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Writing with Style : Conversations on the Art of Writing
by Trimble, John R.Edition:
3rd
ISBN13:
9780205028801
ISBN10:
0205028802
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Pub. Date:
12/10/2010
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Longman
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excellent for both class and as a reference March 15, 2011
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This textbook is easy and fun to read, as well as really educational. The author covers all aspects of writing, including grammar, and usually when I see a section on grammar in such a book I skip over it, but not in this case. I love this textbook. I am a law student and this book has helped me to become a more effective writer. I have recommended it to many colleagues and will continue to do so. It's definitely not a text book that you read and forget.
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Summary
A concise, witty, practical book on style that is as entertaining as it is genuinely instructive.
Writing with Style is storehouse of practical writing tips—written in a lively, conversational style. This text provides insight into: how to generate interesting ideas and get them down on paper; how to write a critical analysis; how to write a crisp opener; how to invigorate a dull style; how to punctuate with confidence; how to handle various conventions—and much more.
This textbook describes a remarkably effective method for generating ideas and converting them into coherent prose. It helps students overcome difficulty with generating ideas and developing these ideas in their writing. It also specifies the all-important fundamentals of good writing–Then explains with wit and common sense precisely why these elements are so fundamental.
This bestselling brief text is for anyone who needs tips to improve writing.
Table of Contents
C ontents
A Word About These “Conversations”
Preface to the Third Edition
Acknowledgments
Fundamentals
Chapter 1: Thinking Well
Chapter 2: Getting Launched
Chapter 3: Openers
Chapter 4: Middles
Chapter 5: Closers
Chapter 6: Diction
Chapter 7: Readability
Chapter 8: Superstitions
Chapter 9: Critical Analysis: Jousting with Mencken
Chapter 10: Dramatizing Your Ideas
Chapter 11: Revising
Chapter 12: Proofreading
Odds and Ends
Chapter 13: Punctuation
Semicolons
Commas
Parentheses
Dashes
Colons
Hyphens
Exclamation points
Chapter 14: Quoting
Punctuation introducing quotations
Punctuation at the end of quotations
Miscellaneous small points
Indented quotations
Orphan quotes
Dialogue
Punctuating run-on quotations of poetry
References for quotations
Punctuating parenthetical references
Ellipses
Editorial insertions (square brackets)
Chapter 15: Abbreviations
Chapter 16: Tips on Usage
Chapter 17: Epilogue
Sources
Index
