Category - Language Arts & Disciplines
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Write No Matter What: Advice for Academics
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Getting It Published, Third Edition: A Guide for Scholars and Anyone Else Serious about Serious Books
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /For more than a decade, writers have turned to William Germano for his insider’s take on navigating the world of scholarly publishing. A professo...
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Writing for Social Scientists, Third Edition: How to Start and Finish Your Thesis, Book, or Article
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From Dissertation to Book, Second Edition
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /When a dissertation crosses my desk, I usually want to grab it by its metaphorical lapels and give it a good shake. "You know something!" I would...
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Write Your Way In: Crafting an Unforgettable College Admissions Essay
PaperbackOriginal price $15.00 - Original price $15.00Original price $15.00$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /Writing, for most of us, is bound up with anxiety. It’s even worse when it feels like your whole future—or at least where you’ll spend the next f...
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The Art of Creative Research: A Field Guide for Writers
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The Chicago Guide to Writing about Numbers, Second Edition
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Developmental Editing: A Handbook for Freelancers, Authors, and Publishers
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Editing is a tricky business. It requires analytical flair and creative panache, the patience of a saint and the vision of a writer. Transforming...
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The Chicago Guide to Grammar, Usage, and Punctuation
HardcoverOriginal price $45.00Original price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00Current price $40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Few people can write on the English language with the authority of Bryan A. Garner. The author of The Chicago Manual of Style’s popular “Grammar ...
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The Writer's Diet: A Guide to Fit Prose
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Writing Science in Plain English
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What Editors Do: The Art, Craft, and Business of Book Editing
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00Original price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Editing is an invisible art where the very best work goes undetected. Editors strive to create books that are enlightening, seamless, and pleasur...
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Storycraft, Second Edition: The Complete Guide to Writing Narrative Nonfiction
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Jack Hart, master writing coach and former managing editor of the Oregonian, has guided several Pulitzer Prize–winning narratives to publication....
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On Revision: The Only Writing That Counts
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A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations, Ninth Edition: Chicago Style for Students and Researchers
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /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 condu...
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Writing Fiction, Tenth Edition: A Guide to Narrative Craft
PaperbackOriginal price $22.50Original price $22.50 - Original price $22.50Original price $22.50Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /More than 250,000 copies sold! A creative writer’s shelf should hold at least three essential books: a dictionary, a style guide, and Writing Fic...
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Economical Writing, Third Edition: Thirty-Five Rules for Clear and Persuasive Prose
PaperbackOriginal price $14.00 - Original price $14.00Original price $14.00$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /Economics is not a field that is known for good writing. Charts, yes. Sparkling prose, no. Except, that is, when it comes to Deirdre Nansen McC...
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Student's Guide to Writing College Papers, Fifth Edition
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Students of all levels need to know how to write a well-reasoned, coherent research paper—and for decades Kate L. Turabian’s Student’s Guide to W...
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Developmental Editing: A Handbook for Freelancers, Authors, and Publishers
PaperbackOriginal price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /The only guide dedicated solely to developmental editing, now revised and updated with new exercises and a chapter on fiction. Developmental edit...
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The Business of Being a Writer
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00Original price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Writers talk about their work in many ways: as an art, as a calling, as a lifestyle. Too often missing from these conversations is the fact that wr...
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Cite Right, Third Edition: A Quick Guide to Citation Styles--MLA, APA, Chicago, the Sciences, Professions, and More
PaperbackOriginal price $15.00 - Original price $15.00Original price $15.00$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /Cite Right is the perfect guide for anyone who needs to learn a new citation style or who needs an easy reference to Chicago, MLA, APA, AMA, and ...
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