Essential guide to writing part 10

... the process, from the seed to the crop, stops at the intermediate mechanical stage of the money. He does not grow 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 i...

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... 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 ... goes a long way toward avoiding a tone of cocksureness and restoring at least a sem- blance of two-way on that unavoidably one-way street from writer to reader. Thus a scholar writ...

Ngày tải lên: 17/10/2013, 16:15

... some manner, to live, and look tolerably well, notwithstanding their despair and the continued absence of their lover; and some have even been known to recover so far as to be inclined to take another ... www.tailieuduhoc.org STOPS following sentence is an example (the Duke of Wellington is commenting with pleasant cynicism upon the capacity of young ladies to endure the absence of...

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... Girls don't like to be told that you have to stay home 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 the time. ... more reluctant to admit it. John Charles R. Forbes went to jail. Albert B. Fall went to jail. Alien Property Custodian Thomas W. Miller went to jail. Samuel Hopkins Adams Such plan...

Ngày tải lên: 20/10/2013, 03:15

... accustomed to the law and order of the present day to understand the dangers which threatened the Jacobean trav- eller. The seas swarmed with pirates; so that few merchantmen dared to put to sea ... relics, and gave his life into the guidance of his spiritual director. The Protestant tore open the machinery of the miracles, flung the bones and ragged garments into the fire, and treate...

Ngày tải lên: 20/10/2013, 04:15

... 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 the word history is ... compact not to meddle with his children under any circumstances, it would become me to let particular mode of getting rid of the gentleman alone. But if there was a bed newly made up, to...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2013, 02:15

... 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 plain that in that case the narrator has no such liberty. . . . Percy Comma with ... visit www.tailieuduhoc.org STOPS But when more or less is used in a strict disjunctive that is, to mean either more or less, but not must be set off by commas: It is hard to say whether...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2013, 02:15

... be able to handle the short sentence to stress particular ideas and, when the occasion warrants, to compose brief passages in a segre- gating style. On the whole, however, the style is too limited for ... exactly what you want to say. Segregating sentences are especially useful in descriptive and narrative writing. They analyze a complicated perception or action into its parts and ar...

Ngày tải lên: 28/10/2013, 09:15

... word "campaign": The Department of Justice began a vigorous campaign to break up the 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. Chesterton But called by whatever name, it is a most fruitful region; kind to the native, interesting to the visitor. )...

Ngày tải lên: 28/10/2013, 09:15

... length hearkened to the terms of peace, which was concluded with 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 ... are turned upon the stoop, the writer wisely begins a new sen- tence. Of course, this question of when to stop, of knowing when one statement should end and another begin, applies...

Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2013, 00:15