Also by George Perkins:
- A Season in New South Wales
- Rare Days in Lost Valley
- Stones Stand, Waters Flow
- Around the World on the QE2: The Last of the Great Ocean Liners
- Travel Gems: Cruising from the Baltic to the North Atlantic
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Published: April 28, 2010
Words: 28592 (approximate)
Language: English
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A handbook for writers. Intended for self-help and classroom use, it contains chapters on the paragraph, the sentence, diction, the writing as a whole, and style, with exercises at the end of each chapter. Intended primarily to clarify the writing of essays, memoirs, and other forms of non-fiction, it also provides suggestions for improving fictional style.Tags
metaphor, unity, irony, coherence, modifiers, active verbs, parallelism, loose sentences, periodic sentences, punctuation, levels of usage, writing with nouns and verbs, simile, paragraphs, tone, denotation, connotation, wordiness, tritenessAvailable ebook reading formats
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