Essential guide to writing part 13

... length hearkened to the terms of peace, which was concludedwith 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 eyeor of hand was totally ineffectual. Sir Walter ScottThe life story to be told of any creative worker is therefore by itsvery nature, by its ... resumed and be able to put the pieces together. Usedsparingly, the long convoluted sentence has the virtue of theunusual: it draws attention to itself and, more important, to what it says, and...

Essential guide to writing part 6

... 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 ... conversation are to inform, or to be informed, to please or to persuade, wish well meaning sensible men would not lessen their power of doing good by a positive assuming manner that seldom fails to disgust, ... 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 writing about Chaucer's...

Essential guide to writing part 26

... some manner, to live, and look tolerably well, notwithstanding their despair and the continued absence of their lover; and some have even been known to recover so far as to be inclined to take another ... www.tailieuduhoc.org STOPS 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 lovers gone to war): They ... requires a stronger stop to signal the distinction between one unit in the series and another. Look at this sentence about the rise of the Ku in the 1920s: There were other factors too: the deadly...

Essential guide to writing part 7

... Girls don't like to be told that you have to stay home and study when they want to go to a show or go dancing. [6] So they find some other boy who doesn't have to study all the time. ... 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 paragraph, to relationships of thought, feeling, and perception. Both necessary if a paragraph is to be truly unified. Coherence To...

Essential guide to writing part 8

... 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 to put to sea ... thing, you must decide whether to deal only with similarities or only with dissimilarities, or to cover both. The topic sentence must make your intention clear to readers: For more material and...

Essential guide to writing part 9

... never total and exact, what is true of one cannot necessarily be applied to the other. For example, some political thinkers have used the "simi- larity" of a state to a ship to justify ... compact not to meddle with his children under any circumstances, it would become me to let particular mode of getting rid of the gentleman alone. But if there was a bed newly made up, to which the ... ought to decide. That is just the case. The new territories are the newly made bed to which our children are to go, and it lies with the nation to say whether they shall have snakes mixed up with...

Essential guide to writing part 10

... 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 ... expository paragraphs are analytical. To write about any subject you must it into particulars (whether reasons or comparisons, illustrations or conse- quences) and then organize these into a coherent ... American sense of being made happy but in the tough and universal sense of quest and daring and growth. James Baldwin There is no sure guide to when you need to define a word. Certainly a is called...

Essential guide to writing part 27

... 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 ... clarity will not suffer. (British writers seem to exercise that choice more often than do Americans): When he describes the past the historian has to recapture the rich- ness of the moments, . ... readers from the misstep of thinking the writer is referring to "sail boats": When you are first learning to sail boats seem to be very cumber- some things. Adverbial clauses in an interrupting...

Essential guide to writing part 11

... 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 ... DEFINITION To take one more case. They failed to agree is a grammatical sentence. That they failed to agree is not. It is a noun clause and could function as the subject of a verb: That they failed to ... clause functions like the one-word proper noun. Being able to use the full range of functional word groups available in English is essential to writing well. Here is a quick summary. Phrases A phrase...

Essential guide to writing part 12

... "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. ... in, to murmur at the present pos- sessors of power, to lament the past, to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the common dispositions of the greatest part of mankind. ... According to ... purely poetical. ) G. K. Chesterton But called by whatever name, it is a most fruitful region; kind to the native, interesting to the visitor. ) Thomas Carlyle stood like one thunderstruck, or...

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