essential guide to writing part 3

... 36 THE WRITING. .. www.tailieuduhoc.org MAKING A PLAN 33 important A scratch outline is a guide, but a guide you should never hesitate to change For Practice D Imagine you are going to ... 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 ... 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?

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... 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

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... 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

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... 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 ... support your topic it is just deadwood: The people had come to the new world for freedom of several different kinds,... or tone of voice (think of how we say generous to twist its sense to "stingy"

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... 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 1 930 s, 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

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... 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 ... 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

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... Dictionaries 33 6 vi Description and Narration 30 Description 35 1 31 Narration 36 6 PART VII Punctuation 37 7 Introduction 37 9 32 Stops 38 3 33 The Other Marks 417 Name Index 439 Subject Index 445 34 9 For ... 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 29 ... Paragraph Development: (3) Cause and Effect 125 17 Paragraph Development: (4) Definition, Analysis, and Qualification 132 PART 18 19 20 21 22 23 PART v 24 25 26 27 28 29 PART The Sentence 149 The

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... 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 ... of anything to write about." That's strange, because life is fascinating The solution is to open yourself to experience To look around To describe what you see and hear To read Reading ... space to add thoughts of your own If you accumulate a lot of entries, you may want to make an index or to group passages according to subject A commonplace book will help your writing

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... 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 ... 527,116,709 ,36 6, 231 ,42 5,076,185, 631 , 031 ,296 protons in the universe and the same number of electrons It would be a curiously incurious reader who would not boggle at this and read on to learn ... the Emperor, to show the different parts of the State in relation to one another and to him Later chapters will develop particular themes We shall have to consider at the close how far the

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... 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,

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... visit www.tailieuduhoc.org 36 8 DESCRIPTION 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 ... 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) ... 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 breath on

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... 30 5, 33 3, 39 3 Catton, Bruce, Cherry, Colin, 2 13 Chesterton, G. K., 57, 139 , 141, 32 6, 33 1, 428 Robin G., 401 Conrad, Joseph, 30 3, 35 4 Coolidge, Calvin, 27 Coughlan, Robert, 39 3 cummings, e. e., 32 9 ... Outline, 31 Overqualification, 2 93 Overstatement, 31 6 ff comic, 31 6 serious, 31 7 Oxford English Dictionary, 33 7, 33 9 Oxymoron, 33 0 Paired definition, 139 Paradox logical, 33 0 rhetorical, 33 0 Paragraph, ... Charles, 233 Taylor, Jeremy, 138 Tennyson, Alfred, 224 Thomas, Dylan, 64, 214, 33 2, 33 3 Thomas, Lewis, 1 83, 215, 275 Thoreau, Henry David, 27, 2 03, 2 23, 30 2, 30 6, 30 7 Thorp, Willard, 1 03 James,

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... a long way toward avoiding a tone of cocksureness and restoring at least a sem- blance of two-way traffic on that unavoidably one-way street from writer to reader. Thus a scholar writing about ... your paragraphs run con- sistently to 200 or 30 0 words, they are probably too long and need to be shortened or divided. Numerous brief paragraphs are liable to be disjointed and underdeveloped. ... (italics are added): The blind in particular seem to become indifferent to climatic extremes; and there... reasonableness, the will to see things steadily and to See them whole Brand Blanshard

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... Practical Guide for Reporting 30 Figure 4.1 Apical hypertrophic cardiomyopathy ch04 4/5/07 1 :33 pm Page 30 2. Quantify systolic function and assess diastolic function • Impaired systolic function ... there is dilatation of the mid and apical parts of the LV cavity. ch 03 4/5/07 1 :33 pm Page 23 Echocardiography: A Practical Guide for Reporting 24 Table 3. 1 Causes of mitral regurgitation after ... myocardial infarction • Thrombus (Table 3. 3) • Aneurysm (Figure 3. 1) • Pseudoaneurysm (Figure 3. 1) • Papillary muscle rupture • Ventricular septal rupture Table 3. 3 Features of thrombus • Underlying

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... history, great artists from da Vinci to Tchaikovsky have been supported by patrons Today, few people contribute directly to individual artists, but artists still need support It takes time to ... message telling us to please send some better programming? Trang 4 » Now start the Audio Program Listen to part of a lecture in an astronomy class 4) Notes on the lecture: Task 3 Read the following ... of art that we reveal to ourselves and to others the inner vision which guides us as a nation.” These days, however, it is becoming more and more difficult for artists to support themselves financially

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... available yet to fill a paper on your specific subtopics. Solution: Find a topic that affords you sufficient information to cover the issue thoroughly. 8. Do I like my topic enough to want to write ... the issue if your topic has only one side. Get a new topic that is controversial (without being offensive, of course!). 7. Is the topic too new? Problem: If the topic is too fresh, such as ... your topic, your par- ents like your topic, your buddies like your topic. Even your dog likes your topic. The problem? You don't like your topic. Solution: Y o u guessed it: Get a new topic.

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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 ... 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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... assignments. [3] This interferes with your social life. [4] It may even cost you your girlfriend. [5] Girls don't like to be told that you have to stay home and study when they want to go to a show ... 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 par- agraph, to relationships of thought, feeling, and perception. Both necessary if a paragraph is to be truly unified. Coherence To...

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... 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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... 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...

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