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This bestselling brief text is for anyone who needs tips to improve writing. Writing with Style is storehouse of practical writing tips—written in a lively, conversational style. This text provides insight into: how to generate interesting ideas and get them down on paper; how to write a critical analysis; how to write a crisp opener; how to invigorate a dull style; how to punctuate with confidence; how to handle various conventions—and much more.

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Contents

A Word About These “Conversations”

Preface to the Third Edition

Acknowledgments

Fundamentals

Chapter 1: Thinking Well

Chapter 2: Getting Launched

Chapter 3: Openers

Chapter 4: Middles

Chapter 5: Closers

Chapter 6: Diction

Chapter 7: Readability

Chapter 8: Superstitions

Chapter 9: Critical Analysis: Jousting with Mencken

Chapter 10: Dramatizing Your Ideas

Chapter 11: Revising

Chapter 12: Proofreading

Odds and Ends

Chapter 13: Punctuation

Semicolons

Commas

Parentheses

Dashes

Colons

Hyphens

Exclamation points

Chapter 14: Quoting

Punctuation introducing quotations

Punctuation at the end of quotations

Miscellaneous small points

Indented quotations

Orphan quotes

Dialogue

Punctuating run-on quotations of poetry

References for quotations

Punctuating parenthetical references

Ellipses

Editorial insertions (square brackets)

Chapter 15: Abbreviations

Chapter 16: Tips on Usage

Chapter 17: Epilogue

Sources

Index

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2024
Genre:	Importe
Produktart:	Lektüren & Interpretationen
Rubrik:	Schule & Lernen
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	208 S.
ISBN-13:	9780205028801
ISBN-10:	0205028802
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Trimble, John Trimble, John R.
Auflage:	3. Auflage
Hersteller:	Pearson Pearson Education Limited
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Pearson Studium im Verlag Pearson Benelux B.V. Zweigniederla, Sankt-Martin-Str. 82, D-81541 München, buchhandel@pearson.com
Maße:	216 x 138 x 12 mm
Von/Mit:	John Trimble (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum:	29.05.2024
Gewicht:	0,265 kg