Simple & direct / Jacques Barzun.

By:

Barzun, Jacques, 1907-2012

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Quill, 2001.Edition: 4th ed., 1st Quill edDescription: xiv, 268 p. : ill. ; 21 cmISBN:

0060937238
9780060937232

Other title:

Simple and direct

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

808.042 BAR 2001 21

LOC classification:

PE1408 .B436 2001

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Summary: 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.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Symbiosis International University, Dubai	808.042 BAR 2001 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		SIU00353

"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.

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