Best Resources For Writers - April 2024

A Writer's Resource (comb-version) Student Edition

With A Writer's Resource, writers learn to identify the fundamental elements of writing situations encountered across the curriculum and in a variety of disciplines - from research assignments to blog and social media posts.  And with Connect Composition, instructors will find even more options for online assessment and reporting.  - Power of Process guides students to see writing and reading as a recursive process by having them respond to instructor chosen strategies and questions. It is extremely flexible, providing instructors with the ability to add their own reading selections or choos... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1260087840
• ASIN: 1260087840
• ISBN: 1260087840
• Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Education

The Writing Strategies Book: Your Everything Guide to Developing Skilled Writers

The Reading Strategies Book made the New York Times Best Seller List by making it simpler to match students' needs to high-quality instruction. Now, in The Writing Strategies Book, Jen Serravallo does the same, collecting 300 of the most effective strategies to share with writers, and grouping them beneath 10 crucial goals. "You can think of the goals as the what, "writes Jen, "and the strategies as the how." From composing with pictures all the way to conventions and beyond, you'll have just-right teaching, just in time. With Jen's help you'll: develop individual goals for every writer give ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 032507822X
• ASIN: 032507822X
• ISBN: 032507822X
• Manufacturer: Heinemann

Learning Resources Writer's Block

No idea what to write? No problem! Reach in, grab a card, and get inspired by the thought-provoking question printed on it. Prompts elicit response to who, what, when, where, why and how questions, and encourage different types of writing, such as creative, expository, and informational. Visual learners will get inspiration from the full-color photos as well!

• ASIN: B0015KGCGK
• UPC: 765023830354
• ASIN: B0015KGCGK
• Brand: Learning Resources
• Manufacturer: Learning Resources, Inc

The Road Back to You: An Enneagram Journey to Self-Discovery

Foreword INDIES 2016 Book of the Year Awards FinalistMissio Alliance Essential Reading List of 2016Ignorance is bliss―except in self-awareness. What you don't know about yourself can hurt you and your relationships―and even keep you in the shallows with God. Do you want help figuring out who you are and why you're stuck in the same ruts? The Enneagram is an ancient personality typing system with an uncanny accuracy in describing how human beings are wired, both positively and negatively. In The Road Back to You Ian Morgan Cron and Suzanne Stabile forge a unique approach―a practical, comp... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0830846190
• ASIN: 0830846190
• ISBN: 0830846190
• Brand: InterVarsity Press
• Manufacturer: IVP Books

Inhuman Resources

• ASIN: B00BDVRM2E
• ASIN: B00BDVRM2E

Official GRE Super Power Pack, Second Edition

Save money and get total official GRE test preparation with this 3-book bundle from the test maker! This Power Pack includes three Official Guides: The Official Guide to the GRE, 3rd edition Official GRE Quantitative Reasoning Questions, Volume 1, Second Edition Official GRE Verbal Reasoning Questions, Volume 1, Second Edition This Official GRE Super Power Pack 2017 Edition provides key information and the practice you need to do your best on the GRE General Test. For less than what you would pay for each book separately, the bundle packages. The Official Guide to the GRE General Test, 3rd Ed... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1260026396
• UPC: 781349366667
• ASIN: 1260026396
• ISBN: 1260026396
• Brand: McGraw-Hill Education
• Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Education

Writer Emergency Pack

When your story gets stuck, Writer Emergency Pack has the tools you need. Fix plot holes. Spice up stock characters. Rethink your themes. Writer Emergency Pack contains 26 illustrated cards, each featuring a different idea for getting unstuck. The notion of using cards to help you write isn't new. Writers have long used tarot cards, looking for meaning in the illustrations, or decks like Oblique Strategies, with its koan-like prompts ("Repetition is a form of change"). The ideas in Writer Emergency Pack are designed to be less abstract, and more immediately useful. They're specifically tailore... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00R6ZLIOY
• UPC: 013964723885
• ASIN: B00R6ZLIOY
• Brand: Writer Emergency Pack
• Manufacturer: Quote-Unquote LLC

SAT Prep Black Book: The Most Effective SAT Strategies Ever Published

Click the "look inside" feature above to browse the SAT Black Book and get a feel for how it approaches the SAT! The fully up-to-date SAT Prep Black Book, Second Edition gives you unique, effective SAT strategies from Mike Barrett, an SAT tutor with clients all over the globe who pay him hundreds of dollars an hour for phone tutoring. In addition to extensive and effective training on every aspect of the SAT, the SAT Black Book gives you detailed, systematic, easy-to-follow walkthroughs for every question in 4 of the College Board's official SAT Practice Tests.The Black Book is a must-have in ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0692916164
• ASIN: 0692916164
• ISBN: 9780692916162
• Manufacturer: ACT Prep Books

Murphy's English Grammar in Use

• ASIN: B00MX1NML8
• ASIN: B00MX1NML8
• Brand: Cambridge University Press
• Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press

Patterns of Power: Inviting Young Writers into the Conventions of Language, Grades 1-5

Jeff Anderson and literacy coach Whitney La Rocca take you into primary and intermediate classrooms where students are curious about language, engage with the world around them, and notice and experiment with the conventions all writers use. Instead of chanting grammar rules or completing countless convention worksheets, we invite young writers to explore conventions as special effects devices that activate meaning. Our students study authentic texts and come to recognize these “patterns of power”—the essential grammar conventions that readers and writers require to make meaning. The fir... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1625311850
• ASIN: 1625311850
• ISBN: 1625311850
• Manufacturer: Stenhouse Publishers

Motivational Interviewing: Helping People Change, 3rd Edition (Applications of Motivational Interviewing)

This bestselling work for professionals and students is the authoritative presentation of motivational interviewing (MI), the powerful approach to facilitating change. The book elucidates the four processes of MI--engaging, focusing, evoking, and planning--and vividly demonstrates what they look like in action. A wealth of vignettes and interview examples illustrate the "dos and don'ts" of successful implementation in diverse contexts. Highly accessible, the book is infused with respect and compassion for clients. The companion Web page provides additional helpful resources, including reflecti... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1609182278
• ASIN: 1609182278
• ISBN: 1609182278
• Brand: imusti
• Manufacturer: The Guilford Press

A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations, Ninth Edition: Chicago Style for Students and Researchers (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing)

When Kate L. Turabian first put her famous guidelines to paper, she could hardly have imagined the world in which today’s students would be conducting research. Yet while the ways in which we research and compose papers may have changed, the fundamentals remain the same: writers need to have a strong research question, construct an evidence-based argument, cite their sources, and structure their work in a logical way. A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations—also known as “Turabian”—remains one of the most popular books for writers because of its timeless fo... [Read More]

• ASIN: 022643057X
• ASIN: 022643057X
• ISBN: 022643057X
• Manufacturer: University of Chicago Press

Teacher Created Resources Good Writing Traits Bulletin Board Display Set (4404)

Inspire students with this colorful reminder of seven traits of good writing: Conventions, Sentence Fluency, Organization, Voice, Word Choice, Ideas & Content, and Presentation.

• ASIN: B000F8T23I
• UPC: 014467044040
• ASIN: B000F8T23I
• Brand: Teacher Created Resources
• Manufacturer: Teacher Created Resources OS

Thank You for Arguing, Third Edition: What Aristotle, Lincoln, and Homer Simpson Can Teach Us About the Art of Persuasion

A master class in the art of persuasion, as taught by professors ranging from Bart Simpson to Winston Churchill, newly revised and updated. The time-tested secrets taught in this book include Cicero's three-step strategy for moving an audience to action, and Honest Abe's Shameless Trick for lowering an audience's expectations. And it's also replete with contemporary techniques such as politicians' use of code language to appeal to specfic groups and an eye-opening assortment of persuasive tricks, including the Eddie Haskell Ploy, the Belushi Paradigm, Stalin's Timing Secret, and the Yoda Techn... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0804189935
• ASIN: 0804189935
• ISBN: 0804189935
• Brand: THREE RIVERS
• Manufacturer: Three Rivers Press

Coding: 3 Manuscripts in 1 book : - Python For Beginners - Python 3 Guide - Learn Java

This Box Includes 4 Manuscripts in 1 book:- Python For Beginners: A Crash Course Guide To Learn Python in 1 Week - Python 3 Guide: A Beginner Crash Course Guide to Learn Python 3 in 1 Week - Learn Java: A Crash Course Guide to Learn Java in 1 Week Python For Beginners: A Crash Course Guide To Learn Python in 1 Week Here what you'll learn after downloading this Python for Beginners book:✓Introduction✓Chapter 1: Python: A Comprehensive Background ✓Chapter 2: How to Download and Install Python✓Chapter 3: Python Glossary✓Chapter 4: Interacting with Python✓Chapter 5: Using Turtle for a... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07JW8F5S1
• ASIN: B07JW8F5S1

2018 Best Resources for Authors, Bloggers & Writers - eBook

This reference is loaded with necessary resources useful to authors, bloggers and writers. Get expert advice on blog or book designs, development, editing, print media, content marketing and entrepreneurial opportunities. Inside you will find professional

• UPC: 757167603