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First paragraphs : inspired openings for writers and readers / by Newlove, Donald.(CARDINAL)511365;
Subjects: Authorship.; Openings (Rhetoric);
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The first five pages : a writer's guide to staying out of the rejection pile / by Lukeman, Noah.(CARDINAL)660708;
Provides advice for aspiring novelists on preparing a manuscript for a literary agent or editor, writing readable dialogue, and using other techniques to begin a work so that publishers will want to publish it and readers will want to read it.
Subjects: Authorship.; Openings (Rhetoric);
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 5
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The first five pages : a writer's guide to staying out of the rejection pile / by Lukeman, Noah.(CARDINAL)660708;
Includes index.Presentation -- Adjectives and adverbs -- Sound -- Comparison -- Style -- Between the lines -- Commonplace -- Informative -- Melodramatic -- Hard to follow -- Showing versus telling -- Viewpoint and narration -- Characterization -- Hooks -- Subtlety -- Tone -- Focus -- Setting -- Pacing and progression.
Subjects: Openings (Rhetoric); Authorship.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Beginnings, middles and ends / by Kress, Nancy.;
Reveals methods for creating a compelling story from beginning to end, discussing solutions for potential problems at each stage of the creative process.
Subjects: Literature.; Fiction; Openings (Rhetoric); Closure (Rhetoric); Authorship.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
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Great beginnings : opening lines of great novels / by Kent, Georgianne Ensign.(CARDINAL)486320;
Subjects: Fiction; Openings (Rhetoric); Quotations, English.;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 5
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Colorblind : the rise of post-racial politics and the retreat from racial equity / by Wise, Tim,1968-;
Includes bibliographical references.The rise and triumph of post-racial liberalism -- Colorblind universalism and public policy -- Barack obama and the rhetoric of racial transcendence -- The trouble with post-racial liberalism -- The reality of racial disparities -- Race-based injury, inherited disadvantage and ongoing discrimination -- Dispensing with victim-blaming : the inadequacy of culture of poverty thinking -- How colorblindness can make racism worse -- Talking class, hearing race : why post-racial liberalism fails on its own terms -- Illuminated individualism : a paradigm for progressive color-consciousness -- Illuminated individualism as a key to fairness and equity -- Illuminated individualism in practice.
Subjects: Racism; Liberalism; African Americans; Racism.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Writing your rhythm : using nature, culture, form, and myth / by Thiel, Diane,1967-(CARDINAL)704654;
Subjects: Problems and exercises.; English language; Poetry; Creative writing;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Both flesh and not [large print] : essays / by Wallace, David Foster.(CARDINAL)755073;
Includes bibliographical references.A compilation of fifteen of Wallace's seminal essays, all published in book form for the first time.
Subjects: Large print books.; Essays.; American essays;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Both flesh and not : essays / by Wallace, David Foster.(CARDINAL)755073;
Includes bibliographical references.Federer both flesh and not -- Fictional futures and the conspicuously young -- The empty plenum : David Markson's Wittgenstein's Mistress -- Mr. Cogito -- Democracy and commerce at the U.S. Open -- Back in new fire -- The (as it were) seminal importance of Terminator 2 -- The nature of the fun -- Overlooked : five direly underappreciated U.S. novels > 1960 -- Rhetoric and the math melodrama -- The best of the prose poem -- Twenty-four word notes -- Borges on the couch -- Deciderization 2007 : a special report -- Just asking.A compilation of fifteen of Wallace's seminal essays, all published in book form for the first time.
Subjects: Essays.;
Available copies: 6 / Total copies: 8
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Both flesh and not : essays / by Wallace, David Foster,author.(CARDINAL)755073;
Includes bibliographical references.Federer both flesh and not -- Fictional futures and the conspicuously young -- The empty plenum : David Markson's Wittgenstein's Mistress -- Mr. Cogito -- Democracy and commerce at the U.S. Open -- Back in new fire -- The (as it were) seminal importance of Terminator 2 -- The nature of the fun -- Overlooked : five direly underappreciated U.S. novels > 1960 -- Rhetoric and the math melodrama -- The best of the prose poem -- Twenty-four word notes -- Borges on the couch -- Deciderization 2007 : a special report -- Just asking.A compilation of fifteen of Wallace's seminal essays, all published in book form for the first time.
Subjects: American essays;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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