Composition Studies

Cracking the AP English Language & Composition Exam, 2008 Edition (College Test Prep) by Princeton Review

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Scoring high on the AP English Language & Composition Exam is very different from earning straight A's in school. We don't try to teach you everything there is to know about English language-only the strategies and information you'll need to get your highest score. In <i>Cracking the AP English Language and Composition Exam</i>, we'll teach you how to<br /><br />·Use our preparation strategies and test-taking techniques to raise your score<...0 points

CliffsAP English Language and Composition (Cliffs AP) by Barbara V. Swovelin

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Your complete guide to a higher score on the *AP English Language and Composition exam <p>Why CliffsAP Guides? </p><p>Go with the name you know and trust </p><p>Get the information you need-fast! </p><p>Written by test prep specialists </p><p>About the contents: </p><p>Part I: Introduction </p><ul> <li>Review of the format and scoring of the recent exam</li> </ul> <p>Part II: Analysis of Ex...0 points

Old Friend from Far Away: The Practice of Writing Memoir by Natalie Goldberg

Twenty years ago Natalie Goldberg's classic, <i more...0 points

Twenty years ago Natalie Goldberg's classic, <i>Writing Down the Bones</i>, broke new ground in its approach to writing as a practice. Now, <i>Old Friend from Far Away</i> -- her first book since <i>Writing Down the Bones</i> to focus solely on writing -- reaffirms Goldberg's status as a foremost teacher of writing, and completely transforms the practice of writing memoir.<p>To write memoir, we must first know how to remember. Through timed, associative,...0 points

Barron's AP English Language and Composition 2008 (Barron's How to Prepare for the Ap English Language and Composition Advanced Placement Examinations) by George Ehrenhaft Ed.D.

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Five full-length practice exams with all questions answered and explained, plus an enlightening overview of the exam are just two of this manual's valuable features. New in this edition is discussion of the revised essay question, first appearing in this test in May of this year. The new essay question focuses on use of documentation and citation skills in essay writing. Test takers will also find detailed practice and review for answering the test's multiple-choice questions a complet...0 points

Mastering APA Style: Student's Workbook and Training Guide Fifth Edition by Harold Gelfand, Charles J. Walker

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This workbook, updated for use with the fifth edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, is the source students need to improve their writing skills. Mastering APA Style is a self-pacing, self-teaching workbook that can be used to learn APA style quickly and effectively. Developed over more than a decade, this workbook has been tested where it counts--in the classroom! Mastering APA Style: Student's Workbook and Training Guide contains groups of instructional ex...0 points

Study Driven: A Framework for Planning Units of Study in the Writing Workshop by Katie Wood Ray

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No matter what grade you teach, what state your school is in, and what level of diversity is present in your classroom, students have the right to be shown real-world examples of the kinds of writing they're asked to produce. For Katie Wood Ray, this foundational idea is also the beginning of an important way of approaching rigorous writing instruction.In Study Driven Ray shows you that encouraging students to read closely can improve the effectiveness of your writing instruction. Detailing her....0 points

The World is a Text: The Writing, Reading, and Thinking About Culture and Its Contexts (2nd Edition) by Jonathan Silverman, Dean Rader

The book teaches readers the usefulness of learning more...0 points

The book teaches readers the usefulness of learning to actively "read" their surroundings. The new edition features a greatly expanded section on writing, editing, and making arguments. This cultural studies reader directly engages the process of writing about the "texts" one sees in everyday life. Its comprehensive and inclusive approach focuses on the relationship between reading traditional works-such as short stories, and poems-and other less-traditional ones-such as movies,...0 points

501 Writing Prompt Questions by LearningExpress Editors

High school exit exams, college placement exams, a more...0 points

High school exit exams, college placement exams, and other important high stakes tests require students to answer specific questions-in writing-while under pressure. In fact, the written exercises students encounter are assigned with the clock ticking and anxiety rising, so it is important to have a strong grounding in basic writing skills so that students can do their best when put to the test. 501Writing Prompts uses over 500 sample writing prompts that simulate actual test questions, all desi...0 points

A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations, Seventh Edition: Chicago Style for Students and Researchers (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing) by Kate L. Turabian

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Dewey. Bellow. Strauss. Friedman. The University of Chicago has been the home of some of the most important thinkers of the modern age. But perhaps no name has been spoken with more respect than Turabian. The dissertation secretary at Chicago for decades, Kate Turabian literally wrote the book on the successful completion and submission of the student paper. Her Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations, created from her years of experience with research projects across al...0 points

Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott

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On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction (On Writing Well) by William K. Zinsser

On Writing Well has been praised for its sound advice, more...0 points

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-mail and the Internet. Whether you want to write about people or places, science and technology, business, sports, the arts or about yourself in the increasingly popular memoir genre, On Writing Well offers you fundamental priciples as well as the....0 points

How to Write a Lot: A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing by Paul J. Silvia

All students and professors need to write, and man more...0 points

All students and professors need to write, and many struggle to finish their stalled dissertations, journal articles, book chapters, or grant proposals. Writing is hard work and can be difficult to wedge into a frenetic academic schedule. In this practical, lighthearted and encouraging book, Paul J Silvia explains that writing productively doesnot require innate skills or special traits but specific tactics and actions. Drawing examples from his own field: psychology, he shows readers how to ove...0 points