Writing with Style Conversations on the Art of Writing

Name: Writing with Style Conversations on the Art of Writing
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ISBN: 9780130257130

ISBN-10: 0130257133

ISBN-13: 9780130257130

Edition: 2nd 2000

Authors: John R. Trimble

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This bestselling brief supplementary text is for any course where students write. A storehouse of practical writing tipswritten in a lively, conversational style. Provides new insight into: how to generate interesting ideas and get them down on paper; how to write a critical analysis; how to write a crisp opener; how to invigorate a banal style; how to punctuate with confidence; how to handle various conventionsand much more. Students learn to develop a writer's sense: the book demonstrates that writing is really applied psychology since it is essentially the art of creating desired effects. Provides an explanation of what effects are desirable and how to create them. An exceptional book…

Book details

List price: $46.60
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Publication date: 12/27/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 198
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.25" long x 0.25" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English



A World About These "Conversations"


Preface to the Second Edition


Acknowledgments


Fundamentals



Thinking Well



Getting Launched



Openers



Middles



Closers



Diction



Readability



Superstitions



How to Write a Critical Analysis



Revising



Proofreading


Odds and Ends



Punctuation


Semicolons


Commas


Parentheses


Dashes


Colons


Hyphens


Exclamation points



Quoting


Punctuation introducing quotations


Punctuation at the end of quotations


Miscellaneous small points


Indented quotations


Orphan quotes


Dialogue


Punctuating run-on quotations of poetry


References for quotations


Punctuating parenthetical references


Ellipses


Editorial insertions (square brackets)



Abbreviations



Tips on Usage



Epilogue


Writers Talking Shop


Writers Talking Shop


Sources


Index