Style Manuals
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Cut to the Chase: Writing Feature Films with the Pros at UCLA Extension Writers’ Program
$27.00 Add to cartMillions of people dream of writing a screenplay but don’t know how to begin, or are already working on a script but are stuck and need some targeted advice. Or maybe they have a great script, but no … [more below]
- Author: Venis, Linda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 06 2013
- ISBN10: 1592408109
- Language: English
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On Writing the College Application Essay: The Key to Acceptance at the College of Your Choice
$16.00 Add to cartOne of the most stressful aspects of the college application process is the essay. Most students worry about what an admissions officer looks for in a writing sample. But that’s the wrong way to appro
- Author: Bauld, Harry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 07 2012
- ISBN10: 0062123998
- Language: English
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Punctuation Without Tears: Punctuate Confidently – In Minutes!
$9.95 Add to cart‘A powerful little book: sure-footed, simple, feisty, funny, and profoundly helpful” Five Stars (The Independent)
Punctuate with confidence the easy way A quick, funny, illustrated guide to all the p
- Author: Selwood, Dominic
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 126
- Publish Date: July 12 2018
- ISBN10: 099263329X
- Language: English
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Help! for Writers: 210 Solutions to the Problems Every Writer Faces
$21.99 Add to cartThe 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,- Author: Clark, Roy Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 01 2013
- ISBN10: 0316126705
- Language: English
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Thunder and Lightning: Cracking Open the Writer’s Craft
$19.00 Add to cartIn this long-awaited sequel to her bestselling books Writing Down the Bones and Wild Mind, Natalie Goldberg, one of the most sought-after writing teachers of our time, takes us to the next step in the… [more below]
- Author: Goldberg, Natalie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 30 2001
- ISBN10: 0553374966
- Language: English
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How Not to Write a Novel: 200 Classic Mistakes and How to Avoid Them–A Misstep-By-Misstep Guide
$19.99 Add to cart“What do you think of my fiction book writing?” the aspiring novelist extorted.
“Darn,” the editor hectored, in turn. “I can not publish your novel! It is full of what we in the business call ‘really
- Author: Mittelmark, Howard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: December 13 2013
- ISBN10: 0061357952
- Language: English
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On Speaking Well
$17.99 Add to cartFor anyone who fears the thought of writing and giving a speech–be it to business associates, or at a wedding–help is at hand. Acclaimed presidential speechwriter Peggy Noonan shares her secrets to … [more below]
- Author: Noonan, Peggy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 17 1999
- ISBN10: 0060987405
- Language: English
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100 Successful College Application Essays: Third Edition
$15.00 Read moreThe Largest Collection of Successful College Application Essays Available in One Volume
These are the essays that helped their authors gain admission to Harvard, Yale, Brown, Columbia, Wellesley, Pomo- Author: The Harvard Independent
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 03 2013
- ISBN10: 0451417615
- Language: English
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Cite Right, Third Edition: A Quick Guide to Citation Styles–Mla, Apa, Chicago, the Sciences, Professions, and More
$30.00 Add to cartCite Right is the perfect guide for anyone who needs to learn a new citation style or who needs an easy reference to Chicago, MLA, APA, AMA, and other styles. Each chapter serves as a quick guide that… [more below]
- Series: Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing
- Author: Lipson, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 20 2018
- ISBN10: 022643110X
- Language: English
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The Elements of Story: Field Notes on Nonfiction Writing
$18.99 Add to cart“A splendid book for journalists (new or old), fiction writers, essayists, and critics. But it could also be of great use to the intelligent common reader, the man or woman who wonders why it’s imposs
- Author: Flaherty, Francis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 07 2010
- ISBN10: 0061689157
- Language: English
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Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure
$17.99 Add to cartDeceptively simple and surprisingly addictive, Not Quite What I Was Planning is a thousand glimpses of humanity–six words at a time.
One Life. Six Words. What’s Yours?
When Hemingway famously wrote, “F
- Author: Smith, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 05 2008
- ISBN10: 0061374059
- Language: English
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APA Style & Citations for Dummies
$24.99 Add to cartWrite right in for scholarly success
While world-renowned for the precision and clarity it lends to scholarly writing, keeping track of APA style’s exacting standards can be demanding (at times even
- Author: Giampalmi, Joe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 11 2021
- ISBN10: 1119716446
- Language: English
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It Was the Best of Sentences, It Was the Worst of Sentences: A Writer’s Guide to Crafting Killer Sentences
$15.00 Add to cartIn this wickedly humorous manual, language columnist June Casagrande uses grammar and syntax to show exactly what makes some sentences great–and other sentences suck.
Great writing isn’t born, it’s b- Author: Casagrande, June
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 27 2010
- ISBN10: 158008740X
- Language: English
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The Frugal Editor: Do-It-Yourself Editing Secrets-From Your Query Letters to Final Manuscript to the Marketing of Your New Bestseller, 3r
$26.95 Add to cartThe Frugal Editor: Do-it-Yourself Editing Secrets From your query letter to final manuscript to the marketing of your new bestseller
Whether you are a new or experienced author, The Frugal Editor helps
- Author: Howard-Johnson, Carolyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: February 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1615996001
- Language: English
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First We Read, Then We Write: Emerson on the Creative Process
$13.00 Read moreWriting was the central passion of Emerson’s life. While his thoughts on the craft are well developed in “The Poet,” “The American Scholar,” Nature, “Goethe,” and “Persian Poetry,” less well known are… [more below]
- Series: Muse Books
- Author: Richardson, Robert D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 116
- Publish Date: April 01 2015
- ISBN10: 1609383478
- Language: English
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Murder Your Darlings: And Other Gentle Writing Advice from Aristotle to Zinsser
$19.99 Add to cartFrom one of America’s most influential teachers, a collection of the best writing advice distilled from fifty language books — from Aristotle to Strunk and White.
With so many excellent writing guid- Author: Clark, Roy Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 05 2021
- ISBN10: 0316481874
- Language: English
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The Christian Writer’s Manual of Style
$34.99 Add to cartThe standard style guide of the Christian publishing industry, The Christian Writer’s Manual of Style, 4th Edition, compiled by veteran Zondervan editor Robert Hudson, contains clear guidance on style
- Author: Hudson, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: August 30 2016
- ISBN10: 0310527902
- Language: English
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Ensouling Language: On the Art of Nonfiction and the Writer’s Life
$24.95 Add to cartThe first comprehensive work on nonfiction as an art form
– Shows how nonfiction, especially how-to and self-help, can take on the same power and luminosity as great fiction – Develops processes to re- Author: Buhner, Stephen Harrod
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: August 23 2010
- ISBN10: 1594773823
- Language: English
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The Lively Art of Writing: Words, Sentences, Style and Technique–An Essential Guide to One of Todays Most Necessary Skills
$9.99 Add to cartAn essential refernce for writers–both new and experienced–that will help improve your writing skills and style and help you say exactly what you want to say.
Students, teachers, businessmen, aspiri- Author: Payne, Lucile Vaughan
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 01 1969
- ISBN10: 0451627121
- Language: English
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The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation Into the Writing Life
$17.00 Read moreWhat if everything we have been taught about learning to write was wrong? In The Right to Write, Julia Cameron‘s most revolutionary book, the author of the bestselling self-help guide The Artist’s Way… [more below]
- Series: Artist’s Way
- Author: Cameron, Julia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 27 1999
- ISBN10: 1585420093
- Language: English
