An essential refernce for writers-both new and experienced-that will help improve your writing skills and style and help you say exactly what you want to say. Students, teachers, businessmen, aspiring authors, and complaining consumers all have one thing in common-the need to express successfully ideas, opinions, arguments, problems, explanations, or instructions through the medium of the written word. And The Lively Art of Writing is the perfect guide to the mastery of this essential skill. It will answer all of your questions, provide you with the best techniques, and offer important…mehr
An essential refernce for writers-both new and experienced-that will help improve your writing skills and style and help you say exactly what you want to say. Students, teachers, businessmen, aspiring authors, and complaining consumers all have one thing in common-the need to express successfully ideas, opinions, arguments, problems, explanations, or instructions through the medium of the written word. And The Lively Art of Writing is the perfect guide to the mastery of this essential skill. It will answer all of your questions, provide you with the best techniques, and offer important information about: • Choosing a subject • Working with words • The sound of sentences • The power of paragraphs • Essentials of style • Essays, theses, and term papers • And much, much more...
Lucile Vaughan Payne is the author of The Lively Art of Writing.
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A Note to the Student Chapter 1 What Is an Essay? Subjects for Essays What Is an Opinion, and How Do You Reach It? What Makes an Opinion Interesting? Examining the Opposition Believe What You Say Summary Chapter 2 From Opinion to Thesis "Closing In" on Your Thesis The Five-Step Process A Subject Close to Home Summary Chapter 3 The Full and Final Thesis Elements of a Full Thesis The Psychology of Argument Strongest Argument Last Form of the Full Thesis Summary Chapter 4 Structure The Introduction No Bombs, Please The Big Middle Section Refer to Your Full Thesis Your Strongest Argument The Conclusion Back to Beginnings Understand the Structure Tying in the Middle Section Summary Chapter 5 First Steps toward Style The First Commandment The Second Commandment Summary Chapter 6 The Size and Shape of Middle Paragraphs One Point, One Paragraph Length of Paragraphs Basic Paragraph Structure Developing a Paragraph Picture-Frame Paragraphs Summary Chapter 7 Connections between Paragraphs Standard Devices A Note on 'however" Paragraph Hooks The Combinations Summary Chapter 8 The Passive Voice What It Is, and How to Beat It Adrift in Nobody-Land Making the Subject Perform Why Passive Voice at All? A Plan for Self-Protection Summary Chapter 9 The Sound of Sentences The Rhythm of Speech Getting Inside the Sentence The Basic Statement The Strung-Along Sentence The Periodic Sentence The Combinations Selecting the Details Expanding the Subject Expanding the Verb Expanding the Rest of the Sentence Summary Chapter 10 Parallel Structure Look for the Common Denominator The Smaller Parallels Summary Chapter 11 A Way with Words Synonyms and Antonyms Big Words and Small The Solemn Vapors Metaphor and Simile Allusion Summary Chapter 12 Odds and Ends and Means The Terrible Three The Troublesome Twenty-Seven Punctuation Summary Chapter 13 More Freedom and a Few Flourishes Assignment 1: First Person at Last Assignment 2: How to Write Badly by Trying Very, Very Hard Assignments 3 and 4: Irony The Fully Ironic Essay The Ironic Touch Chapter 14 Writing the Term Paper The Trial Thesis Procedure for Research The Final Your Paper Is in the Cards Writing the First Draft The Final Draft Summary Chapter 15 Summing Up Handy Reminders Index
A Note to the Student Chapter 1 What Is an Essay? Subjects for Essays What Is an Opinion, and How Do You Reach It? What Makes an Opinion Interesting? Examining the Opposition Believe What You Say Summary Chapter 2 From Opinion to Thesis "Closing In" on Your Thesis The Five-Step Process A Subject Close to Home Summary Chapter 3 The Full and Final Thesis Elements of a Full Thesis The Psychology of Argument Strongest Argument Last Form of the Full Thesis Summary Chapter 4 Structure The Introduction No Bombs, Please The Big Middle Section Refer to Your Full Thesis Your Strongest Argument The Conclusion Back to Beginnings Understand the Structure Tying in the Middle Section Summary Chapter 5 First Steps toward Style The First Commandment The Second Commandment Summary Chapter 6 The Size and Shape of Middle Paragraphs One Point, One Paragraph Length of Paragraphs Basic Paragraph Structure Developing a Paragraph Picture-Frame Paragraphs Summary Chapter 7 Connections between Paragraphs Standard Devices A Note on 'however" Paragraph Hooks The Combinations Summary Chapter 8 The Passive Voice What It Is, and How to Beat It Adrift in Nobody-Land Making the Subject Perform Why Passive Voice at All? A Plan for Self-Protection Summary Chapter 9 The Sound of Sentences The Rhythm of Speech Getting Inside the Sentence The Basic Statement The Strung-Along Sentence The Periodic Sentence The Combinations Selecting the Details Expanding the Subject Expanding the Verb Expanding the Rest of the Sentence Summary Chapter 10 Parallel Structure Look for the Common Denominator The Smaller Parallels Summary Chapter 11 A Way with Words Synonyms and Antonyms Big Words and Small The Solemn Vapors Metaphor and Simile Allusion Summary Chapter 12 Odds and Ends and Means The Terrible Three The Troublesome Twenty-Seven Punctuation Summary Chapter 13 More Freedom and a Few Flourishes Assignment 1: First Person at Last Assignment 2: How to Write Badly by Trying Very, Very Hard Assignments 3 and 4: Irony The Fully Ironic Essay The Ironic Touch Chapter 14 Writing the Term Paper The Trial Thesis Procedure for Research The Final Your Paper Is in the Cards Writing the First Draft The Final Draft Summary Chapter 15 Summing Up Handy Reminders Index
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