Understanding Style Practical Ways to Improve Your Writing

Name: Understanding Style Practical Ways to Improve Your Writing
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ISBN: 9780195379495

ISBN-10: 0195379497

ISBN-13: 9780195379495

Edition: 2nd 2009

Authors: Joe Glaser

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An ideal text for courses in advanced composition, Understanding Style uncovers some of the inherent mystery of style and explains how to craft good sentences and combine them into writing that is clear and readable. This unique book adapts the findings of modern linguistic research intodetailed writing advice seldom found elsewhere. Though it emphasizes the "sound"of the written voice throughout, the text also covers diction, coherence, and sentence variety. Joe Glaser includes numerous open-ended exercises drawn from such areas as business, history, and popular science toencourage students to practice as they learn. Each chapter concludes with a boxed summary for quick reference and a…

Book details

List price: $26.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/18/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 8.19" wide x 5.51" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.726
Language: English