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by C.J. Brumfit
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Macmillan Education (1983-04)
ISBN: 0080294766
EAN: 9780080294766
Paperback: 117 pages
Edition: 1st
SKU: 052608013
Condition: Used: Good
Comments: ...No noticeable Underlining or Highlighting...
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by Mary Lou McCloskey
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Heinle, division of Thomson Learning (2003-05-02)
ISBN: 0838453481
EAN: 9780838453483
Paperback
Release Date: 2003-04-02
SKU: 041308011
Condition: Used: Like New
Comments: ...No Underlining or Highlighting...
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by Mary Lou McCloskey
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Heinle, division of Thomson Learning (2003-07-25)
ISBN: 0838453562
EAN: 9780838453568
Paperback
SKU: 060208012
Condition: Used: Good
Comments: ...No noticeable Underlining or Highlighting...
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by Charles R. Cooper, Susan Peck MacDonald
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's (2000-06-15)
ISBN: 0312260083
EAN: 9780312260088
Dewy Decimal #: 808
Paperback: 640 pages
Edition: Revised
SKU: 090808009
Condition: Used: Good
Comments: ...No noticeable Underlining or Highlighting...some creased pages and edge wear
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Product Description
This reader and writing guide prepares students to enter the conversations about issues of the day, offering provocative, engaging readings and more writing instruction than any other thematic reader.
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Interesting
Rating  (5)
Date: 2007-06-23
The stories in this book are interesting and make great paper topics (and use for research)
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by Charles R. Cooper, Susan Peck MacDonald
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's (2000-06-15)
ISBN: 0312260083
EAN: 9780312260088
Dewy Decimal #: 808
Paperback: 640 pages
Edition: Revised
SKU: 090808009
Condition: Used: Good
Comments: ...No noticeable Underlining or Highlighting...some creased pages and edge wear
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This reader and writing guide prepares students to enter the conversations about issues of the day, offering provocative, engaging readings and more writing instruction than any other thematic reader.
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Interesting
Rating (5)
Date: 2007-06-23
The stories in this book are interesting and make great paper topics (and use for research)
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by Charles R. Cooper, Susan Peck MacDonald
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's (2000-06-15)
ISBN: 0312260083
EAN: 9780312260088
Dewy Decimal #: 808
Paperback: 640 pages
Edition: Revised
SKU: 090808009
Condition: Used: Good
Comments: ...No noticeable Underlining or Highlighting...some creased pages and edge wear
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Product Description
This reader and writing guide prepares students to enter the conversations about issues of the day, offering provocative, engaging readings and more writing instruction than any other thematic reader.
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Interesting
Rating (5)
Date: 2007-06-23
The stories in this book are interesting and make great paper topics (and use for research)
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by Beth Joselow
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Story Line Press (1999-04-15)
ISBN: 1885266731
EAN: 9781885266736
Dewy Decimal #: 808.042076
Paperback: 112 pages
SKU: 110908037
Condition: Used: Good
Comments: ...no markings or highlighting...light shelf wear on cover
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The 60 excercises in Writing Without the Muse are designed to help writers get started on, and stick with, whatever they want to write. Many of these exercises are playful, because much creativity comes from play. Others introduce reliable writing habits that can help fuel the writing process. Some are for poets, some for fiction writers, and some for those who want to record the story of their lives. They are meant to be dipped into at will, shuffled around, altered, and shared with a friend. All have been tested in the kitchens (and studies) of students of writing, people of all ages who, like almost all of us, have something special to say. This new and revised edition also contains a brief introduction and responses from student writers.
Beth Baruch Joselow is a creative writing teacher living in Washington, D.C. She is the author of five books of poetry, including Broad Daylight and excontemporary, as well as two critically acclaimed non-fiction books on divorce.
"The aspiring writer or working writer should never again face 'writer's block' after consulting this handbook."-The Small Press Book Review
"Joselow pulls together an interesting mix for stretching both linear- and nonlinear-thinking students. Judicious use of these exercises could disarm defensive or fearful students and structure the approaches of those with unfocused energy."-The Edge City Review
"Beth Joselow is both a rigorous and supportive teacher. She consistently challenges her students and helps them to do their best. I have often benefited from her suggestions in teaching my own classes."-Nan Fry, Associate Professor, The Corcoran School of Art
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The muse, like any capricious artist, can't always be relied upon to be there when you need her. Teacher and poet Joselow provides a slim but effective volume of 50 exercises designed to jump-start your inspiration and get your imagination kicking on all eight cylinders--or flowing like water freed from a dam. Pick your metaphor: you'll have plenty to choose from once this book gets your writing fingers going.
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A TRUE GEM!
Rating (5)
Date: 2000-04-22
5 out of 6 customers found this reveiw helpful
Attention writers, teachers and anyone who enjoys the transformation of thoughts and images into appealing written works of art. The exercises in this small but mesmerizing book, stimulate the creative process. I especially liked exercise #38- "The Door In The Wall". If your writing has gotten stale, or your class or writers group is lethargic - I suggest you try these simple techniques. There are 50 exercises as well as sample pieces created by other writers using the techniques. "Writing Without the Muse" is a true gem. Don't wait, read this book and begin your creative journey now. END
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A TRUE GEM!
Rating (5)
Date: 2000-04-22
4 out of 4 customers found this reveiw helpful
Attention writers, teachers and anyone who enjoys the transformation of thoughts and images into appealing written works of art. The exercises in this small but mesmerizing book, stimulate the creative process. I especially liked exercise #38- "The Door In The Wall". If your writing has gotten stale, or your class or writers group is lethargic - I suggest you try these simple techniques. There are 50 exercises as well as sample pieces created by other writers using the techniques. "Writing Without the Muse" is a true gem. Don't wait, read this book and begin your creative journey now.
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Recommended without reservation....
Rating (5)
Date: 2000-04-12
5 out of 5 customers found this reveiw helpful
Writing Without the Muse is based on the premise that writers can't wait for Inspiration with a capital "I." Instead, we have to believe that "there is no such thing as having nothing to say." This is an appealing volume, slim, unintimidating, and, yes, quietly inspiring. The exercises work.
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by E. S. C. Weiner
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Janus Book Pub/Alemany Pr (1984-07)
ISBN: 0080315364
EAN: 9780080315362
Dewy Decimal #: 808.042071
Paperback: 64 pages
Edition: 1st
SKU: 052508085
Condition: Used: Very Good
Comments: ...No noticeable Underlining or Highlighting...
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by Blythe Camenson, Marshall J. Cook
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Writer's Digest Books (1999-08)
ISBN: 1582972567
EAN: 9781582972565
Dewy Decimal #: 070
Paperback: 260 pages
SKU: 090108023
Condition: Used: Good
Comments: ...no markings or highlighting...minor wear on cover
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The only guide of its kind created just for fiction writers. Drawing upon the insights of experienced authors, editors and agents, it provides writers with crucial information needed to get published in today's rapidly-changing fiction industry. Using examples from real novel proposals, this guide illustrates all the do's and don't of pitching a manuscript, including how to: -target the right publishers
-find a great agent
-network and make important industry contacts
-send a query letter that gets attention
-avoid editors' and agents' "Top 10 submission pet peeves"
-master the elements of a strong synopsis and killer cover letter
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Amazon.com Review
And you thought writing your novel was difficult! Now you have to wade your way through query letters, synopses, outlines, agents, cover letters, proposals, and, with any luck, editors and publishers. There is an etiquette to gaining representation for your novel, and you'd be a fool not to follow it after all the hard work you've put in. Stellar agents are not exactly twiddling their thumbs waiting for the phone to ring or the mail to bring in the next batch of writers' queries; one wrong sentence or mistimed phone call (but you wouldn't really wake a sleeping agent, would you?) can foil your chances completely. Blythe Camenson and Marshall J. Cook, authors and teachers both, have enlisted published writers (Elmore Leonard, Dick Francis, Stephen King), agents, and editors to help them teach us everything there is to know about turning that manuscript into a published novel. "Getting your novel published," they warn, "will take the same sort of creative problem solving, the same determination and persistence, the same refusal to quit that you brought to writing the book." True. Except this time, you have their help. What qualifications should you include in your query letter? How do you portray a whole novel in a one-page synopsis? How long should you expect to wait for a response? Camenson and Cook cover it all. The keyword to success here is professionalism, and, if you follow the advice put forth in this book, you'll learn how to be a professional in this business, from the very first query to the "firing the agent who isn't working out" missive. --Jane Steinberg
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Much Needed Information
Rating (5)
Date: 2008-09-05
Finally a how-to book for novelists who are writing a book proposal. This book takes you step-by-step through the process and shows you what is necessary to complete an acceptable proposal. The book includes insights from respected agents and editors. Camenson and Cook discuss marketing of your novel from the query through cover letter, synopsis, chapter outline and sample chapters, including many examples that worked for best-selling authors. On page 20 the authors write, "The purpose of the proposal is to get the editor (or agent) to ask for the rest of the manuscript." Then the book goes on to clearly show you each step of developing the proposal and gives many checklists to keep you on track. Highly recommended.
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The world of the author, with laughter instead of tears
Rating  (4)
Date: 2007-05-20
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
This book is wonderful. It made me laugh instead of cry. As a beginner in the publishing world, we often feel frustrated and discouraged. Blythe and Cook make jokes about silly things beginner writers do, turning the whole breaking-the-ice game into laughter. I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book, and even though I am still back at the same place with query letters and the rest, at least now, I feel like I am bit smarter and a bit happier. Thanks for this great book.
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Sent me back to the drawing board
Rating (5)
Date: 2005-09-20
3 out of 3 customers found this reveiw helpful
I thought I knew how to write proposals; and I did. For non-fiction. The whole approach for fiction is very different and this book guided me through the processes, but more important, through how to think about it. It's "thump you in the forehead" writing that permits no excuses, no evasions. The title says what it's about and it certainly is. Steps, examples and overriding principles. Examples of queries and synopses from their flawed first drafts to their polished conclusions. A great lot of information broken into tidy chunks. Written transparently and synpathetically.
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helpful but not miracle working
Rating (4)
Date: 2005-07-10
4 out of 4 customers found this reveiw helpful
Bad news: It didn't help me get my novel published, although I followed all the steps.
Good news: It taught me some things I didn't know, but that would be true of almost any book on writing I've come across.
What I found the most useful was sample synopsis, something that can be extremely difficult for a novice to the book-submitting game to develop.
I also admire the upbeat and encouraging tone. I wouldn't hesitate to give it as a gift to a writer, but I would warn them not to expect miracles or instant publication.
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A book that will take you to a world of hope
Rating (5)
Date: 2003-08-18
2 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
The writer is a lonely creature that crafts its work until his mind cannot budge anymore. But after he finished his masterpiece comes the real world: to publish it. That's where this fine book may be of great help. It shows you how to enter this world of hope where one may get published. A must for those who wish to see their work published one happy day.
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by Zhou Jian, Zhou Jian, Zhu Bozi, Zhou Guijie (Illustrator: Zhu Bozi) (Editor: Zhou Guijie)
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Chinese Pedagogics Pub House
ISBN: 7800524604
EAN: 9787800524608
Mass Market Paperback: 522 pages
Edition: 1
SKU: 040108AC56
Condition: Used: Acceptable
Comments: heavily moisture weared pages...still very usable...creases in cover and corners
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This book provides the beginning learner of Chinese a fast and efficient way to master 500 basic characters by means of vision, imagination, association, comparison, analysis and assimilation. With the 500 characters, the student can learn the basis of the Chinese character the radicals, pronunciations, meanings and inter-relationships thus increasing familiarity with characters and increasing reading speed. With b&w illustrations.
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500 Basic Chinese Characters
Rating (5)
Date: 1999-12-03
14 out of 14 customers found this reveiw helpful
An excellent introduction to the daunting task of becoming literate in Chinese. 500 basic characters are presented in an organized fashion with information including: pinyin, simplified form, stroke order, how the character appears in various script styles, tips on usage, radical, frequently-used words or phrases, and an exercise to practice the new characterAfter having reviewed over 30 books on learning basic Chinese characters, this is by far the most complete and user friendly. My wife and I searched Chicago, Boston, Toronto, and Shanghai, and finally decided on this volume to add to our collection. Worth the price? It depends on how badly you want to learn Chinese. There are so many different similar volumes out there; this one just contains the most complete info. Better to buy it in Shanghai if you have that option, but a great book to have even if you can't.
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