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Simple and Direct: A Rhetoric for Writers by Jacques Barzun

Simple and Direct: A Rhetoric for Writers Jacques Barzun ebook
Format: pdf
ISBN: 9780060937232
Page: 288
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

Until then—since 1966, when I took his freshman creative-writing class at Duke University—I had been just one more student who was forever asking him to read things, recommend editors or agents, or just give advice. I fully endorse your recommendation of Williams. Good headlines are short, simple, and direct. Meteorologists reported Headline writers were equally brutal: COPENHAGEN: THE MUNICH OF OUR TIMES? @Rich: wow, Carnegie in the as though you are talking to a slow but interested elderly relative. Key words are eye-catching, particularly if they relate to a current event, a topical or controversial issue or contain an emotive element. You could try Jacques Barzun “Simple and Direct” and also his book on research techniques, he is a great writer (only 103 years old) but I was underwhelmed by his book on writing. Then forget everything they told you. Recently on Twitter, fellow copyeditor CopyCurmudgeon offered this advice to writers and editors: Tip: Put down Strunk and White and slowly back away. The book aimed to improve one's writing style. Peter Klein | 7 November 2010 at 6:43 am. Interesting use of language such as wordplay, puns, and rhetorical questions is appealing, and can also attract a reader's attention. That followed the warmest May on record for the Northern Hemisphere – the 327th consecutive month in which the temperature of the entire globe exceeded the 20th-century average, the odds of which occurring by simple chance were 3.7 x 10- 99, a number considerably larger than the number of stars in the universe. Also, you need to learn grammar, rhetoric, and logic — which should each be taught separately, and required for every college and grad student. He finally learned in that book what the biblical narratives were teaching, that short swift episodes and simple direct language might be more effective than the difficult rhetoric and long swatches of prose in The Surface of Earth. Social networking sites such as facebook have even introduced apps that allow people to share articles they have read – science writing is everywhere. I also really like Barzun's Simple and Direct: A Rhetoric for Readers. His presentation can get technical in places, but always to good effect. CopyCurmdgeon then links to an article by Geoffrey Pullum, a well-known. A couple of months ago I saw a reference to a book entitled Simple and Direct, sub-titled "A Rhetoric for Writers".