Writing in Action: A Resource Book for Writers

✍ Scribed by Paul Mills

Year: 1995
Tongue: English
Leaves: 235
Edition: 1
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Writing in Action provides a step-by-step, practical guide to the process of writing. Although the emphasis is on creative writing, fiction, poetry and drama, it also covers autobiographical writing, the writing of reports and essays. Because this is a book about process, rather than product, Writing in Action also looks at the practice of adaptation and editing.Writing in Action: shows new writers how to get started develops the confidence of more experienced writers encourages experimentation and creativity stimulates critical awareness through inclusion of illustrative texts encourages writing as a skill, as well as an art-form Writing in Action enables new writers to get close to the experience of writing; the questions writers ask, and the choices they make. The book is crammed with practical suggestions and self-evaluation exercises, as well as invaluable tips on style, sentence structure, punctuation and vocabulary. This is an ideal course text for students and an invaluable guide to self-study.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 10
Introduction......Page 12
1. Structure and style......Page 18
2. Autobiographoical writing......Page 52
3. Writing poems......Page 78
4. Writing short stories......Page 111
5. Theatre......Page 162
6. Writing to persuade......Page 197
Notes......Page 224
Bibliography......Page 227
General Index......Page 231
Author index......Page 233
Index of main works......Page 235

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