Essential guide to writing part 10

... the process, from the seed to the crop, stopsat the intermediate mechanical stage of the money. He does notgrow things to feed men; not even to feed one man; not even to feed himself. The miser ... expository paragraphs are analytical. To write about any subject you must it into particulars(whether reasons or comparisons, illustrations or conse-quences) and then organize these into a coherent ... which, although not essential to the is interesting and enlightening.In working out a genus-species definition, then, the essen-tial questions to ask yourself are these: To what class does it...

Essential guide to writing part 6

... behoovesyou, then, to create an appropriate tone and to avoidpomposity, say, or will put readers off.Here are a few examples of how skillful writers make tonework for them.Tone Toward SubjectToward ... goes a long way towardavoiding a tone of cocksureness and restoring at least a sem-blance of two-way on that unavoidably one-way streetfrom writer to reader. Thus a scholar writing about Chaucer'slove ... conversation are to inform, or to be informed, to please or to persuade, wish wellmeaning sensible men would not lessen their power of doing goodby a positive assuming manner that seldom fails to disgust,...

Essential guide to writing part 26

... some manner, to live, and look tolerably well,notwithstanding their despair and the continued absence of theirlover; and some have even been known to recover so far as to beinclined to take another ... www.tailieuduhoc.orgSTOPSfollowing sentence is an example (the Duke of Wellington iscommenting with pleasant cynicism upon the capacity ofyoung ladies to endure the absence of lovers gone to war):They ... usingcommas with adverbials must be understood as loose gener-alizations, which skillful writers frequently ignore or adapt to their particular need to be emphatic or clear or rhythmic.Single-Word...

Essential guide to writing part 7

... Girls don't like to be told that you have to stayhome and study when they want to go to a show or go dancing.[6] So they find some other boy who doesn't have to study all thetime. ... more reluctant to admit it.JohnCharles R. Forbes went to jail. Albert B. Fall went to jail. AlienProperty Custodian Thomas W. Miller went to jail.Samuel Hopkins AdamsSuch plants to operate successfully ... sentence to another. Coherence belongs to the substructure of the par-agraph, to relationships of thought, feeling, and perception.Both necessary if a paragraph is to be truly unified.CoherenceTo...

Essential guide to writing part 8

... accustomed to the law and order of the presentday to understand the dangers which threatened the Jacobean trav-eller. The seas swarmed with pirates; so that few merchantmendared to put to sea ... relics, and gave his life intothe guidance of his spiritual director. The Protestant tore open themachinery of the miracles, flung the bones and ragged garmentsinto the fire, and treated priests ... subject in its totality. Organ-izing around 1, 2, and 3 emphasizes particular likenesses ordifferences. It all depends on what you want to do. In thefollowing case the writer elected to organize...

Essential guide to writing part 9

... clear to the reader. If you are defining a word, un-derline it (equivalent to italic type). In the following para-graph, for instance, the writer wishes to make clear how theword history is ... compact not to meddle with hischildren under any circumstances, it would become me to letparticular mode of getting rid of the gentleman alone. But if therewas a bed newly made up, to which the ... ought to decide. That is just the case. The new territories arethe newly made bed to which our children are to go, and it lieswith the nation to say whether they shall have snakes mixed upwith...

Essential guide to writing part 27

... that is still one hell a pile of pulp. Pauline To revert for a moment to the story told in the first person, it is plainthat in that case the narrator has no such liberty. . . .Percy Comma with ... visit www.tailieuduhoc.orgSTOPSBut when more or less is used in a strict disjunctivethat is, to mean either more or less, but not must beset off by commas:It is hard to say whether the payment ... is less formal: short, says the historian Friedrich the crusades were pro-moted with all the devices of the stories,over-simplification, lies, inflammatory speeches. Morris Bishop The Dash...

Essential guide to writing part 11

... be able to handle the short sentence to stress particular ideas and, whenthe occasion warrants, to compose brief passages in a segre-gating style. On the whole, however, the style is too limitedfor ... exactly what you want to say.Segregating sentences are especially useful in descriptiveand narrative writing. They analyze a complicated perceptionor action into its parts and arrange these ... concern in this part. First, however, we mustderstand, in a brief and rudimentary way, what a sentence is.It is not easy to say. In fact, it is probably impossible to a sentence to everyone's...

Essential guide to writing part 12

... word"campaign":The Department of Justice began a vigorous campaign to break upthe corporate empires, to restore the free and open market, and to plant the feet of the industry firmly on the road to competition.Thurman ... purely poetical. ) G. K. ChestertonBut called by whatever name, it is a most fruitful region; kind to the native, interesting to the visitor. ) Thomas Carlyle stood like one thunderstruck, or ... in, to murmur at the present pos-sessors of power, to lament the past, to conceive extravagant hopesof the future, are the common dispositions of the greatest part ofmankind. According to...

Essential guide to writing part 13

... length hearkened to the terms of peace, which was concludedwith great advantage to the empire and to Holland, but none at all to us, and clogged soon after with the famous treaty of partition.Allowed ... areturned upon the stoop, the writer wisely begins a new sen-tence. Of course, this question of when to stop, of knowingwhen one statement should end and another begin, applies to all kinds of ... those places which interested me, from a defect of eyeor of hand was totally ineffectual. Sir Walter ScottThe life story to be told of any creative worker is therefore by itsvery nature, by its...

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