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How to write your own life story Lois Daniel · 1980 · 221p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Writing the story of one's life sounds like a daunting task, but it doesn't have to be. This warmhearted, encouraging guide helps readers record the events of their lives for family and friends. Excerpts from other writers' work are included to exemplify and inspire. Provided are tips on intriguing topics to write about, foolproof tricks to jog your memory, ways to capture stories on paper… Shares: Report writing, Authorship, Biography & Memoir

Writing for your life Deena Metzger · 1992 · ★ 3.5 · 260p · ≈ 8h · Moderate In the tradition of Annie Dillard and Natalie Goldberg, this resource for writers and non-writers alike shows the act of writing to be a dynamic means of knowing, healing, and creating the body, mind, and spirit. Shares: Report writing, Authorship, Biography & Memoir

Telling Tales Kylie Cardell · 2015 · 156p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Young writers have historically played a pivotal role in shaping autobiographical genres and this continues into the graphic and digital texts which characterise contemporary life writing. This volume offers a selection of pertinent case studies which illuminate some of the core themes which have come to characterise autobiographical writings of childhood, including: cultural and identity… Shares: Authorship, Biography & Memoir

Constructing Narratives of Continuity and Change Hazel L. Reid · 2014 · 202p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Shares: Education, Authorship, Biography & Memoir

Just who do we think we are? Claudia Mitchell · 2004 · 264p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Drawing upon diverse and specific examples of self-study, described here by the practitioners themselves, this unique book formulates a methodological framework for self-study in education.This collection brings together a diverse and international range of self-studies carried out in teacher education, each of which has a different perspective to offer on issues of method and methodology,… Shares: Report writing, Education, Authorship, Biography & Memoir

How to Write and Publish a Scientific Paper Robert A. Day · 1979 · ★ 4.3 · 223p · ≈ 7h · Moderate "This newly updated version of the classic guide to writing and publishing scientific papers provides the tools needed to succeed in the communication aspects of a scientific career"--Provided by publisher. Shares: Report writing, Authorship

Ways of reading David Bartholomae · 1987 · ★ 3.6 · 903p · ≈ 30h · Moderate A book of stories and essays by famous writers with comprehensive suggestions for in depth assignment topics for students. Authors included are Saul Bellow, John Berger, Raymond Carver, Robert Coles, Thomas Cottle, Stephen Klineberg, Annie Dillard, Dorothy Dinnerstein, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Stanley Fish, Paulo Freire, Sigmund Freud, Clifford Geertz, Thomas Kuhn, Joyce Carol Oates, Walker Percy,… Shares: Report writing, Authorship

Mediating Memory Bunty Avieson · 2017 · 344p · ≈ 11h · Moderate The argument has been made that memoir reflects and augments the narcissistic tendencies of our neo-liberal age. Mediating Memory: Tracing the Limits of Memoir challenges and dismantles that assumption. Focusing on the history, theory and practice of memoir writing, editors Bunty Avieson, Fiona Giles and Sue Joseph provide a thorough and cutting-edge examination of memoir through the lenses of… Shares: Authorship, Biography & Memoir

A short guide to writing about literature Sylvan Barnet · 1968 · ★ 3.7 · 394p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Part of Longman's successful Short Guide Series, A Short Guide to Writing about Literature emphasizes writing as a process and incorporates new critical approaches to writing about literature. The twelfth edition continues to offer students sound advice on how to become critical thinkers and enrich their reading response through accessible, step-by-step instruction. This highly respected text is… Shares: Report writing, Authorship

Bluebeard Kurt Vonnegut · 1987 · ★ 4.2 · 293p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Broad humor and bitter irony collide in this fictional autobiography of Rabo Karabekian, who, at age seventy-one, wants to be left alone on his Long Island estate with the secret he has locked inside his potato barn. But then a voluptuous young widow badgers Rabo into telling his life story—and Vonnegut in turn tells us the plain, heart-hammering truth about man’s careless fancy to create or… Shares: Authorship, Biography & Memoir

Writing Life Writing Paul John Eakin · 2020 · 288p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Why do we endlessly tell the stories of our lives? And why do others pay attention when we do? The essays collected here address these questions, focusing on three different but interrelated dimensions of life writing. The first section, "Narrative," argues that narrative is not only a literary form but also a social and cultural practice, and finally a mode of cognition and an expression of our… Shares: Authorship, Biography & Memoir

A million miles in a thousand years Donald Miller · 2009 · ★ 4.2 · 255p · ≈ 8h · Moderate After writing a successful memoir, Donald Miller's life stalled. During what should have been the height of his success, he found himself unwilling to get out of bed, avoiding responsibility, even questioning the meaning of life. But when two movie producers proposed turning his memoir into a movie, he found himself launched into a new story filled with risk, possibility, beauty, and meaning.A… Shares: Authorship, Biography & Memoir

The writer's book of memory Janine Rider · 1995 · 153p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Memory has long been ignored by rhetoricians because the written word has made memorization virtually obsolete. Recently however, as part of a revival of interest in classical rhetoric, scholars have begun to realize that memory offers vast possibilities for today's writers. Synthesizing research from rhetoric, psychology, philosophy, and literary and composition studies, this volume brings… Shares: Report writing, Authorship, Biography & Memoir

Metodo della pedagogia scientifica Maria Montessori · 1912 · 377p · ≈ 12h · Challenging The Montessori Method (1912) is a work on pedagogy by Maria Montessori. Originally written in her native Italian to describe the work she carried out at the Casa dei Bambini in Rome, the book was translated into English during a period of increasing popularity for Montessori and her educational method in the United States. By 1913, over 100 Montessori schools had been opened in the United States,… Shares: Education, Biography & Memoir

Ninety days Bill Clegg · 2012 · ★ 3.3 · 208p · ≈ 6h · Moderate The goal is ninety: just ninety clean and sober days to loosen the hold of the addiction that caused Bill Clegg to lose everything. After seventy-three days in rehab, he returns to New York and attends two or three meetings each day. There, he befriends Asa - seemingly unshakeably sober - and Polly, struggling with her own cycle of recovery and relapse. When Clegg relapses for the first time,… Shares: Authorship, Biography & Memoir

Dumbing Us Down John Taylor Gatto · 1991 · ★ 4.2 · 104p · ≈ 3h · Moderate "New 10th anniverary edition."--Cover. Shares: Education, Biography & Memoir

Making sense Margot Northey · 1987 · 268p · ≈ 8h · Moderate With more than 25 years on the market, Making Sense in the Social Sciences: A Student's Guide to Research and Writing is entering its fifth edition. This volume is intended for undergraduate students in any social sciences course with a research and writing component. Its likeliest home will be in first-year courses; however, it is also suitable for students at the second- and third-year level.… Shares: Report writing, Authorship

Survivor Chuck Palahniuk · 1999 · ★ 3.9 · 289p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Tender Branson, the last surviving member of the Creedish death cult, has commandeered a Boeing 747, emptied of passengers, in order to tell his story to the plane’s black box before it crashes. Brought up by the repressive cult and, like all Creedish younger sons, hired out as a domestic servant, Tender finds himself suddenly famous when his fellow cult members all commit suicide. As media… Shares: Authorship, Biography & Memoir

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