Essential guide to writing part 14

... upon none of these signals. Yet they too need to be emphatic. What they must do, in effect, is to trans- late loudness, intonation, gesture, and so on, into writing. Equivalents are available. ... beings suffer? How long? Michael Harrington Even here, however, Harrington is trying not so much to elicit an answer as he is to convince us that allowing poverty to continue is indefens...

Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2013, 00:15

... 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 manner that se...

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...

Ngày tải lên: 17/10/2013, 16:15

... 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

... illiterate want to learn how to read. Then they want education, and then more education, and then they want their sons and daughters to become doctors and lawyers. It is frightening to see so many ... 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...

Ngày tải lên: 20/10/2013, 04:15

... home, garage and driveway. He will contribute his share to the 142 million tons of smoke and fumes, seven million junked cars, 20 million tons of paper, 48 bil- lion cans, and 26 billion bottles ... never total and exact, what is true of one cannot necessarily be applied to the other. For example, some political thinkers have used the "simi- larity" of a state to a ship to...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2013, 02:15

... 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...

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 ... clarity will not suffer. (British writers seem to exercise that choice more often than do Americans): When he describes the past the historian has to recapture the rich- ness of the momen...

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 ... DEFINITION To take one more case. They failed to agree is a grammatical sentence. That they failed to agree is not. It is a noun clause and could function as the subject of a verb: T...

Ngày tải lên: 28/10/2013, 09:15

... "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. ... in, to murmur at the present pos- sessors of power, to lament the past, to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the common dispositions of the greate...

Ngày tải lên: 28/10/2013, 09:15