Substance, Style, and Strategy
Autor Lee A. Jacobusen Limba Engleză Paperback – 28 feb 1998
Recognizing that students often require basic reminders of elementary stylistic principles, the book begins with a review in the first chapter, Developing a Personal Style, that brings writers up to speed in standard skills. It discusses issues of subject, audience, style, and the writing process. Following chapters examine not only the types of essay writing students must do in college but also ways of writing that will be useful to them as developing writers later in life. The author presents workable, direct, and useful strategies for writing effective personal, biographical, argumentative, familiar, and critical essays. Each essay form is discussed in detail and illustrated through examples that are analyzed in depth; these examples are illuminating and instructive because they offer ways of solving problems that all writers confront. The text concludes with a practical appendix on research materials that outlines the most useful research strategies for modern writers, discussing both print resources and new on-line resources such as Lexis-Nexis, CD-ROM on-line databases and services, and the World Wide Web.
Substance, Style, and Strategy stimulates students to develop their thoughts and feelings in skillful, meaningful, and expressive prose, providing them with a thorough grounding in how to be writers for life.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780195078374
ISBN-10: 0195078373
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 140 x 210 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Ediția:New
Editura: OXFORD UNIV PR
Locul publicării:New York, United States
ISBN-10: 0195078373
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 140 x 210 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Ediția:New
Editura: OXFORD UNIV PR
Locul publicării:New York, United States
Descriere
Substance,
Style,
and
Strategy
developed
from
the
author
teaching
an
Advanced
Composition
course
at
the
University
of
Connecticut.
Throughout
William's
teaching,
he
found
that
advanced
writers
required
some
basic
reminders
of
elementary
stylistic
considerations
—
such
as
problems
with
modifiers,
minor
punctuation
issues,
and
strategies
for
revision.
The
first
chapter,
Developing
a
Personal
Style,
is
designed
to
bring
writers
"up
to
speed"
regardingbasic
writing
skills.
However,
what
he
really
craved
was
a
sense
that
their
writing
could
have
substance
and
purpose.
Consequently,
the
author
has
developed
a
program
that
helps
students
gain
experience
in
varieties
of
writing
that
would
be
of
use
to
them
while
in
school,
but
also
of
use
to
them
as
they
grow
older.
Personal
writing
is
very
important
for
developing
a
sense
of
self-understanding
and
for
helping
students
assess
their
own
experience
in
living.
Writing
biography
is
rooted
in
our
natural
curiousity
about
other
people,
great
and
small.
Students
who
write
about
personal
friends
or
relatives
develop
a
fuller
understanding
of
those
people
and
a
deeper
appreciation
for
their
own
roots.
The
Argumentative
Essay
is
designed
to
offer
a
simple,
direct
and
effective
means
by
which
students
can
develop
workable
strategies
for
identifying
and
defending
a
position
while
also
being
fair
to
all
sides
of
an
argument.
It
is
a
non-technical
but
thorough
introduction
to
how
we
argue
in
print.
The
Familiar
Essay
approaches
the
moments
of
reflection
that
help
us
make
sense
out
of
the
details
of
ife
experience.
These
are
the
types
of
essays
that
take
stock
of
experience
and
that
deepen
our
understanding
of
life.
The
Critical
Essay
is
generally
familiar
territory
for
students
and
deals
with
the
analytic
strategies
that
permit
us
to
gain
deeper
insight
into
the
experience
of
literature
and
other
arts.
The
strategies
presented
here
are
workable,
direct,
and
useful.
Finally,
the
Appendix:
Materials
for
Research,
treats
the
most
useful
basic
research
strategies
for
a
modern
writer.
The
print
sources
found
in
libraries
are
probably
most
useful
to
college
students,
but
the
new
resources
on-line,
including
the
various
available
search
engines
and
their
most
effiencent
use,
are
central
to
this
chapter.
A
number
of
unusual
and
important
strategies
for
research
show
up
in
this
chapter
and
guide
students
with
example
searches.
The
examples
that
appearin
each
chapter
are
illuminating
and
instructive
primarily
because
they
show
students
how
to
solve
the
problems
that
all
writers
confront.
The
result
is
that
the
book
offers
a
thorough
grounding
in
how
to
be
a
writer
for
life.