Language arts & disciplines / Composition & Creative Writing

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Writing Poetry

by Nikki Moustaki

You’re no idiot, of course. You’ve read poetry that has touched your heart, and you’d like to improve your own writing technique. But even though you have loads of inspiration, you’re discovering that...

Writing a Novel and Getting Published For Dummies

by George Green & Lizzy Kremer

Includes advice on perfecting dialogue, plot, and endings

Turn your bright idea into a brilliant novel

With a published author advising you on how to write a great novel, and a literary agent on how to get a publishing...

Adventures in Fantasy: Lessons and Activities in Narrative and Descriptive Writing, Grades 5-9

by John Gust

Adventures in Fantasy offers an exciting approach to teaching narrative and descriptive writing that stimulates a student’s creativity and imagination. Filled with mini-lessons, reading projects, and hands-on...

Writing Motherhood: Tapping Into Your Creativity as a Mother and a Writer

by Lisa Garrigues

Have you always wanted to chronicle your experience of motherhood, but never knew how to begin? Are you looking for an outlet for self-expression, but can't imagine how you could juggle one more thing? In Writing...

The Legacy Guide: Capturing the Facts, Memories, and Meaning of Your Life

by Carol Franco

The ultimate guide and companion for anyone who wants to record the story of his or her life or that of a loved one.

Have you ever wondered about an ancestor you know only as a compelling face in a faded family...

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Writing Christian Fiction

by Ron Benrey

The Christian fiction genre has been around since the late sixties, but the Left Behind series made it explode. This book walks you through the genre-what it is and isn't, how plot integrates with a Christian...

Writing Your Screenplay

by Lisa Dethridge

A practical guide to writing for film from an experienced screenwriter and script editor who has worked and taught in both Australia and the USA.

About Writing: Seven Essays, Four Letters, & Five Interviews

by Samuel R. Delany

Essential reading for the creative writer.

Authorial Ethics: How Writers Abuse Their Calling

by Robert Hauptman

Authorial Ethics is a study of the ways in which writers abrogate their implicit and explicit commitment to honesty and truth. It encompasses all disciplines and is both theoretical and applied.

Living Rhetoric and Composition: Stories of the Discipline

by Duane H. Roen, Stuart C. Brown & Theresa Jarnagin Enos

This collection--of the stories of scholars who have found a lifelong commitment to the teaching of writing--includes the professional histories of 19 rhetoricians and compositionists who explain how they came...

Lost Gay Novels: A Reference Guide to Fifty Works from the First Half of the Twentieth Century

by Anthony Slide

Searching for an introduction to the shadowy, intriguing world of early 20th century gay-themed fiction?

In Lost Gay Novels, respected pop culture historian Anthony Slide resurrects fifty early 20th century...

Best Practices in Writing Instruction, Second Edition

by Steve Graham, Charles A. MacArthur & Jill Fitzgerald

An indispensable teacher resource and course text, this book presents evidence-based practices for helping all K-12 students develop their skills as writers. Every chapter draws clear connections to the Common...

Writing Routes: A Resource Handbook of Therapeutic Writing

by Gillie Bolton, Victoria Field & Kate Thompson

Writing Routes is an essential roadmap for anybody setting out on the journey of self-discovery through words. Seventy contributors from a variety of different backgrounds and circumstances explain how they...

Poetry and Story Therapy: The Healing Power of Creative Expression

by Geri Giebel Chavis

This accessible book explores the therapeutic possibilities of poetry and stories, providing techniques for facilitating personally relevant and growth-enhancing sessions. The author provides ideas for writing...

From Language to Creative Writing: An Introduction

by Bill Greenwell & Philip Seargeant

Developed by The Open University, this textbook offers an innovative introduction to the study of the English language and the practices, skills and strategies of creative writing. For anyone studying English...

College Writing and Beyond

by Anne Beaufort

Composition research consistently demonstrates that the social context of writing determines the majority of conventions any writer must observe. Still, most universities organize the required first-year composition...

Writing New Media

by Anne Wysocki

As new media mature, the changes they bring to writing in college are many and suggest implications not only for the tools of writing, but also for the contexts, personae, and conventions of writing. An especially...

Latina Lesbian Writers and Artists

by Maria Dolores Costa

Explore a little-known side of the lesbian artistic world!

With this book, you’ll explore the work of the most significant contemporary Latina lesbian writers, artists, and performers in the United States,...

Writers Have No Age: Creative Writing for Older Adults, Second Edition

by Karen Updike, Jeri Mccormick & Lenore Mccomas Coberly

Writers Have No Age: Creative Writing for Older Adults, Second Edition is a book for writers by writers. Unlike the first edition, which was aimed at teachers of writing, this edition is aimed at writers themselves....

The Business of Writing: Professional Advice on Proposals, Publishers, Contracts, and More for the Aspiring Writer

by Jennifer Lyons & Oscar Hijuelos

Whether you're unclear on what to expect from your first book deal or just a little puzzled by your editor's whims, The Business of Writing is the book for you. In it, literary agent and publishing veteran Jennifer...