Writing Audio & Video

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.

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.

Learn the art of storytelling from Pulitzer Prize winning author and FSU Eppes Professor Robert Olen Butler as he writes an original short story.

Suffering from writer's block? Wish you were more inventive? Perhaps, like most of us, you were...

“The Elements of Style (1918) by William Strunk, Jr. is an American English writing style guide.

THE BLIND SIDE: Evolution of a Game focuses on a young man who will one day be among the most highly paid athletes in the NFL.

A collection of unintentionally humorous uses of the English language.

Deep within the podosphere resides a mysterious writer known only as Grammar Girl. Hailed as the defender of the sacred comma, orator of the mysterious grammar way, and deliverer of practical tips, both friend and foe are inspired to seek her true identity.

Stephen Fry hosts four programmes on the joys of the English language - as heard on BBC Radio 4.

Novelist Amy Tan digs deep into the creative process, looking for hints of how hers evolved.