Next Word, Better Word

Author: Stephen Dobyns
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 023011878X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 288

Book Description
This accessible writer's guide provides a helpful framework for creating poetry and navigates contemporary concerns and practices. Stephen Dobyns, author of the classic book on the beauty of poetry, Best Words, Best Order, moves into new terrain in this remarkable book. Bringing years of experience to bear on issues such as subject matter, the mechanics of poetry, and the revision process, Dobyns explores the complex relationship between writers and their work. From Philip Larkin to Pablo Neruda to William Butler Yeats, every chapter reveals useful lessons in these renowned poets' work. Both enlightening and encouraging, Next Word, Better Word demystifies a subtle art form and shows writers how to overcome obstacles in the creative process.

Next Word, Better Word

Author: Stephen Dobyns
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0230621805
Category : Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Languages : en
Pages : 287

Book Description

Another Word for Help

Author: K. E. Marlow
Publisher: K. E. Publishing
ISBN: 1953937020
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 348

Book Description
There’s a reason the words “help” and “hell” are only one letter off. Keith is a student struggling to pay for his last year of college. After fighting tooth and nail for a job as a live in personal assistant things are starting to look up. Free food, no bills to pay, a flexible schedule, and he still gets paid by the hour. His job is a dream come true! Until it isn’t. When the other PAs start getting fired or quit without warning Keith tries to stick it out for the student he’d been hired to assist; however, after a confrontation gone wrong he has to chose between saving himself or hanging onto the hope of helping someone who doesn’t want it.

They Have a Word for it

Author: Howard Rheingold
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781889330464
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 302

Book Description
They Have a Word for It takes the reader to the far corners of the globe to discover words and phrases for which there are not equivalents in English. From the North Pole to New Guinea, from Easter Island to Tibet, Howard Rheingold explores more than forty familiar and obscure languages to discover genuinely useful (rather than simply odd) words that can open up new ways of understanding and experiencing life. --Sarabande Books.

Roget's Descriptive Word Finder

Author: Barbara Kipfer
Publisher: Writer's Digest Books
ISBN: 9781582971704
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 472

Book Description
Whether they're working on a full-length novel or short magazine article, writers can make their work fresher and more evocative with this thesaurus. It's the essential guide for choosing accurate, specific words--the key to any piece of good writing.

Another Word for Happy

Author: Agay Llanera
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781542330503
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 130

Book Description
What does it take to come out of the closet? Since he was thirteen, Caleb has always known he's gay. Now a college freshman, he falls in love for the first time. If it's true that love conquers all, then will Caleb finally find the courage to reveal his secret? In this tale about family, friendship and self-discovery, find out how Caleb discovers the path to the freedom he's always longed for. Here's a hint: it involves doing things outside his comfort zone, such as joining a spoken word group!

Children's Writer's Word Book

Author: Alijandra Mogilner
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 376

Book Description
Reference for children's writers includes graded word lists (K-6), a thesaurus of the words with synonyms and annotated with reading levels, advice and tips on those practices particular to word usage in children's writing, and samples of writing for each reading level. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Increasing Fluency with High Frequency Word Phrases Grade 5

Author: Timothy Rasinski
Publisher: Teacher Created Materials
ISBN: 1425893309
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 99

Book Description
Based on Dr. Edward Fry's Instant Words and Dr. Timothy Rasinski's fluency research, this resource helps teach students to recognize words, read phrases with expression, improve fluency, and increase comprehension. Includes Audio CD and Teacher Resource CD. 96pp.

Word by Word

Author: Kory Stamper
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 110197026X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 322

Book Description
“We think of English as a fortress to be defended, but a better analogy is to think of English as a child. We love and nurture it into being, and once it gains gross motor skills, it starts going exactly where we don’t want it to go: it heads right for the goddamned electrical sockets.” With wit and irreverence, lexicographer Kory Stamper cracks open the obsessive world of dictionary writing, from the agonizing decisions about what to define and how to do it to the knotty questions of ever-changing word usage. Filled with fun facts—for example, the first documented usage of “OMG” was in a letter to Winston Churchill—and Stamper’s own stories from the linguistic front lines (including how she became America’s foremost “irregardless” apologist, despite loathing the word), Word by Word is an endlessly entertaining look at the wonderful complexities and eccentricities of the English language.

Arabic Language Processing: From Theory to Practice

Author: Abdelmonaime Lachkar
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319735004
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 265

Book Description
This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 6th International Conference on Arabic Language Processing, ICALP 2017, held in Fez, Morocco, in October 2017. The 18 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 55 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: machine translation systems; speech recognition and synthesis; text categorization, clustering and summarization; information retrieval systems; and Arabic NLP tools and applications.