The Well Crafted Sentence

Author : Nora Bacon
Publisher : Macmillan Higher Education
ISBN 13 : 145764133X
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Well-Crafted Sentence written by Nora Bacon and published by Macmillan Higher Education. This book was released on 2012-11-02 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Macmillan Higher Education
ISBN 13 : 1319249949
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Well-Crafted Sentence written by Nora Bacon and published by Macmillan Higher Education. This book was released on 2018-11-07 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What makes a sentence strong? Nora Bacon’s The Well-Crafted Sentence: A Writer’s Guide to Style demystifies grammatical concepts and stylistic choices by taking apart expert writers’ sentences as illustrations and asking students to practice crafting and revising their own. Examples throughout the text are excerpted from 11 readings collected in an anthology at the end of the book, so you can teach style in the context of a larger argument or narrative. With four new model texts, expanded explanations of grammatical concepts, and new coverage of figures of speech, the third edition invites students to experiment with sentence structures that make writing stronger.

Author : John Peck
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350315591
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Student's Guide to Writing written by John Peck and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-07-31 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Lisa Cron
Publisher : Ten Speed Press
ISBN 13 : 1607742454
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wired for Story written by Lisa Cron and published by Ten Speed Press. This book was released on 2012-07-10 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Stanley Fish
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062006851
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Write a Sentence written by Stanley Fish and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-01-25 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Raymond Queneau
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811207898
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Exercises in Style written by Raymond Queneau and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1981 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Nora Bacon
Publisher : Bedford/st Martins
ISBN 13 : 9780312646622
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Well-crafted Sentence + Easywriter 4th Ed written by Nora Bacon and published by Bedford/st Martins. This book was released on 2009-09-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Louise Erdrich
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062671146
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sentence written by Louise Erdrich and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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 : William H. Gass
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780141180106
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Omensetter's Luck written by William H. Gass and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1997-04-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The most important work of fiction by an American in this literary generation." -The New Republic Now celebrating the 50th anniversary of its publication, Omensetter's Luck is the masterful first novel by the author of The Tunnel, Middle C, On Being Blue, and Eyes: Novellas and Stories. Greeted as a masterpiece when it was first published in 1966, Omensetter's Luck is the quirky, impressionistic, and breathtakingly original story of an ordinary community galvanized by the presence of an extraordinary man. Set in a small Ohio town in the 1890s, it chronicles - through the voices of various participants and observers - the confrontation between Brackett Omensetter, a man of preternatural goodness, and the Reverend Jethro Furber, a preacher crazed with a propensity for violent thoughts. Omensetter's Luck meticulously brings to life a specific time and place as it illuminates timeless questions about life, love, good, and evil. This edition includes an afterword written by William Gass in 1997. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Author : Tracy Kidder
Publisher : Random House Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 1400069750
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Good Prose written by Tracy Kidder and published by Random House Incorporated. This book was released on 2013 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.