Writing Well, Longman Classics Edition

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ISBN: 9780321439017 | 0321439015
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Co-authored by two esteemed writers,Writing Well, is a beautifully-written and thoroughly readable guide to the craft of writing prose. Donald Hall, National Book Critics Circle Award winner and Pulitzer Prize nominee, and Sven Birkerts, recipient of awards from the National Book Critics Circle and PEN, bring their talents to this concise, lively text that covers all aspects of writing but is best known for its signature chapters on words, sentences, and paragraphs. Writing Essays, Words, Sentences, Paragraphs, Grammar General Interest; Improving Writing

Foreword by Sven Birkerts

Prefaces to the Ninth Edition

xiii

1 INTRODUCTION: WRITING, AND WRITING WELL

(24)

Writing to Make Contact

(2)

The Idea of an Audience

(1)

Honest and Dishonest Expression

(3)

Plagiarism

(1)

Examining the Words

(1)

Revising the Map

(1)

Themes and Revisions

(4)

Examples from Print

(2)

Disorganized Writing, Pompous Writing

(1)

Learning to Write Well

(4)

Daily Writing

(3)

Exercises

(6)

2 READING, AND READING WELL

(21)

The Reading Process

(2)

Reading Is Writing and Writing Is Reading

(2)

Reading as Detection/Reading as Construction

(2)

Philosophies and Politics

(1)

Reading Tone

(1)

Chaos or Consensus?

(1)

Reading in the Information Age

(1)

Reading as Rereading

(1)

Put the Blame on Blame

(1)

Active and Passive Readers

(1)

Close Reading

(2)

Practice in Response

(2)

Sight Reading

(3)

Exercises

(4)

3 WRITING AN ESSAY

(29)

Getting Ideas for Papers

(6)

Brainstorming

(1)

Sprinting

(1)

Cross-examining

(1)

Questions of Form

(1)

Selecting Detail

(1)

Writing the Draft

(7)

Beginnings

(2)

Endings

(1)

Revising and Invention

(2)

A Note on Impromptus

(1)

Biography of a Theme

(12)

Exercises

(3)

4 WORDS

(51)

The Smallest Unit

(1)

The Insides of Words

(12)

Words Themselves

(2)

No Synonyms

(2)

Literalness and Metaphor

(1)

Sense Words

(1)

Misusing the Insides of Words

(2)

Collecting Words

(2)

Words as Blanks

(1)

Words and Associations

(1)

Words and Audience

(1)

Revising Words

(1)

Exercises

(2)

Verbs

(5)

Action and the Choice of Style

(1)

Verbs with Nouns and Adjectives

(1)

Verbs with Participles

(1)

Verbs in the Passive Voice

(1)

Particular Verbs

(1)

Invisible Verbs

(1)

False Color in Verbs

(1)

Fancy Verbs

(1)

Made-up Verbs

(1)

Revising Verbs

(1)

Exercises

(2)

Nouns

(6)

Particularity and Choosing a Style

(2)

Abstract and Particular Nouns

(1)

Abstract Nouns: Beginnings and Endings

(1)

Invisible Nouns

100

(1)

Making Bad Nouns from Verbs

100

(1)

Fancy Nouns

101

(1)

Revising Nouns

101

(1)

Exercises

102

(2)

Modifiers

104

(6)

Qualities and Choosing a Style

104

(1)

Using Modifiers Well

105

(2)

The Modifier and the Clichè

107

(1)

The Modifier That Weakens the Noun

108

(1)

Modifiers as Weak Intensives

108

(1)

Automatic Modifiers

109

(1)

Nouns as Modifiers

109

(1)

Revising Modifiers

110

(1)

Exercises

110

(2)

Original Words: Comparisons

112

(11)

The Need for Originality

112

(1)

Overhearing Your Own Originality

113

(1)

Looking For Originality

114

(1)

Simile and Metaphor

115

(1)

Originality and Memory

116

(1)

Analogy

117

(1)

The Unintended Comparison

118

(1)

Looking for Analogies

119

(1)

Revising for Comparison

120

(1)

Revising Words

121

(2)

Exercises

123

(3)

5 SENTENCES

126

(57)

Style and the Sentence

126

(1)

Parts of Sentences

126

(3)

Types of Sentences

129

(5)

Simple Sentences

129

(1)

Compound Sentences

130

(1)

Complex Sentences

131

(1)

Compound-Complex Sentences

131

(1)

Incomplete Sentences

132

(2)

Exercises

134

(2)

Clarity, Coherence, Unity

136

(7)

Unity: Coordination and Subordination

137

(1)

Subordination: The Correct Conjunction

138

(2)

Coordination: Punctuating Compounds

140

(3)

Revising Sentences I

143

(2)

Exercises

145

(7)

Grammatical Coherence

147

(5)

Exercises

152

(9)

Structural Unity

153

(8)

Revising Sentences II

161

(2)

Exercises

163

(9)

Unity of Tone

165

(7)

Exercises

172

(2)

Variety and Unity

174

(7)

Long Sentences

175

(2)

Mixing the Types

177

(3)

Revising for Variety and Conciseness

180

(1)

Exercises

181

(2)

6 PARAGRAPHS

183

(37)

Uses of Paragraphs

183

(1)

Paragraphs as Signs for Readers

184

(1)

Purpose and the Paragraph

185

(1)

Unity in the Paragraph

186

(3)

Unity and Topic Sentences

187

(2)

Coherence in the Paragraph

189

(6)

Coherence and Consistency

191

(1)

Coherence and the Paragraph: Transitions

191

(4)

Exercises

195

(5)

Development in the Paragraph

200

(11)

Some Ways of Developing Paragraphs

201

(4)

Development: Length and Completeness

205

(3)

Development: Order and Clarity

208

(2)

Development: Order and Forcefulness

210

(1)

The Order of Paragraphs

211

(2)

Revising Paragraphs

213

(2)

Exercises

215

(5)

7 ARGUMENT AND PERSUASION

220

(31)

Exposition

220

(1)

Advancing Our Position

221

(1)

Uses for Argument

222

(1)

Audience in Argument and Persuasion

223

(1)

Reasonableness in Argument

224

(4)

Time for the Opposition

228

(2)

The Order of Argument

230

(3)

Logic and Emotionalism

233

(1)

Style in Argument

234

(2)

Common Fallacies in Thinking

236

(3)

Looking for an Argument: Process

239

(7)

Exercises

246

(5)

8 WRITING RESEARCH

251

(32)

Using the Library

252

(5)

The Library Catalogue

252

(2)

Locating Information

254

(1)

Specialized References and Databases

255

(2)

On-Line Research

257

(4)

The Internet

257

(3)

Other Electronic Sources

260

(1)

Documentation

261

(4)

The List of Works Cited

261

(3)

In-Text References

264

(1)

A Sample Research Project

265

(18)

9 A BRIEF REVIEW OF GRAMMAR, PUNCTUATION, AND MECHANICS

283

(36)

Make Whole, Clear Sentences

284

(2)

Sentence Fragments

284

(2)

Exercises

286

(3)

Comma Splices

286

(3)

Exercises

289

(1)

Match the Parts of Sentences That Need Matching

289

(2)

Matching Subjects with Verbs

289

(2)

Exercises

291

(3)

Matching Pronouns with the Words They Refer To

292

(2)

Exercises

294

(1)

Connect Modifiers with What They Modify

295

(2)

Exercises

297

(1)

Keep the Sentence Consistent

297

(2)

Exercises

299

(1)

Keep Punctuation Clear

299

(5)

End Punctuation

299

(1)

Commas

300

(4)

Exercises

304

(2)

Semicolons

304

(1)

Apostrophes

305

(1)

Exercises

306

(6)

Quotation Marks and Punctuating Quotations

307

(1)

Other Marks of Punctuation

308

(4)

Exercises

312

(1)

Keep Mechanics Conventional

312

(5)

Abbreviations

312

(1)

Capital Letters

313

(1)

Manuscript Form

314

(1)

Numerals

315

(1)

Spelling

316

(1)

Exercises

317

(2)

A Glossary of Usage and Grammatical Terms

319

(47)

Acknowledgments

366

(2)

Author and Title Index

368

(4)

Subject Index

372

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