The Well Crafted Sentence

Author : Nora Bacon
Publisher : Macmillan Higher Education
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781457641336

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The Well-Crafted Sentence by Nora Bacon Pdf

Grounded in the art of writing, The Well-Crafted Sentence zeroes in on the building block of great prose: the sentence. With a friendly, approachable, and elegant tone, Nora Bacon shows the benefits of attention to style and offers a range of revision strategies that give students the tools to strengthen and develop their writing. Giving students the opportunity to see successful rhetorical choices at work in writing they admire, the text includes a brief anthology of readings by ten accomplished stylists, five of them new to this edition. Examples throughout the text are drawn from these model pieces, as are integrated exercises that help students apply concepts to their own writing. Additionally, a new first chapter, Approaches to Style, introduces students to the concept of style. Affordable and brief, The Well-Crafted Sentence works as a core classroom text or as a supplement.

Author : Nora Bacon
Publisher : Bedford Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1319058620

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The Well-crafted Sentence by Nora Bacon Pdf

"What makes a sentence sing? The Well-Crafted Sentence demystifies sentences by taking apart expert writers' work and helping you revise your own. Example sentences throughout the book are from 11 readings included in the back, so you can see how those writers made their work stronger."--Publisher's description.

Author : John Peck,Martin Coyle
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07-31
Category : Study Aids
ISBN : 9781350315594

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The Student's Guide to Writing by John Peck,Martin Coyle Pdf

Aimed at students wishing to improve their writing skills, this guide deals with the key basics of grammar, punctuation and spelling while also showing students how to construct a sentence, how to build a paragraph and how to structure an essay. This third edition includes an expanded 'Spot the Mistake' section.

Author : Stanley Fish
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780062006851

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How to Write a Sentence by Stanley Fish Pdf

New York Times Bestseller “Both deeper and more democratic than The Elements of Style” —Adam Haslett, Financial Times “A guided tour through some of the most beautiful, arresting sentences in the English language.” —Slate In this entertaining and erudite gem, world-class professor and New York Times columnist Stanley Fish offers both sentence craft and sentence pleasure, skills invaluable to any writer (or reader). Like a seasoned sportscaster, Fish marvels at the adeptness of finely crafted sentences and breaks them down into digestible morsels, giving readers an instant play-by-play. Drawing on a wide range of great writers, from Philip Roth to Antonin Scalia to Jane Austen, How to Write a Sentence is much more than a writing manual—it is a spirited love letter to the written word, and a key to understanding how great writing works. It is a book that will stand the test of time.

Author : Francine Prose
Publisher : Union Books
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781908526144

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Reading Like a Writer by Francine Prose Pdf

In her entertaining and edifying New York Times bestseller, acclaimed author Francine Prose invites you to sit by her side and take a guided tour of the tools and tricks of the masters to discover why their work has endured. Written with passion, humour and wisdom, Reading Like a Writer will inspire readers to return to literature with a fresh eye and an eager heart – to take pleasure in the long and magnificent sentences of Philip Roth and the breathtaking paragraphs of Isaac Babel; to look to John le Carré for a lesson in how to advance plot through dialogue and to Flannery O’ Connor for the cunning use of the telling detail; to be inspired by Emily Brontë ’ s structural nuance and Charles Dickens’ s deceptively simple narrative techniques. Most importantly, Prose cautions readers to slow down and pay attention to words, the raw material out of which all literature is crafted, and reminds us that good writing comes out of good reading.

Author : Nora Bacon,Andrea A. Lunsford
Publisher : Bedford/st Martins
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2009-09-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0312646623

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The Well-crafted Sentence + Easywriter 4th Ed by Nora Bacon,Andrea A. Lunsford Pdf

Author : Lisa Cron
Publisher : Ten Speed Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012-07-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781607742456

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Wired for Story by Lisa Cron Pdf

This guide reveals how writers can utilize cognitive storytelling strategies to craft stories that ignite readers’ brains and captivate them through each plot element. Imagine knowing what the brain craves from every tale it encounters, what fuels the success of any great story, and what keeps readers transfixed. Wired for Story reveals these cognitive secrets—and it’s a game-changer for anyone who has ever set pen to paper. The vast majority of writing advice focuses on “writing well” as if it were the same as telling a great story. This is exactly where many aspiring writers fail—they strive for beautiful metaphors, authentic dialogue, and interesting characters, losing sight of the one thing that every engaging story must do: ignite the brain’s hardwired desire to learn what happens next. When writers tap into the evolutionary purpose of story and electrify our curiosity, it triggers a delicious dopamine rush that tells us to pay attention. Without it, even the most perfect prose won’t hold anyone’s interest. Backed by recent breakthroughs in neuroscience as well as examples from novels, screenplays, and short stories, Wired for Story offers a revolutionary look at story as the brain experiences it. Each chapter zeroes in on an aspect of the brain, its corresponding revelation about story, and the way to apply it to your storytelling right now.

Author : Tracy Kidder,Richard Todd
Publisher : Random House Incorporated
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781400069750

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Good Prose by Tracy Kidder,Richard Todd Pdf

The Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author of House and the editor of Atlantic Monthly share stories from their literary friendship and respective careers, offering insight into writing principles and mechanics that they have identified as elementary to quality prose.

Author : Brian Dillon
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-27
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781681375250

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Suppose a Sentence by Brian Dillon Pdf

A captivating meditation on the power of the sentence by the author of Essayism, a 2018 New Yorker book of the year. In Suppose a Sentence, Brian Dillon, whom John Banville has called “a literary flâneur in the tradition of Baudelaire and Walter Benjamin,” has written a sequel of sorts to Essayism, turning his attention to the oblique and complex pleasures of the sentence. A series of essays prompted by a single sentence—from Shakespeare to James Baldwin, John Ruskin to Joan Didion—this new book explores style, voice, and language, along with the subjectivity of reading. Both an exercise in practical criticism and a set of experiments or challenges, Suppose a Sentence is a polemical and personal reflection on the art of the sentence in literature.

Author : Louise Erdrich
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062671141

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The Sentence by Louise Erdrich Pdf

"Dazzling. . . . A hard-won love letter to readers and to booksellers, as well as a compelling story about how we cope with pain and fear, injustice and illness. One good way is to press a beloved book into another's hands. Read The Sentence and then do just that."—USA Today, Four Stars In this New York Times bestselling novel, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award–winning author Louise Erdrich creates a wickedly funny ghost story, a tale of passion, of a complex marriage, and of a woman's relentless errors. Louise Erdrich's latest novel, The Sentence, asks what we owe to the living, the dead, to the reader and to the book. A small independent bookstore in Minneapolis is haunted from November 2019 to November 2020 by the store's most annoying customer. Flora dies on All Souls' Day, but she simply won't leave the store. Tookie, who has landed a job selling books after years of incarceration that she survived by reading "with murderous attention," must solve the mystery of this haunting while at the same time trying to understand all that occurs in Minneapolis during a year of grief, astonishment, isolation, and furious reckoning. The Sentence begins on All Souls' Day 2019 and ends on All Souls' Day 2020. Its mystery and proliferating ghost stories during this one year propel a narrative as rich, emotional, and profound as anything Louise Erdrich has written.

Author : Jason Reynolds
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781481450164

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Ghost by Jason Reynolds Pdf

Aspiring to be the fastest sprinter on his elite middle school's track team, gifted runner Ghost finds his goal challenged by a tragic past with a violent father.

Author : Raymond Queneau
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : French fiction
ISBN : 0811207897

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Exercises in Style by Raymond Queneau Pdf

Queneau uses a variety of literary styles and forms in ninety-nine exercises which retell the same story about a minor brawl aboard a bus.

Author : Martin Brandt (Writing teacher)
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : English language
ISBN : 032510820X

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Between the Commas by Martin Brandt (Writing teacher) Pdf

"To improve his students' writing, the author returns to neglected research in sentence instruction to explicitly teach the possibilities of sentences: how various moves affect sentences and how sentences build on each other"--

Author : Constance Hale
Publisher : Three Rivers Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2001-12-04
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780767908924

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Sin and Syntax by Constance Hale Pdf

Today’s writers need more spunk than Strunk: whether it's the Great American e-mail, Madison Avenue advertising, or Grammy Award-winning rap lyrics, memorable writing must jump off the page. Copy veteran Constance Hale is on a mission to make creative communication, both the lyrical and the unlawful, an option for everyone. With its crisp, witty tone, Sin and Syntax covers grammar’s ground rules while revealing countless unconventional syntax secrets (such as how to use—Gasp!—interjections or when to pepper your prose with slang) that make for sinfully good writing. Discover how to: *Distinguish between words that are “pearls” and words that are “potatoes” * Avoid “couch potato thinking” and “commitment phobia” when choosing verbs * Use literary devices such as onomatopoeia, alliteration, and metaphor (and understand what you're doing) Everyone needs to know how to write stylish prose—students, professionals, and seasoned writers alike. Whether you’re writing to sell, shock, or just sing, Sin and Syntax is the guide you need to improve your command of the English language.

Author : Verlyn Klinkenborg
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780307279415

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Several Short Sentences About Writing by Verlyn Klinkenborg Pdf

An indispensable and distinctive book that will help anyone who wants to write, write better, or have a clearer understanding of what it means for them to be writing, from widely admired writer and teacher Verlyn Klinkenborg. Klinkenborg believes that most of our received wisdom about how writing works is not only wrong but an obstacle to our ability to write. In Several Short Sentences About Writing, he sets out to help us unlearn that “wisdom”—about genius, about creativity, about writer’s block, topic sentences, and outline—and understand that writing is just as much about thinking, noticing, and learning what it means to be involved in the act of writing. There is no gospel, no orthodoxy, no dogma in this book. Instead it is a gathering of starting points in a journey toward lively, lucid, satisfying self-expression.