A practical guide to everything you'll ever need to write-at work, at school, and in your personal life. With more than two hundred how-to entries and easy-to-use models organized into three comprehensive sections on work, school, and personal life, How to Write Anything covers a wide range of topics that make it an essential guide for the whole family. You want your boss to fund a special project. How can you write a persuasive email that will win...

"'Writing is a craft you can learn,' says Roy Peter Clark. 'You need tools, not rules.' In this essential guide, Clark distills decades of experience into fifty tools that writer of all kinds can use every day." -- Page [4] cover.

Presents tips and advice for developing good writing skills through things like brainstorming and outlining.

Provides clear and practical guidance for what to say--and what not to say--in any situation. Covering everything from business correspondence to personal letters, this new edition features expanded advice for personal and business emails, blogs, and international communication.

"What are the secrets to great writing? Was Melville simply born with the skill to write? Did Shirley Jackson write 'The Lottery' in one sitting? Actually, she did, but that's beside the point. The truth is, great writers are great readers, and the secret to learning how to write is as simple as learning how to read very, very closely. In this practical and engaging guide, Roy Peter Clark, . . . teaches the fine art of X-ray reading. When we X-ray...

Explains to children the concept of writing reviews to help producers and consumers better understand the products that they buy. Examines what makes a review a review and how to express one's opinion about a product.

Offers secondary teachers eighty-two strategic exercises designed to improve students' persuasive writing skills for essay tests, state assessments, and college-entrance exams. Includes writing tips, practice essays, games and activities, a glossary of terms, and over 100 writing prompts.

Offers ideas and projects for teachers to use while teaching their students how to write opinion and persuasive papers.

"Following on the heels of Lisa Cron's breakout first book, Wired for Story, this writing guide reveals how to use cognitive storytelling strategies to build a scene-by-scene blueprint for a riveting story. It's every novelist's greatest fear: pouring their blood, sweat, and tears into writing hundreds of pages only to realize that their story has no sense of urgency, no internal logic, and so is a page one rewrite. The prevailing wisdom in the writing...

On Writing Well has been praised for its sound advice, its clarity, and its warmth of style. It is a book for anybody who wants to learn how to write, whether about people or places, science and technology, business, sports, the arts, or about yourself. Its principles and insights have made it a cherished resource for several generations of writers and students. The text warns against common errors in structure, style, and diction, and explains the...