Overview

Ideal for courses in advanced composition, Substance, Style, and Strategy offers a comprehensive guide to develop effective writing in every student. It enables students to form a personal style, to write about issues that are substantial and meaningful, and to use a range of strategies for solving writing problems of all kinds. 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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Author:   Jacobus
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 13.90cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 21.00cm
Weight:   0.305kg
ISBN:  

9780195078374

ISBN 10:   0195078373
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   12 March 1998
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface 1: Developing a Personal Style The Writing Process Box: Ten Tips for a Vigorous Style Box: Tips on Polishing Your Prose Matters of Style Style: Words and Sentences Box: Three Considerations for Style Box: General Rules that Sometimes Work for Word Choice Box: Rules that Sometimes Work for Paragraphs Developing Your Own Sense of Style How Writers Work The Course in Advanced Writing 2: Writing the Personal Essay Maintaining a Journal or Diary Box: Tips for Keeping a Journal Sample Journal Entries The PErsonal Essay Richard Ford, Accommodations Bos: Ford's Opening Sentences The Search for Significance Let Your Story Unfold Box: Tips for Writing a Personal Essay 3: Writing the Biographical Essay Another Person's Life What We Learn from Writing About People Catherine S. Manegold, Kara S. Hultgreen: The Short Flight of a Fighter Pilor Following Personal Interests Gathering Sources for a Biography Box: General Biographical Resources Judging Someone's Life Paul Theroux, Chatwin Revisited Strategies for Writing About Another Person Joan Didion, Georgia O'Keeffe Suggestions for Interesting Essays About Another Person Box: Tips That Sometimes Work for Writing About People 4: Writing the Argumentative Essay What Is an Argument and Why Argue? Three Appeals in Argument Argument as Information Box: Argument as Information Claire Sterling, Redfellas Argument as Inquiry Evan S. Connell, Were Custer's Men Brave? Persuasion Through Argument The Tone of an Argument Box: Argumentative Tone Argument as Debate Katha Pollitt, Subject to Debate Midge Dector, Welfare Feminism Writing Argumentative Essays Box: Nine Sources for Arguments Box: Generally Reliable Suggestions for the Structure of an Argument Box: Nestorian Order Box: Tips that Sometimes Work for Writing Argumentative Essays 5: Writing the Familiar Essay Beginning from Personal Experience Concrete Details Cynthia Ozick, North Analyzing an Abstraction Box: Generally Reliable Tips for Dealing with Abstraction Familiar Style E.M. Forster, My Wood Anonymous, Coping with Anger Box: Generally Reliable Tips for Discovering Significance in Events Andre James, Malls and the Gender Gap Box: Tips That Usually Help in Writing Familiar Essays 6: Writing the Critical Essay What Is the Critical Essay? Thinking Critically About Ideas Analyzing an Essay: Francis Bacon's Of Studies Thinking Critically About the Arts Analyzing a Poem: William Wordsworth's The Sonnet Box: Some Usually Reliable Questions for Evaluating a Sonnet Analyzing Texts Box: Some Generally Useful Tips for Analyzing Texts Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince The Structure of the Critical Essay Box: Tips Often Useful concerning the Structure of the Critical Essay Heinrich Boll, The Laugher Appendix: Modern Research Methods Where to Begin Box: Basic Print Reference Sources Box: Special Online Resources Box: CD-ROM Online Databases Box: Print Resources Choosing an Interesting Research Subject Conducting a Search of the Online Catalog Richard Worsnop, Gun Control The Importance of Your Research Formal Considerations Box: Tips that May Help as a Guide to Quoting from Sources

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This is a fine book. Finally, a thoughtful and logical text for advanced composition by someone who has taught the course. Wonderful examples. Very helpful guidelines. I look forward to using this book. --Laura Zlogar, University of Wisconsin-River Falls

"""This is a fine book. Finally, a thoughtful and logical text for advanced composition by someone who has taught the course. Wonderful examples. Very helpful guidelines. I look forward to using this book.""--Laura Zlogar, University of Wisconsin-River Falls"

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