Writing Well In The 21st Century

Author : Linda Spencer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442227591
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Writing Well in the 21st Century written by Linda Spencer and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-04-10 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing Well in the 21st Century: The Five Essentials provides students, career-builders, and professional writers with the basic elements needed for writing in the 21st century. The book fully explains—and links—the five essentials of good writing: punctuation, grammar, fact-checking, style, and voice. Throughout history technology has changed both language and writing. Today in the digital age, language and writing are changing at a phenomenal pace. Students, career-builders, and professional writers need this guide that reviews those changes and connects the essentials for creating good writing in the digital age. Writing Well in the 21st Century: The Five Essentials gives writers the tools needed today. Among other essentials, the book: Resolves comma issues by explaining the Open and Close Punctuation systems. Writers select which system to use in their writing. Clarifies active and passive voice verbs and advocates using strong, specific verbs in writing. Provides guidelines for choosing credible online websites when searching for resources. Examines attributes of essentials that contribute to a writing style and urges a critical review of verbs. Connects elements that combine to create a voice in a written piece. Relevant and succinctly written, Writing Well in the 21st Century: The Five Essentials gives readers the basics they need to know to create well-written documents for school, work and in their professional writing.

Author : Jennie Harrop
Publisher : Pennington ePress
ISBN 13 : 9780999829219
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Simple Math of Writing Well written by Jennie Harrop and published by Pennington ePress. This book was released on 2018-01-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing guides abound, but The Simple Math of Writing Well is one of a kind. Readers will find its practical approach affirming, encouraging, and informative, and its focus on the basics of linguistic structure releases 21st-century writers to embrace the variety of mediums that define our internet-connected world. As Harrop reminds us in the opening chapters of her book, we write more today than ever before in history: texts, emails, letters, blogs, reports, social media posts, proposals, etc. The Simple Math of Writing Well is the first guide that directly addresses the importance of writing well in the Google age.

Author : Donald Maass
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1599634007
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Writing 21st Century Fiction written by Donald Maass and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-10-16 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Capture the minds, hearts, and imaginations of 21st century readers! Whether you're a commercial storyteller or a literary novelist, whether your goal is to write a best-selling novel or captivate readers with a satisfying, beautifully written story, the key to success is the same: high-impact fiction. Writing 21st Century Fiction will help you write a novel for today's readers and market, filled with rich characters, compelling plots, and resonant themes. Author and literary agent Donald Maass shows you how to: • Create fiction that transcends genre, conjures characters who look and feel more "real" than real people, and shows readers the work around them in new ways. • Infuse every page with an electric current of emotional appeal and micro-tension. • Harness the power of parallels, symbols, metaphors, and more to illuminate your novel in a lasting way. • Develop a personalized method of writing that works for you. With an arsenal of thought-provoking prompts and questions, plus plenty of examples from best-selling titles, Writing 21st Century Fiction will strip away your preconceived notions about writing in today's world and give you the essential tools you need to create fiction that will leave both readers and critics in awe.

Author : Steven Pinker
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 069817030X
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sense of Style written by Steven Pinker and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Charming and erudite," from the author of Rationality and Enlightenment Now, "The wit and insight and clarity he brings . . . is what makes this book such a gem.” —Time.com Why is so much writing so bad, and how can we make it better? Is the English language being corrupted by texting and social media? Do the kids today even care about good writing—and why should we care? From the author of The Better Angels of Our Nature and Enlightenment Now. In this entertaining and eminently practical book, the cognitive scientist, dictionary consultant, and New York Times–bestselling author Steven Pinker rethinks the usage guide for the twenty-first century. Using examples of great and gruesome modern prose while avoiding the scolding tone and Spartan tastes of the classic manuals, he shows how the art of writing can be a form of pleasurable mastery and a fascinating intellectual topic in its own right. The Sense of Style is for writers of all kinds, and for readers who are interested in letters and literature and are curious about the ways in which the sciences of mind can illuminate how language works at its best.

Author : Anis Shivani
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1680031309
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Literary Writing in the 21st Century written by Anis Shivani and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-24 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Literary Writing in the 21st Century an incredible array of today’s leading fiction writers, poets, critics, editors, publishers, and booksellers engage in no-holds-barred dialogue about the challenging issues facing writing and publishing today. Whether it’s the impact of innovative technologies, proliferation of new modes of teaching and learning, changing economic dynamics for publishers, shifting criteria to judge quality writing in a global context, or redefinitions of authorship amidst larger cultural changes, this book provides a cornucopia of strongly articulated opinions. It also serves as a manual for students enrolled in formal programs of creative writing, as well as those pursuing writing independently. Deploying his signature wit and unconventional insights, these wide-ranging cultural conversations are mediated by one of our most thought-provoking literary critics and are sure to prompt spirited dialogue both inside and outside the classroom.

Author : Dianna Booher
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743412583
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book E-Writing written by Dianna Booher and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001-01-30 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is poised to become the new "how-to" book to transform anxious e-mail hacks and mediocre memo writers into eloquent electronic scribes in no time at all.

Author : Frank Laurence Lucas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Style written by Frank Laurence Lucas and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Carla Johnson
Publisher : Allyn & Bacon
ISBN 13 : 9780205380152
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 21st Century Feature Writing written by Carla Johnson and published by Allyn & Bacon. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relying on the basic principles of journalism, 21st Century Feature Writing makes feature writing accessible for students through a combination of student and professional examples. While most other texts focus on high-level professional feature writing; 21st Century Feature Writing focuses on entry-level writing, a skill that students will need to develop for their early careers. Students will gain confidence as they study features written at an accessible level as well as gain insight from exemplary professional writing examples.

Author : Will Hutton
Publisher : Abacus (UK)
ISBN 13 : 9780349118826
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Writing on the Wall written by Will Hutton and published by Abacus (UK). This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Will Hutton presents an incisive and thoroughly accessible account of China's emergence as an economic power and its developing relationship with the West.

Author : Ben Klemens
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
ISBN 13 : 1449344666
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 21st Century C written by Ben Klemens and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2012-10-15 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throw out your old ideas about C and get to know a programming language that’s substantially outgrown its origins. With this revised edition of 21st Century C, you’ll discover up-to-date techniques missing from other C tutorials, whether you’re new to the language or just getting reacquainted. C isn’t just the foundation of modern programming languages; it is a modern language, ideal for writing efficient, state-of-the-art applications. Get past idioms that made sense on mainframes and learn the tools you need to work with this evolved and aggressively simple language. No matter what programming language you currently favor, you’ll quickly see that 21st century C rocks. Set up a C programming environment with shell facilities, makefiles, text editors, debuggers, and memory checkers Use Autotools, C’s de facto cross-platform package manager Learn about the problematic C concepts too useful to discard Solve C’s string-building problems with C-standard functions Use modern syntactic features for functions that take structured inputs Build high-level, object-based libraries and programs Perform advanced math, talk to internet servers, and run databases with existing C libraries This edition also includes new material on concurrent threads, virtual tables, C99 numeric types, and other features.