Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, The Shorter John Bartlett Copyright © 1910, 1914, 1919, 1942 by Anna Sprague and Louisa Bartlett Donaldson. Copyright 1937, 1948, by Little Brown and Company. Copyright, 1953, by Doubleday & Company, Inc.
Here in a compact new form is one of the most famous books of all times. Based on the world-famous treasury of wit and wisdom BARTLETT'S FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS, its has been specially edited and revised for greater enjoyment and easier reference. THE SHORTER BARTLETT'S FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS contains over 10,000 quotations by nearly 2,000 authors.
Unique in the field of pocket-sized books, this giant little volume contains 500 pages with entries arranged alphabetically by author for quick reference. It has an easy-to-use index compiled by subject, by author and by key words.
Here at your fingertips is a rich and varied treasury of information on every subject which will bring you the facinating and rewarding pleasure of reading the most memorable passages of all times.
Developing Proofreading and Editing Skills Fourth EditionSue C. Camp Copyright © 2001, 1993, 1987, 1980 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc ISBN 0-02-805002-9
Developing Proofreading and editing Skills, Fourth Edition, helps you sharpen your skills in detecting and correcting errors in written communications.
The fourth edition offers these features:
- New chapters on sentence structure, reports, langauge use, and voice-recognition technology
- New Software TIPS feature gives advice on using softeware tools in proofreading and editing
- New Net Link feature points to relevant Web sites
- Checkup exercises in each chapter provide immediate practice.
- Application exercises at the end of each chapter, two of which are on the CD_ROM for use with either Microsoft® Word or Corel® WordPerfect
Eats, Shoots & Leaves The Zero Tolerance Approach to PunctuationLynne Truss Copyright © Lynne Truss This South Asian Edition Published in 2004 ISBN 1-86197-612-7
A panda walks into a cafe. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air.
"Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes towards the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.
"I'm a panda," he says, at the door. "Look it up."
The waiter turns to the relevant entry and, sure enough finds an explanation.
"Panda. large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. eats, shoots and leaves.
So punctuation really does matter, even if it is only occasionally a matter of life and death.
This is the zero tolerance guide.
NB: X 2 COPIES
Get That Novel Started (And keep Going 'Til You Finish)Donna Levin Copyright © 1992 by Donna Levin ISBN 0-89879-517-6
- Brad Newsham was an unemployed cab driver who had written five drafts for his book, All the Right Places, when William Morrow bought it in 1988.
- Donna Gillespie had been a waitress in a hotel coffee shop for twelve years when Putnam purchased her first novel for six figures.
- Jack Albin Anderson was retired, in his sixties, when he submitted his first mystery to Walker. They published it less than a year later.
Guide for Change:, A Resources for implementing community service writingAnn Watters, Marjorie Ford Copyright © 1995 by McGraw-Hill ISBN 0-07-068617-3
A Guide for Change takes a "real world" approach to writing and research. Emphasising situational and audience awareness, A Guide for Change provides many practical tools and suggestions for developing an influential community perspective and voice. Among its features are
- Definitions and concepts that encourage and support service learning
- A wide range of writing and research projects, including a letter to the editor, an article for a community newsletter, a research project for submission to local government or a cummunity agency an informational brochure, and a grant proposal.
- Two community service casebooks, practical worksheets and models of community service writing projects, as well as a number of proffesional essays on the role of community service.
New Rogets Thesaurus P.S.I & Associates, Inc © 1989, 1990, 1991 P.S.I. & Associates, Inc. ISBN 0-938261-40-1
Over 150,000 words
- Synonyms and antonyms
- Large, easy-to-read type
- Home, school or office
- Modern classification index
- Easy to use index
- Bold key word identification
One Word, Two Words, Hyphenated? Mary Louise Gilman Copyright © 1998 National Court Reporters Association ISBN 1-881859-01-0
Save time and frustration - this handy reference book provides instant access to any word conbination that's giving you trouble. One Word, Two Words, Hyphenated? seeks only to answer the title question - and to provide a qucik answer without the need for further research. Style guides and dictionaries don't always agree on the proper way to spell or hyphenate a word. One Word, Two Words, Hyphenated? eliminates this confusion, providing an authorittative consensus on how to do it right. This is the perfect resource for students, writers, editors or anyone else who works with words.
Readings Are Writings A Guide to Reading and Writing WellJan M. Youga, Mark H. Withrow, janis Flint-Ferguson © 1996, by Prentice-Hall, Inc ISBN 0-13-097882-5
Like many other readers this book was born out of a search for a good textbook. As each of us faced teaching English Composition year afetr year, we would share our opinions about readers, seraching for one that reflected the way we taught writing. Most texbooks simply did not work for us and when we found ourselves celebrating even partial successes, we decided it was time to write one ourselves - one that would contain not only what we knew about how students learn to write and what motivates them to love and appreciate writing. We came up with several principles on which this book is based.
Students Need to See Reading
and Writing Connections
This book emphasises the close connection between good reading and writing skills, that readings are writings and that ariters are readers. We want students to develop an appreciation for the writing techniques used in readings, and to see their own writing as something others would genuinely want to read.
Rise B. Axelrod and Charles R. Cooper Copyright © 1991 by St. Martin's Press, Inc ISBN 0-312-03495-4
When we first wrote The St. Martin's Guide to Wrting, we tried to take the best that has been thought and said in the field of rhetoric and composition and turn it into practical use. We saw the Guide as continuing the classical tradition of treating rhetoric very seriously indeed, not just as a matter of producing correct effective prose but as one of thinking reading, and writing intelligently. To the best insights from that tradition, we added what we believed to be the most promising developments in rhe New Rhetoric
Sir Stanley Unwin Copyright © 1960 by Sir Stanley Unwin ISBN 0 04 6550055 4
The Brussels revisions of the Berne Convention, the Universal Copyright Convention, the British Copyright Act of 1965, the new American copyright legislation, the defamation act of 1952, the Restrictive Trade Practises Act 1956 and consequent revision of the Net Book Agreement, the alteration in markets, in the terms and conditions of supply and the new book production processes have put all earlier editions of this standard work out of date. Large portions have been entirely rewritten and the rest has been carefully revised. As a guide to authors and as 'The Publishers' Bible' it remains indispensible.
Words Most Often Misspelled and Mispronounced Ruth Gleeson and James Colvin Copyright © 1963, by Pocket Books, Inc.
This 226-page book is a new and unique reference work designed to help you with two of the most troublesome areas of the English language - spelling and pronounciation. Ruth Gleeson and James Colvin have compiled a copact gudie to more than 23,000 problem words which puzzle practically everyone - writers, businessmen, secretaries, students, and scores of others. WORDS MOST OFTEN MISSPELLED AND MISPRONOUNCED will help you clear up such everyday language problems as enunciation, accenting, final e's, hyphens, compound words, correct abbreviations, proper foreign phrases. This authoritative guidebook fills the need for a complete study of irregularities in spelling and pronounciation.
Write It Right A Guide for Clear and Correct WritingRichard Anderson, Helene Hinis Copyright © 1993 by SkillPath Publications, Inc ISBN 1-878542-30-3
Now you can Write It Right!
An essential guide to effective writing, this book completes and supplements all other writing references. It teaches what no other style guide offers: a way to best use your own natural writing voice and still maintain the professional tone expected in business writing.
Inside you will learn:
- How to write paragraphs that get your point across
- How to involve your readers to keep their interest
- How to corrcectly use over 100 commonly misused words and phrases (complte with definitions for each)
- salutations that are appropriate for every letter or memo
- Over 200 commonly used phrases and their abbreviations.
- Proper form for letters, memos, footnotes, bibliographies and other necessary writing details.
WRITERS CHOICE. Grammar and composition includes Stunk and White The Elements of Style. Third EditionConsulting Author for Compososition William Strong Grammar Specialist Mark Lester Visual-Verbal Learning Specialists Ligature, Inc. Copyright © 1996 by Glencoe/Macgraw-Hill. ISBN 0-02-635892-1 (Student Edition) ISBN 0-02-635893-x (Teacher's Wraparound Edition)
- Personal writing in the real world. Case Study: Memoirs
- The writing process in the real world. Case Study: Editorials
- Descriptive writing in the real world. Case Study: Museum exhibit
- Narrative writing in the real world. Case Sudy: Screen writing
- Expository writing in the real world. Case study: Business plan
- Persuasive writing in the real world. Case study: Satire
- Research Paper Writing
- Style through sentence combining
- PART TWO: Grammar, Usage and Mechanics
- PART THREE: Resources and Skills
- PART FOUR: William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White - The Elements of Style
Writing Incicively: Do-It-Yourself Prose SugeryWilliam Strong Copyright © 1991 by McGraw-Hill, Inc ISBN 0-07-062270-1
In learning prose surgery, students learn techniques for revising, editing, and proofreading their writing. Six chapters introduce them to basic revising and editing "operations," and an Appendix provides practical help for generating and drafting papers. Throughout this self-teaching text, students learn by doing - adding details and support, cutting uneeded material, reorganising, diagnosing coherence, trimming flabby sentences, and correcting sentence errors. As they probe for meaning - without taking shortcuts - students learn to write incisively.
Writing For Children & TeenagersLee Wyndham. Revised by Arnold Madison Copyright © 1968, 1972, 1980, 1989 by William Lee Wyndham ISBN 0-89879-347-5
If you have a desire to write for kids, the imagination, and the will to learn how to write proffessionaly, then you are holding the book that can show you how to write for and sell to today's children's market. Based on the authors' successful teaching and writing experiences, this classic book (now in its third edition) offers a practical guide to publication, complete with information and advice on special writing problems, projects, and research and reference materials aimed at writing for the young reader.
