Product Description

Ideal for writing a short story, essay, review, or report, this guide provides beginning writers with the hands-on direction they need to improve their writing techniques and ability. Using a six-step approach to writing, this resource covers brainstorming ideas, choosing a topic, outlining, drafting, revising, and editing. The tone is casual, the advice is straightforward, and the whole approach makes writing a skill that anyone can learn. Illustrations reinforce the ideas visually and help to break up the text into bite-sized chunks. An example section with worked examples of two kinds of writing-a creative writing piece and an essay-takes readers through the six steps, so they can watch writing develop from a blank page to a finished piece. Ideal for high school students but also appropriate for writers of all ages, this book also includes tips on user-friendly grammar, a table of different types of text, and a quick night-before-the-exam summary.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #452270 in Books
• Published on: 2002-04
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

Synopsis
Do you find yourself staring at a blank piece of paper, waiting for the words to pour out? If you find writing difficult, this book is for you. Award-winning novelist Kate Grenville shares her method - the "Six Steps" approach to writing. Whether you're writing a short story, essay, review or report, you can follow the same six steps every time. The steps include: how to get ideas; how to plan your writing; and how to revise. Along the way, Kate provides plenty of examples and hands-on, step-by-step guidance to help get you going - and keep you going. She also includes a quick guide to grammar and an exam kit for last-minute revision. Written in consultation with educational experts, and with a very user-friendly approach, this is an ideal guide for high school students - but it's also full of practical tips to inspire writers of all ages. Many how-to-write books make writing sound hard - this one aims to give you the confidence to know you can do it.

About the Author
Kate Grenville is the author of The Writing Book and six acclaimed novels, including Lilian's Story, Joan Makes History, and The Idea of Perfection, winner of the Orange Prize.