[PDF.96wy] Clear and Simple as the Truth: Writing Classic Prose, Second Edition

Clear and Simple as the Truth: Writing Classic Prose, Second Edition

[PDF.qi92] Clear and Simple as the Truth: Writing Classic Prose, Second Edition

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 | #227929 in Books |  imusti |  2011-03-20 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.40 x.90 x5.40l,.75 | File type: PDF | 272 pages

 | Princeton University Press

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||18 of 19 people found the following review helpful.| One can grasp and learn a lucid artifice|By Sherman Dorn|When a linguist recommends a book on writing, it is a few clicks to read a piece of a brief for the "classic style," where you watch over the shoulder of an author and see what she or he does, as if you are walking in a field with a friend experienced in birdwatching who is happy to point out the kite flying overhead or| |Winner of the 1996 Prix du Rayonnement de la langue et de la littérature françaises, Académie française

"Their model of 'classic prose' . . . elegantly captures the differences between vigorous and turgid writing."

For more than a decade, Clear and Simple as the Truth has guided readers to consider style not as an elegant accessory of effective prose but as its very heart. Francis-Noël Thomas and Mark Turner present writing as an intellectual activity, not a passive application of verbal skills. In classic style, the motive is truth, the purpose is presentation, the reader and writer are intellectual equals, and the occasion is informal. This general style of present...

You easily download any file type for your gadget.Clear and Simple as the Truth: Writing Classic Prose, Second Edition   |  Francis-Noël Thomas, Mark Turner. I was recommended this book by a dear friend of mine.

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