Macquarie Concise Dictionary Ninth Edition by Macquarie Dictionary
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Category: Words and Writing
The <b><i>Macquarie Concise Dictionary Ninth Edition</i></b> provides an up-to-date account of Australian English, with wide coverage to meet the needs of the general dictionary user. Based on the comprehensive <i>Macquarie Dictionary Ninth Edition</i>, this volume in ...Show more
Writing with Style - The Economist Guide by Lane Greene
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Category: Words and Writing
A brand new take on how to write with style - from The Economist's language columnist, Lane Greene
What's Wrong? Making Sense of Nonsense by Geoffrey Gibson; Chris Wallace-Crabbe
$35.00 AUD
Category: Words and Writing
Around the world, people have witnessed a decline in thinking and language. 'Social media' has maimed language and manners; it has brought us the violent madness of conspiracy. Twisted media are infected. In Australia, our schools have not kept up. People ignorant of both logic and grammar are unleashe ...Show more
Save the Cat! The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need by Blake Snyder
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Category: Words and Writing
Here's what started the phenomenon: the best seller, for over 15 years, that's been used by screenwriters around the world Blake Snyder tells all in this fast, funny and candid look inside the movie business. "Save the Cat" is just one of many ironclad rules for making your ideas more marketable and you ...Show more
Macquarie Dictionary Ninth Edition by Macquarie Dictionary
$140.00 AUD
Category: Words and Writing
The Macquarie Dictionary is nationally and internationally regarded as the standard reference on Australian English. An up-to-date account of our variety of English, it not only includes words and senses peculiar to Australian English, but also those common to the whole English-speaking world. The Ninth ...Show more
Writing with Pleasure by Helen Sword
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Category: Words and Writing | Series: Skills for Scholars Ser.
An essential guide to cultivating joy in your professional and personal writingWriting should be a pleasurable challenge, not a painful chore. Writing with Pleasure empowers academic, professional, and creative writers to reframe their negative emotions about writing and reclaim their positive ones. By ...Show more
Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style: The UK Edition by Benjamin Dreyer
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Category: Words and Writing
''An utterly delightful book to read, Dreyer's English will stand among the classics on how to use the English language properly.'' ELIZABETH STROUT ''A complete joy. For those who care about words - and for those who don't - Dreyer's English is the book we have all been waiting for. Wise, funny, no-no ...Show more
The Penguin Book of Modern Speeches by Brian MacArthur (Editor)
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Category: Words and Writing
From Theodore Roosevelt to Barack Obama, from Gandhi to Mandela, the most significant speeches of the modern era Whether the rousing words of Winston Churchill, the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Salman Rushdie's denouncement of his fatwa, or the optimism of Barack Obama, speeches shape the w ...Show more
Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process by John McPhee
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Category: Words and Writing
The long-awaited guide to writing long-form nonfiction by the legendary author and teacher. Draft No. 4is a master class on the writer's craft. John McPhee shares insights he has gathered over his long career, and has refined while teaching at Princeton University, where he has nurtured some of the most ...Show more
Do I Make Myself Clear? Why Writing Well Matters by Harold Evans
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Category: Words and Writing
*New York Times Bestseller *One of NPR's Best Books of 2017A wise and entertaining guide to writing English the proper way by one of the greatest newspaper editors of our time. Harry Evans has edited everything from the urgent files of battlefield reporters to the complex thought processes of Henry ...Show more
Storytime: Growing up with Books by Jane Sullivan
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Category: Words and Writing
What was it exactly? Wonder, rapture delight, surprised recognition, laughter - but also darker feelings that made my heart beat fast and my stomach turn over, and sometimes a frantic urge to close the book before whatever it was sucked me in and destroyed me. But always, I read on. In Storytime, aut ...Show more
Outspoken - 50 Speeches by Incredible Women by Deborah Coughlin
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Category: Words and Writing
History didn't listen to women, but that never stopped them from speaking out ... A lot of history is made up of speeches. Speeches about big ideas, celebratory speeches, rousing speeches to inspire soldiers to fight to the death, comic speeches to help us see the funny side to life. From Jesus to Wins ...Show more