Tài liệu Essential guide to writting part 29 ppt

... 58 capitalization of, 434 quoted, 432 underlined, 432 Tone, 80 ff in narrative, 375 toward reader, toward self, 83 toward subject, 80 Topic sentence, 90 Topics, exploring for, 23 Transitions between ... 203 Signposts, 67 Simile, 219 n, 276, 296 ff for clarification, 297 in beginning, 55 in definition, 138 in description, 361 to expand subject, 298 for expression, 299 for intensificat...

Ngày tải lên: 13/12/2013, 23:15

... capacity to familiarize the strange, to expand ideas, to express feelings and evaluations, and to give us pleasure, similes have an even greater power. They bring us more intimately in touch with ... who, when he was elected to the U.S. Senate, passed on his gov- ernorship to a political crony): He designated his old benefactor, K. Allen of Winnfield, as the apostolic choice for t...

Ngày tải lên: 23/12/2013, 14:15

... hand bells of pietists, summoning all to pray for the SOLlls of the dead. Morris Bishop Images can appeal to other senses: to smell, taste, touch, even to the muscular sense of movement and ... opposite value. Here, for example, a historian de- scribes a party at the court of the English king James I: Later the company flocked to the windows to look into the palace courtyard bel...

Ngày tải lên: 20/01/2014, 20:20

... readers' job to follow you. It's your job to guide them, to make their task as easy as the subject allows. Ask yourself questions about your readers: What can I ex- pect them to know and ... however, go a long way. Readers have egos too. Kinds of Writing The various effects a writer may wish to have on his or her readers to inform, to persuade, to entertain—result...

Ngày tải lên: 26/01/2014, 00:20

... Such stories are realistic in that characters and events correspond to life as we know it, and we can generalize from them to real people. At the same time the stories—like allegories—point to ... down my lunch on my way to the speech clinic and rush back to the school in time to make up for the classes I had lost. One day, one unforgettable dread day, I stopped to catch my...

Ngày tải lên: 26/01/2014, 00:20

... about Toronto? What can one? What has any- body ever said? It is impossible to give it anything but commen- dation. is not squalid like Birmingham, or cramped Canton, or scattered like Edmonton, ... has purpose. The purpose may be to signify is, to refer to an object or person other than the writer, to an abstract conception such as "democracy," or to a thought or feelin...

Ngày tải lên: 13/12/2013, 23:15

... 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 ... observations, ideas, feelings, and affecting their responses both to the topic and to you in ways that you wish. To the degree that it fails to achieve your purpose, your...

Ngày tải lên: 13/12/2013, 23:15

... he proceeded to the bulletin board. BETTER: Told yes, he went to the bulletin board. Television shows which demonstrate participation in physical ex- ercise will improve your muscle tone. BETTER: ... or conceals a fact considered improper or unpleasant. Euphe- misms for death include to pass away, to depart this life, to go to that big in the equally trite. Poverty, sexual matters...

Ngày tải lên: 23/12/2013, 14:15

... it is not too much to ask people to look into a dictionary now and again.) Don't Spell Out What Is Clearly Implied Unless there is a clear chance of confusion, you do not have to state what ... do not need to be made more concise; they need to be eliminated. There are two broad causes of pointless diction: (1) failing to credit readers' intelligence, and (2) failing to...

Ngày tải lên: 23/12/2013, 14:15

... in his angry overalls, too angry to come down tO luncheon. Harold Nicholson Oxymoron and Rhetorical Paradox When the oddity of a collocation becomes seemingly contra- dictory, it is called an ... adjectives is known as a transferred epithet—a word customarily applied to a partic- ular noun or class of nouns which is used instead to modify something associated with that noun, as in &...

Ngày tải lên: 20/01/2014, 20:20