This book is the right one to use to accomplish all of those goals. This is the perfect book for all writers, but especially college students. ... The most influential features of the book are: the different colored pages that represent different sections, the marginal boxes, and the sectioning of the chapters or parts of the book. ... This is a very influential feature of the book because it allows for easy access when a student needs to find a specific part of the book. ... As one goes through the book and looks at each yellow page section there is a roadmap that helps with the ideal that t...

• Word Count: 1365
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

I t was this book that allowed Hinton to attend the University Of Tulsa. ... Both books were selected as Honor Books in the Chicago Tribune Book World's Children's Spring Book Festival. ... In this book by a now Seventeen-year-old author, it almost does the trick. ... The book is based on her every day life and the events that she witnessed. ... The pace of the book is the main reason it won so many awards. ...

• Word Count: 1477
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

In this paper, I make a brief analysis on the stylistic feature of this book on the part of "the abuse of vulgarity", so as to find out whether it is so vulgar to offend the readers or it is just because of the postmodern tact that is arranged by the writer engenders the gap between the book and the readers. ... It has won the National Book Critic's Circle Award for Non-fiction and has been selected as must readings by many American high schools. ... Since there is comment to this book expressed as vulgar and unbearable, we should have the word "vulgarity" clearly defined at first. ...

• Word Count: 2060
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In Natalie Zemon Davis's book, The Return of Martin Guerre, about the famous case of a French peasant's identity theft, she employs both objectivist and relativist views. ... In Davis's preface to The Return of Martin Guerre, she makes clear her purpose for researching the case and in writing the book. Davis says that the book "grew out of a historian's adventure with a different way of telling about the past." ... (Novick 273) In this section of her book, Davis is displaying a "disinterested curiosity" about the case of Martin Guerre. ... She goes on to say later in th...

• Word Count: 1819
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In the book there is a fearful marsh, fog London, mysterious escaped criminal and uncertain love. The book is "great expectations". ... Owing to the simple expression he used in the book, I could understand the story. ... The point of view in this book would challenge his reader's consciences and intelligence. ... Firstly it is not easy for a writer even to write one book, which can be enjoyed both at home and abroad. ...

• Word Count: 1502
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

I have read everything from every golden book as a kid to every Mortal Instruments and Nicholas Sparks novel to date. ... I read my first chapter book in third grade and never slowed down after that. ... Sometime if I got caught up in a good book, I would read for hours and hours underneath my sheets with a flashlight. ... They would take my book and flashlight and tell me I had to go to sleep. ... Now, here in college, I have to write more book reports, research papers and essays much like this one here. ...

• Word Count: 1631
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

The main theme of the book undisputedly would be going against society to fulfill self happiness. ... Through her descriptive writing techniques, the reader can understand the book clearly and ultimately being on Edna Pontellier's side. ... Despite the harsh criticism she received for this book, she felt she was right. ... This book has an impact on everyone that reads it. ... Unfortunately, it was not until the 1950's when this book was brought out and republished. ...

• Word Count: 1384
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

He said yes; and when she asked him if he wanted to check out a book, he again said yes. The librarian gave him a book and told him to bring it back when he was done. ... Paulsen's first book was Some Birds Don't Fly, which was published in 1966. ... Paulsen only writes one book at a time; but while he is writing one book, he does research for another. ... He has won several Newberry Honors, including for his most well-known book, Hatchet (1987). ...

• Word Count: 1730
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Eugenia, who is a journalist, decides to write a book about the personal experiences that the black maids undergo at the hands of their white bosses. ... These experiences are then documented by Eugenia, who wrote them in the book. The book, published anonymously to protect Eugenia and her contributors' identities, is a success, and the royalties are shared with the maids. The book also agrees with the writings of Pratt that show how it was assumed that the oppressed do not have the materials and technology to express their views. ... The maids did not write the book. ...

• Word Count: 1368
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

She managed to get the point across as the book made many people of the era confused, mad, and unhappy with the speech. The first section of the book took place at "Oxbridge", which stands for Oxford and Cambridge Universities. ... (p.31-32) By this quote that the book is saying that they were written in anger toward women and not knowing why the male race was angered. ... In the final setting of the book, Mary contemplates on the style of writing from both women and men. She pulls a book off the shelve by Mary Carmichael called Life's Adventures. ...

• Word Count: 1454
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

One of her most famous collection of essays is bound into one book entitled Sacred Cows and other Edibles. ... She is very open about her thoughts in this book. One could almost call this book a "guide to Nikki" because it where she explains herself and her views, not as an autobiography, but almost as though it were a diary. ... One such book is Blues For All The Changes: New Poems. ... She even dedicated a book-Spin a Soft Black Song-to her dog."...

• Word Count: 1670
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

The book begins with numerous photographs that are still and without text, forcing the viewer to begin to separate text from pictures. ... This aspect of coequality yet independence is similar the Agee's and Walker's book. ... Barthes job is not to take photographs; he made none in his entire book, yet to act as an observer and try to make the photographs he admires to "speak."" ... Alloula dedicates his book to Barthes and his usage of basic vocabulary. ... Alloula's book encompasses all aspects of the photographic essay by portraying an independence of text and photos but ...

• Word Count: 1891
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography

The narrator is again a writer who, in this case, is working on a book called "The Day the World Ended", about the bombing of Hiroshima. ... He made this very clear in his book, "Breakfast of Champions". ... The movie did a very fine job replicating the book's plot and storyline. ... One thing that is interesting about "Slaughter House Five" is the way the book is put together. The events that happen in the book do not happen in chronilogical order. ...

• Word Count: 1839
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The book begins with the divorce of her parents, and Maya and her brother Bailey moving from St. ... She booked a downtown hotel room and wrote from six till noon on weekdays. ... I would strongly recommend this book to any mature reader. ... I think that a book that is similar to I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is Farewell to Manzanar. ... I remember Farewell to Manzanar being a very boring book, which I wasn't interested in. ...

• Word Count: 1549
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

. - Nonfiction ranks as the largest market for freelance writers, book publishers buy about 10 times as many nonfiction manuscripts as they do novels. In most magazines nonfiction articles greatly outnumber poems and short stories nonfiction material ranges from a few hundred words to book length; long articles may be serialized (published in installments or parts) in a magazine. ... Book publishers usually pay authors a royalty (commission) of 10 to 15% of the books price for each copy sold. ... Publishers want poems from the poet's own imaginatio...

• Word Count: 1602
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

From 3 to 5 pieces, they choose one to make into a book. This piece is edited with the teacher's help and the child proceeds to the publishing table where he will copy the correct form and finally illustrate the book. This block ends with "author's chair" in which several students each day share work in progress or their published book. ... Brainstorming-  The teacher tells the class that they are going to make a class book about dinosaurs. ...

• Word Count: 1940
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

The Sun Also Rises is an informal book that on the surface is relaxed (drinking, partying, sex, etc.) and beneath the surface is a much more, satisfying, in-depth story (Jake's inability to have sex, love between characters, outlooks on life and morals). Everything in the book moves in unison. ...

• Word Count: 2253
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

For instance, when I am trying to write a paper or read a book I can't focus very well unless it's just me, myself and I. ... I wish that was me, I can't listen to music while reading a book or while writing a paper because I get distracted too easily and I will start writing what I'm listening to or what I'm reading, then I won't get it done at all. But when I do worksheets out of a book I can listen to music, unless it's like reading a passage then answering the questions. ... I can never focus on writing a paper or studying when I'm listening to rap ...

• Word Count: 1445
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Finally I will discuss why you should read this book. I have found the book to open my mind up. ... The book I read was designed as an introduction and a key for unlocking the studies of recent findings on the topic. The central aim of the book is to show us that the field of non-verbal communication is fast growing, rapidly growing and that it has a great affect on human beings, yet it promises practical applications to our daily lives. ...

• Word Count: 1588
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Jennefer Hernandez There, are great books that Rodriguez has written such as Hunger of Memory his first book published in 1982. ... In this book he offers him self as an example of the long labor of change about his loneliness, but also his triumph. In his other book, Days of Obligation: An Argument with My Mexican Father publish in 1992, Rodriguez explores the dilemmas of ethnicity and cultural identity. It is composed as a philosophical travel book beginning in 16th century Mexico with the meeting of the Spanish conquistador and the Aztec in Mexico City, and continuing to the present d...

• Word Count: 1466
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

On the cover of the book it says "corrected and animated" so that might explain why some of the stories do seem a little embellished. ... It is stated in the prologue section of the book that Mary Rowlandson's narrative was the "first book written by a woman to be published in the English colonies in North America" (Bedford 192). ... If someone was recommending a book for me to read and told me something like that had happened I am not sure I would have believed them; I would have gone to get the book myself to read it with my own eyes. ...

• Word Count: 1999
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

In his book Letters to a Young Doctor, Richard Selzer addresses some aspects of our own mortality and vulnerability that are not "pretty" to think about. ... Most of Selzer's essays in this book are cases he has had or advice he has for young surgeons. ... One hundred twenty-six pages into the book, however, the reader comes upon a very different essay entitled "The Slug." ...

• Word Count: 1358
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Her 1970 novel The Bluest Eye was followed by Sula in 1974, which secured Morrison a nomination for the National Book Award. In 1977, Morrison won the National Book Critics Circle Award for her book Song of Solomon. ...

• Word Count: 1665
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

A book of natural history followed, which he tried unsuccessfully to locate years later for his children (Contemporary Authors, 25). ... During the mid-1980's, his novels crowded book store racks along with adult Westerns that he hated. ... He has received the Western Writers of America Award-Novel in 1969, for Down the Long Hills; the Theodore Roosevelt Rough Rider award from North Dakota in 1972; the American Book Award in 1980 for Bendigo Shafter; the Buffalo Bill Award, the Distinguished Newsboy Award and the National Geographical Society Awards in 1981; the Congressional National G...

• Word Count: 1689
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Steinbeck believed that a book (the Bible) was much realer than experience (O'Connor, p16). ... Throughout the entirety of the book, there are numerous references to God, Jesus, Moses, and Biblical stories. ... It is apparent that this novel reflects John Steinbeck's passion and purpose for writing, since he was not concerned with money, the timing of publication, or what the rest of the country would think of him as the author of this book. ...

• Word Count: 1509
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School