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Polishing Your Prose

Autor Steven Cahn, Victor Cahn
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 26 mar 2013
This singular book illustrates how to edit a piece of prose and enhance its clarity of thought and felicity of style. The authors first present ten principles of effective composition, and then scrutinize three extended paragraphs, suggesting with remarkable specificity how to improve them. The volume also offers challenging practice questions, as well as two finished essays, one serious and one humorous, that demonstrate how attention to sound mechanics need not result in mechanical writing. Steven M. Cahn and Victor L. Cahn help readers deploy a host of corrective strategies, such as avoiding jargon, bombast, and redundancy; varying sentence structure; paring the use of adjectives and adverbs; properly deploying phrases and clauses; and refining an argument. Here is a book for all who seek to increase their facility in written communication.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780231160896
ISBN-10: 0231160895
Pagini: 104
Dimensiuni: 139 x 208 x 12 mm
Greutate: 0.14 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Columbia University Press

Cuprins

Foreword by Mary Ann Caws
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Strategies
Part II: Passages
Conclusion
Epilogue
About the Authors
Index

Descriere

A step-by-step guide to successful writing.