Simple & direct /
Barzun, Jacques. 1907-2012.
Simple & direct / Simple and direct Jacques Barzun. - 4th ed., 1st Quill ed. - New York : Quill, 2001. - xiv, 268 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
"A rhetoric for writers"--Cover. Includes index.
After a lifetime of writing and editing prose, Jacques Barzun has set down his view of the best ways to improve one's style. His discussions of diction, syntax, tone, meaning, composition, and revision guide the reader through the technique of making the written word clear and agreeable to read. Exercises, model passages both literary and casual, and hundreds of amusing examples of usage gone wrong show how to choose the right path to self-expression in forceful and distinctive words.
0060937238 9780060937232
2002278402
English language--Rhetoric.
Report writing.
PE1408 / .B436 2001
808.042 BAR 2001
Simple & direct / Simple and direct Jacques Barzun. - 4th ed., 1st Quill ed. - New York : Quill, 2001. - xiv, 268 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
"A rhetoric for writers"--Cover. Includes index.
After a lifetime of writing and editing prose, Jacques Barzun has set down his view of the best ways to improve one's style. His discussions of diction, syntax, tone, meaning, composition, and revision guide the reader through the technique of making the written word clear and agreeable to read. Exercises, model passages both literary and casual, and hundreds of amusing examples of usage gone wrong show how to choose the right path to self-expression in forceful and distinctive words.
0060937238 9780060937232
2002278402
English language--Rhetoric.
Report writing.
PE1408 / .B436 2001
808.042 BAR 2001