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following sentence is an example (the Duke of Wellington is
commenting with pleasant cynicism upon the capacity of
young ladies to endure the absence of...
... behooves
you, then, to create an appropriate tone and to avoid
pomposity, say, or will put readers off.
Here are a few examples of how skillful writers make tone
work for them.
Tone Toward Subject
Toward ... goes a long way toward
avoiding a tone of cocksureness and restoring at least a sem-
blance of two-way on that unavoidably one-way street
from writer to reader. Thus a scholar writ...
... more reluctant to admit it.
John
Charles R. Forbes went to jail. Albert B. Fall went to jail. Alien
Property Custodian Thomas W. Miller went to jail.
Samuel Hopkins Adams
Such plants to operate successfully ... sentence
to another. Coherence belongs to the substructure of the par-
agraph, to relationships of thought, feeling, and perception.
Both necessary if a paragraph is t...
... illiterate want to learn how to read. Then they want
education, and then more education, and then they want their sons
and daughters to become doctors and lawyers. It is frightening to
see so many ... accustomed to the law and order of the present
day to understand the dangers which threatened the Jacobean trav-
eller. The seas swarmed with pirates; so that few merchantmen
dared...
... clear to the reader. If you are defining a word, un-
derline it (equivalent to italic type). In the following para-
graph, for instance, the writer wishes to make clear how the
word history is ... driveway.
He will contribute his share to the 142 million tons of smoke and
fumes, seven million junked cars, 20 million tons of paper, 48 bil-
lion cans, and 26 billion bottles the overbu...
... the process, from the seed to the crop, stops
at the intermediate mechanical stage of the money. He does not
grow things to feed men; not even to feed one man; not even to
feed himself. The miser ... various
occasions used sketches drawn by service station men, or by
friends, to show the best automobile route from one town to
another.
The distinction usually made between "map...
... that is still one hell
a pile of pulp. Pauline
To revert for a moment to the story told in the first person, it is plain
that in that case the narrator has no such liberty. . . .
Percy
Comma with ... is less formal:
short, says the historian Friedrich the crusades were pro-
moted with all the devices of the stories,
over-simplification, lies, inflammatory speeches. Morris Bishop
The D...
... be able to
handle the short sentence to stress particular ideas and, when
the occasion warrants, to compose brief passages in a segre-
gating style. On the whole, however, the style is too limited
for ... exactly what you want to say.
Segregating sentences are especially useful in descriptive
and narrative writing. They analyze a complicated perception
or action into its parts and ar...
... word
"campaign":
The Department of Justice began a vigorous campaign to break up
the corporate empires, to restore the free and open market, and to
plant the feet of the industry firmly on the road to competition.
Thurman ... likely to seem too elaborate
to modern readers, a less "natural" way of writing than the
segregating style or the freight-train or cumu...
... length hearkened to the terms of peace, which was concluded
with great advantage to the empire and to Holland, but none at all
to us, and clogged soon after with the famous treaty of partition.
Allowed ... those places which interested me, from a defect of eye
or of hand was totally ineffectual. Sir Walter Scott
The life story to be told of any creative worker is therefore by its
ve...