Bøger af Heather Wright

An anthology of stories about boys--Read about objects in motion: rocket ships, hockey players, aliens, time machines, dinosaurs, detectives .... Covering a range of genres, such as science fiction, fantasy, adventure, mystery, sports stories, and historical fiction, Dude! is an anthology about pre-teen and early teen boys that keeps objects in motion and readers engaged and entertained. Jean and Heather are two experienced writers (and moms of dudes) who respect the curiosity, intelligence and sense of humor of their audience. Though written first for the enjoyment of young readers, Dude! has the potential to be used effectively in classrooms for readers in grades 6 through 9.

The second edition of Writing Fiction: A Hands-On Guide for Teens contains expanded chapters and over 50 writing prompts to help you find story ideas and defeat writer's block.If you're a teen writer, Writing Fiction: A Hands-On Guide for Teens, has the concise answers you need to your writing questions. Whether you're at the beginning of your story or in the middle, or whether the words or flowing or you're stuck for inspiration, you'll find writing prompts, encouragement, concrete solutions to writing problems, tips for plotting, writing dialogue, characterization and more. Reviewers of the first edition said: "Writing Fiction is a bare-bones resource. If the information isn't useful, it isn't there. That is what makes it so valuable. Teens don't have to wade through pages of padding to get to the good stuff. The book contains only the good stuff. Teens interested in writing will make good use of this book."CM: CANADIAN REVIEW OF MATERIALS, Manitoba Library Association"This guide to writing fiction speaks directly to young writers and provides tools to help them become successful in their writing endeavours and to have fun doing so ... The author's love of writing and enthusiasm for sharing her expertise with young writers shines through this guidebook, making it a wonderful resource for young writers."CANADIAN TEACHER magazine

201 Writing Prompts contains fun and challenging writing starters to spark your creativity no matter which genre of fiction you love to write in. Use them to bust writer's block, inspire your writer's group, or make them a part of your daily writing journals. The book is divided into chapters of ten random writing starters each. Work through them in order, or dip into the book anywhere you please. Even though there are 201 separate topics in the book, many offer several options, giving you more than a year's-worth of daily writing prompts.

A sequel to 201 Writing Prompts, Writing Prompts and More offers writing prompts plus lots of other routes to creativity and getting your words on the page. Four chapters of the book hold 100 new writing prompts and the remaining seven chapters invite you to explore multiple ways into stories or give you ideas to help break through writer's block. Writing prompts can inspire us with words and questions and, sometimes, photographs, but there are other sources that we can tap into to find our stories. I hope you enjoy your journey through these pages, and I hope that journey's end is the story that you've always wanted to write. ********* At http: //wrightingwords.com, people write this about Heather's writing prompts: "Hi! I just wanted to say that these are the most helpful prompts I've ever read! They don't tell you what to write about just things to spark ideas and it's fantastic. I sincerely hope you write more soon!" "I've been having writer's block and this helped a lot. I don't know what I would do without this website." "I've taken on the writing prompts as a year's challenge! I'll pick 365 of the 460 possibilities and write each day on one! Thanks so much for helping me find my creativity again!"

These are the notes you wish that the previous teacher had left behind-the basics that you need to get on with your job: scene summaries, homework questions, backgrounds to the play and Shakespeare's time, themes and essay topics. Your teaching time is limited, but you want your students to get as much out of the text as possible in the short time in which you have to teach it. In your wildest dreams, you want them all to love it. At the least, (which isn't a small thing at all) you want them to feel like competent readers with the ability to take on a new text and find the keys to understanding it. To help you find what you need, this book is organized into 7 sections: 1. Context 2. Key Themes and Images 3. Format/Genre 4. Scene-by-Scene - plus handy homework questions 5. Topics for Journal Writing 6. The 5-Paragraph Essay - plus an essay-writing template, a sample essay, and links to evaluation rubrics. 7. Online Resources

This book is a compilation of four books in the Better Business Communication series. In it, you will find the complete texts of the following: A Quick Guide to Better Emails A Quick Guide to Better Presentations A Quick Guide to Better Telephone Skills A Quick Guide to Better Writing and Grammar

These are the notes you wish that the previous teacher had left behind-the basics that you need to get on with your job: scene summaries, homework questions, backgrounds to the play and Shakespeare's time, themes and essay topics. Your teaching time is limited, but you want your students to get as much out of the text as possible in the short time in which you have to teach it. In your wildest dreams, you want them all to love it. At the least, (which isn't a small thing at all) you want them to feel like competent readers with the ability to take on a new text and find the keys to understanding it.To help you find what you need, this book is organized into 7 sections:1. Context 2. Key Themes and Images 3. Format/Genre 4. Scene-by-Scene - plus handy homework questions 5. Topics for Journal Writing 6. The 5-Paragraph Essay - plus an essay-writing template, a sample essay, and links to evaluation rubrics.7. Online Resources

This book is your quick guide to writing better emails. Ten short chapters outline the strategies you need for writing emails that get the responses you want and mark you as a professional. People spend a lot of time on their computers or smartphones communicating for fun. Facebook, Twitter, and instant messaging have made us very fond of short forms, acronyms and multiple punctuation marks!!! But business writing is different. Writing for business has two purposes: 1. to make your company look good. 2. to make you look good. In ancient times, such as those when I first went to work in an office, managers had secretaries. Managers dictated letters and secretaries typed them up, corrected the grammar, and were responsible for accurate spelling and formatting. Those days are gone. There is no skilled buffer be-tween your thoughts and the words that go to your cli-ents, co-workers, and your boss. And the pace has changed, too. Letters could be proofread, retyped, and changed again, before they were finally put in the mailbox at the end of the day. The recipient knew that it could take a week before he or she got the answer to the original letter. Business today would collapse with that kind of time line. The expectation is that email gets answered within a matter of hours or even parts of hours. Quick response is expected. Your limited time is the reason that this book is short. You don't have the time to muddle through a large text. You need quick fixes fast. Read this book from the beginning or just read the chapters that apply to the questions you have now.

This book is your quick guide to better writing and grammar. The tips in this book will help you develop the strategies you need to find and correct errors that can reflect badly on you as a professional. This book doesn't cover every grammar, punctuation, and writing problem, but it is designed to hit the most common errors that might be holding you back from producing clean, correct writing. Bad grammar can cost you money. If that alone isn't a motivator, consider this. How can clients trust you with a detailed financial project you are doing on their behalf, when you can't be bothered to pay attention to the details of spelling and grammar? Or consider this: you are just starting in the workplace and the people you work for or want to work for aren't your generation. They don't communicate in the same way that your friends do via text and in person. If you want to impress employers, get the grammar right. Employers consider good writing and speaking skills as the minimum skills you should have in order to be a competent worker. If your work doesn't meet those standards, then how can you represent their company at a higher level? Their employees are their companies' ambassadors; they want their ambassadors to impress not embarrass. Yes, checking your work for grammar and spelling errors will take a little extra time, but consider it an investment in your career. As you learn to recognize and correct your errors, you should eventually stop making them in the first place, and you'll get back up to speed again.

This book is your quick guide to better presentations. In ten short chapters, you'll have the strategies you need to create viewer-friendly presentations and to develop the speaking skills you need to mark you as a professional. Like every other form of business communication, presentations have two purposes: 1. to make your company look good. 2. to make you look good. This book will refer to PowerPoint(R) presentations but you can extrapolate the guidelines to any presentation format you choose. A format that adds more movement to your presentation or has backgrounds that are more interesting isn't necessarily more accessible or more appreciated by your audience. If you're going to apply the KISS principle (Keep It Short and Simple) to any form of business com-munication, your presentation is the one to pick. The strategies that follow will help you make a good impression and avoid boring your audience, and give you a pattern to follow that will make you a sought after presenter.

Knowledge and skills for helping adolescents with inner conflict resolution, affective communication, and self-managing behavior alternatives, with faith-based options. Empowering Teens to Self-Manage in High Risk Situations is for parents, teachers, after school programs, church youth facilitators, foster families, residential care home environments and anyone who cares about a teen and wants to help.

These are the notes you wish that the previous teacher had left behind-the basics that you need to get on with your job: scene summaries, homework questions, backgrounds to the play and Shakespeare's time, themes and essay topics. Your teaching time is limited, but you want your students to get as much out of the text as possible in the short time in which you have to teach it. In your wildest dreams, you want them all to love it. At the least, (which isn't a small thing at all) you want them to feel like competent readers with the ability to take on a new text and find the keys to understanding it. To help you find what you need, this book is organized into 7 sections: 1. Context 2. Key Themes and Images 3. Format/Genre 4. Scene-by-Scene - plus handy homework questions 5. Topics for Journal Writing 6. The 5-Paragraph Essay - plus an essay-writing template, a sample essay, and links to evaluation rubrics. 7. Online Resources

Microsoft Expression is eagerly anticipated in many areas of the design and development community, and it is likely to have a large impact on the way Microsoft applications--particularly Microsoft web applications--are put together. "Foundations of Microsoft Expression" provides a ground-up introduction to the technology with emphasis on practical application. It explains the philosophy behind Microsoft Expression, its workflow, and how it integrates with existing Microsoft tool suites like Visual Studio 2005. The book moves on to show how you can use the suite to collaborate in the production of modern web applications. For example, Expression can facilitate the creation of Atlas web applications or ease the production of user interfaces for desktop applications. When you finish poring through this book, you'll have gained the necessary basics that are crucial for future web development.

Peter Wright taught 100,000 new programmers how to program in Visual Basic during the 1990s. The same Peter Wright-style makes this book the best Express tutorial availableCovers all the key features of Visual Basic 2005 Express; opens up a whole range of exciting continuation products in the Apress roadmaps for when the new programmers want to continue their journeysVB.NET is the language of the future; many aspiring programmers will opt for VB.NET as their entry point into programming

In the 1990s, Microsoft did the impossible and released a programming tool that let everyone write programs to run on Windows. Author Peter Wright was so excited about that tool, Visual Basic, that he wrote a series of books on it and introduced nearly a quarter of a million people all over the world to programming.Now Microsoft has done it again with the release of the Express tools. With nearly every home now having a computer and most people having access to the Internet, being able to take control of the computer and write your own programs is more useful and exciting than ever. So Wright has decided to do it again.In this book, you’ll find everything you need to program your computer by using Visual C# 2005 Express, one of the very latest programming tools from Microsoft. If you have never written computer programs before, Wright will show you how much fun and how easy it can be. Perhaps you are a programmer and just need to get up to speed on .NET for work—this book is for you too.Wright took the same approach with this book that he did with the VB titles, and inside you’ll find a fast–paced guide to the essentials to get you programming fast. You’ll learn the C# language and the tools Visual C# 2005 Express provides. He covers everything from simple console programs to code that talks to the Internet, and even how to write your own database programs. Whatever your reasons for wanting to learn to program with C#, this book will get you where you want to be quickly, and hopefully with a smile on your face. So dive in and change the way you use computers forever.

This book is your desk-top companion on your romance-writing journey. Well-designed tools created especially for your genre will guide your creativity and keep you inspired. In this workbook, you can record details about your characters, your plot plans, your notes on setting, and anything else you need to regularly refer to as you create your story. This workbook also includes journal pages where you can reflect on and celebrate your work plus a calendar to track your progress.All your notes, thoughts, questions, planning. All in one place.Inside this book you will find worksheets, planners, and journal pages to help you develop characters, find your story, and reflect on the process. Use this book to schedule your writing time, beat writer's block with a little coloring, and best of all, get the words on the page as you've been dreaming them.

You are already doing your research, reading the fantastic books out there to help you write a great fantasy or science fiction novel. You have ideas, notes, reflections, information. This book is your desk-top companion on your writing journey.Well-designed tools created especially for your genre will guide your creativity and keep you inspired. In this workbook, you can record details about your characters, your plot plans, your notes on world-building, and anything else you need to regularly refer to as you create your story. This workbook also includes journal pages where you can reflect on and celebrate your work plus a calendar to track your progress.All your notes, thoughts, questions, planning-all in one place.Inside this book you will find worksheets, planners, and journal pages to help you develop characters, find your story, and reflect on the process. Use this book to schedule your writing time, beat writer's block with a little coloring, and best of all, get the words on the page as you've been dreaming them.

This book is your desk-top companion on your mystery-writing journey.Well-designed tools created especially for your genre will guide your creativity and keep you inspired. In this workbook, you can record details about your characters, your plot plans, your notes on setting, and anything else you need to regularly refer to as you create your story. This workbook also includes journal pages where you can reflect on and celebrate your work plus a calendar to track your progress.All your notes, thoughts, questions, planning-all in one place.Inside this book you will find worksheets, planners, and journal pages to help you develop characters, find your story, and reflect on the process. Use this book to schedule your writing time, beat writer's block with a little coloring, and best of all, get the words on the page as you've been dreaming them.

Designed to get programmers up to professional level as fast as possible, ADO.NET: From Novice to Pro is aimed toward both developers who have little or no experience with ADO.NET (or with .NET in general) and programmers who are not comfortable with database programming. Best-selling author Peter Wright painlessly moves readers from simple database access to the sophisticated manipulation of XML documents. The book begins by showing you the basic architecture of ADO.NET and then provides you with what you need to know about data providers and the new Connection, Command, and DataSet objects. Wright then drills down into the topics professional developers need to grasp, such as transactions, concurrency, typed DataSets, and using XML with ADO.NET. Through working code adaptable to individual projects and numerous hands-on examples, you will learn how to create fast and powerful ADO.NET enterprise applications. The end goal of this book is to enable you to work at a professional level utilizing Microsoft's most modern data-access technology: ADO.NET!Author InformationPeter Wright is a principal consultant with Avanade Inc., based in London, England. He has over 10 years experience designing, developing and architecting applications using Microsoft technologies. At Avanade, Peter specializes in the architecture and development of .NET-enabled eBusiness solutions and mobile applications. He is also the author of 10 books covering subjects as diverse as Visual Basic, object-oriented applications development, Delphi programming, and Linux GUI development.