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|  | A Piece of Work by Jay Woodruff
Learning how to revise may well be the most excruciating part of writing - frequently it is what makes or breaks new writers. Now, in this unique and highly useful book, Jay Woodruff gives some of America's finest contemporary writers an opportunity to talk with passion and professionalism about revision - about the hard work of their writing. Books on writing generally offer prescriptions and proscriptions about this craft so hard to learn instead of evidence. But in A Piece of Work Woodruff's incisive questions guide five writers - Tobias Wolff, Tess Gallagher, Robert Coles, Joyce Carol Oates, and Donald Hall - through specific examples that enable the reader to see how good writing becomes better. From the first draft through various revisions and finally to the printed version of a single piece of each author's work, Woodruff traces the full course of the revision process. While we might prefer to picture all authors as Coleridge, with the perfectly formed lines and stanzas of Kubla Khan emerging from a dream, the truth of the matter is that the development of a final text is often as much a hard-won discovery as it is an initial inspiration. A Piece of Work offers a road map to that discovery. AUTHOR: Jay Woodruff
PUBLISHER: University of Iowa Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Reference 
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 | I Can Spell--Words with Four Letters by Anna Nilsen
Description not available.A lift-the-flap spelling guide defines and illustrates such four-letter words as crab, bell, and star. AUTHOR: Anna Nilsen
PUBLISHER: Larousse Kingfisher Chambers, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Reference
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 | Webster's Third New International Dictionary by Merriam-Webster, Inc. Staff
Description not available.Nearly half a million entries provide standard and variant pronunciations, etymologies, comprehensive definitions, updated usage illustrations, and synonym articles AUTHOR: Merriam-Webster, Inc. Staff
PUBLISHER: Merriam-Webster, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Reference
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 | I'm Too Big (Soy Demasiado Grande) by Ella McCourt, Lone Morton, Mary Risk, Steve Weatherill
Description not available.An elephant and a giraffe are both dissatisfied with themselves AUTHOR: Ella McCourt, Lone Morton, Mary Risk, Steve Weatherill
PUBLISHER: Barron's Educational Series, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Reference
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 | The Genealogy Handbook by Ellen Galford
Description not available.A comprehensive resource designed to help readers track down their ancestors presents a variety of helpful tools and effective techniques for finding lost relatives, explaining how to use such resourcs as public archives and the World Wide Web and providing special guidelines for ethnic searches. AUTHOR: Ellen Galford
PUBLISHER: Reader's Digest Association, Incorporated, The
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Reference
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 | A Dictionary of Latin Words & Phrases by James Morwood
This authoritative and highly browsable guide provides an enlightening account of the meaning and history of Latin words and phrases that have entered the EngLish language. Readers will find over 1000 phrases, sayings, mottoes, and proverbs, translated with examples of usage and fascinating citations and explanations of their first occurrence. Also including a comprehensive A-Z appendix of Latin authors and a detailed thematic index, A Dictionary of Latin Words and Phrases will be an entertaining and instructive source of information for and anyone property curious about Latin's influence on English. AUTHOR: James Morwood
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Reference
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