Best Academic & Commercial Writing Reference Books
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1. Advanced Statistics in Research: Reading, Understanding, and Writing Up Data Analysis Results
Author: by Larry Hatcher
Shadow Finch Media LLC
English
644 pages
Advanced Statistics in Research: Reading, Understanding, and Writing Up Data Analysis Results is the simple, nontechnical introduction to the most complex multivariate statistics presented in empirical research articles.WwwStatsInResearch. Com, is a companion website that provides free sample chapters, exercises, and PowerPoint slides for students and teachers.
A free 600-item test bank is available to instructors. Advanced Statistics in Research does not show how to perform statistical procedures-it shows how to read, understand, and interpret them, as they are typically presented in journal articles and research reports.
It demystifies the sophisticated statistics that stop most readers cold: multiple regression, logistic regression, discriminant analysis, ANOVA, ANCOVA, MANOVA, factor analysis, path analysis, structural equation modeling, meta-analysis-and more. Advanced Statistics in Research assumes that you have never had a course in statistics.
It begins at the beginning, with research design, central tendency, variability, z scores, and the normal curve. You will learn (or re-learn) the big-three results that are common to most procedures: statistical significance, confidence intervals, and effect size. Step-by-step, each chapter gently builds on earlier concepts.
2. Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association®
Author: by American Psychological Association
English
272 pages
1433805626
The Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association provides invaluable guidance on all aspects of the writing process, from the ethics of authorship to the word choice that best reduces bias in language. Well-known for its authoritative and easy-to-use reference and citation system, thePublication Manual also offers guidance on choosing the headings, tables, figures, and tone that will result in strong, simple, and elegant scientific communication.
3. How to Write a Scientific Paper: An Academic Self-Help Guide for PhD Students
Author: by Jari Saramäki
English
120 pages
173078416X
In Your Life As Story, autobiography expert Tristine Rainer explains how we can all find the important messages in our lives. Like Mary Karr or Frank McCourt, we can shape those stories into dramatic narratives that are compelling to others.
Blending literary scholarship with practical coaching, Rainer shares her remarkable techniques for finding the essentials of story structure within your life’s scattered experiences. Most important, she explains how to treasure the struggles in your past and discover the meaning within those experiences to capture the unique myth at work in your life.
5. 50 Essays: A Portable Anthology
Author: by Samuel Cohen
Bedford/St. Martin's
English
503 pages
50 Essays: A Portable Anthology is the best-selling value-priced reader in the country because its virtues don’t stop at the price. Its carefully chosen selections include enough classic essays to reassure instructors, and enough high-interest and high-quality contemporary readings to keep things lively and relevant for students.
The editorial apparatus is more extensive than in competing value readers, but still is flexible and unobtrusive enough to support a variety of approaches to teaching composition. In its third edition, 50 Essays continues to offer selections that instructors enjoy teaching, at a price students won’t resist, but with more editorial emphasis than before on the critical thinking and academic writing skills of today’s composition courses.
6. Write For College: A Student Handbook
Author: by GREAT SOURCE
GREAT SOURCE
English
640 pages
Write For College: A Student Handbook
7. Broadcast/Broadband Copywriting (8th Edition)
Author: by Peter B. Orlik
Pearson
English
504 pages
Broadcast/Broadband Copywriting is the most widely used book for learning how to write all types of copy for the electronic media. This book addresses the fundamental rules and techniques common to electronic media scripting with a depth of coverage unmatched by other texts, but without assuming any prior media writing, production, or advertising experience on the part of the reader.
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8. Literature: An Introduction to Reading And Writing
Author: by Edgar V. Roberts
Pearson Prentice Hall
English
0131838199
The Political Science Student Writer’s Manual is a practical guide to research and writing in political science. Designed to improve students’ critical thinking and writing skills, this hands-on manual includes effective style and grammar guides alongside clear coverage of argumentation, research, and citation to explain and illustrate the purpose and characteristics of papers across political science subfields.
10. A Short Guide to Writing About Film
Author: by Timothy Corrigan
Longman Pub Group
English
196 pages
This best-selling text is a succinct guide to thinking critically and writing precisely about film. Both an introduction to film study and a practical writing guide, this brief text introduces you to major film theories as well as film terminology, enabling you to write more thoughtfully and critically.
With numerous student and professional examples, this engaging and practical guide progresses from taking notes and writing first drafts to creating polished essays and comprehensive research projects. Moving from movie reviews to theoretical and critical essays, the text demonstrates how an analysis of a film can become more subtle and rigorous as part of a compositional process.
11. Rereading America: Cultural Contexts for Critical Thinking and Writing, 9th Edition
Author: by Gary Colombo
Bedford/St. Martin's
English
775 pages
Rereading America remains the most widely adopted book of its kind because of its unique approach to the issue of cultural diversity. Unlike other multicultural composition readers that settle for representing the plurality of American voices and cultures, Rereading America encourages students to grapple with the real differences in perspectives that arise in our complex society.
With extensive editorial apparatus that puts readings from the mainstream into conversation with readings from the margins, Rereading America provokes students to explore the foundations and contradictions of our dominant cultural myths. The print text is now integrated with e-Pages for Rereading America, designed to take advantage of what the Web can do.
12. Writing for Comics and Graphic Novels with Peter David (Writing for Comics & Graphic Novels)
Author: by Peter David
IMPACT
English
192 pages
A must have for all comics, fantasy and sci-fi fans wanting to write their own comics or improve storytelling techniques, this revised edition focuses on comics, graphic novels and the updated market, particularly superhero and fantasy genres. Instruction is easy to follow, even for beginners.
13. A Short Guide to Writing about Film (Short Guides Series)
Author: by Timothy Corrigan
Longman Pub Group
English
193 pages
Introduction to Movies, Film Criticism, Film Appreciation.
14. Story Writing Journal: With Story Prompts, Worksheets and Writing Guides
Author: by Burst Of Imagination
English
87 pages
1652184791
This is a notebook and journal for writers. This book is complete with a customizable table of contents, writing prompts, worksheets, writing templates, and lined pages for notes. There are templates for 2 stories.
