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Writing From Start to Finish
A six-step guide
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This accessible guide is ideal for high school students but also provides practical advice for writers of all ages seeking to develop confidence and structure in their writing process.
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See moreThe bestselling handbook to help beginners kickstart their writing, by prize-winning author and long-time writing teacher, Kate Grenville.
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Do you find yourself staring at a blank piece of paper, waiting for the words to pour out? If you find writing difficult, this book is for you. Award-winning novelist Kate Grenville shares her method - the "Six Steps" approach to writing.
Whether you're writing a short story, essay, review or report, you can follow the same six steps every time. The steps include: how to get ideas; how to plan your writing; and how to revise.
Along the way, Kate provides plenty of examples and hands-on, step-by-step guidance to help get you going - and keep you going. She also includes a quick guide to grammar and an exam kit for last-minute revision.
Writing From Start to Finish is written in consultation with educational experts, and with a very user-friendly approach, this is an ideal guide for high school students - but it's also full of practical tips to inspire writers of all ages. Many how-to-write books make writing sound hard - this one aims to give you the confidence to know you can do it.
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ISBN: 9781865085142
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 01 August 2001
Country: Australia
Imprint: Allen & Unwin
Audience: General / adult, Children, Teenage
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Width: 176.0mm
Height: 226.0mm
Weight: 388g
Pages: 224
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About the Author
Kate Grenville is a prize-winning fiction writer whose novels include Lilian's Story, Joan Makes History and The idea of Perfection. She has an M.A. degree in Creative Writing and has run writing workshops at universities in the U.S.A. and Australia since 1981. She is also the author of the bestselling The Writing Book: A workbook for fiction writers.
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