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Winding Roads: Exercises in Writing Creative Nonfiction Tapa blanda - 2007 - 1st Edición

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Author: Thiel, Diane
ISBN: 9780321429896

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Información de la editorial

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Descripción de contraportada

Written by an award-winning author and Fulbright Scholar, Winding Roads: Exercises in Writing Creative Nonfiction, a new first edition, offers exciting and challenging exercises to help focus your creative nonfiction writing. The numerous exercises set simple tasks, enabling you to practice your technique and develop your existing skills. The author believes that the greatest question you will face as a writer is how you cast or shape your piece. Thus, the process of beginning with small pieces that allow you to progress to larger endeavors makes writing easier to manage and helps you learn to isolate each element of your piece. Active lessons with prompts will have you writing day after day.

Other titles written by Diane Thiel include Crossroads: Creative Writing in Four Genres and Open Roads: Exercises in Writing Poetry. You may purchase copies by going to http: //www.mypearsonstore.com.

WHAT YOU'LL FIND IN THIS EDITION

An extensive anthology of essays serves as models for your own writing.
Text includes a very strong section on revision, helping you to consider alternative ways of shaping your essay.
Numerous exercises address each element of writing creative nonfiction separately, helping you to understand all the elements included in creating an effective piece of writing.
Various approaches to writing creative nonfiction are clearly examined, followed by extensive practice of each specific technique.

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Detalles

Título Winding Roads: Exercises in Writing Creative Nonfiction
Autor Diane Thiel
Encuadernación Tapa blanda
Número de edición 1st
Edición 1
Páginas 320
Volúmenes 1
Idioma ENG
Editorial Pearson, Newmarket, ON, Canada
Fecha de publicación December 28, 2007
Features Index, Table of Contents
ISBN 9780321429896 / 0321429893
Peso 0.91 libras (0.41 kg)
Dimensiones 9.15 x 6.5 x 0.47 pulgadas (23.24 x 16.51 x 1.19 cm)
Library of Congress subjects English language - Rhetoric, Essay - Authorship
Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 2007030833
Dewey Decimal Code 808.042

Acerca del autor

Diane Thiel is the author of six books of poetry, nonfiction, and creative writing pedagogy: Echolocations (Nicholas Roerich Prize, 2000),

Writing Your Rhythm (2001), The White Horse: A Colombian Journey (2004), Resistance Fantasies (2004), Crossroads: Creative Writing Exercises in Four Genres (Longman, 2005) and Open Roads: Exercises in Writing Poetry (Longman, 2005). Her work appears in major journals including Poetry, The Hudson Review, The Sewanee Review, Best American Poetry 1999, among numerous others, and is reprinted in more than 30 major anthologies, including Twentieth Century American Poetry (McGraw Hill, 2004) and Contemporary American Poetry (Longman, 2005). Thiel received her BA and MFA from Brown University and has traveled and lived in various countries in Europe and South America. She has been a professor of creative writing for more than 15 years. A recipient of numerous awards including the Robert Frost and Robinson Jeffers Awards, and a recent Fulbright Scholar, she is on the creative writing faculty at the University of New Mexico.

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