The practical stylist
by Sheridan Baker
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(For a more complete Table of Contents see The Practical Stylist with Readings and Handbook). 1. The Point of It All. 2. Making a Beginning: From Subject to Thesis. 3. Your Paper's Basic Structure. 4. Paragraphs: Beginning, Middle, End. 5. Middle Tactics: Description, Narration, Exposition. 6. Straight and Crooked Thinking: Working with Evidence. 7. Writing Good Sentences. 8. Correcting Wordy Sentences. 9. Words. 10. Research. HANDBOOK. I. The Trouble with Grammar. II. Punctuation, Spelling, show more Capitalization. III. A Glossary of Usage. Acknowledgments. Index show lessTags
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Addresses the "problems of exposition" by stating the Big Ideas (find your Thesis, your Structure {beginning, middle, end}), and then proceeding to the elements (your Paragraphs, your Words, the heart of rhetoric).
Concludes with a Handbook of Grammar and Glossary of Usage, ie. un sens plus aux mots de la tribu.
This is rhetoric primarily for freshman English, but it has also proved useful to the advanced student and to many others who have found themselves facing a blank page and the problems of exposition. (Preface, January 1969)
Style in writing is something like style in a car, a woman, or a Greek temple--a kind of linear mastery of materials that stands out from the landscape and compels a second look. (Chapter 1, Thesis)
Concludes with a Handbook of Grammar and Glossary of Usage, ie. un sens plus aux mots de la tribu.
This is rhetoric primarily for freshman English, but it has also proved useful to the advanced student and to many others who have found themselves facing a blank page and the problems of exposition. (Preface, January 1969)
Style in writing is something like style in a car, a woman, or a Greek temple--a kind of linear mastery of materials that stands out from the landscape and compels a second look. (Chapter 1, Thesis)
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- 1962
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- To Sally.
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- This is a rhetoric primarily for freshman English, but it has also proved useful to the advanced student and to many others who have found themselves facing a blank page and the problems of exposition. (Preface, January 1969)
Style in writing is something like style in a car, a woman, or a Greek temple--a kind of linear mastery of materials that stands out from the landscape and compels a second look. (Chapter 1, Thesis) - Quotations
- CATS. "cats satisfy some human need for a touch of the jungle, savagery in repose, ferocity in silk, and have been worshiped for the exotic power they still seem to represent." [10]
DOGS. "Dog-lovers, of course, have tradition on their side. Dogs are indeed affectionate and faithful...". Concede, then "go to bat for the cats, showing their superiority...".
SHAKESPEARE begins Romeo and Juliet with ominous warnings about fate. The couple sprung from "fatal loins", Fate has already determined their tragic end. The play then unfolds, and we discover S really blames the tragedy not ... (show all)on fate but on human stupidity and error. [11] - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)You may even win his praise!
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