Tài liệu Essential guide to writting part 29 ppt

... 58capitalization of, 434quoted, 432underlined, 432Tone, 80 ffin narrative, 375toward reader,toward self, 83toward subject, 80Topic sentence, 90Topics, exploring for, 23Transitions between ... 203Signposts, 67Simile, 219 n, 276, 296 fffor clarification, 297 in beginning, 55in definition, 138in description, 361 to expand subject, 298 for expression, 299 for intensification,Simple sentence, ... BUT a university in the citythe Boston Symphony Orchestra BUT a symphony orchestraGeneral Motors BUT the motor industryGovernmental Agencies and Political Partiesthe U.S. Congress BUT a congressional...

Tài liệu Essential guide to writing part 20 pptx

... capacity to familiarize the strange, to expand ideas, to express feelings and evaluations, and to giveus pleasure, similes have an even greater power. They bringus more intimately in touch with ... who,when he was elected to the U.S. Senate, passed on his gov-ernorship to a political crony):He designated his old benefactor, K. Allen of Winnfield, as theapostolic choice for the next ... BarbaraMost similes are brief, but they may beby breaking the vehicles into parts and applying each to thetenor. A historian, writing about the Italian patriot Garibaldi,explains thathis mind...

Tài liệu Essential guide to writing part 21 ppt

... hand bells of pietists, summoning all to prayfor the SOLlls of the dead. Morris BishopImages can appeal to other senses: to smell, taste, touch,even to the muscular sense of movement and ... opposite value. Here, for example, a historian de-scribes a party at the court of the English king James I:Later the company flocked to the windows to look into the palacecourtyard below. Here ... that one looks directly into their foliage, too lush, too un-settlingly glossy, the greenery of nightmare; the fallen eucalyptusbark is too dusty, a place for snakes to breed. Joan DidionLiterally...

Tài liệu Essential guide to writing part 1 ppt

... readers' job to follow you. It's your job to guide them, to make their task aseasy as the subject allows.Ask yourself questions about your readers: What can I ex-pect them to know and ... however, goa long way. Readers have egos too.Kinds of WritingThe various effects a writer may wish to have on his or herreaders to inform, to persuade, to entertain—result in dif-ferent kinds ... Grammar, Usage, and Mechanics13 PART 1 The Writing Process4. Looking for Subjects 195. Exploring for Topics 236. Making a Plan 29 7. Drafts and Revisions 3417 PART II.8.9.10.11.The Essay...

Tài liệu Essential guide to writing part 24 pptx

... Such stories are realisticin that characters and events correspond to life as we knowit, and we can generalize from them to real people. At thesame time the stories—like allegories—point to ... down my lunch on my way to thespeech clinic and rush back to the school in time to make up forthe classes I had lost. One day, one unforgettable dread day, Istopped to catch my breath on ... headed THE HUMAN FACTORY,which showed the exact course a mouthful of food follows as itfalls from chamber to chamber of the body. I hadn't meant to stopthere at all, only to catch my breath;...

Tài liệu Essential guide to writing part 16 pdf

... about Toronto? What can one? What has any-body ever said? It is impossible to give it anything but commen-dation. is not squalid like Birmingham, or cramped Canton,or scattered like Edmonton, ... has purpose.The purpose may be to signify is, to refer to an object or person other than the writer, to an abstractconception such as "democracy," or to a thought or feelingin the ... used to emphasize akey idea. In the following passage the historian Herbert But- moves through two long sentences (the second a bitshorter than the to a strong short statement:The Whig historian...

Tài liệu Essential guide to writing part 17 docx

... to overcome masculine resistance to toilet-ries as "sissy" (or perhaps to appeal to women, who buy mostof these products for their men).3Emotionally loaded diction is also the stock-in-trade ... observations,ideas, feelings, and affecting their responses both to the topicand to you in ways that you wish. To the degree that it fails to achieve your purpose, your diction fails entirely.44. ... specific,and terror, a particular kind of fear, more specific still. It is acommon error to pick words that mean too much, to namean entire class when what you wish to signify is somethingless:Thrift...

Tài liệu Essential guide to writing part 18 docx

... he proceeded to thebulletin board.BETTER: Told yes, he went to the bulletin board.Television shows which demonstrate participation in physical ex-ercise will improve your muscle tone.BETTER: ... orconceals a fact considered improper or unpleasant. Euphe-misms for death include to pass away, to depart this life, to go to that big in the equally trite. Poverty,sexual matters, and diseases are ... the result of adding a second,unnecessary suffix to a word to restore it to what it was inthe first place:He has great (For ambition)The story contains a great deal of satiricalness. (For...

Tài liệu Essential guide to writing part 19 pdf

... it is not toomuch to ask people to look into a dictionary now and again.) Don't Spell Out What Is Clearly ImpliedUnless there is a clear chance of confusion, you do not have to state what ... do not need to bemade more concise; they need to be eliminated. There are twobroad causes of pointless diction: (1) failing to credit readers'intelligence, and (2) failing to focus on ... reason to suppose that"auditors" requires definition. Gratuitous definitions notonly make deadwood, but interfere with communication inanother, more serious readers by seeming to insult...

Tài liệu Essential guide to writing part 22 pdf

... in his angry overalls, too angry to come down tO luncheon. Harold NicholsonOxymoron and Rhetorical ParadoxWhen the oddity of a collocation becomes seemingly contra-dictory, it is called an ... adjectives is known as atransferred epithet—a word customarily applied to a partic-ular noun or class of nouns which is used instead to modifysomething associated with that noun, as in "a ... dictionariesare necessary to a serious writer.Special Dictionaries: ThesauriSpecial dictionaries are restricted to a particular aspect ofthe general language or to the language of a specific...

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