Write It Right

A little blacklist of literary faults

Nonfiction, Reference & Language, Reference, Education & Teaching
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Author: Ambrose Bierce ISBN: 9781910150337
Publisher: Interactive Media Publication: January 15, 2014
Imprint: The Big Nest Language: English
Author: Ambrose Bierce
ISBN: 9781910150337
Publisher: Interactive Media
Publication: January 15, 2014
Imprint: The Big Nest
Language: English
The author's main purpose in this book is to teach precision in writing; and of good writing (which, essentially, is clear thinking made visible) precision is the point of capital concern. It is attained by choice of the word that accurately and adequately expresses what the writer has in mind, and by exclusion of that which either denotes or connotes something else. As Quintilian puts it, the writer should so write that his reader not only may, but must, understand.
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The author's main purpose in this book is to teach precision in writing; and of good writing (which, essentially, is clear thinking made visible) precision is the point of capital concern. It is attained by choice of the word that accurately and adequately expresses what the writer has in mind, and by exclusion of that which either denotes or connotes something else. As Quintilian puts it, the writer should so write that his reader not only may, but must, understand.

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