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13 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
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The finest book of its kind,
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This review is from: Prose Style: A Contemporary Guide (2nd Edition) (Paperback)
As an English instructor, I've found this book to be the most help for students whose previous experience in writing focused on larger more content based matters such as thesis statements, topic and support sentences, etc. , rather than on the sentence-level matters of styles. Many of my college students have an adequate knowledge of how to write an argument, but no idea of how to vary their sentences and link one sentence to the next. This book is a great help and the only one I've found that deals with matters like specificity, conciseness, precision, subordination, coordination, tone, and voice in the detail such matters demand. I highly recommend it.
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But PLEASE reduce the price!!!!,
By Ishmael the Michigander "Ish" (Michigan) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Prose Style: A Contemporary Guide (2nd Edition) (Paperback)
I agree with the other reviewer. This book is unparalleled in its approach and effectiveness as far as improving prose style goes.
Still, I want to register my outrage at the crazy price of this slender, paperback book, and beg the publisher to rethink things. Prentice, you make it nearly *impossible* for a professor to adopt this excellent title, if there are any other books in the course. $66 for a paperback -- as Starbuck said in Moby Dick, "Captain, this is madness!" That said, let me repeat the praise above -- this is hands down the best text for teaching prose style.... would that it made better economic sense!
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