Designed for the Needs of Specific Learners and Professionals
The Elements of Writing: The comprehensive system for writing in all fields. Based on the latest research on learning and the brain, The Elements of Writing offers a three-stage strategy for mastery: storytelling, mechanics, and analysis. We start with all the basic elements of storytelling (character, narrative, action, details, and more), then move to mechanics (sentences, words, paragraphs, editing, and more), and conclude with analysis (questions, explaining, models, and more). The book’s 79 sections include detailed explanations, how-to instructions, case studies, and exercises. (Buy The Elements of Writing today in ebook or paperback formats.)
Reading and Writing the Essay: Ideal for rigorous writing classes in high school and college. Reading and Writing the Essay is modeled after William Zinsser’s classic Yale course. Charles Euchner, who taught in that Yale program, offers a complete guide to writing five kinds of essays: profile of a person, description of a place, depiction of action, breakdown of a complex process, and analysis of an issue. (Order Reading and Writing the Essay in ebook format; paperback to be released soon.)
Writing About Politics and Society: Ideal for classes in political science. WAPS uses some of the great modern works on politics and social science–from classic works by John Stuart Mill and George Orwell, literary classics from Shakespeare to Robert Penn Warren, and modern works from Robert Caro, Jane Jacobs, Joan Didion, Yuval Noah Harari, Kim Wehle, and Jennifer Mercieca–to reverse-engineer all 79 elements of writing. By exploring key concepts in politics, we also drill master the essential skills of writing well.
Writing About Place: Designed for students and practitioners in architecture, planning, preservation, and environmental studies … and anyone who care
s about place. Based on the acclaimed The Elements of Writing, this new work not only shows the simple, intuitive techniques you need to write well, write fast, right away. It also offers a bevy of case studies from architecture and planning. So to master writing, you also get a dynamic sampling of some of the most important authors and ideas in architecture and planning. (Order Writing About Place in ebook and paperback formats.)
