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Essential guide to writing
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17/08/2013, 10:40
... of anything to write about."
That's strange, because life is fascinating. The solution is to
open yourself to experience. To look around. To describe
what you see and hear. To read. Reading ... entries, you may want to
make an index or to group passages according to subject.
A commonplace book will help your writing in several
ways. It will be a storehouse of topics, of those elusive ... than being restrictive they free
you to choose more effectively among the options available
to you as a writer.
Style is less reducible to rule, and more open to argument.
No one can prove "She...
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Essential guide to writing part 6
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17/10/2013, 16:15
... 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 ... 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, ... seem too good for human life, this is
have found.
With equal passion have sought knowledge. have wished to
understand the hearts of men. have wished to know why the stars
shine. And have tried to...
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Essential guide to writing part 26
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17/10/2013, 16:15
... 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 sen-
tence about the rise of the Ku in the 1920s:
There were other factors too: the deadly...
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Essential guide to writing part 7
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20/10/2013, 03:15
... 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 par-
agraph, to relationships of thought, feeling, and perception.
Both necessary if a paragraph is to be truly unified.
Coherence
To...
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Essential guide to writing part 8
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20/10/2013, 04:15
... 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 ... relics, and gave his life into
the guidance of his spiritual director. The Protestant tore open the
machinery of the miracles, flung the bones and ragged garments
into the fire, and treated priests ... 120 words) restatement paragraph on
a topic of your own choice. Construct your sentences to resemble
one another, though with enough variety to avoid monotony.
Specification, as in the paragraph...
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Essential guide to writing part 9
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24/10/2013, 02:15
... 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 ... 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 ... used to carve long grooves along
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THE EXPOSITORY PARAGRAPH
and burn coal in a power generator, whose smokestack contributes
to...
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Essential guide to writing part 10
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24/10/2013, 02:15
... 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 ... 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 ... which, although not essential to
the is interesting and enlightening.
In working out a genus-species definition, then, the essen-
tial questions to ask yourself are these:
To what class does it...
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Essential guide to writing part 27
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24/10/2013, 02:15
... 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 ... visit www.tailieuduhoc.org
STOPS
But when more or less is used in a strict disjunctive
that is, to mean either more or less, but not must be
set off by commas:
It is hard to say whether the payment ... 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 Dash...
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Essential guide to writing part 11
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28/10/2013, 09:15
... 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 ... 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 ... speech
the separateness of a sentence is marked by intonation and
pauses.)
And yet an effective sentence involves more than starting
with a capital and stopping with a period. The word or words
must...
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Essential guide to writing part 12
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28/10/2013, 09:15
... 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 Arnold
Parallel ... 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 ... 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...
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Essential guide to writing part 13
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07/11/2013, 00:15
... are
turned upon the stoop, the writer wisely begins a new sen-
tence. Of course, this question of when to stop, of knowing
when one statement should end and another begin, applies to
all kinds of ... 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
very nature, by its ... resumed and be able to put the pieces together. Used
sparingly, the long convoluted sentence has the virtue of the
unusual: it draws attention to itself and, more important, to
what it says, and...
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