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Naked, Drunk, and Writing: Shed Your Inhibitions and Craft a Compelling Memoir or Personal Essay by Adair Lara Publisher Comments The material is right there in front of you. You’ve known yourself for, well, a lifetime—and you finally feel ready to share your story with the world. Yet when it actually comes time to put pen to paper, you find that you’re stumped. &#... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper 
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On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction by William Zinsser Publisher Comments On Writing Well has been praised for its sound advice, its clarity and the warmth of its style. It is a book for everybody who wants to learn how to write or who needs to do some writing to get through the day, as almost everybody does in the age of e... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Inventing the Truth: The Art and Craft of Memoir by William Zinsser Publisher Comments An indispensable book by writers who have experienced firsthand the rewards and challenges of crafting a memoir Anyone undertaking the project of writing a memoir knows that the events, memories, and emotions of the past often resist the orderly... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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They Say/I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing by Gerald Graff Publisher Comments The best-selling new composition book published in this century, in use at more than 1,000 schools, They Say / I Say has essentially defined academic writing, identifying its key rhetorical moves, the most important of which is to summarize what others... (read more) List Price $30.75 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Crafting the Personal Essay: A Guide for Writing and Publishing Creative Non-Fiction by Dinty W Moore Publisher Comments Award winning essayist Scott Russell Sanders once compared the art of essay writing to the pursuit of mental rabbits--a rambling through thickets of thought in search of some brief glimmer of fuzzy truth. While some people persist in the belief that... (read more) List Price $17.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Lifespan of a Fact by John D'Agata and Jim Fingal Publisher Comments How negotiable is a fact in nonfiction? In 2003, an essay by John D'Agata was rejected by the magazine that commissioned it due to factual inaccuracies. That essay — which eventually became the foundation of D'Agata's critically acclaimed About a... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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How to Write It: Complete Guide to Everything You'll Ever Write by Sandra E Lamb Publisher Comments Even the simplest notes can trigger procrastination, deliberation, and frustration in all of us. Thankfully, writing expert Sandra Lamb is here to provide tips for writing virtually all communications: emails, resumes, thank-you notes, collection letters,... (read more) List Price $21.99 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Telling True Stories: A Nonfiction Writers' Guide from the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University by Mark Kramer Publisher Comments Inspiring stories and practical advice from America’s most respected journalists The country’s most prominent journalists and nonfiction authors gather each year at Harvard’s Nieman Conference on Narrative Journalism. Telling True Stories... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative by Vivian Gornick Publisher Comments A guide to the art of personal writing, by the author of Fierce Attachments and The End of the Novel of Love All narrative writing must pull from the raw material of life a tale that will shape experience, transform event, deliver a bit of wisdom. In a... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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They Say/I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing with Readings by Gerald Graff Publisher Comments In addition to explaining the basic moves, this book provides writing templates that show students explicitly how to make these moves in their own writing. Now available in two versions, with and without an anthology of 32 readings.... (read more) List Price $60.50 Your price: $16.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Yahoo! Style Guide: The Ultimate Sourcebook for Writing, Editing, and Creating Content for the Digital World by Yahoo Publisher Comments WWW may be an acronym for the World Wide Web, but no one could fault you for thinking it stands for wild, wild West. The rapid growth of the Web has meant having to rely on style guides intended for print publishing, but these guides do not address the... (read more) List Price $21.99 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Tell It Slant by Brenda Miller Publisher Comments Five stars for Tell It Slant ... An enlightening, comprehensive, and very satisfying text on writing and shaping creative nonfiction." -- Sheila Bender, editor and publisher of writingitreal.com and author of Writing and Publishing Personal Essays When... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Craft of Research (3RD 08 Edition) by Wayne Booth Publisher Comments With more than 400,000 copies now in print, The Craft of Research is the unrivaled resource for researchers at every level, from first-year undergraduates to research reporters at corporations and government offices. Seasoned researchers and... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Writing for Story : Craft Secrets of Dramatic Nonfiction By a Two -time Pulitzer Prize Winner (86 Edition) by Jon Franklin Publisher Comments The new "nonfiction"—the adaptation of storytelling techniques to journalistic articles in the manner of Truman Capote, Tom Wolfe, and John McPhee—is an innovative genre that has been awarded virtually every Pulitzer Prize for literary... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Write for College: A Student Handbook by Write Source Publisher Comments - MLA and APA documentation and research paper styles- Student models of critical college writing forms- Clear guidelines for citing print and electronic sources- Writing process and Proofreading... (read more) List Price $27.10 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Beyond the Writers' Workshop: New Ways to Write Creative Nonfiction by Carol Bly Publisher Comments An innovative new approach to teaching and writing creative nonfiction from veteran teacher and critically acclaimed author Carol Bly. Teachers and writers everywhere are facing the limits imposed by the prevailing models of teaching: community or MFA... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Short Guide to Writing about Music (Short Guide) by Jonathan D Bellman Publisher Comments Written in a clear and conversational style, A Short Guide to Writing About Music,2e examines a wide range of writing assignments for music courses at all levels of the undergraduate curriculum. Employing a variety of writing samples as a means to... (read more) List Price $45.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Shape of Reason: Argumentative Writing in College by John T Gage Publisher Comments This brief, rhetoric of argument teaches critical reading, informal reasoning, and writing as reasoned inquiry, and now features a new collection of student arguments. The Shape of Reason emphasizes the enthymeme as the central basis for the... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Writing History: A Guide for Students by William Kell Storey Publisher Comments Bringing together practical methods from both history and composition, Writing History provides a wealth of tips and advice to help students research and write essays for history classes. The book covers all aspects of writing about history, including... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Travel Writer's Handbook: How to Write - And Sell - Your Own Travel Experiences (Travel Writer's Handbook: How to Write-And Sell-Your Own Travel Experiences) by Jacqueline Harmon Butler Synopsis Veteran travel writer Jacqueline Harmon Butler shows readers, one step at a time, how to research, write, and sell travel articles--but most importantly, she details what makes a travel article a winner. In this new edition, Butler updates her... (read more) Your price: $18.95 New - Trade Paper
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