“The Writer's Workshop” takes an approach to teaching writing that is new only because it is so old. Today, rhetoric and composition typically proceed by ignoring what was done for 2,500 years in Western education. Gregory Roper, on the other hand, helps students learn to write in the way the great writers of the past themselves learned: by carefully imitating masters of the craft, including Cicero, Thomas Aquinas, Charles Dickens, Sojourner...

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Farnsworth's Classical English Rhetoric was the definitive guide to the use of rhetorical devices in English. It became a best-seller in its field, with over 20,000 copies in print. Here now is the natural sequel, Farnsworth's Classical English Metaphor-the most entertaining and instructive book ever written about the art of comparison. A metaphor compares two things that seem unalike. Lincoln was a master of the art (A house divided against itself...

How to Write a Non-fiction Book in 60 Days is ideal for consultants, workshop leaders, speakers, or freelance writers, who want to write a solid first draft of a non-fiction book - in 60 days. Do you have a book just waiting to come out? Are you procrastinating because you think it will take you years to write it? This book will show you how to write a comprehensive first draft - a draft you can send to an agent or publisher or one you can edit and...

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America's most influential writing teacher offers an engaging and practical guide to effective short-form writing. In HOW TO WRITE SHORT, Roy Peter Clark turns his attention to the art of painting a thousand pictures with just a few words. Short forms of writing have always existed-from ship logs and telegrams to prayers and haikus. But in this ever-changing Internet age, short-form writing has become an essential skill. Clark covers how to write...

Do you need some inspiration? Calling all writers, new or seasoned! Delve into your copy of 35 Christmas First Line Writing Prompts today. It's a variation of writing prompts you're not so familiar with and third book in the First Line Writing Prompt series. Great for fiction writers looking for something a little different. If you are looking for a new exercise with writing prompts...check this out! The key is can you take an average line or phrase...

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Here is a practical guide to writing short stories that explains all the essential techniques of fiction-from character and plot to flashback and foreshadowing-in a way that is both understandable and useful to the beginning writer. Long considered a classic in the field, Writing in General is the product of a lifetime of reflection by one of our best literary minds.