Written and compiled by award-winning novelist Mary Deal, Write it Right - Tips for Authors is a major source of information for breathing life into your prose. Learn how to polish your writing with tips and examples, and make your prose leap off the page. Writing your opus, you may have encountered myriad questions about imperfect areas that you stumble across in the composition. The thoroughly explained tips offered in Write it Right - Tips for Authors clarify these worrisome issues, instead of simply taking a chance they’ll be acceptable. These thorough and often humorous tips were written in response to author queries for articles that explain various problematic aspects, including: - Grammar and punctuation - Narration - Character development and dialogue - Preparing your manuscript for submission - Your public image If your writing hasn't been perfectly smooth, you’ll find answers to your questions in Write it Right - Tips for Authors.

Write it Right by Ambrose Bierce: Unleash the power of words and master the art of effective communication with this indispensable guide by Ambrose Bierce, offering practical tips, insightful examples, and witty observations to help writers navigate the nuances of grammar, style, and precision in writing. Key points: Writing Essentials: Navigate the intricacies of grammar, punctuation, and syntax as Bierce demystifies common pitfalls and offers clear explanations, empowering writers to communicate their ideas with clarity, coherence, and precision. Style and Rhetoric: Discover Bierce's guidance on crafting compelling prose, employing rhetorical devices, and harnessing the power of language to captivate readers and convey meaning effectively, allowing writers to develop their unique voice and achieve a desired impact. Bierce's Wit and Wisdom: Benefit from Bierce's sharp wit and entertaining commentary as he peppers the guide with humorous anecdotes, quips, and memorable insights, making the learning process enjoyable while imparting valuable lessons on the art of writing. Write it Right by Ambrose Bierce: Write it Right is a concise and witty guide to mastering the art of writing by Ambrose Bierce, a renowned American journalist and satirist. In this indispensable handbook, Bierce offers practical advice and humorous observations on grammar, punctuation, word usage, and style. With his characteristic wit and sharp intellect, Bierce navigates the intricacies of the English language, providing both novice and seasoned writers with valuable tips and cautionary tales. Write it Right serves as a delightful companion for anyone seeking to enhance their writing skills, avoid common pitfalls, and communicate effectively. Bierce's candid and entertaining approach makes this guide a joy to read, ensuring that learning the rules of writing becomes an engaging and enlightening experience.

Offers the writer and nonwriter alike sharp, effective, witty pointers.

Designed to give guidance to arrangers, composers, copyists, songwriters and teachers on how to prepare music manuscripts the right way, this book is a definitive, up-to-date summary of the general practice of music notation. Proper drawing and placement of clefs, stems, chords, lyrics, meters, phrase and slur marks, as well as how to notate chord symbols, lead sheets and TAB are all covered in this volume. The workbook shows how to make practical use of the material described in the Write It Right! guide by featuring pages of examples to be filled in, problems to be solved and questions and arrangements to be completed. In an easy-to-use format, this workbook offers practical experience that no musician should be without.

In 1893, Ambrose Bierce declared "I am for preserving the ancient, primitive distinction between right and wrong." In Write it Right, originally published in 1909, Bierce turned this considerable zeal on the English language. The result revealed that the satirical author of The Devil's Dictionary had a keen ear for the vernacular--and that he hated it. This slim volume of his 300 or so reviled words and expressions contains many we use today with no hesitation at all. (Of "electrocution" he says, "To one having even an elementary knowledge of Latin grammar this word is no less than disgusting, and the thing meant by it is felt to be altogether too good for the word's inventor.") Jan Freeman, author of the weekly column "The Word" for the Boston Globe, annotates Bierce's rulings with style, humor, and in-depth research, revealing what Bierce got right--and what he didn't--and giving insight into how the language has changed over the past century. Write it Right, with its incisive wit and insight into the history of American English, is the perfect gift for word curmudgeons everywhere.

Summary: "32-page flipchart that helps writers get a handle on sentence structure, grammar, punctuation, and spelling"

Write It Right covers everyday tasks and academic writing, offering user-friendly advice on how students can make the most of simple, practical methods for tackling essays and longer pieces of work. Divided into ten sections, this guide can be used either as a course book or for individual use. Each section is informed by one or more essential ideas about how to write well.

A classic handbook for anyone who needs to write, Writing With Power speaks to everyone who has wrestled with words while seeking to gain power with them. Here, Peter Elbow emphasizes that the essential activities underlying good writing and the essential exercises promoting it are really not difficult at all. Employing a cookbook approach, Elbow provides the reader (and writer) with various recipes: for getting words down on paper, for revising, for dealing with an audience, for getting feedback on a piece of writing, and still other recipes for approaching the mystery of power in writing. In a new introduction, he offers his reflections on the original edition, discusses the responses from people who have followed his techniques, how his methods may differ from other processes, and how his original topics are still pertinent to today's writer. By taking risks and embracing mistakes, Elbow hopes the writer may somehow find a hold on the creative process and be able to heighten two mentalities--the production of writing and the revision of it. From students and teachers to novelists and poets, Writing with Power reminds us that we can celebrate the uses of mystery, chaos, nonplanning, and magic, while achieving analysis, conscious control, explicitness, and care in whatever it is we set down on paper.

The School Administrator's Complete Letter Book with CD-ROM, Second Edition, offers a comprehensive selection of model letters and memos for a wide variety of educational purposes and situations. This book and its accompanying CD contain a gold mine of tested, usable letters and other communiques, some of which can be used practically word-for-word from the book, while others can be adapted to your specific needs. The book's letters and memos represent the contributions of more than 60 outstanding school administrators throughout the United States - including superintendents, principals, supervisors, guidance counselors, and others - all of them with well-earned reputations for solid, professional communication. Many types of letters are included - letters addressed to parents, teachers, students, teacher applicants, other school administrators, businesspeople, and the community at large. In addition, this handy resource is clearly organized, designed for easy use, and filled with the best letters of the best communicators in modern American education. The CD-ROM makes the letters easy to modify to fit your own situations.