Motives for Writing
Author | : Robert Keith Miller |
Publisher | : WCB/McGraw-Hill |
Total Pages | : 580 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780874849745 |
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Author | : Robert Keith Miller |
Publisher | : WCB/McGraw-Hill |
Total Pages | : 580 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780874849745 |
Author | : George Orwell |
Publisher | : Renard Press Ltd |
Total Pages | : 15 |
Release | : 2021-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 1913724263 |
George Orwell set out ‘to make political writing into an art’, and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature – his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new vocabulary that is fundamental to understanding totalitarianism. While 1984 and Animal Farm are amongst the most popular classic novels in the English language, this new series of Orwell’s essays seeks to bring a wider selection of his writing on politics and literature to a new readership. In Why I Write, the first in the Orwell’s Essays series, Orwell describes his journey to becoming a writer, and his movement from writing poems to short stories to the essays, fiction and non-fiction we remember him for. He also discusses what he sees as the ‘four great motives for writing’ – ‘sheer egoism’, ‘aesthetic enthusiasm’, ‘historical impulse’ and ‘political purpose’ – and considers the importance of keeping these in balance. Why I Write is a unique opportunity to look into Orwell’s mind, and it grants the reader an entirely different vantage point from which to consider the rest of the great writer’s oeuvre. 'A writer who can – and must – be rediscovered with every age.' — Irish Times
Author | : Claire Fuller |
Publisher | : Tin House Books |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2015-03-17 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1941040020 |
Part fairy-tale, part magic, yet always savagely realistic Claire Fuller's haunting and powerful debut Our Endless Numbered Days will appeal to fans of Eowyn Ivey's The Snow Child and Christian Baker Kline's Orphan Train . Peggy Hillcoat is eight years old when her survivalist father, James, takes her from their home in London to a remote hut in the woods and tells her that the rest of the world has been destroyed. Deep in the wilderness, Peggy and James make a life for themselves. They repair the hut, bathe in water from the river, hunt and gather food in the summers and almost starve in the harsh winters. They mark their days only by the sun and the seasons. When Peggy finds a pair of boots in the forest and begins a search for their owner, she unwittingly begins to unravel the series of events that brought her to the woods and, in doing so, discovers the strength she needs to go back to the home and mother she thought she’d lost. After Peggy's return to civilization, her mother learns the truth of her escape, of what happened to James on the last night out in the woods, and of the secret that Peggy has carried with her ever since.
Author | : Little, Brown Book Group Limited |
Publisher | : Sphere |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016-11-03 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780751566154 |
*WINNER OF THE CWA SHORT STORY DAGGER WITH THE TRIALS OF MARGARET BY L. C. TYLER* In honour of multi award-winning author Peter Lovesey, the members of the Detection Club have written twenty-two twisty - and twisted - short stories that will take you on a journey from cosy English towns to the glaciers of Iceland and the glittering towers of Dubai. The collection is edited by current Detection Club president Martin Edwards and features stories from Ann Cleeves, Simon Brett, Andrew Taylor and several other best-loved crime authors. The Detection Club was founded by the crème de la crime of British crime writing in 1930 and its members included Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Anthony Berkeley and the Club's first president, G. K. Chesterton. The Detection Club was a way for crime writers to get together, socialise and discuss ideas, a tradition that continues to this day. Authors include: Ann Cleeves - Simon Brett - Andrew Taylor - Len Deighton - Peter Lovesey - Michael Jecks - Michael Ridpath - Kate Ellis - Ruth Dudley Edwards - Alison Joseph - L. C. Tyler - Catherine Aird - David Roberts - David Stuart Davies - Janet Laurence - Liza Cody - Martin Edwards - Kate Charles - John Malcolm - Marjorie Eccles - Michael Z. Lewin - Susan Moody
Author | : Daniel H. Pink |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 275 |
Release | : 2011-04-05 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1101524383 |
The New York Times bestseller that gives readers a paradigm-shattering new way to think about motivation from the author of When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing Most people believe that the best way to motivate is with rewards like money—the carrot-and-stick approach. That's a mistake, says Daniel H. Pink (author of To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Motivating Others). In this provocative and persuasive new book, he asserts that the secret to high performance and satisfaction-at work, at school, and at home—is the deeply human need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things, and to do better by ourselves and our world. Drawing on four decades of scientific research on human motivation, Pink exposes the mismatch between what science knows and what business does—and how that affects every aspect of life. He examines the three elements of true motivation—autonomy, mastery, and purpose-and offers smart and surprising techniques for putting these into action in a unique book that will change how we think and transform how we live.
Author | : Mike W. Martin |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 269 |
Release | : 2000-03-16 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 019535091X |
As commonly understood, professional ethics consists of shared duties and episodic dilemmas--the responsibilities incumbent on all members of specific professions joined together with the dilemmas that arise when these responsibilities conflict. Martin challenges this "consensus paradigm" as he rethinks professional ethics to include personal commitments and ideals, of which many are not mandatory. Using specific examples from a wide range of professions, including medicine, law, high school teaching, journalism, engineering, and ministry, he explores how personal commitments motivate, guide, and give meaning to work.
Author | : Meredith Maran |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 253 |
Release | : 2013-01-29 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0452298156 |
Twenty of America's bestselling authors share tricks, tips, and secrets of the successful writing life. Anyone who's ever sat down to write a novel or even a story knows how exhilarating and heartbreaking writing can be. So what makes writers stick with it? In Why We Write, twenty well-known authors candidly share what keeps them going and what they love most—and least—about their vocation. Contributing authors include: Isabel Allende David Baldacci Jennifer Egan James Frey Sue Grafton Sara Gruen Kathryn Harrison Gish Jen Sebastian Junger Mary Karr Michael Lewis Armistead Maupin Terry McMillan Rick Moody Walter Mosley Susan Orlean Ann Patchett Jodi Picoult Jane Smiley Meg Wolitzer
Author | : Robert Keith Miller |
Publisher | : McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : College readers |
ISBN | : 9780072982862 |
This collection of primarily contemporary readings is organized around the various rhetorical purposes that motivate writers. Including detailed guides to writing motives such as Analyzing Texts, Analyzing Images, and Writing Arguments, this text provides a rhetorically grounded approach to academic writing and research.
Author | : Lorena Koppel Torres |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2021-02-17 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781736729304 |
16-year-old Lorena Koppel Torres' debut Middle Grade fantasy novel is a riveting story of bravery, friendship, and purpose. On a frigid island wrought with magic, beasts, and secrets, three young girls leading completely different lives are thrust together into an army of sorcerers. When Holly accidentally puts a curse on her village, she sets sail to find the mythical island from her father's stories. Evelyn leaves her underground city to follow a talisman that could lead her to her missing memories. Elodie forgoes her duties as nobility to prove a Councilor's plot. When warring factions in the army awaken an ancient peril, Holly, Evelyn, and Elodie must pool their strengths, their magic, and the hidden clues of a nursery rhyme and prophecy to survive.