Polishing Your Prose: How to Turn First Drafts into Finished Work - Couverture souple

Cahn, Steven; Cahn, Victor

 
9780231160896: Polishing Your Prose: How to Turn First Drafts into Finished Work
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ISBN 10 : 0231160895 ISBN 13 : 9780231160896
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 (PhD, Philosophy, Columbia) is Professor of Philosophy at The City University of New York Graduate Center, where he served for nearly a decade as Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, then as Acting President. He is the author and editor of numerous books, including From Student to Scholar (Columbia, 2008), Fate, Time, and Language (Columbia, 2010), Polishing Your Prose (Columbia, 2013), Freedom and the Self (Columbia, 2015), Happiness and Goodness (Columbia, 2015), and Religion Within Reason (Columbia, 2017); his textbooks and anthologies on ethics, philosophy of religion, and introduction to philosophy, published by Oxford, have appeared in multiple editions.

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Éditeur
Columbia University Press
Date d'édition
2013
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0231160895
ISBN 13 
9780231160896
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
104
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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ISBN 10 :  0231160887 ISBN 13 :  9780231160889
Editeur : Columbia University Press, 2013
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