This revised and refreshed edition guides the contemporary screenwriter through a variety of creative and critical approaches to a deeper understanding of how to tell stories for the screen. With a re
Staging the Amistad collects in print for the first time plays about the Amistad slave revolt by three of Sierra Leone’s most influential playwrights of the latter decades of the twentieth century: Ch
The volume covers recent theories and findings on writing and spelling words. Understanding word production is fundamental to writing research as it allows understanding how words -the basic elements
Observing Writing shows how keystroke logging and handwriting logging provide windows onto the complex world of text production. This book contributes to the development of research questions, technic
Writing for Minecrafters: Grade 2 features well-loved video game characters and concepts to encourage second grade writing practice. With Steve, Alex, zombies, creepers, and villagers to inspire them,
Exploring writing and literacies across five continents, this volume celebrates the resilience of Indigenous languages. This book contributes to an understanding of contemporary challenges, while also
Desire Mensah, a disgraced school teacher in her thirties, sees moving to sleepy little Cape Coast, Ghana, as her chance to get away from a shameful secret not buried deeply enough. And maybe, just ma
Desire Mensah, a disgraced school teacher in her thirties, sees moving to sleepy little Cape Coast, Ghana, as her chance to get away from a shameful secret not buried deeply enough. And maybe, just ma
Developing Writing Skills in Portuguese provides intermediate- and advanced-level students with the necessary skills to become competent and confident writers in the Portuguese language.With a focus o
Developing Writing Skills in Portuguese provides intermediate and advanced level students with the necessary skills to become competent and confident writers in the Portuguese language.With a focus on
This book is unique in offering practical advice on writing song lyrics within a critically informed framework. Part I provides the theoretical underpinning, while Part II covers the creative process,
The poet brings his fascination with formal poetry to 21st century subjects — internet culture, science, postmodern architecture — even as he also explores intimacy, gay love, and emotionally-charged
Women’s letters and memoirs were until recently considered to have little historical significance. Many of these materials have disappeared or remain unarchived, often dismissed as ephemera and
The Best Travel Writing, Volume 11 is the latest in the annual Travelers' Tales series launched in 2004 to celebrate the world's best travel writing ? from Nobel Prize winners to emerging new writers.
Transitions in Writing explores the writer’s experience of managing new demands in a range of settings and contexts, from both macro- and micro perspectives.
A smart, practical, and often funny guide for those who aspire to write mysteries, Sleuth reveals the secrets behind the curtain from a bestselling and award-winning master of the genre.Gail Bowen sho
In a novel of stunning scope, Chuma Nwokolo moves across time and place to deliver a story that speaks to urgent contemporary concerns. His characters’ indelible voices offer perspectives t
In Writing Development in Struggling Learners , international researchers provide insights into the development of writing skills from early writing and spelling development through to composition, th
In this compelling collection of essays contributors critically examine Creative Writing in American Higher Education. Considering Creative Writing teaching, learning and knowledge, the book recognize
In this compelling collection of essays contributors critically examine Creative Writing in American Higher Education. Considering Creative Writing teaching, learning and knowledge, the book recognize
We evaluate poems constantly: as workshop leaders, competition judges and journal editors. But how do we judge the success of verse in these contexts? The authors propose an innovative method by which
When her mother is diagnosed with Alzheimer's, the author returns to letters they'd exchanged years before, to foster her mother's engagement with reading and thinking. Bird-bent Grass uses excerpts f
This volume aims to analyze validated intervention programs focused on: the teaching and learning of writing as a skill and the use of writing as a learning activity in various school subjects/skills.
When I finished Writing the Pilot a few years back, I figured I’d managed to cram everything I had to say on the subject in that little 90-page package. But that was 2011, and in the years that have p
Develop a voice that captures readers' attention All writers bring a unique set of skills to their work: One author might write outstanding characters, while another might dazzle with dialogue. You
My Basilian Priesthood is a memoir of Michael Quealey’s six years in the order in the 1960s. During his priesthood, Quealey was director of the Newman Centre at the University of Toronto and engaged i
The seventeenth edition of the classic food writing anthology that serves up "a menu of delicious food, colorful characters, and tales of strange and wonderful food adventures" (Booklist) ea
Elizabeth and Adam Shortt first visited Europe in 1911 and this book shares their diaries and letters from that trip. In 1908 the Shortt relocated his family to Ottawa to take up a commission overseei
Marking the tenth anniversary of the New Writing Viewpoints series, this new book takes the concept of an edited collection to its extreme, pushing the possibilities of scholarship and collaboration.
The rise of digital publishing and the ebook has opened up an array of possibilities for the writer working with innovation in mind.Creative Writing and the Radical uses an examination of how experime
Marking the tenth anniversary of the New Writing Viewpoints series, this new book takes the concept of an edited collection to its extreme, pushing the possibilities of scholarship and collaboration.
Multimodality in Higher Education showcases new directions in multimodal research and also focuses on teaching multimodal text production and writing pedagogy. It theorizes writing practices and writi
