Provides an introduction to the writing industry, describes various writing careers, each with information on salary range, educational requirements, and employment outlook, offers advice to students on how to prepare for a writing career, and includes resources.
Offers advice to educators on how to teach revision strategies to students, and to include discussion of revision in writing workshops, explaining how to change students' concept of revision as punishment or as editing to a process that involves changing the meaning, content, structure, or style of a piece of writing.
Demonstrates the importance of editing and proofreading in all types of writing, following students as they check grammar and punctuation, including run-on sentences, fragments, subject-verb and noun-pronoun agreement, misplaced modifiers, and comma splices.
a curmudgeon's guide to the many things that can go wrong in print--and how to avoid them
Walsh, Bill
2000
Provides commentary and guidelines on American English usage, covering both traditional grammar questions and newer ones reflecting the rise of the computer.
Defines the top twenty careers in writing, discussing the nature of the work, educational or training requirements, getting started, advancement possibilities, salary, employment outlook, and sources of more information.
Examines the top twenty-one careers in the writing field in terms of the nature of the work, educational or training requirements, ways to get started, advancement possibilities, earnings, employment outlook, and working conditions; and includes sources of more information.
A guide to the different career opportunities in the writing field that provides information on each position's training requirements, job responsibilities, and future outlook.
