Writing Communication

APE's thesis is powerful yet simple: filling the roles of Author, Publisher, and Entrepreneur yields results that rival traditional publishing. We call this "artisanal publishing" - that is, when writers who love their craft control the publishing process and produce high-quality books. APE is 411 minutes of step-by-step, tactical advice and practical inspiration.

Merchants of Truth is the groundbreaking and gripping story of the precarious state of the news business told by one of our most eminent journalists. Jill Abramson follows four companies: The New York Times, The Washington Post, BuzzFeed, and Vice Media over a decade of disruption and radical adjustment. The new digital reality nearly kills two venerable newspapers with an aging readership while creating two media behemoths with a ballooning and fickle audience of millennials.

Four-time best-selling authors J.B. Snow and Casey Keller bring you 52 inspiring ways to improve your writing skills. We will help guide you and coach you through your tough spots, all the way to the completion of your story.

Constance Hale, the best-selling author of Sin and Syntax, zooms in on the colorful world of verbs. Synthesizing the pedagogical and the popular, the scholarly and the scandalous, Hale combines the wit of Bill Bryson with the practical wisdom of William Zinsser. She marches through linguistic history to paint a layered picture of our language - from before it really existed to the quirky usages we see online today. She warns about habits to avoid and inspires with samples of brilliant writing.

Having played the role of a student, postdoc, researcher, research faculty member, author, reviewer, and editor, Kasthurirangan "Rangan" Gopalakrishnan, PhD, fully understands and empathizes with the struggles and pleasures of academic work. In this book, his goal is to assist you to do what you are already doing more effectively and efficiently with minimal stress and possibly to identify and eliminate those activities and habits that interfere with your academic writing productivity.

Would you like to develop more creativity? Are you often stumped about how to become more creative? This audiobook shows how anyone, even YOU, can become more creative by using freedom of speech. This audiobook guides you through 19 different creative tools so you too can harness the full power of freedom of expression. Don't listen to the naysayers; YOU too can become creative by listening to this audiobook!

When Ellen Jovin first walked outside her Manhattan apartment building and set up a folding table with a GRAMMAR TABLE sign, it took about thirty seconds to get her first visitor. Everyone had a question for her. Grammar Table was such a hit—attracting the attention of the New York Times, NPR, and CBS National News—that Jovin soon took it on the road, traveling across the US to answer questions from writers, lawyers, editors, businesspeople, students, bickering couples, and anyone else who uses words in this world.

Kim Scaravelli has been writing online content for over 20 years. Over that time, she has helped hundreds of organizations build authority, communicate effectively, and develop meaningful connections with people. In this practical guide, she walks you through the process of writing, from setting up your writing space to researching, crafting first drafts, editing, and mastering the long game. Because success isn't about being able to write one piece of content. It's about being able to create content whenever you need to and enjoying the feeling of making words work.

In step-by-step detail, with simple templates, this audiobook shows you what you need to do to create a fiction proposal package of query letter and synopsis that will get you out of the slush pile - and gets your novel in the hands of agents and editors.

The intricacies of nonverbal communication as well as its benefits are still not very clear to many, and that is the reason many stumble across the basic ideas related to it. However, the fact is there are many basic ideas regarding nonverbal communication that actually offer a coherent idea regarding the process. In this auidobook, this has been the attempt. Apart from the theoretical ideas mentioned, the author has also striven to enter the diverse usability of the process as well.

Have you ever struggled with making emails deliver a powerful punch? If you already create punchy emails, you can make them deliver an even mightier blow. From novice to master, this guide has lessons and tips you can begin applying to your life right away. Don’t waste another second feeling your messages are when there’s a potent tool of electronic communication right in your hands. You will become an unstoppable dynamo of multimedia communication once you are through with these 7 easy steps.

This short book condenses the habits and techniques - your tools - that work most of the time for most of the people who write at work and want to be happier in all parts of their lives: nothing more, nothing less . It is also a true and accurate reflection of my 40 years of writing for business and of teaching writing at two prestigious universities and many professional societies and companies. You can trust that what I'm telling you will improve your abilities to communicate and think, and make you more productive, promotable, and happy.

This short book condenses the habits and techniques - your tools - that work most of the time for most of the people who write at work and want to be happier in all parts of their lives: nothing more, nothing less. It's also an accurate reflection of my 40 years of writing for business and of teaching writing at two prestigious universities and many professional societies and companies.

I wrote The Power of Writing Well to address everything managers, leaders, engineers, scientists, and others need to be better senders and receivers, not to cover everything they need to know about the language or to be the perfect sender or receiver; nobody is.

This short book condenses the habits and techniques - your tools - that work most of the time for most of the people who write at work and want to be happier in all parts of their lives: nothing more, nothing less . It is also a true and accurate reflection of my 40 years of writing for business and of teaching writing at two prestigious universities and many professional societies and companies. You can trust that what I'm telling you will improve your abilities to communicate and think and make you more productive, promotable, and happy.

If you want to make your writing clear and easily understood, it is essential to write in the active voice. If you are serious about improving your writing skills, the best place to start is by understanding how to use the active voice when writing. This course will teach you how to get your message across with strength, confidence, and efficiency.

In a creative project, are two heads better than one? Writing partnerships can produce a remarkable synergy, building on each other’s talents to create work unlike anything the individual authors could do alone. On the other hand, unsuccessful collaboration can be disastrous and has ruined many a friendship. In this in-depth book, Anderson and Moesta describe various collaboration methods with frank recollections of their own experiences. You’ll learn collaborative techniques that will suit any sort of writer, as well as the pitfalls you may encounter.

Young adult fiction is one of the most rewarding careers you can embark on! Young adults feel inspired and excited about the authors whose books they become addicted to! Unlike adults, who have been exposed to so many books that they hardly leave reviews, young adults can latch onto your books for decades, growing up with them and returning again and again to read their favorites from your collection!

This book explores the stages and outlets of grief and how to implement them into your fiction to create deep, interesting characters and a more engaging plot. Some topics of this book include: grieving before the loss, spiritual matters, and how grief affects different ages, personality types, and genders. Find out how to implement heavy emotional scenes authentically, without crossing over into melodrama. Learn which authors have done this well, and how they did it.

What makes a successful newsletter? How do you structure an article that people want to read? How do you secure a commission from a magazine? Suitable listening for anyone wishing to enter the freelance writing field as well as those working within organisations who need to produce newsletters and articles.