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How to Speak and Write Correctly
by Joseph Devlin
Available on: Audio Download
This is a 1910 guide for those who wish to learn how to correctly (though maybe not “properly”) create sentences, use figures of speech, write letters, and more, all while choosing the right words and doing it with style.
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Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases
by Grenville Kleiser
Available on: Audio Download
A Practical Handbook of Pertinent Expressions, Striking Similes, Literary, Commercial, Conversational, and Oratorical Terms, for the Embellishment of Speech and Literature, and The Improvement of the Vocabulary of Those Persons Who Read, Write, and Speak English.
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Go Ahead, Make Me Laugh! Comedy Writing
by Brian Scott
Available on: Audio Download
Learn how to take your own sense of humor and apply it to your routines and writing, instead of using stale overdone copycat material.
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Book Writing for Fun and Profit
by Brian R. Scott
Available on: Audio Download
Book Writing for Fun and Profit (audio series) helps writers and authors publish and profit from their writing and achieve their dreams of becoming a respected book author.
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Amy Tan on Creativity
by Amy Tan
Available on: Audio Download | Online Video | Video Download
Novelist Amy Tan digs deep into the creative process, looking for hints of how hers evolved.
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How Words Can Change Reality
by Michael Drout
Available on: Audio Download
In this lecture Professor Michael Drout introduces rhetoric through the Speech-Act Theory outlined in John L. Austin's influential work How to Do Things With Words...
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Elizabeth Gilbert: A Different Way to Think About Creative Genius
by Elizabeth Gilbert
Available on: Video Download | Online Video
Elizabeth Gilbert muses on the impossible things we expect from artists and geniuses -- and shares the radical idea that, instead of the rare person "being" a genius, all of us "have" a genius.
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Christopher Hitchens: Some Confessions and Contradictions
by Christopher Hitchens
Available on: Online Video
Christopher Hitchens, tackling nearly everything with unmatched enthusiasm, erudition and, at times venom, has up to now barely touched upon one subject: his own life.
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Interview with Jack Canfield
by Jack Canfield
Available on: Audio Download
In this engaging and motivating interview, Jack Canfield, the author of The Success Principles and co-author of the phenomenally popular Chicken Soup for the Soul series, talks with Audible's Publisher Beth Anderson about what it really takes to be successful.
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Frank McCourt: Teacher Man
by Frank McCourt
Available on: Audio Download | Online Audio | Online Video
Frank McCourt discusses his long-awaited book about how his 30-year teaching career shaped his second act as a writer.
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