This anthology teaches writing by demonstrating the techniques and literary styles of established authors.
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"The briefness and excellence of the selections allows for close careful and enjoyable analyses."--Dorothy Stempton, University of Connecticut at Hartford
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Thomas S. Kane is at University of Connecticut, Waterbury.
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You will become a better writer if you use this book well.,
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This book is full of great prose that is fun to read and questions that really make you think about the techniques used. It takes a really long time to fully work through this book from start to finish, but it is worth every minute. Especially if, like me, you haven't been to college. I can only speculate that in school you'd have a few good writing classes that teach these concepts. This book will open your mind and you'll really begin to understand the importance of word order and general organization in writing. It's a great book.
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This book is fantastic! I highly recommend it to anyone who wants to improve their writing. The book covers so much, and in a way that gets you thinking about the possibilies of what writing can be rather than just laying out rigid rules and 'ideally don't do this' examples.
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My freshman composition professor used this as our college text book. At the time I was unenthused about learning, hard up for cash, and weary of education. I took it up the keister when I sold this book back to my college book store. It is by far, the best tool for improving your writing and your vocabulary. I'm glad to have found it again.
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In the broadest sense all writing is about yourself. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
evolutionary appetite, penurious man, expository writer, organizing sentence, interrupted movement, topic statement, cumulative sentence, nominative absolutes, sentence style, reader and purpose, paragraph development, emphatic sentences, impressionistic description, hedonistic theory, wire mother, balanced sentences, topic sentence, framing words, successive sentences Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, King Kong, Flannery O'Connor, Marvin Gardens, Eudora Welty, Pierre Champion, Santa Ana, Los Angeles, Little Orphan Annie, Van Doren, Atlantic City, Dylan Thomas, Virginia Woolf, Civil War, Robert Frost, World War, Modest Proposal, Third Knight, Thorstein Veblen, Annie Dillard, Carl Sagan, Hester Prynne, Lord Steyne, Dwight Macdonald New!
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In the broadest sense all writing is about yourself. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
evolutionary appetite, penurious man, expository writer, organizing sentence, interrupted movement, topic statement, cumulative sentence, nominative absolutes, sentence style, reader and purpose, paragraph development, emphatic sentences, impressionistic description, hedonistic theory, wire mother, balanced sentences, topic sentence, framing words, successive sentences Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, King Kong, Flannery O'Connor, Marvin Gardens, Eudora Welty, Pierre Champion, Santa Ana, Los Angeles, Little Orphan Annie, Van Doren, Atlantic City, Dylan Thomas, Virginia Woolf, Civil War, Robert Frost, World War, Modest Proposal, Third Knight, Thorstein Veblen, Annie Dillard, Carl Sagan, Hester Prynne, Lord Steyne, Dwight Macdonald New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- The Scarlet Letter (Bantam Classics) by Nathaniel Hawthorne on 7 pages
- Holiday Memory by Dylan Thomas on page 649, page 651, and page 652
- Wreck of the Deutschland by Gerald M. Hopkins on page 566, page 568, and page 570
- In the Heart of the Heart of the Country & Other Stories (Nonpareil Books, #21) by William H. Gass on page 126, page 644, and page 646
- The Old Curiosity Shop (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens on page 586, and page 588
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- Me Funny by Drew Hayden Taylor on page 118
- Media Research Techniques by Arthur Asa Berger on page 158
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