Authors:Frances Sinclair, SLA in Scotland,
Publisher: School Library Associatio
Keywords: fiction, fantasy, plus, reads, riveting
Number of Pages: 110
Published: 2008-06-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1903446465
ISBN-13: 9781903446461

Author: Bruce Ross-Larson
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: effective, writing, reports, series, riveting, powerful, stunning, sentences, paragraphs
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 1999-08
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0393046397
ISBN-13: 9780393046397

A source book of proven tips and techniques to make your writing clearer, simpler, and more memorable.Whether it’s a Web page on the Internet or a chapter in an annual budget report, readers today have less time to spend wading through text-they want the writing they read to be articulate and to the point. Effective Writing will help writers at any level of proficiency produce clear, concise writing structured around the messages they want to convey to their audience, and supported with strong, well-developed paragraphs and sentences. Written in plain language and a relaxed style, this b

Authors:Thomas Goodrich, Thomas Goodrich,
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Keywords: chapter, bloody, civil, war, history, account, riveting, guerrilla, flag, warfare, western, border, black
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 1999-02-01
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0253213037
ISBN-13: 9780253213037

" . . . compelling, dramatic, and well-written . . . " --Journal of Southern History ". . . compelling narrative of four years of virtually unmitigated savagery." --Blue & Gray Magazine "[A] thorough and comprehensive study of this tragic, almost forgotten episode of American history." --History A riveting eyewitness account of the bloody guerrilla fighting that raged along the Missouri-Kansas border during the Civil War. Drawing from a wide array of contemporary documents--including diaries, letters, and first-hand newspaper accounts--Thomas Goodrich presents a hair-raising repo