Writing Without Teachers
10 best books like Writing Without Teachers (Peter Elbow): The 38 Most Common Fiction Writing Mistakes, Writing Fiction Step by Step, Fresh Takes on Teaching Literary Elements: How to Teach What Really Matters About Character, Setting, Point of View, and Theme, Adolescent Literacy: Turning Promise Into Practice, Word Painting: A Guide to Writing More Descriptively, Writing Alone and with Others, Writing on Both Sides of the Brain: Breakthrough Techniques for People Who Write, Writers on Writing: Collected Essays from The New York Times, Making Shapely Fiction, Lessons That Change Writers [with Binder]
| Author | Jack M. Bickham |
| ISBN | 0898798213 |
When you write fiction, you march onto a minefield. This book gives you a map.
Oh, what tricky terrain you're traveling! You must reckon with: Character, Conflict, Point of View, Dialogue, Editors, Editors, and Editors, who--by returning...
| Author | Josip Novakovich |
| ISBN | 1884910351 |
| Author | Jeffrey D. Wilhelm |
| ISBN | 0545052564 |
| Author | Kylene Beers |
| ISBN | 0325011281 |
This is the time to think boldly about adolescent literacy. So much of what we know about adolescents and their learning has changed in the last decade, and since then both the world of education and the world at large...
| Author | Rebecca McClanahan |
| ISBN | 1582970254 |
| Author | Pat Schneider |
Writing on Both Sides of the Brain: Breakthrough Techniques for People Who Write
| Author | Henriette Anne Klauser |
| Author | The New York Times |
| ISBN | 0805070850 |
By turns poignant, hilarious, and practical, Writers on Writing brings together more than forty of contemporary literature's finest voices.
Pieces...
| Author | Jerome Stern |
| Author | Nancie Atwell |
| ISBN | 0867095067 |
| Author | Tom Romano |
| ISBN | 0867094788 |
The Writer's Block: 786 Ideas To Jump-start Your Imagination
| Author | Jason Rekulak |
| ISBN | 0762409487 |
Making the Match: The Right Book for the Right Reader at the Right Time, Grades 4-12
| Author | Teri S. Lesesne |
| ISBN | 1571103813 |
Because Writing Matters: Improving Student Writing in Our Schools, Revised Edition
| Author | Carl Nagin |
| ISBN | 0787980676 |
"Writing has to be learned in school very much the same way that it is practiced out of school. This means that the writer has a reason to write, an intended audience, and control of subject and form. It also means that composing is staged across various phases of rumination, investigation,...
The Essential Don Murray: Lessons from America's Greatest Writing Teacher
| Author | Donald M. Murray |
| ISBN | 0867096004 |
Don Murray's mission was to demystify writing by revealing as much as possible about the habits, processes, and practices of writers. This book carries on his work and shows the evolution of his thinking by collecting his most influential...
| Author | Georgia Heard |
| ISBN | 0435081241 |
| Author | Ralph Fletcher |
| ISBN | 0325003629 |
| Author | Bonnie Trenga |
This guide identifies the seven writing weaknesses that editors everywhere must fix again and again; in fact, almost all...
| Author | Robert Boice |
| Author | Gabriele Lusser Rico |
| ISBN | 0874779618 |
The central idea of this book is golden. It made me realize the value of the simple technique of "clustering" - or in layman's terms, "mind mapping" or "brain storming" - when it comes to writing.
I began applying this technique to my writing and it has proved...
| Author | Victoria Lynn Schmidt |
| ISBN | 1582974861 |
If you make time to write and put away all of your excuses, could you stay on track and finish your novel in only a month? With a structured plan and a focused goal, yes, you can!
Using a combination of flexible weekly schedules, focused...
Teaching with Your Mouth Shut
| Author | Donald L. Finkel |
| ISBN | 0867094699 |