A Writers Craft

Author : Kendall Dunkelberg
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1137610964
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Writer's Craft written by Kendall Dunkelberg and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-09-16 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This introductory creative writing text uses a unique, multi-genre approach to provide students with a broad-based knowledge of their craft, treating them as professional writers. Beginning by discussing elements common to all genres, this book underscores the importance of learning good writing habits before committing to a genre, encouraging writers to look beyond their genre expectations and learn from other forms. The book then devotes one chapter to each of the major literary genres: fiction, poetry, drama and creative nonfiction. These style-specific sections provide depth as they compare the different genres, furnishing students with a comprehensive understanding of creative writing as a discipline and fostering creativity. The discussion concludes with a chapter on digital media and an appendix on literary citizenship and publishing. With exercises at the end of each chapter, a glossary of literary terms, and a list of resources for further study, A Writer's Craft is the ideal companion to an introductory creative writing class. It has been listed as one of the 'Best Books for Writers' by Poets and Writers magazine.

Author : John Hersey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Writer's Craft written by John Hersey and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Elizabeth Hale
Publisher : Stenhouse Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1571107398
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crafting Writers, K-6 written by Elizabeth Hale and published by Stenhouse Publishers. This book was released on 2008 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do we teach elementary students to independently use the different elements of craft that are discussed and taught in lessons? We begin by honoring the reality that terms like voice, sentence fluency, and writing with detail are descriptions of where we want our students to be, not next steps on how to reach those goals. In Crafting Writers, K-6 Elizabeth Hale shows us how to identify specific elements of craft when assessing student work and planning instruction, and use them to teach students the specific craft techniques that will move them forward as writers. Liz offers practical information that teachers can use immediately in their classrooms. She also presents a concrete process for noticing craft in writing so teachers can develop and plan craft lessons based on their students' writing. Learning the techniques that make up good writing also allows teachers to see craft in many different levels of writing, a skill that is particularly powerful when conferring with below-grade-level writers. Additional chapters look closely at assessment and classroom management practices like group conferring. Most of us know good writing when we read it, but writing teachers need to know what makes it work. Filled with easy-to-use charts, and practical lessons, Crafting Writers, K-6 provides clear insight into identifying and teaching the small elements that make good writing successful.

Author : Sue Harper
Publisher : Orlando [Fla.] ; Toronto : Harcourt Canada
ISBN 13 : 9780774716079
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Writer's Craft written by Sue Harper and published by Orlando [Fla.] ; Toronto : Harcourt Canada. This book was released on 2003 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sands Hall
Publisher : Moving Finger Press
ISBN 13 : 0977421430
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tools of the Writer's Craft written by Sands Hall and published by Moving Finger Press. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mainstay of many college writing programs by the best-selling author of Catching Heaven. Sands Hall has developed these essays, stories and exercises during twenty-four years as a writing instructor and freelance editor.

Author : Robert Olmstead
Publisher : Story Press Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elements of the Writing Craft written by Robert Olmstead and published by Story Press Books. This book was released on 1997 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 150 lessons for writers emulate the techniques of the masters who have "built" great narratives through a multitude of small but significant moves in their craft.

Author : Tim Mayers
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN 13 : 0822973286
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book (Re)Writing Craft written by Tim Mayers and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2007-04-16 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Re)Writing Craft focuses on the gap that exists in many English departments between creative writers and compositionists on one hand, and literary scholars on the other, in an effort to radically transform the way English studies are organized and practiced today. In proposing a new form of writing he calls "craft criticism," Mayers, himself a compositionist and creative writer, explores the connections between creative writing and composition studies programs, which currently exist as separate fields within the larger and more amorphous field of English studies. If creative writing and composition studies are brought together in productive dialogue, they can, in his view, succeed in inverting the common hierarchy in English departments that privileges interpretation of literature over the teaching of writing.

Author : Michael Kardos
Publisher : Macmillan Higher Education
ISBN 13 : 1319032931
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art and Craft of Fiction written by Michael Kardos and published by Macmillan Higher Education. This book was released on 2016-09-30 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brief, practical, and affordable, The Art and Craft of Fiction gives aspiring writers all they need, in a friendly voice that students love. Michael Kardos focuses on technique and presents fiction writing as a teachable (and learnable) art. With an organization built on methods and process rather than traditional literary elements, Kardos helps students begin their stories, write strong scenes, use images and research detail, revise for aesthetics and mechanics, and finish and polish their own stories. Instructors trust The Art and Craft of Fiction to help structure their course, and reinforce and complement their teaching points with examples and exercises. A brief fiction anthology at the back of the book includes 15 selections that instructors praise for their usefulness in the creative writing classroom.

Author : Tom Bird
Publisher : Adams Media
ISBN 13 : 1598698540
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Call of the Writer's Craft written by Tom Bird and published by Adams Media. This book was released on 2009-07-18 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Getting a book successfully published is as much about talent and creative drive as it is a matter of determination and business practice. Luckily for would-be authors, this book delivers the how-to on both the creativity and the business. Lecturer and writing retreat leader Tom Bird introduces authors to their Divine Author Within, and guides them through the process of listening to this inner muse. They will learn how to tap into their "creative connected mind" and relax their "logical critical mind" so they will be able to write the book they've always wanted to--in just two drafts! Once the book is complete, writers learn how to sell their book. Bird instructs his readers how to successfully navigate the publishing world so that they can make the right choices for their work.

Author : Maity Schrecengost
Publisher : Maupin House Publishing, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0929895452
Total Pages : 51 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Writing Whizardry written by Maity Schrecengost and published by Maupin House Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2001 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provide young writers with skills that expand their creativity and writer's craft vocabulary. Each self-contained lesson targets a specific technique or skill that teaches craft and author's devices, and encourages elaboration.Sixty mini-lessons give your students practice in applying the skills they need to write well-developed narrative and expository pieces. Best of all, each mini-lesson provides examples of polished writing and writing that need revision, as well as reference to other books to use as models -- all you need to teach show me writing effectively.