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.Jumpstart!: Literacy - Games and Activities for Ages 7-14
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by: Pie Corbett

November 01, 2003
I love it! The children in my class love it!

It is full of literacy starters and games to get children thinking. It fits really well with the Ros Wilson 2020 / Big Writing and the Literacy Hour.

I wouldn't be without it.
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.Writers' and Artists' Yearbook 2009 (Writers' & Artists' Yearbook)
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by: Kate Mosse (foreword)

June 30, 2008
I love it! The children in my class love it!

It is full of literacy starters and games to get children thinking. It fits really well with the Ros Wilson 2020 / Big Writing and the Literacy Hour.

I wouldn't be without it.
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.The Art of Fiction: Illustrated from Classic and Modern Texts
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by: David Lodge

October 12, 1992
Terms are bandied around for different forms of novel writing, and you dismiss them as 'jargon', or perhaps 'gobbledegook', and move on. It's only when you've actually written a novel that doesn't fit the standard genre - historical, fantasy, adventure, thriller, etc - that you wish you'd paid more attention. If you've completed writing such a book without having recourse to the Art of Fiction, you'll need it at this point, otherwise you might be excused for thinking you've ploughed a completely new literary furrow. So, before you start preparing your witty acceptance speech on winning the Booker, do read David Lodge and you'll learn that someone famous has been there before you and that, in some cases, they have been lauded and slated by ... Read More:
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.Your Writing Coach: From Concept to Character, from Pitch to Publication - Everything You Need to Know About Writing Novels, Non-fiction, New Media, Scripts and Short Stories
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by: Jurgen Wolff

April 19, 2007
I was one of those people who said for years that they wanted to write, but never quite got round to it. In January of this year, I decided to stop procrastinating and DO something about it. I bought lots and lots of books on writing, and I have to say that of the seven or eight I bought, ''Your Writing Coach'' is by far the best (with Stephen King's ''On Writing'' coming a close second.)

First of all, it's immensely readable. Like one of the other reviewers of this book, I read it from cover to cover, rather than just dipping into it, though now I am writing regularly, I refer to sections of it again and again.

It is very well laid out, with an overview of each chapter, and a summary of the key points, along with exercises to ... Read More:
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.Reading Under Control: Teaching Reading in the Primary School
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by: Judith Graham, Alison Kelly

September 26, 2007
I'm in my 1st year of a teaching degree and I found this book the most helpful and easy to read of those suggested to us. It gives you so many ideas, especially on how to diagnose different childrens problems with reading and practical suggestions on how to deal with them. I think it would come in useful to both trainee teachers and those already in practice as it is so much easier to read than most other texts on the subject. The accompanying book 'Writing Under Control' is just as helpful.
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.Authoring a PhD: How to Plan, Draft, Write and Finish a Doctoral Thesis or Dissertation (Palgrave Study Guides)
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by: Patrick Dunleavy

April 28, 2003
If you're looking for an easy to read guide to authoring a PhD, this book is not for you. The author seems more interested in using fancy and complicated sentences than actually clearly stating what he means. I picked a line at random,here is a typical sentence; "For Oaskeshott and other traditionalists my enterprise here will seem no more than another brick in the wall, a further step toward the bureaucratization of modern society forseen by Max Weber. " When your at the start of your PhD, this book is not what you want to read. I felt like telling the author; yes I know you're very clever, but can you explain things clearly rather than showing off how complicated and confusing you can make a sentence. I've already stopped reading this, and have bought a more ... Read More:
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.Why Not Catch-21?: The Stories Behind the Titles: 0
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by: Gary Dexter

September 23, 2008
The title should be why not Catch 18, as it is made clear that that was the number chosen by Heller as a title up until the publisher with deeper thinking and subtlty gave us the title which became a well known (and according to Heller) misused phrase. That is one of the high points of this ragtag colllection of titular explanantions. One should ask: Why not Lord of the Hobbits? or Catcher in the Maize? These books however, are not included. What is her eis only that which has a story behind it. At least a partly verifiable story.
It is a mine of (useless) information. The pseudonymes of the 3 Bronte sisters and their first book of published poems and when they died, and some of their influences are all to be found in one chapter. Then there is Moby Dick and ... Read More:
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.Writing for Journalists (Media Skills) (Media Skills)
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by: WYNFORD HICKS, Sally Adams, HARRIETT GILBERT, Tim Holmes

May 15, 2008
arrived speedily in great condition and at great price. No complaints. I'd buy from them again in good faith.
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.Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer within: Freeing the Writer Within
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by: Natalie Naimark-Goldberg

September 27, 2005
I am a published writer. Years ago, when I was still struggling with words, I was recommended this book by a bookseller, who thought it was wonderful. I asked him what he himself wrote, and he looked uneasy and said, 'Nothing, yet.'
All too many readers of this book go away inspired and charged up - and then they never produce anything worthwhile. It's much more of a new-age self-help feel-good-about-yourself book.
For writers? Forget it. Try Ursula leGuin or Stephen King, both of whom REALLY understand writing from their bones.
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.The Academic Essay: How to Plan, Draft, Write and Edit (In-Focus - a Studymates Series)
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by: Derek Soles

May 03, 2005
I am a published writer. Years ago, when I was still struggling with words, I was recommended this book by a bookseller, who thought it was wonderful. I asked him what he himself wrote, and he looked uneasy and said, 'Nothing, yet.'
All too many readers of this book go away inspired and charged up - and then they never produce anything worthwhile. It's much more of a new-age self-help feel-good-about-yourself book.
For writers? Forget it. Try Ursula leGuin or Stephen King, both of whom REALLY understand writing from their bones.
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