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The Oxford Essential Guide to Writing

Author: Oxford University Press and Thomas S. Kane   Series: Essential Resource Library

The Oxford Essential Guide to Writing
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This essential resource helps all writers organize, shape, and complete their work while expressing their ideas creatively and clearly. Rules of style and technique are covered, with examples of expert prose from the masters. An Appendix covers punctuation and grammar.

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This essential resource helps all writers organize, shape, and complete their work while expressing their ideas creatively and clearly. Rules of style and technique are covered, with examples of expert prose from the masters. An Appendix covers punctuation and grammar.

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A Concise Course in the Art of Writing Whether you're composing a letter, writing a school thesis, or starting a novel, this resource offers expert advice on how to think more creatively, how to conjure up ideas from scratch, and how to express those ideas clearly and elegantly. No matter where you find yourself in the writing process--from the daunting look of a blank page, to the rough draft that needs shaping, to the small but important questions of punctuation--you'll find what you need in this one handy, all-inclusive volume. Some features include:

  • How to use journals to store ideas and explore potential topics
  • Examples of style and technique from such masters of form as Mark Twain, H.L. Mencken, E.B. White, and Annie Dillard
  • Advice on using outlines to shape your material--and drafts and revisions to refine them
  • Selecting the proper words to convey both information and point of view
  • A useful appendix on punctuation, ranging from commas to underlining and capitalization
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About the Author

John Pallister is Head of the Marketing and Strategy Section at Cardiff Business School, Wales.

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Publisher
Berkley Books | Oxford University Press Inc
Published
31st July 2000
Pages
464
ISBN
9780425176405

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