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Writing (52
Titles)
Books are all in good to excellent condition. Only
single
copies of each are available. The majority of the texts
are in softcover while others are in hardcover.
| Dunbar, George& Rorabacher, Louise E. | Assignments in Exposition, 8th Edition | Detailed explanations to show students how to use structural patterns to organize effective expository writing and critical thinking. | $9.00 |
| Thomas, Henry | Better English Made Easy | Over 100 quizzes, tests, and word games--plus a final exam. | $3.50 |
| Greenfeld, Howard | Books From Writer to Reader | Step-by-step guide to the production of a book from the author's manuscript to the finished printed product. | $12.50 |
| Glatthorn, Allan A. & Fleming, Harold | Composition : Models and Exercises 11 (Hardcover) | This informative book provides: (1) examples of professional writing for students to study, (2) analyses of the writing skills in these examples.(3) composition assignments in which the students can apply these writing skills. | $19.00 |
| Goshgarian, Gary | The Contemporary Reader | A collection of contemporary essays that exemplify excellence in writing. | $22.00 |
| Decker, Randall E. & Schwegler, Robert A. | Decker's Patterns of Exposition 12 | A new discussion of reading-writing relationships uses contemporary research to offer practical suggestions for critical reading and for drawing on reading in the writing process. | $12.00 |
| Egleson, Janet F. | Design for Writing: A Workbook | Improving your writing through a series of well-organized exercises. | $23.45 |
| Folta, B. & Trent R. | Discovering Motives in Writing | Contemporary writing and cartoons used to illustrate the motives of the writer. Creative exercises. | $4.00 |
| Vivian, C. H. & B. M. Jackson | English Composition: Fundamental Principles of Effective Writing | A complete guidebook for basic writing skills including grammar, paragraphing, spelling, punctuation, research papers, short themes, and the mechanics of composition. | $8.50 |
| Gould, Victor |
Experiments in Effective Writing | Sections include syntax as a factor in style, semantics as a factor in style, and evaluating a writer's style. | $10.00 |
| Bell, James K. & Cohn, Adrian A. | Handbook of Grammar, Style, and Usage | A thorough reference book to the principles of clear and effective writing. | $4.50 |
| Morgan, Fred | Here and Now | An approach to writing through perception. | $3.50 |
| Allen, Frank Edward | How to Write and Speak Effective English | A smart and simple way to better speech and to a finer writing style of writing. | $3.00 |
| Payne, Lucile P. | The Lively Art of Writing | Chapters include From Opinion to Thesis, The Sound of Sentences, and A Way with Words. | $6.50 |
| Flesch, R. & Lass, A.H. | A New Guide to Better Writing | A lively and informal book that enables everyone to master the art of clear, concise writing. | $4.50 |
| Engle, Paul | On Creative Writing | A practical and imaginative discussion of the problems of writing with ample examples of the various forms.. | $10.00 |
| Healy,
Mary Albert Lavin, & Joyce Wilson |
Oral and Written Composition : a Unit-Lesson Approach (Hard cover) | Contents consists of 12 Units, including making sense with symbols, using concrete words, detail for a purpose, reporting actions accurately, experience as sequential action, and using figurative language. | $19.00 |
| Capacchione, Lucia, M.A. | The Power of Your Other Hand | A course in channeling the inner wisdom of the right brain. | $4.50 |
| Grebanier,
Bernard & Reiter, Seymour |
A Practical Guide to Rhetoric | Contents include Structure, Sentence Architecture, Imagery, and Tone. | $10.00 |
| Olsen, Udia G. | Preparing the Manuscript | Concise answers to all the writer's questions about preparing a manuscript for publication. (Some loose pages) | $12.00 |
| Schor,
Sandra & Judith Fishman |
The Random House Guide To Basic Writing | Text filled with exercises and activities to help college students become more effective writers. | $14.00 |
| McCuen,
Jo R. & Winkler, Anthony C. |
Rewriting Writing : A Rhetoric & Reader | This informative text includes
an index and various practice essays detailing the process of proof-
reading different types of writing. |
$17.00 |
| Hamon, Esther M. | Rhetorical Tactics | Suggestions on how to use the rhetorical tactics of the past to write convincingly today. | $6.50 |
| Britton, Anne & Collin, Mary | Romantic Fiction | An excellent reference book for writing romantic fiction with all the steps for plotting it and writing it thoroughly outlined. | $12.00 |
| Shefter, Harry | Shefter's Guide to Better Compositions | Primarily designed for high school students, college freshmen, and adults who wish to review the basic principles of writing. | $3.50 |
| Shefter, Harry | Short Cuts to Effective English | Speak and write correctly by practicing a fast and easy method of learning that has worked for tens of thousands. | $4.00 |
| Thornley, Wilson R. | Short Story Writing | Step-by-step guide to writing the short story. | $4.00 |
| Collignon, Joseph P. | The Sound of Prose | Basic patterns for composition. | $6.00 |
| Pulaski, Mary Ann Spencer | Step-By-Step Guide to Correct English | A simplified approach to learning correct English as it is written and spoken. | $5.00 |
| Boles, Paul D. | Storycrafting | A master storyteller teaches the art and craft of writing fine short stories. | $5.50 |
| McConkey, James | The Structure of Prose | An introduction to writing. | $11.00 |
| Milic, Louis T. | Stylists on Style | A handbook with selections for analysis. | $19.50 |
| Maugham, W. Somerset | The Summing Up | The personal testament of a writer who achieved an extraordinarily successful literary career. | $3.50 |
| Kitzhaber, Albert R. | Themes, Theories, and Therapy | The teaching of writing in college. | $17.00 |
| Manners, William | Wake Up and Write: How to Write Prolifically | An inspirational and practical book for all writers and would be writers. | $5.00 |
| Powell, David | What Can I Write About | 7000 topics for high school students | $7.50 |
| Cowden, R.W. | The Writer and His Craft | Twenty lectures to the young writer. | $6.00 |
| Dodd, Anne W. | Write Now! | Insights into creative writing. | $3.70 |
| Hersey, John | The Writer's Craft | Thirty-two essays by master authors on the craft of writing. | $14.00 |
| Allen, Walter | Writers on Writing | A first-hand opportunity to explore the creative processes of the world’s greatest poets and novelists. | $3.50 |
| Cowley, Malcolm, ed. | Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews | Includes interviews with E.M. Forster, Dorothy Parker, James Thurber, William Faulkner, Georges Simenon. Nelson Algren, Truman Capote, William Styron and others. | $19.00 |
| Brooks, V. W. | Writers at Work: The Paris
Review Interviews Second Series |
Includes interviews with Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, Marianne Moore, TS Eliot, Pasternak, Katherine Anne Porter, Henry Miller, Aldous Huxley, Hemingway, S J Perelman, Lawerence Durrell, Mary McCarthy, Ralph Ellison, Robert Lowell. | $15.00 |
| Sebranek, P., Meyer, V., & Kemper, D. | Writers INC: A Student Handbook to Writing and Learning | A guide to writing, thinking, and learning | $12.50 |
| Montague, C.E. | A Writer's Notes on His Trade | The author examines the complex discipline which a writer must learn if he is to succeed in his craft. | $3.50 |
| Kiefer, Kate & Neeld, E.C. | Writing, Third Edition | Helps to generate ideas for papers, write drafts, organize ideas, and revise and polish what you’ve written to make it letter-perfect. | $9.50 |
| Cassill, R.V. | Writing Fiction | Useful techniques for anyone interested in writing fiction. | $4.00 |
| Goodman, Theodore | The Writing of Fiction | Ideas on creative writing that have inspired a whole generation of successful American writers. | $6.50 |
| Orgel, Joseph R. | Writing the Composition | A study of the various steps involved in writing the essay. | $5.00 |
| Brown, Clarence & Heiman, E.J. | Writing Short Stories, Plays and Poems | An introduction to creative writing. | $9.95 |
| Goldberg, Natalie | Writing Down the Bones | Hundreds of books tell us how to avoid bad writing. This book tells us how to create good writing through a Zenlike approach to the process. | $8.50 |
| Fischer, J. & R. B. Silvers | Writing in America | Articles by Mason W. Gross, Alfred Kazin, Budd Schulberg, Elizabeth Hardwick, Frank Yerby, Archibald MacLeish, C.P. Snow, Stanley Kunitz, Kingsley Amis. | $8.50 |
| Munson, Gorham | The Written Word | How to write for readers. | $5.00 |
| Trease, Geoffrey | The Young Writer (Hardcover) | Practical advice and direction from an experienced writer from which every aspiring writers may draw help and encouragement. | $12.00 |