Writing and Thinking: A Handbook of Composition and Revision
by Norman Foerster, J. M. Steadman (Author)
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Although out of date, this book has a lot to offer. It's especially useful in formal situations such as composing cover letters, as the format of a business letter doesn't really go out of style.
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- For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: Â to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style. - Ben Jonson
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- Writing and thinking are organically related to each other.
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- "...tried not to let the 'virtue of tolerance' be carried 'so far that it leads to the vice of slovenliness.'" Â [p. iii]
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- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Nor did it occur to Shelley that many men, his equals in disinterestedness and his superiors in self-restraint, would have found his reconstructed world an eminently undesirable dwelling-place.
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