Adios, Strunk and White : A Handbook for the New Academic Essay

Name: Adios, Strunk and White : A Handbook for the New Academic Essay
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ISBN: 9780937363157

ISBN-10: 0937363154

ISBN-13: 9780937363157

Edition: 2nd 1999 (Revised)

Authors: Gary Hoffman, Glynis Hoffman

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Book details

List price: $19.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Verve Press
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 7.00" wide x 10.00" long
Weight: 1.078
Language: English



Introduction


The Church of the English Teacher


Writing Before Reading


Neither a Trade Book Nor a Textbook Be


The Strunk and White Tradition


A Warning


Style: Style Before Structure


Flow: Ways to Speed and Smooth


Freighting


Telescoping


Pause: Ways to Slow and Emphasize


Very Short Sentence


Melted-together Words


Hieroglyphics


Super-literalism


Fusion: Ways to Spark and Compress


Slang Tang


Line-ups


Break-ups


Mix Masters


Opt: Ways to Wield Point of View


Personalizing Lens


Humbling Lens


Distancing Lens


Form: Structure as Shuffled Forms


Time Warping: Ways to Narrate


Pulsing the Tense


Splitting the Second


Anecdoting


Problem Making


Encircling: Ways to Define


Thesauruscoping


Cliche-Busting


Stress Testing


Quote Sandwiching


Pie Slicing


Bursting: Ways to Disarm


Devil's Advice


Mocking


Trojan Horse


Sincerely Yours


Punching Up: Ways to Intensify


Echoing


Netting


Q&A-ing


Masquerading


Raising the Dead


Transitioning: Ways to Combine


Twist Ties


Captions


Double Exposures


Thirteen Ways


Headwork: Strong and Weak Noodling


Peel: Ways to Seek Meaning


Inductive Analysis


Deductive Analysis


Claim Cast


Infer-styling


Scrub: Ways to Purge Deceit


Facial Pack: Euphemism


War Paint: Euphemism


Jousters: Logical Fallacies


Mentals: Logical Fallacies


Baste: Ways to Research


Seasoning


Drenching


Presenting


Index