essential guide to writing part 2

Tài liệu Essential guide to writing part 2 docx

Ngày tải lên : 26/01/2014, 00:20

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Essential guide to writing part 6

Ngày tải lên : 17/10/2013, 16:15

... 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 ... awkward. It is good practice, then, (1) to select a point of view appropriate to your subject, (2) to establish that point of view in the opening paragraph, and (3) to maintain it consistently. Persona Persona ... 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 writing about Chaucer's love...

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Essential guide to writing part 26

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 sentence about the rise of the Ku in the 1 920 s: 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...

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Essential guide to writing part 7

Ngày tải lên : 20/10/2013, 03:15

... 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 ... sentence to another. Coherence belongs to the substructure of the paragraph, to relationships of thought, feeling, and perception. Both necessary if a paragraph is to be truly unified. Coherence To...

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Essential guide to writing part 8

Ngày tải lên : 20/10/2013, 04:15

... 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...

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Essential guide to writing part 9

Ngày tải lên : 24/10/2013, 02:15

... driveway. He will contribute his share to the 1 42 million tons of smoke and fumes, seven million junked cars, 20 million tons of paper, 48 billion cans, and 26 billion bottles the overburdened ... clear to the reader. If you are defining a word, un- derline it (equivalent to italic type). In the following paragraph, for instance, the writer wishes to make clear how the word history is ... information, please visit www.tailieuduhoc.org (2) COMPARISON, CONTRAST, AND ANALOGY to apply to good government on land. Such analogies which claim to "prove" unwarranted conclusions...

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Essential guide to writing part 10

Ngày tải lên : 24/10/2013, 02:15

... necessary to (2) Too much exercise, or the wrong kind, can hurt you. For more material and information, please visit www.tailieuduhoc.org THE EXPOSITORY PARAGRAPH is composed of the particular ... 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 into a coherent...

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Essential guide to writing part 27

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 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...

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Essential guide to writing part 11

Ngày tải lên : 28/10/2013, 09:15

... in Chapters 21 and 23 , where we discuss emphasis and variety.) Every writer should be able to handle the short sentence to stress particular ideas and, when the occasion warrants, to compose brief ... 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 arrange these ... concern in this part. First, however, we must derstand, 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...

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Essential guide to writing part 12

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. ) Thomas Carlyle stood like one thunderstruck, or ... 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 greatest part of mankind. According to...

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Essential guide to writing part 13

Ngày tải lên : 07/11/2013, 00:15

... 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 sentence. Of course, this question of when to stop, of knowing when one statement should end and another begin, applies to all kinds of ... those places which interested me, from a defect of eye or of hand was totally ineffectual. Sir Walter Scott The life story to be told of any creative worker is therefore by its very nature, by its...

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Essential guide to writing part 14

Ngày tải lên : 07/11/2013, 00:15

... suddenly began to rain. 2. Suddenly, it began to rain. If we suppose that the writer wished to draw our attention to "suddenly," sentence (2) is better. By moving it to the opening ... 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. ... from the noun to the participle (or predicative word). Sometimes an entire adverbial clause can be cut back to the operative participle. WORDY Because they were tired, the men returned to camp. CONCISE...

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Essential guide to writing part 15

Ngày tải lên : 07/11/2013, 00:15

... is close to the earth; he is close to domesticity because he is close to the earth; he is close to doctrinal theology and elaborate ritual because he is close to the earth. G. Chesterton Mr. and ... must appear in the sentences to make the writing seem all of a piece; enough difference to create interest. For more material and information, please visit www.tailieuduhoc.org 22 8 THE SENTENCE Mimetic ... 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 potential...

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Essential guide to writing part 28

Ngày tải lên : 07/11/2013, 00:15

... Victorian monstrosities, "this area [it was one of his favorite words] is very rich in antiquity." Aldous Huxley Sometimes, too, it is necessary to alter a quotation slightly to it into ... exclamation points, placement depends on whether the stop applies only to the quotation, only to the sentence containing the quotation, or to both. When the quotation is a question (or exclamation) and ... interpretation." Often written quotations are worked into the text in a smoother manner by an introductory that. The that requires no stop since it turns the quotation into a noun clause acting as the direct...

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Tài liệu Essential guide to writing part 16 pdf

Ngày tải lên : 13/12/2013, 23:15

... 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 feeling in the ... they are good they may become Toronto. Rupert Brooke Varied Openings Monotony especially threatens when sentence after sentence begins the same way. It is easy to open with something other than...

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Tài liệu Essential guide to writing part 17 docx

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 diction fails entirely.4 4. ... error to pick words that mean too much, to name an entire class when what you wish to signify is something less: Thrift is not one of their attributes. (For virtues) The novel has far too many...