Enhancing writing skills

Enhancing Writing Skills includes conference presentation papers from the Carnegie Writers, Inc. 1st Annual Conference. The anthology provides published and aspiring writers resources for sustaining, enhancing and evaluating their writing skills. The chapter themes focus on genre-based writing, crea...

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Other Authors Elufiede, Oluwakemi (Editor), Murray, Tina (Editor), Boden, Carrie J. (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, Inc., [2016]
SeriesAdult learning in professional, organizational, and community settings.
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781806610679
DOI10.1108/978-1-68123-358-1
Physical Description1 online resource (xix, 129 pages)

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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword : creative upwelling / Mary Buckner
  • Some essentials of poetry, in no particular order / David M. Harris
  • How poetry and lyrics are different / Lisa Aschmann
  • Writing historical fiction / George Spain
  • Researching the novel / Patricia H. Quinlan
  • The connection between brain science and written expression / Oluwakemi Elufi ede
  • A transcultural perspective of creativity in academic writing / Emmanuel Jean Francois and Carrie J. Boden-McGill
  • A sense of wonder : why every creative writer needs one / Tina Murray
  • Academic literacy and the creative writer : why should anyone care what theorists have to say about creativity and literature? / Joseph Ballantyne
  • Academic writing : expanding your creative writing through use of the library / Janet Walsh
  • Speaking your truth : freedom and authority in an era of independent publishing / Candy Paull
  • In the eye of the beholder / Carissa Barker-Stucky
  • Lightning and the lightning bug : why language matters and how to make it work for you / Beth Terrell
  • As clear as mud : the correct usage of metaphors, similes, and idioms / Jamie Hughes.