Steps to writing well 6 doc

... linoleum tiling and forced us to drag him, like a little pull toy on a string, to the surgery. The difficulty of moving the dog to the surgery room Chapter 14 Writing a Paper Using Research Although ... telling the story of how you spent a stormy night in the lake, clinging to your capsized boat. To convince your readers, let them “feel” the stinging rain and the icy current tryi...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 00:21

... behooves you, then, to create an appropriate tone and to avoid pomposity, say, or will put readers off. Here are a few examples of how skillful writers make tone work for them. Tone Toward Subject Toward ... conversation are to inform, or to be informed, to please or to persuade, wish well meaning sensible men would not lessen their power of doing good by a positive assuming man...

Ngày tải lên: 17/10/2013, 16:15

... to overcome masculine resistance to toilet- ries as "sissy" (or perhaps to appeal to women, who buy most of these products for their men).3 Emotionally loaded diction is also the stock-in-trade ... error to pick words that mean too much, to name an entire class when what you wish to signify is something less: Thrift is not one of their attributes. (For virtues) The nov...

Ngày tải lên: 13/12/2013, 23:15

Ngày tải lên: 14/12/2013, 13:15

... SIMPLICITY 269 Sometimes a barbarism is the result of adding a second, unnecessary suffix to a word to restore it to what it was in the first place: He has great (For ambition) The story contains ... is repeated too closely. It ought to be replaced by a synonym or a pronoun: The auto industry used to produce cars that lasted, but they didn't make enough profit so planned obsol...

Ngày tải lên: 23/12/2013, 14:15

Ngày tải lên: 20/01/2014, 18:20

... of anything to write about." That's strange, because life is fascinating. The solution is to open yourself to experience. To look around. To describe what you see and hear. To read. Reading ... entries, you may want to make an index or to group passages according to subject. A commonplace book will help your writing in several ways. It will be a storehouse of top...

Ngày tải lên: 26/01/2014, 00:20

... reading novels and stories, looking into scholarly studies of changing social attitudes. You've got a lot to write about. Finding Topics by Free Writing or Brainstorming Free writing simply ... subject of this book is writing. Within that subject grammar, sentence style, and so on, are topics. Any topic, of course, can itself be analyzed into subtopics.) Some people like to wor...

Ngày tải lên: 26/01/2014, 00:20

... Eddington be- gins a chapter in his book The Philosophy of Science with this statement: I believe there are 15,747,724,1 36, 275,002,577 ,60 5 ,65 3 ,69 1, 181,555, 468 ,044,71 7,914,527,1 16, 709, 366 ,231,425,0 76, 185 ,63 1, 031,2 96 ... 7,914,527,1 16, 709, 366 ,231,425,0 76, 185 ,63 1, 031,2 96 protons in the universe and the same number of electrons. It would be a curiously incurio...

Ngày tải lên: 26/01/2014, 00:20