To create unforgettable characters? The kind readers talk about well after the book is finished?
• Your characters to jump off the page and tell you what they like and dislike?
• To make your characters multi-dimensional, complicated, deeper, and larger than life?
• Create compelling quirks, flaws, and internal conflicts to differentiate your characters?
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This monograph investigates 15 L2 creative writers' social constructive power in identity constructions. Through interviews and think-aloud story writing sessions, the central study considers how L2 writer voices are mediated by the writers' autobiographical identities, namely, their sense of selves formulated by their previous language learning and literacy experiences. The inquiry takes the epistemological stance that L2 creative writing is simultaneously...
11) Learn Chinese
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"Learn Chinese" is an invaluable resource for individuals looking to embark on the journey of learning the Chinese language, specifically Mandarin. This book offers a systematic and comprehensive approach to mastering the language, catering to beginners and intermediate learners alike. It begins with the fundamentals of pronunciation, character recognition, and basic grammar, gradually progressing to more complex language structures and vocabulary....
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Teaching Poetry Writing: A Five Canon Approach is a comprehensive alternative to the full-class workshop approach to poetry writing instruction. In the five canon approach, peer critique of student poems takes place in online environments, freeing up class time for writing exercises and lessons based on the five canons of classical rhetoric: invention, arrangement, style, memory, and delivery.
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This book explores creative writing and its various relationships to education through a number of short, evocative chapters written by key players in the field. At times controversial, the book presents issues, ideas and pedagogic practices related to creative writing in and around education, with a focus on higher education. The volume aims to give the reader a sense of contemporary thinking and to provide some alternative points of view, offering...
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For decades theorists have opined that the lines between creative writing and composition need to be lifted, yet little has been written about the pedagogical methods that allow a cohesive approach between the disciplines. This book brings together contemporary authors and well-respected creative writing instructors and theorists to explore ways creativity in composition may be encouraged in student writers. The question in this anthology is not 'Can...
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This book is aimed at undergraduate and postgraduate Creative Writing students and their tutors. Arranged into weeks, the book contains enough material for a 2 x 10 week programme, plus additional workshop material to help students think differently about creative careers and being a writer in the world. If you are not on a course, the tools in this book will help you to establish a writing habit, especially if you need help getting over fear of the...
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Besoin de conseils pour accrocher vos lecteurs?
Des textes qu'on a envie de lire ! Cet ouvrage vous aide à écrire des textes attractifs pour vos supports de communication. Il donne des conseils afin de faire mouche, de rédiger avec impact pour 15 outils.
Ouvrez sans tarder ce livre pratique et découvrez 15 outils indispensables pour réaliser des titres, des intertitres, des textes et des phrases faciles à comprendre qui ont un impact certain...
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En este libro aprenderás los métodos y ejercicios que puedes hacer para aprender el arte de la oratoria. Con un lenguaje claro y ameno se abordan temas como la preparación de los discursos, la utilización de herramientas y muchos detalles mas que nos ayudan a que nuestra presentación sea eficaz y convincente.
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A Chinese Phrase A Day is a fun, less-intimidating way to learn Chinese! Part of Tuttle's best-selling page-a-day line, this new edition teaches useful everyday phrases and words. Although more people are studying the Chinese language than ever before, others are still wary of starting because they believe, "it's too difficult."But A Chinese Phrase A Day will show absolute beginners that Chinese is in many ways much easier than other languages and...
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The method that has helped thousands-Read Japanese Kanji Today provides readers with a quick and simple method to learn kanji characters. Far from being a complex and mysterious script, Japanese writing is actually a simple and fascinating pictographic and ideographic system, easily understood and mastered. With the approach used in this easy-to-read, entertaining kanji book you'll soon be able to recognize and read over 400 kanji, whether or not...
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Korean in a Flash Volume 2 continues the learning-tool advantage for people interested in learning Korean quickly and easily. This complete boxed set of flash cards has a full range of acclaimed features to help beginners and intermediate learners, and covers the second most-basic Korean words, plus related terms and phrases-in a flash! Contains 448 flash cards plus a 48 page index booklet. Learn 448 main words plus 1, 792 related terms and 2, 240...
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