Research Writing

This book doesn’t just tell you what to do but shows you exactly how to do it. From the very first chapter, you’ll discover an innovative approach combining emotional psychology, storytelling, and advanced persuasion strategies. You don’t need prior experience or endless hours of practice. Automatically, each chapter guides you step by step to master emotional copywriting and take it to the next level.

William Bernhardt explains the essential elements of breakout books, stories that reel in readers and attract serious attention. He discusses all the essential elements: originality, high stakes, believability, inescapable conflict, emotional appeal, and others. Plus, in the final chapter, Bernhardt explains how to turn your powerful premise into a winning pitch to attract agents and editors.

HowExpert Guide to Poetry is your ultimate resource for writing compelling poems, mastering techniques, and growing as a poet. Whether you’re a beginner discovering poetry or a seasoned writer refining your craft, this guide provides the tools and inspiration to reach your potential. This book covers all facets of poetry, from foundational principles to innovative techniques, empowering you to create works that resonate. Packed with actionable advice, creative prompts, and expert insights, HowExpert Guide to Poetry guides you step-by-step to becoming a confident, accomplished poet.

We will teach you how to write creative nonfiction in seven easy steps. This guide is designed to provide you with all the tools you need in a concise, easy-to-understand format that will answer all your burning questions and get you on your way to successful nonfiction writing.

In Bearing Witness, John Carpenter explores how across the world, those who experienced the war tried to make sense of it both during and in its immediate aftermath. The digestion of a cataclysmic event can take generations. But in this fascinating audiobook, Carpenter brings together all those who did their best to communicate what they saw in the moment so that it could never be lost.

This book is a unique inquiry into the history and the ongoing moral significance of mass communication as an idea and social form. Organized around narrative accounts of individuals and their communicative worlds, it strives to refigure mass communication as a concept, illuminate significant but overlooked rhetorical episodes in its history, and call listeners to reconsider their own engagements with it today.

You don’t need permission to be a writer. You just need a plan—and this is it. Have you been dreaming about writing a book but keep putting it off because life is busy, imposter syndrome is real, or the process feels overwhelming? You’re not alone—and you’re not stuck. Whether you’re writing fiction, nonfiction, memoir, or something in between, Write the Damn Book! is your no-fluff, step-by-step guide to getting it done.

Setting up your life to write a PhD has a single goal: to ensure that PhD students have the support, preparation and context to succeed. Too often words and phrases like 'burnout' or 'writer's block' are used to mask a complexity of motivational, task or time management issues. But writing is difficult. Writing a PhD is even harder.

"Preach and Publish: A Guide to Turning Your Sermons into Profitable Books" is a transformative blueprint for aspiring authors in the Christian community. With a Foreword by Dr. Charles Ndifon and written by Dr. Val Ukachi, a distinguished Apostle, Senior Pastor, and acclaimed author, this book offers invaluable insights and practical strategies to convert sermons and presentations into compelling, commercially successful books.

With each passing day the potential reach of a single false news story — and its ability to negatively impact all of us — grows in both size and scope. Although politicians, activists, and ordinary citizens regularly complain about deceptive or biased news reports, they tend to define fake news as anything with which they happen to disagree, thus compounding the problem even further.

Imagine a Door intersperses craft insights, case studies, and checklists with personal stories about publishing and the emotional complexities of sending your work into the world. Is a writing routine worthwhile? How do you pinpoint the why behind your storytelling and use it to improve your manuscript? What makes a query letter stand out? What exactly is distribution? Does success mean selling a certain number of books or can we reframe our expectations in a less capitalistic way?

Dejó muy claro Gabriel García Márquez que el periodismo siempre fue su principal pasión, la más perdurable y por la que quiso ser recordado: «No quiero que se me recuerde por Cien años de soledad, ni por el premio Nobel, sino por el periódico. [...] Nací periodista y hoy me siento más reportero que nunca. Lo llevo en la sangre, me tira».

Hay consenso entre periodistas, académicos y lectores en reconocer a Julio Scherer García como el mejor periodista mexicano de la segunda mitad del siglo xx. Su fama se debió al desarrollo constante de su oficio, siempre con excelencia y sentido crítico.

Se trata de una muestra y una celebración de lo mejor de El Tiempo, de sus crónicas, reportajes e historias más representativas, publicadas a lo largo del 2021. Con el ojo experto de Juan Esteban Constain, esta antología conserva lo mejor de todo el contenido editorial investigado, reporteado, editado y publicado por el equipo periodístico del diario El Tiempo.

Nel tracciare la storia del giornalismo italiano il libro prende le mosse dalla nascita delle prime gazzette secentesche, segue le vicende della stampa registrandone il ruolo via via crescente nella società e si chiude quando il giornalismo stampato, già affiancato da quello radiofonico e televisivo, entra in un futuro contrassegnato dai nuovi media elettronici. Criterio ispiratore è quello di coniugare le vicende salienti del giornalismo con gli eventi politici, sociali ed economici più rilevanti della storia italiana nell'arco degli ultimi quattro secoli.

The Silence of Your Name revolves around the suicide of Marshall’s charismatic and idealistic young husband, Tim Buxton, while they were in Ghana with Operation Crossroads Africa—a progenitor of the Peace Corps. Marshall weaves in her husband’s hidden family history, one tied to Boston’s wealthy social scene and the deaths of notorious Black Sun publisher Harry Crosby and Tim’s aunt Josephine Rotch Bigelow. By allowing listeners to experience these distinct periods of time in great detail, Marshall illuminates the toxic effects of denial across classes and generations.

Schreiben Sie sich ins Rampenlicht! Was unterscheidet einen guten Text von einer buchstäblichen Schlaftablette? Wie kommen Sie mit Ihrem Thema rasch auf den Punkt? Wann darf Sprache aus dem Worteinerlei ausbrechen? Die Wordingprofis Monika Kriwan und Irmgard Zirkler entschlüsseln die Geheimnisse gekonnter Formulierung. Ob im privaten oder beruflichen Kontext: Treffen Sie zielgruppenorientiert den richtigen Ton, ziehen Sie Ihr Publikum nutzenorientiert in Texte und punkten mit wiedererkennbarer, frischer Sprache.

Once upon a time there was a novel that opened at a normal house in a typical street in England. Arthur Dent awoke to discover it was about to be demolished to make way for a new village by-pass. The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy began. Once upon a time another novel opened at another normal house in a typical street in England. 4, Privet Drive, home of Mr and Mrs Dursley. The infant Harry Potter was about to be deposited on their doorstep.

Chairs. Neat people. Ugliness. War. Over six decades of intrepid reporting and elegant essays, Andy Rooney has proven a shrewd cultural analyst. Andy Rooney: 60 Years of Wisdom and Wit brings together the best of more than a half-century of work (including long-out-of-print pieces from his early years) in an unforgettable celebration of one of America’s funniest men. Like Mark Twain, Finley Peter Dunne (Mister Dooley) and Will Rogers, Andy Rooney is a classic chronicler of America, a writer for the ages.

Men and women think, talk, and act differently - which causes problems for writers who are trying to create characters of the opposite sex. When we understand the difference between masculine and feminine qualities and habits, we can use those behaviors and patterns to create characters who are plausible and unique, but not stereotypical. Writing between the Sexes will help you to identify your own gender-specific behaviors, notice those of the opposite sex, and use both to make your characters believable.