Screenwriting for Dummies by Laura Schellhardt
29.99 NZD
Category: Language | Series: For Dummies S.
This work helps you to write a great script and get it into the hands of the Hollywood players! So you want to be a screenwriter? Whether you want to write a feature film or a TV script or adapt your favorite book, this friendly guide gives you expert advice in everything from creating your story and de ...Show more
Literacy and Power by Hilary Janks
113.99 NZD
Category: Language
In this book - a landmark text that is both engaging and accessible - Hilary Janks addresses the following questions and many more: Is literacy a skill or a social practice? In what ways is literacy embodied? Do texts have designs on us and what can we do about it? How does language construct reality? W ...Show more
Legal English by Rupert Haigh
101.99 NZD
Category: Language
English is the dominant language of international business relations, and a good working knowledge of the language is essential for today's legal or business professional. Written for both students and practitioners, "Legal English" is a highly practical handbook, which addresses all aspects of legal em ...Show more
Researching English Language: A Resource Book for Students by Alison Sealey
58.99 NZD
Category: Language
Routledge English Language Introductions cover core areas of language study and are one-stop resources for students. Assuming no prior knowledge, books in the series offer an accessible overview of the subject, with activities, study questions, sample analyses, commentaries and key readings -- all in th ...Show more
The Historical Novel by Jerome de Groot
14.00 NZD
Category: Language
The historical novel is not only an immensely popular genre, but also one that raises fascinating questions about the nature of key foundational concepts such as fact and fiction, history, reading and writing. This guide offers an introduction to both the genre and the critical debates around it.
Manuscript Makeover : Revision Techniques No Fiction Writer Can Afford to Ignore by Elizabeth Lyon
26.00 NZD
Category: Language
Professional editor and author Elizabeth Lyon offers aspiring novelists the guidance and instruction they need to write and edit well-crafted and compelling stories that will stand out from the competition and attract the attention of agents and publishers, including: - Stand-out style techniques, from ...Show more
Edit Yourself by Bruce Ross-Larson
29.99 NZD
31.00 (3% off)
Category: Language
The author begins with showing how to solve common problems of writing. He covers: how to recognize common problems of writing, and words and phrases that should be cut; how to shorten cumbersome sentences; how to arrange the elements of pairs, series, and compound subjects and predicates; how to recogn ...Show more
Enchanted Hunters: The Power of Stories in Childhood (HB) by Maria Tatar
57.00 NZD
Category: Language
Highly illuminating for parents, vital for students, teachers and book lovers alike, "Enchanted Hunters" transforms our understanding of why children should read. By exploring how beauty and horror operate in children's literature, Maria Tatar explores why little children love listening to stories and w ...Show more
A Writer's People: Ways of Seeing and Feeling by V. S. Naipaul
10.00 NZD
Category: Language | Reading Level: very good
The Nobel Prize winner writes candidly about cultural currents, ideas, experiences and the part they play in a life of writing. Over the course of his astonishing fifty-year career, V.S. Naipaul
Writing Tools: 50 Essential Strategies for Every Writer by Roy Peter Clark
29.99 NZD
34.99 (14% off)
Category: Language
Tools Not Rules' says Roy Peter Clark, vice president and senior scholar at the Poynter Institute, the esteemed school for journalists and teachers of journalists. Clark believes that everyone can write well with the help of a handful of useful tools that he has developed over decades of writing and tea ...Show more
Thought and Language by L.S. Vygotskii
80.99 NZD
Category: Language
Since it was introduced to the English-speaking world in 1962, Lev Vygotsky's highly original exploration of human mental development has become recognized as a classic foundational work of cognitive science. Vygotsky analyzes the relationship between words and consciousness, arguing that speech is soci ...Show more