This accent reduction program is for professionals and non-professionals, from teachers to adults, who want to be able to speak standard American English.
An expansion of the ideas containedin the acclaimed ITV series,The Adventure of English 500 AD to 2000. Theremarkable story of English,from its beginning as a minor Germanic dialect to its position...
As the main spoken language of the Jews for more than a thousand years, Yiddish has had plenty to lament, plenty to conceal. Its phrases and expressions paint a comprehensive picture of the...
Dwight Swain, author of Techniques of the Selling Writer, has mentored thousands of writers. Now you can hear this legendary teacher's own voice with priceless advice on 1) Story Structure, and...
Making Your Story Better is the subject of this original audio workshop. Michael Hauge and Christopher Vogler, two superstar screenwriting teachers, conduct a point/counterpoint discussion of what...
What makes a story a story? What is style? What's the connection between realism and real life? These are some of the questions James Wood answers in How Fiction Works, the first book-length essay...
In this delightfully tongue-in-cheek book, a #3 best-seller in France, literature professor Bayard contends that, in this age of infinite publication, the truly cultivated person is not the one who...
People will remember your writing if you use humor, which is often either ignored or misunderstood. Here are two original 90-minute workshops, ("Writing Seinfeld-Style" by Peter Mehlman and "How...
Marion Winik, one of the country's best-known personal essayists, believes in telling the truth. Her award-winning personal essays tell secrets about herself, and describe the raw power of...