essential guide to writing part 1

... Qualification 13 2 PART 18 19 20 21 22 23 PART v 24 25 26 27 28 29 PART The Sentence 14 9 The Sentence: A Definition 15 1 Sentence Styles 16 1 The Well-Written Sentence: (1) Concision 19 1 The Well-Written ... Subject, Reader, and Kinds of Writing Strategy and Style Grammar, Usage, and Mechanics 13 PART PART II 10 11 PART The Writing Process 17 Looking for Subjects 19 Exploring for Topics 23 Making a Plan ... CONTENTS 15 Paragraph Development: (2) Comparison, Contrast, and Analogy 11 4 16 Paragraph Development: (3) Cause and Effect 12 5 17 Paragraph Development: (4) Definition, Analysis, and Qualification 13 2

Ngày tải lên: 26/01/2014, 00:20

... to them... election, each party promises to make the city bigger and better Each party, before the election, promises to make the city bigger and better Now the clause is organized into ... optional): CONVENTIONAL We stopped on the way to camp and bought supplies: bread, butter, cheese, hamburger, hot dogs, and beer. POLYSYNDETON We stopped on the way to camp and bought For more ... understand; to understand is to explain oneself; to explain is to relate Brand Blanshard I didn't like the swimming pool, I didn't like swimming, and I didn't like the swimming instructor, and

Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2013, 00:15

... 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 a great deal of satiricalness. (For ... 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: ... 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, and diseases are

Ngày tải lên: 23/12/2013, 14:15

... 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 focus on ... 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 ... the total context rather than by any single word. Each of these phrases is dead: Writing poetry requires experience as well as sensibility. A prereq- uisite to writing poetry is being able to

Ngày tải lên: 23/12/2013, 14:15

... Barbara Most similes are brief, but they may be by breaking the vehicles into parts and applying each to the tenor. A historian, writing about the Italian patriot Garibaldi, explains that his mind was ... 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 ... politician of the 19 30s, 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

Ngày tải lên: 23/12/2013, 14:15

... the allusion is to the Old Testament book of Ecclesiastes (3 :1- 8): I didn't know whether I should appear before you—there is a time to show and a time to hide; there is a time to speak, 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 below. Here ... word: The average autochthonous Irishman is close to patriotism because he is close to the earth c K Chesterton For when the Commodore roused his starboard watch at 5 :14 — having given them

Ngày tải lên: 20/01/2014, 20:20

... 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 "a ... Cretans are liars," said a Cretan. A rhetorical paradox, on the other hand, does not contain a true contradiction. It may seem to. Chesterton appears to be saying something that is logically

Ngày tải lên: 20/01/2014, 20:20

... organization and tone. Or- ganization involves (1) how you analyze your topic, the parts into which you divide it, and (2) the order in which you present these parts and how you tie them together. Tone means ... is the deep essence of writing. For Practice t> Selecting one of the topics you listed at the end of Chapter 1, work up a paragraph of 15 0 to 200 words. Before you begin to write, think about ... AND STYLE 11 cause we want to 'join our lives.' ") At the same time the sentences are sufficiently varied to achieve a strategy funda- mental to all good prose? ?to get and

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 work through a ... Lifestyle? Attitudes toward love, sex, marriage? Toward success, work, money? Already you have topics, perhaps too many. Another ques- tion suggests itself: Which of these topics do I want to focus on?

Ngày tải lên: 26/01/2014, 00:20

... 15 , 747 ,7 24, 13 6,275,002,577,605,653,6 91, 18 1,555 ,46 8, 044 , 71 7,9 14 , 527 ,11 6,709,366,2 31 ,42 5,076 ,18 5,6 31, 0 31, 296 protons in the universe and the same number of electrons It would be ... satisfactory... Astronomer Sir Arthur Eddington begins a chapter in his book The Philosophy of Science with this statement: I believe there are 15 , 747 ,7 24, 13 6,275,002,577,605,653,6 91, 18 1,555 ... to be hit over the head. Implicit announcements may appear as rhetorical ques- tions, as in this essay about historians: What is the historian? The historian is he who tells a true story in writing. Consider

Ngày tải lên: 26/01/2014, 00:20

... little, or no, time to continue my instructional essay on "How To Begin a Story." "How To End a Story" is, of course, a different matter. . . . One way of ending a story is. And ... the business of the storyteller is to ask questions, not to answer them That truth applies sometimes to the essayist, who may wish to suggest a judgment rather than to formulate one The ... paragraph to each: A. What strategy did you use to interest your readers? B. What tone were you seeking to establish—specifically, how did you feel about the subject, how did you wish readers to view you,

Ngày tải lên: 26/01/2014, 00:20

... inactive condition; rouse: wake old animosities To make aware of; to alert Often used with to: It waked him to the facts Regional, a To keep a vigil over, b To hold a wake over.—n a A watch; vigil, ... be brought into a state of awareness or alertness Regional To keep watch or guard, especially over a corpse To be or remain awake.—tr To rouse from sleep; awaken Often used with up To stir, as ... DICTION between exact and near synonyms To distinguish all shades of meaning would result in a vast work of many volumes, too expensive to buy and too cumbersome to use Roget's is probably the best

Ngày tải lên: 26/01/2014, 00:20

... evicted On June 11 , he came himself to the Romanos and... away, he would have the Romanos evicted On June 11 , he came himself to the Romanos and demanded the money again He threatened to have ... of the narrative: Peter Romano's being carried off to jail In the simple and often partial stories you are likely to tell in expository writing, it is not always necessary (or even desirable) ... AND NARRATION his story into two parts: the problems of getting ashore (par- agraphs 2 and 3), and the difficulties of returning to the ship (4). We called at Malta, a curious town where there

Ngày tải lên: 26/01/2014, 00:20

... Lucas, F. L., 10 1, 10 2, 14 7, 17 8, 19 0, 256, 257 Lynd, Robert, 276 Lynes, Russell, Macaulay, Thomas 214 , 215 , 216 Mack, Maynard, 73, 82, 83, 403, 428 McLuhan, Marshall, 306, 312 , 313 Carey, 303 ... 210 , 212 , 312 , 390, 396, 402, 414 Langewiesche, Wolfgang, 298 Lardner, John, 10 0, 405, 414 Lawrence, T. E., 398 Leacock, Stephen, Lear, Edmund, Leighton, Alexander H., 320 Levin, David, 412 411 ... Norman 312 Buchan, John, 50 Burke, Edmund, 17 1 Burns, Robert, 2 51 Butterfield, Herbert, 11 8, 2 21, 237, 406 Byrd, Richard E., 407 Calder, Nigel, 305, 388 Cameron, James, 236, 412 Carlyle, Thomas, 17 6,

Ngày tải lên: 13/12/2013, 23:15

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Ngày tải lên: 19/03/2014, 13:26

... 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 ... Chartists had pushed through a fac- tory law restricting working time for women and juveniles to eleven hours, and from May 1, 18 48 to ten hours. This was not at all to the liking of the manufacturers, ... www.tailieuduhoc.org CHAPTER 11 Point of View, Persona, and Tone Point of View Thus far we have looked at how to begin and end essays and how to help readers follow the flow of thought. It remains to consider...

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 ... requires a stronger stop to signal the distinction between one unit in the series and another. Look at this sen- tence about the rise of the Ku in the 19 20s: There were other factors too: the deadly ... using commas 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...

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 plants to operate successfully ... paragraph relate to its ideas. The analysis might begin like this: Sentence Idea 1 Topic: a paradox about grammar 2 Specification: first part of the regard grammar as dull > [1] A curious paradox...

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 ... subject in its totality. Organ- izing around 1, 2, and 3 emphasizes particular likenesses or differences. It all depends on what you want to do. In the following case the writer elected to organize ... 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 treated priests...

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 which the ... ought to decide. That is just the case. The new territories are the newly made bed to which our children are to go, and it lies with the nation to say whether they shall have snakes mixed up with...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2013, 02:15