Language Arts & Disciplines

Helps you with your desire to write and shows how to fulfil this desire. This book includes: visualisation techniques, flow charts, and word webs. Each of these is designed to help you to explore both your conscious and your subconscious mind and to harness your creativity with a view to developing your characters, settings, plot and dialogue. more...

Price: $17.00

You’re no idiot, of course. You’ve read poetry that has touched your heart, and you’d like to improve your own writing technique. But even though you have loads of inspiration, you’re discovering that good instruction can be as elusive as a good metaphor. Don’t let your Muse leave you! With loads of smart advice and helpful exercises, The Complete Idiot’s Guide® to Writing Poetry will help you compose powerful, emotion-packed poems that you can be proud of. In this Complete Idiot’s Guide®, you get:. --Simple explanations of the building blocks of poetry—metaphor, imagery, symbolism, repetition, and more. --A step-by-step guide to the poetic process—from your first inspiration to your poem’s last stanza. --Easy-to-follow guidelines for writing sonnets, sestinas, narrative poems, and more! more...

Price: $16.95

This book reveals the simple rules of the essay-writing game, including how to sift for information, write drafts, handle references and analyze. See where you win and lose marks, how to take short cuts and how to make the most of your time. more...

Price: $11.00

Describes the experiences of a group of students in Chicago who are attending one of the first Spanish-English dual immersion schools in the United States. This book follows the group during two school years, documenting their Spanish use and proficiency, as well as how their two languages intersect with the ongoing production of their identities. more...

Price: $39.95

A clear, engaging and practical 'how-to' guide to writing a memoir, by Australia's foremost teacher and practitioner of memoir and life writing, Patti Miller. more...

Price: $19.95