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On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction
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On Writing Well

By William Zinsser ,

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The Elements of Style
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The Elements of Style

By William Strunk , E.B. White ,

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The Emotion Thesaurus
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The Emotion Thesaurus

By Angela Ackerman , Becca Puglisi ,

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They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
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They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us

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Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade
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Pre-Suasion

By Robert B. Cialdini ,

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Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America
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Lincoln at Gettysburg

By Garry Wills ,

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Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
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Into The Woods

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The Shape of Ancient Thought: Comparative Studies in Greek and Indian Philosophies
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The Shape of Ancient Thought

By Thomas C. McEvilley ,

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Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative
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Meander, Spiral, Explode

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The Essential Tension: Selected Studies in Scientific Tradition and Change
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The Essential Tension

By Thomas S. Kuhn ,

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The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative
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The Situation and the Story

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Argument Culture Moving From Debate to Dialogue
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Argument Culture Moving From Debate to Dialogue

By Deborah Tannen ,

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Author Unknown: On the Trail of Anonymous
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Author Unknown

By Don Foster ,

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Modern Dogma and the Rhetoric of Assent
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Modern Dogma and the Rhetoric of Assent

By Wayne C. Booth ,

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Tales of Two Planets: Stories of Climate Change and Inequality in a Divided World
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Tales of Two Planets

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The Rhetoric of Religion
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The Rhetoric of Religion

By Kenneth Burke ,

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Writing for Story: Craft Secrets of Dramatic Nonfiction
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Writing for Story

By Jon Franklin ,

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The Law by Frederic Bastiat
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The Law by Frederic Bastiat

By Frédéric Bastiat ,

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Rhetorics of Literacy: The Cultivation of American Dialect Poetry
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Rhetorics of Literacy

By Nadia Nurhussein ,

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The Word of the Lord Is Upon Me: The Righteous Performance of Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The Word of the Lord Is Upon Me

By Jonathan Rieder ,

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Several Short Sentences about Writing
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Several Short Sentences about Writing

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Writing Tools
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Writing Tools

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Writing to Be Understood: What Works and Why
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Writing to Be Understood

By Anne Janzer ,

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Challenges of Ordinary Democracy: A Case Study in Deliberation and Dissent
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Challenges of Ordinary Democracy

By Karen Tracy ,

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The Rhetoric of Fiction
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The Rhetoric of Fiction

By Wayne C. Booth ,

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Critical Thinking and Popular Culture: Reading and Writing the American Experience
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Critical Thinking and Popular Culture

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Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them
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Reading Like a Writer

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100 Ways to Improve Your Writing: Proven Professional Techniques for Writing with Style and Power
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100 Ways to Improve Your Writing

By Gary Provost ,

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Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers
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Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers

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The Best Punctuation Book, Period: A Comprehensive Guide for Every Writer, Editor, Student, and Businessperson
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The Best Punctuation Book, Period

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Writing the Natural Way: Turn the Task of Writing Into the Joy of Writing
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Writing the Natural Way

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The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm
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The Prince of Minor Writers

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Stolen Words - The Classic Book on Plagiarism
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Stolen Words - The Classic Book on Plagiarism

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The Elements of Eloquence: Secrets of the Perfect Turn of Phrase
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The Elements of Eloquence

By Mark Forsyth ,

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Persuasive Games: The Expressive Power of Videogames
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Persuasive Games

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Living Autobiographically: How We Create Identity in Narrative
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Living Autobiographically

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Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process
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Draft No. 4

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A Voice That Could Stir an Army: Fannie Lou Hamer and the Rhetoric of the Black Freedom Movement
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A Voice That Could Stir an Army

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New Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Writing by Women of African Descent
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New Daughters of Africa

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Building Arguments
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Building Arguments

By Drew E. Hinderer ,

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Arguing and Thinking: A Rhetorical Approach to Social Psychology
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Arguing and Thinking

By Michael Billig ,

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The Art of Being Right: 38 Ways to Win an Argument
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The Art of Being Right

By Arthur Schopenhauer ,

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Grammar Girl's Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing
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Grammar Girl's Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing

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Shakespeare, Rhetoric and Cognition
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Shakespeare, Rhetoric and Cognition

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Rhetoric
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Rhetoric

By Aristotle ,

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A Handlist of Rhetorical Terms
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A Handlist of Rhetorical Terms

By Richard A. Lanham ,

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When They Go Low, We Go High: Speeches That Shape the World and Why We Need Them
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When They Go Low, We Go High

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Chirologia
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Chirologia

By John Bulwer ,

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The Craft of Revision
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The Craft of Revision

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The Elements of Style (Illustrated)
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The Elements of Style (Illustrated)

By William Strunk , E. B. White , Maira Kalman (illustrator)

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Lobbying and Policy Change: Who Wins, Who Loses, and Why
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Lobbying and Policy Change

By Frank R. Baumgartner , Jeffrey M. Berry , Marie Hojnacki , David C. Kimball , Beth L. Leech

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A Christmas Reader: A Collection of Family Favorites for the Holiday Season
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A Christmas Reader

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Line by Line: How to Edit Your Own Writing
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Line by Line

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Video Revolutions: On the History of a Medium
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Video Revolutions

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On Rhetoric: A Theory of Civic Discourse
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On Rhetoric

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Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat: Winston Churchill's Famous Speeches
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Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat

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Farnsworth's Classical English Rhetoric
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Farnsworth's Classical English Rhetoric

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How to Write a Lot
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How to Write a Lot

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"They Say / I Say"
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"They Say / I Say"

By Gerald Graff , Cathy Birkenstein , Russel Durst

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Tell It Slant
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Tell It Slant

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