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The 7 Signals of Meaning: How Writers Can Say What They Mean

Author(s): Robert E Pickford

This compact little book offers a simple but admittedly unorthodox approach to spotting and addressing sentence-level errors, a method that requires no previous knowledge of the terms and rules of formal grammar and usage. In a nutshell, all writers signal meaning in just seven ways, and the book's ...

The Agile Communicator: Principles and Practices in Technical Communication

Author(s): Craig Baehr

The Agile Communicator: Principles and Practices in Technical Communication effectively introduces communication in the workplace. Today’s workplaces require you to understand and adapt to many communication challenges, such as global communication, cross-functional and cross-cultural teaming, fluct...

Business and Professional Writing: From Problem to Proposal

Author(s): William Magrino

The NEW 5th edition of Business and Professional Writing: From Problem to Proposal is built around a single concept - that students learn professional writing through ownership of their ideas. This text equips students with the real-world skills that today’s employers seek.Business and Professional ...

The Active Writer

Author(s): Michael Neal Morris

Whether the goal is to score better grades in school or win over a boss with an outstanding proposal, learning to write well is hard work. However, the number of benefits make the efforts of the journey well worth it! People who write well get better grades and do better on the job—and often, perfor...

Experiencing Reading and Writing

Author(s): Sandra Brown

Experiencing Reading and Writing integrates both diversity of material with sound theory using an inductive, cognitive/rhetorical model that links reading and writing in an informed way. This text singularly focuses upon the college reader and the writer. Its primary objective is to create lifelong ...

Telling the Story: A Guide to Writing, Editing and Designing Student Publications in Print and Online

Author(s): Cathy Werblin

New Edition Now Available! Telling the Story: A Guide to Writing, Editing and Designing Student Publications in Print and Online is a basic guide for students publishing newspapers at the college level, both in print and online. Throughout the years of teaching journalism and advising student new...

Critical Thinking through Debate

Author(s): Mark Nelson, Joseph M Corcoran

Critical Thinking through Debate covers argumentation from a theoretical perspective with the chapters written with the general college student in mind. This text is useful to students of general argumentation and debate who simply want to learn to be better advocates and critical thinkers. However,...