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Genre/Form: | Lehrbuch Handbooks and manuals Handbooks, manuals, etc |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Kane, Thomas S. New Oxford guide to writing. New York : Oxford University Press, 1988 (OCoLC)647648932 |
Named Person: | Englisch |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Thomas S Kane |
ISBN: | 0195045386 9780195045383 0195090594 9780195090598 |
OCLC Number: | 16922951 |
Notes: | Includes indexes. Includes index. |
Description: | viii, 327 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents: | INTRODUCTION. Subject, Reader, and Kinds of Writing ; Strategy and Style ; Grammar, Usage, and Mechanics -- THE WRITING PROCESS. Looking for Subjects ; Exploring for Topics ; Making a Plan ; Drafts and Revisions -- THE ESSAY. Beginning ; Closing ; Organizing the Middle ; Point of View, Persona, and Tone -- THE EXPOSITORY PARAGRAPH. Basic Structure ; Paragraph Unity ; Paragraph Development: (1) Illustration and Restatement ; Paragraph Development: (2) Comparison, Contrast, and Analogy -- Paragraph Development: (3) Cause and Effect ; Paragraph Development: (4) Definition, Analysis, and Qualification -- THE SENTENCE. The Sentence: A Definition ; Sentence Styles ; The Well-Written Sentence: (1) Concision ; The Well-Written Sentence: (2) Emphasis ; The Well-Written Sentence: (3) Rhythm ; The Well-Written Sentence: (4) Variety -- DICTION. Meaning ; Clarity and Simplicity ; Concision ; Figurative Language ; Unusual Words and Collocations ; Improving Your Vocabulary: Dictionaries ; DESCRIPTION AND NARRATION. Description ; Narration -- PUNCTUATION. Stops ; The Other Marks. |
Responsibility: | Thomas S. Kane. |
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Table of Contents:
Introduction -- 1. Subject, reader and kinds of writing -- 2. Strategy and style -- 3. Grammar, usage and mechanics -- Part I. The writing process -- 4. Looking for subjects -- 5. Exploring for topics -- 6. Making a plan -- 7. Drafts and revisions -- Part II. The essay -- 8. Beginning -- 9. Closing -- 10. Organizing the middle -- 11. Point of view, persona and tone -- Part III. The expository paragraph -- 12. Basic structure -- 13. Paragraph unity -- 14. Paragraph development: (1) Illustration and restatement -- 15. Paragraph development: (2) Comparison, contrast and analogy -- 16. Paragraph development: (3) Cause and effect -- 17. Paragraph development: (4) Definition, analysis and qualification -- Part IV. The sentence -- 18. The sentence: a definition -- 19. Sentence styles -- 20. The well-written sentence: (1) Concision -- 21. The well-written sentence: (2) Emphasis -- 22. The well-written sentence: (3) Rhythm -- 23. The well-written sentence: (4) Variety -- Part V. Diction -- 24. Meaning -- 25. Clarity and simplicity -- 26. Concision -- 27. Figurative language -- 28. Unusual words and collocations -- 29. Improving your vocabulary: dictionaries -- Part VI. Description and narration -- 30. Description -- 31. Narration -- Part VII. Punctuation -- 32. Stops -- 33. The other marks.
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"Guides to writing--some in print, others in software--continue to proliferate; the best-written this year is "The New Oxford Guide to Writing."--William Safire, New York Times Sunday Magazine
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