Product Description: Creative writing has become a highly professionalized academic discipline, with popular courses and prestigious degree programs worldwide. This book is a must for all students and teachers of creative writing, indeed for anyone who aspires to be a published writer...read more

Product Description: You know how to woo publishers. You know how to write. But do you know how to overcome the things that prevent you being published? This book is the first personal coach for writers. If you write, whether professionally, for fun, or with dreams of doing both, it will help you to change your relationship with your writing, to be more motivated, to be more creative, less challenged and, ultimately, to be more successful...read more

An updated edition of the classic reference tool presents more than seven thousand new words and phrases, with notes on usage and words that are easily confused

Product Description: Long before John Barth announced in his famous 1967 essay that late twentieth-century fiction was 'The Literature of Exhaustion,' authors have been retelling and recycling stories. Barth was, however, right to identify in postmodern fiction a particular self-consciousness about its belatedness at the end of a long literary tradition...read more

Interviews with the Canadian novelist, playwright, and critic share his views on his career, literature, religions, current issues, and his approach to writing

Product Description: "Nonfiction writing does not need to sound like an encyclopedia. It can be richly constructed with a wide variety of sentence patterns. Craft elements and literary devices should be highlighted and employed in nonfiction selections just as carefully as we implement them in fiction...read more

Product Description: How can I become more disciplined? How do I know if I’m talented? Should I self-publish? These are just a few of the perennial and contemporary questions addressed in this delightfully different guide. The authors — from different generations and writing genres — first help the reader assess where they are on their path...read more

Product Description: Academic texts are regarded as impersonal texts. They follow what is known as the ""I"" taboo. The present study resolves the question of how the ""I"" is to be seen in academic texts. The concept of the author moves on a multiplicity of levels...read more

Product Description: Veteran editor Don McNair lays out an easy-to-follow and systematic method for clearing up foggy writing--writing that's full of extra, misused, and overused words--in this guide to producing sparkling copy that attracts readers, agents, editors, and sales...read more

Product Description: A funny and useful grammar book! There are many grammar and usage books that give advice on correct English. This isnt one of them. The Elements of Expression targets expressiveness as a goal apart from getting it technically right...read more

A guide to writing and speaking expressively offers examples of language grouped under such headings as 'The Power of Tough Talk' and 'Infusions for Tired Vocabularies'

At the root of all forms of journalism is the desire to convey a story and a wish to tell it accurately. While news reporting remains the staple of contemporary journalism, increasingly opportunities are opening up for feature writers and even those who aspire to longer forms of journalism and creative non-fiction. Using a step-by-step description of styles and techniques this book will show students how to research, structure and write stories, how to navigate legal and ethical issues, and how to market their work: while learning how to tackle different styles of writing, from profiles, to issue-based stories, to columns, to biographies and advertising copy. Along the way they will be introduced to some of Australia's best-known journalists and writers and the hard lessons they have learned from their experience of writing, helping students forge their path to publishing and a career in feature writing.