Write Right!
A Desktop Digest of Punctuation, Grammar, and Style
Written by Jan Venolia
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: August 21, 2001
Price: $12.99
In this age of electronic correspondence and self-produced documents, we need a useful and reliable writing guide more than ever. WRITE RIGHT! covers the essentials of good writing in a concise and easy-to-follow format. The new edition of this classic handbook takes you through the entire writing process, from understanding the...
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First Grade Spelling Games & Activities (Sylvan Workbooks)
Written by Sylvan Learning
Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
On Sale: July 21, 2009
Price: $12.99
Includes a $10 discount coupon off your child’s Skills Assessment at a Sylvan Learning Center!
First Grade Spelling Games & Activities helps children learn and practice the basic skills needed to become a great reader. It is packed with curriculum-based activities that strengthen the ability to read and spell various grade-appropriate words...
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Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Words
A Writer's Guide to Getting It Right
Written by Bill Bryson
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: September 14, 2004
Price: $14.00
One of the English language’s most skilled and beloved writers guides us all toward precise, mistake-free usage.
As usual Bill Bryson says it best: “English is a dazzlingly idiosyncratic tongue, full of quirks and irregularities that often seem willfully at odds with logic and common sense. This is a language where ‘cleave’...
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Word Smart, 5th Edition
Written by Princeton Review
Format: eBook, 400 pages
On Sale: August 14, 2012
Price: $9.99
Let your vocabulary speak for itself.Knowing which words to use and how to use them is key to communicating accurately and effectively. That’s why more than one million people have used
Word Smart to improve their vocabularies! This updated 5th edition defines and explains more than 1,400 need-to-know vocabulary words.
To create...
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Fifth Grade Writing Success (Sylvan Workbooks)
Written by Sylvan Learning
Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
On Sale: March 31, 2009
Price: $12.99
Good writing skills are essential not only for fifth-grade academic success, but also for lifelong achievement. The teacher-reviewed, curriculum-based activities and exercises in this workbook will help your child catch up, keep up, and get ahead. Best of all, they’ll have lots of fun doing it!
WRITING NONFICTIONExercises on choosing a topic...
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Anguished English
An Anthology of Accidental Assualts Upon Our Language
Written by Richard Lederer
Format: Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: August 5, 1989
Price: $7.99
Anguished English is the impossibly funny anthology of accidental assaults upon our language. From bloopers and blunders to Signs of the Times to Mixed Up Metaphors...from Two-Headed Headlines to Mangling Modifiers, here is an outrageous treasury of assaults upon our common language that will leave you roaring with delight and laughter...
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Swahili
Written by Living Language
Format: Package, 320 pages
On Sale: November 13, 2007
Price: $49.95
This simple and effective introduction to Swahili will teach you everything you need to speak, understand, read, and write in Swahili. This program assumes no background in the language, and it explains each new concept clearly with plenty of examples, making it ideal for beginners or anyone who wants a thorough...
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Hindi
Written by Living Language
Format: Package, 368 pages
On Sale: November 13, 2007
Price: $49.95
This simple and effective introduction to Hindi will teach you everything you need to speak, understand, read, and write in Hindi. This program assumes no background in the language, and it explains each new concept clearly with plenty of examples, making it ideal for beginners or anyone who wants a thorough...
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Naming the World
And Other Exercises for the Creative Writer
Edited by Bret Anthony Johnston
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: January 8, 2008
Price: $16.00
You already have the tools to become a gifted writer; what you need is the spark. Harvard creative writing professor and acclaimed author Bret Anthony Johnston brings you an irresistible interactive guide to the craft of narrative writing. From developing characters to building conflict, from mastering dialogue to setting the scene...
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