Polishing Your Prose

How to Turn First Drafts Into Finished Work

Nonfiction, Reference & Language, Language Arts, Writing & Publishing, Editing & Proofreading, Education & Teaching, Teaching, Teaching Methods
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Author: Steven Cahn, Victor Cahn ISBN: 9780231532013
Publisher: Columbia University Press Publication: March 26, 2013
Imprint: Columbia University Press Language: English
Author: Steven Cahn, Victor Cahn
ISBN: 9780231532013
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication: March 26, 2013
Imprint: Columbia University Press
Language: English

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.

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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.

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