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"If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write." In 1999, Stephen King began to write about his craft -- and his life. By midyear, a widely reported accident jeopardized the survival of both. And in his months of recovery, the link between writing and living became more crucial than ever. Rarely has a book on writing been so clear, so useful, and so revealing. On Writing begins with a mesmerizing account of King's...
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Watson-Guptill Publications
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This volume demonstrates how to write and illustrate children's books by analyzing story structure and showing how the story's action is communicated through picture sequences. The author, a well-established children's author and illustrator, covers technical questions of how actually to proceed in developing ideas into books, as well as aesthetic and ethical issues. This book inspires readers to think beyond predictable formats and instead embrace...
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American Psychological Assocation
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[2020]
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English
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"The Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, Seventh Edition is the official source for APA Style. With millions of copies sold worldwide in multiple languages, it is the style manual of choice for writers, researchers, editors, students, and educators in the social and behavioral sciences, natural sciences, nursing, communications, education, business, engineering, and other fields. Known for its authoritative, easy-to-use reference...
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The University of Chicago Press
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Provides information on manuscript preparation, punctuation, spelling, quotations, captions, tables, abbreviations, references, bibliographies, notes, and indexes, with sections on journals and electronic media.
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"This book demystifies academic writing and shows how to engage with the views of others. Extensively revised in response to feedback from our community of adopters, this edition of They Say / I Say is an even more practical companion for students, featuring a new chapter on Researching Conversations, new exercises, expanded support for reading, and an expanded chapter on Revising. By focusing on the rhetorical moves found in all disciplines, They...
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David Small's harrowing account of growing up under the watchless eyes of parents who gave him cancer (his radiologist father subjected him to unscrupulous x-rays for minor ailments) and let it develop untreated for years--but in delicate glimpses of the author's child's-eye view, sketched most often with no words at all. Early memories (and difficult ones, too) often seem less like words than pictures we play back to ourselves.
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Focal Press
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c2007
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English
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"Character Design for Graphic Novels provides an introduction to an essential element of graphic novels - how to create believable, vivid characters. Good character design contributes as much as to a character's pesonality and role in the story as it does to his or her visual form. Character Design for Graphic Novels illustrates how popular characters, from an international range of traditional and digital artists, evolved from sketches, drawings,...
13) Expressive anatomy for comics and narrative: principles and practices from the legendary cartoonist
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W.W. Norton
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[2008]
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English
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The human machine -- Muscles activate movement -- Draftsmanship -- All living things want to survive -- The language of posture and gesture -- Human emotion -- Aggressive physical action -- Talking pictures -- Physical communication-- Using the expressive capacity of the human body -- Posture and power -- Anatomy, staging, and the total composition -- Anatomy and sterotype -- Physiognomy -- Acting--in practice.
14) Graphic storytelling and visual narrative: principles and practices from the legendary cartoonist
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W.W. Norton
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2008
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English
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Impact
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c2009
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English
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Provides an overview of the creative process of writing a comic book, discussing scripts, page layout and design, space relationships, camera angles, character acting, inking, coloring, and other related topics; and includes tips for aspiring authors and illustrators
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National Geographic Learning
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[2020]
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English
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Now with engaging National Geographic images, the new edition of the Great Writing series helps students write better sentences, paragraphs, and essays. Great Writing 5 now also prepares students to write research papers with clear explanations, student writing models, and meaningful practice opportunities and prepares writers for college-level research papers with instruction in citing sources, paraphrasing, summarizing, and synthesizing.
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HarperPerennial
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[2006]
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English
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Presents instructions for aspiring cartoonists on the art form's key techniques, sharing concise and accessible guidelines on such principles as capturing the human condition through words and images in a minimalist style
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2024.
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"When Theodosia Benton abandons her career path as an attorney and shows up on her brother's doorstep with two suitcases and an unfinished novel, she expects to face a few challenges. Will her brother support her ambition or send her back to finish her degree? What will her parents say when they learn of her decision? Does she even have what it takes to be a successful writer? What Theo never expects is to be drawn into a hidden literary world in...