Libro Polishing Your Prose: How to Turn First Drafts Into Finished Work De Cahn, Steven ; Cahn, Victor ; Caws, Mary Ann

portada Polishing Your Prose: How to Turn First Drafts Into Finished Work

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Steven Cahn

Victor Cahn

Prefacio de

Mary Ann Caws

Editorial

Columbia University Press

Año

2013

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

104

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

20.3 x 13.7 x 1.0 cm

Peso

0.14 kg.

ISBN

0231160895

ISBN13

9780231160896

Categorías

Guías de redacción y corrección de textos
Semántica y análisis del discurso

Polishing Your Prose: How to Turn First Drafts Into Finished Work

Steven Cahn (Autor) · Victor Cahn (Autor) · Mary Ann Caws (Prefacio de) · Columbia University Press · Tapa Blanda

Sin Stock

Reseña del libro "Polishing Your Prose: How to Turn First Drafts Into Finished Work"

This singular book illustrates how to edit a piece of prose and enhance its clarity of thought and felicity of style. The authors first present ten principles of effective composition, and then scrutinize three extended paragraphs, suggesting with remarkable specificity how to improve them. The volume also offers challenging practice questions, as well as two finished essays, one serious and one humorous, that demonstrate how attention to sound mechanics need not result in mechanical writing. Steven M. Cahn and Victor L. Cahn help readers deploy a host of corrective strategies, such as avoiding jargon, bombast, and redundancy; varying sentence structure; paring the use of adjectives and adverbs; properly deploying phrases and clauses; and refining an argument. Here is a book for all who seek to increase their facility in written communication.