The Art of X-Ray Reading

Author: Roy Peter Clark
Publisher: Little, Brown Spark
ISBN: 0316282162
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 269

Book Description
Roy Peter Clark, one of America's most influential writing teachers, offers writing lessons we can draw from 25 great texts. Where do writers learn their best moves? They use a technique that Roy Peter Clark calls X-ray reading, a form of reading that lets you penetrate beyond the surface of a text to see how meaning is actually being made. In The Art of X-Ray Reading, Clark invites you to don your X-ray reading glasses and join him on a guided tour through some of the most exquisite and masterful literary works of all time, from The Great Gatsby to Lolita to The Bluest Eye, and many more. Along the way, he shows you how to mine these masterpieces for invaluable writing strategies that you can add to your arsenal and apply in your own writing. Once you've experienced X-ray reading, your writing will never be the same again.

Jessica's X-ray

Author: Pat Zonta
Publisher: Firefly Books
ISBN: 9781552975770
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 42

Book Description
When Jessica goes to the hospital after she breaks her arm, she learns about different X-ray techniques. Includes six actual X-ray images printed on film.

The X-Ray Picture Book of Your Body

Author: Kathryn Senior
Publisher: Franklin Watts
ISBN: 9780749641450
Category : Body, Human
Languages : en
Pages : 48

Book Description
Set off on the adventure of a lifetime. Journey deep inside the workings of the human body - a machine designed for life.

The X-ray Picture Book of Incredible Creatures

Author: Gerald Legg
Publisher: Franklin Watts
ISBN: 9780531143469
Category : Anatomy, Comparative
Languages : en
Pages : 48

Book Description
Shows and describes cross-sections of dinosaurs, microscopic animals, invertebrates, endangered species, and mythological animals

X-ray

Author: François Nars
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780500542354
Category : Celebrities
Languages : en
Pages : 252

Book Description
A collection of photographs by world-renowned make-up artist Francois Nars. His aim was to create an art book containing over 200 elegant and unconventional images, featuring his favourite personalities from the worlds of fashion, design, film and music - and people who stood out on the street, personifying bold, audacious chic. Nars travelled the globe and invited each individual to sit for him, styling each portrait session according to the sitters metier, personality and elan. The result is a portait, or X-ray, of individuals who include: Alexander McQueen, Amber Valletta, Christy Turlington, Grace Jones, Angelica Houston, Anna Sui, Earth Kitt, Anita Pallenberg, Isabella Rossellini, Juliette Lewis, Lauren Hutton, Lauryn Hill, Manalo Blahnik, Paloma Picasso, Quentin Crisp and Nigel Coates.

Writing Tools

Author: Roy Peter Clark
Publisher: Little, Brown Spark
ISBN: 0316028401
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 336

Book Description
A special 10th anniversary edition of Roy Peter Clark's bestselling guide to writing, featuring five bonus tools. Ten years ago, Roy Peter Clark, America's most influential writing teacher, whittled down almost thirty years of experience in journalism, writing, and teaching into a series of fifty short essays on different aspects of writing. In the past decade, Writing Tools has become a classic guidebook for novices and experts alike and remains one of the best loved books on writing available. Organized into four sections, "Nuts and Bolts," "Special Effects," "Blueprints for Stories," and "Useful Habits," Writing Tools is infused with more than 200 examples from journalism and literature. This new edition includes five brand new, never-before-shared tools. Accessible, entertaining, inspiring, and above all, useful for every type of writer, from high school student to novelist, Writing Tools is essential reading.

How to Write Short

Author: Roy Peter Clark
Publisher: Hachette+ORM
ISBN: 031620434X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 158

Book Description
America's most influential writing teacher offers an engaging and practical guide to effective short-form writing. In How to Write Short, Roy Peter Clark turns his attention to the art of painting a thousand pictures with just a few words. Short forms of writing have always existed-from ship logs and telegrams to prayers and haikus. But in this ever-changing Internet age, short-form writing has become an essential skill. Clark covers how to write effective and powerful titles, headlines, essays, sales pitches, Tweets, letters, and even self-descriptions for online dating services. With examples from the long tradition of short-form writing in Western culture, How to Write Short guides writers to crafting brilliant prose, even in 140 characters.

The Glamour of Grammar

Author: Roy Peter Clark
Publisher: Hachette+ORM
ISBN: 0316089060
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 301

Book Description
Early in the history of English, the words "grammar" and "glamour" meant the same thing: the power to charm. Roy Peter Clark, author of Writing Tools, aims to put the glamour back in grammar with this fun, engaging alternative to stuffy instructionals. In this practical guide, readers will learn everything from the different parts of speech to why effective writers prefer concrete nouns and active verbs. The Glamour of Grammar gives readers all the tools they need to"live inside the language" -- to take advantage of grammar to perfect their use of English, to instill meaning, and to charm through their writing. With this indispensable book, readers will come to see just how glamorous grammar can be.

Help! For Writers

Author: Roy Peter Clark
Publisher: Little, Brown Spark
ISBN: 0316192759
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 245

Book Description
The craft of writing offers countless potential problems: The story is too long; the story's too short; revising presents a huge hurdle; writer's block is rearing its ugly head. In Help! For Writers, Roy Peter Clark presents an "owner's manual" for writers, outlining the seven steps of the writing process, and addressing the 21 most urgent problems that writers face. In his trademark engaging and entertaining style, Clark offers ten short solutions to each problem. Out of ideas? Read posters, billboards, and graffiti. Can't bear to edit yourself? Watch the deleted scenes feature of a DVD, and ask yourself why those scenes were left on the cutting-room floor. Help! For Writers offers 210 strategies to guide writers to success.

Emotions and Virtues in Feature Writing

Author: Jennifer Martin
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030629783
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 270

Book Description
This book provides an important and original way of understanding how journalists use emotion to communicate to readers, posing the deceptively simple question, ‘how do journalists make us feel something when we read their work?’. Martin uses case-studies of award-winning magazine-style features to illuminate how some of the best writers of literary journalism give readers the gift of experiencing a range of perspectives and emotions in the telling of a single story. Part One of this book discusses the origins and development of narrative journalism and introduces a new theoretical framework, the Virtue Paradigm, and a new textual analysis tool, the Virtue Map. Part Two includes three case-studies of prize-winning journalism, demonstrating how the Virtue Paradigm and the Virtue Map provide fresh insight into narrative journalism and the ongoing conversation of what it means to live well together in community.