Understanding Style: Practical Ways to Improve Your Writing - Couverture souple

Glaser, Joe

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0195119320 ISBN 13 : 9780195119329

Editeur : Oxford University Press Inc, 1998

Synopsis

A brief text for students who wish to refine and improve their expository writing style. Concentrates on sentence construction and effective word choice.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

An ideal text for courses in advanced composition, Understanding Style uncovers some of the inherent mystery of style and explains how to craft good sentences and combine them into writing that is clear and readable. This unique book adapts the findings of modern linguistic research into detailed writing advice seldom found elsewhere. Though it emphasizes the "sound" of the written voice throughout, the text also covers diction, coherence, and sentence variety. Joe Glaser includes numerous open-ended exercises drawn from such areas as business, history, and popular science to encourage students to practice as they learn. Each chapter concludes with a boxed summary for quick reference and a "Your Writing" prompt, asking students to apply these principles directly to their own work. Appendices include: a glossary of writing terms; a brief dictionary of usage; a guide to punctuation; and, a detailed index. The Second Edition brings the text up-to-date and emphasizes recent advances in word processing and the Internet. The author also plans to update references throughout and include online resources. The new edition will also include a new chapter which discusses the basic distinction between the complete subjects of sentences from their predicates. In addition, the author has updated the downloadable exercises, useful writing links, and other tips found on his personal website.

Biographie de l'auteur

Joe Glaser is Professor Emeritus of English at Western Kentucky University. He is the author of Writer's Workbook (1995) and Writer's Handbook (1984), as well as several tranlastions of classic works.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press Inc
• Date d'édition: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0195119320
• ISBN 13: 9780195119329
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: Messaggerie Libri; ufficio.anagrafiche@meli.it; ; Via Verdi, 8; Assago Milano; Italie