rhetoric

Emphasizes effective reading, writing, and communication using the real forms and documents we encounter daily.

Offers advice on writing for teachers who teach writing, asserting that only by being writers themselves can teachers become effective mentors for their students. Includes mini-lessons, writing prompts, and bursts of inspiration designed to stimulate writing every day.

A guide to punctuation that covers all styles including including Associated Press, Modern Language Association, American Psychological Association, and Chicago Manual of Style.

Reveals how writers can take advantage of the brain's hard-wired responses to story to captivate their readers' minds through each plot element.

Building on the original 1918 essay that formed the Strunk and White style guide, an introduction to the practices and importance of good grammar passionately advocates on behalf of reversing the modern decline of correct language use.

Offers advice on writing effective sentences, discussing conjunctions, phrases, clauses, word choice, adverbs, participles, antecedents, and more.