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Cahn, Steven; Cahn, Victor

 
9780231160889: Polishing Your Prose: How to Turn First Drafts into Finished Work
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ISBN 10 : 0231160887 ISBN 13 : 9780231160889
Editeur : Columbia University Press, 2013

Synopsis

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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À propos de l'auteur

Steven M. Cahn is professor of philosophy at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He has written or edited fifty books, among them Fate, Logic, and Time; God, Reason, and Religion; Saints and Scamps: Ethics in Academia; and From Student to Scholar: A Candid Guide to Becoming a Professor. Victor L. Cahn is professor of English at Skidmore College. Among his numerous nonfiction works are Shakespeare the Playwright: A Companion to the Complete Tragedies, Histories, Comedies, and Romances and Classroom Virtuoso: Recollections of a Life in Learning. He has also published two novels and many plays, seven of which were produced Off-Broadway. Mary Ann Caws is distinguished professor of comparative literature, English, and French at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

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Éditeur
Columbia University Press
Date d'édition
2013
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0231160887
ISBN 13 
9780231160889
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
104
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Personne responsable
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