The Facts on File Guide to Style: N. (Writers Reference) by Martin H. Manser

By Martin H. Manser

From university papers and e-mails to enterprise studies and felony briefs, humans write for private purposes every day. discovering a mode and voice early on is helping humans turn into transparent and concise writers, simplifying projects of all types. the right better half to "The proof On dossier consultant to reliable Writing" (see web page 8), this ebook is helping readers refine and enhance their writing kind. The assurance comprises: what's variety? - knowing what constitutes readability, attractiveness, and vigour in writing; Writing with sort - making a choice on phrases, developing sentences, and discovering the suitable tone; picking a mode - adapting writing to fit condition, viewers, and objective; and magnificence in perform - opting for definitely the right type for letters, e-mails, enterprise reviews, promotional writing, and different particular necessities. "The proof On dossier consultant to variety" is a helpful source for readers and writers of every age.

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Prose writers can learn as much from poetry, however, and if we can appreciate why lines such as the following work as poetry, we shall gain a greater understanding of the rhythmic and acoustic possibilities of language: “I do not know much about gods; but I think that the river Is a strong brown god . ” (T. S. Eliot, “The Dry Salvages,” in Four Quartets [1941]). “Complacencies of the peignoir and late Coffee and oranges in a sunny chair And the green freedom of a cockatoo Upon a rug . ” (Wallace Stevens, “Sunday Morning,” in Harmonium [1923]).

21 22 THE FACTS ON FILE GUIDE TO STYLE When we are discussing correctness, of the grammatical or any other kind, we can usually do so in full confidence that we can say something is either correct or incorrect, and there is no argument. There are objective, or at least solid, grounds for making the judgment. If you add 12 and 15 and come to a total of 28, you can easily be proved wrong. If necessary someone can produce 12 objects, and then another 15, and ask you to count the total. If you say or write I are teaching English since twelve years, someone can easily produce a grammar book and open it to the chapter on subject-verb agreement and open it again to the chapter on prepositions and point out to you that this is not correct.

The fourth is an awareness of this other dimension that words possess, their implicit emotional charge. ” When we say that a particular word has connotations of this or that, we mean that it is generally associated with this or that emotion, mood, or phenomenon and that its meaning is colored by that association. The word angelic, for example, has entirely positive connotations: It has an aura of benignity, sweetness, and beauty, the qualities we traditionally associate with angels. The word expedient, on the other hand, has generally rather negative connotations; it suggests, without quite making it explicit, that a person is acting out of self-interest.

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