essential guide to writing part 6

... 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 ... 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 ... 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 seldom fails to disgust,...

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... 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 lovers gone to war): They ... 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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... 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 par- agraph, to relationships of thought, feeling, and perception. Both necessary if a paragraph is to be truly unified. Coherence To...

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 ... 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 ... 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...

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

... 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 ... which, although not essential to the is interesting and enlightening. In working out a genus-species definition, then, the essen- tial questions to ask yourself are these: To what class does it...

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...

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 for ... 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...

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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... 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 sen- tence. 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...

Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2013, 00:15

... 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. ... 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 ... 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...

Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2013, 00:15

... spirit.) The average autochthonous Irishman is close to patriotism because he is close to the earth; he is close to domesticity because he is close to the earth; he is close to doctrinal theology ... 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 ... married man. Polysyndeton and Asyndeton Despite their formidable names, polysyndeton and asyndeton are nothing more than different ways of handling a list or series. Polysyndeton places a conjunction...

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 ... 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 ... 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...

Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2013, 00:15

... 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 ... used to emphasize a key idea. In the following passage the historian Herbert But- moves through two long sentences (the second a bit shorter than the to a strong short statement: The Whig historian...

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...

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