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The elements of screenwriting
Progressive politics and the training of America's persuaders
Language
You write it
Leading and Managing in Canadian Nursing
Structural models and African poetics
Metafiction
Writing in Action
The language of composition
Writing Fiction
Storytelling in Northern Zambia
The anatomy of the novel
The writing process
The Storytelling Animal
Narrative in fiction and film
Writing Your Dissertation
Writing and power
Meaning and reading
Technology and English studies
Narrative fiction
Imagine this
The MIT guide to science and engineering communication
Write Better and Get Ahead at Work
Writing feature articles
"They Say / I Say"
Professionally speaking
Rhetorical argumentation
Writers have no age
The New York Times manual of style and usage
How to Write and Publish a Scientific Paper
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