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Sto caricando le informazioni... Polishing Your Prose: How to Turn First Drafts Into Finished Workdi Steven M. Cahn
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. . . once you have your ideas on the page (or screen), what next? Siblings Steven Cahn and Victor Cahn tackle this question in Polishing Your Prose: How to Turn First Drafts into Finished Work. Their slim volume—easily consumed in a single sitting—first presents ten strategies for editing texts that fall somewhere along the continuum between "rough" (first drafts) and "smooth" (finished work). The heart of the book consists of three paragraphs that are analyzed and dissected, phrase by phrase, with the coauthors annotating every suggested revision. An epilogue presents two previously published autobiographical essays, one from each of the coauthors, which are included to demonstrate how polished prose can "resound with clarity of thought and felicity of style" (2).
This singular book illustrates how to edit a piece of prose and enhance its clarity of thought and felicity of style. The authors first present ten principles of effective composition, and then scrutinize three extended paragraphs, suggesting with remarkable specificity how to improve them. The volume also offers challenging practice questions, as well as two finished essays, one serious and one humorous, that demonstrate how attention to sound mechanics need not result in mechanical writing. Steven M. Cahn and Victor L. Cahn help readers deploy a host of corrective strategies, such as avoiding jargon, bombast, and redundancy; varying sentence structure; paring the use of adjectives and adverbs; properly deploying phrases and clauses; and refining an argument. Here is a book for all who seek to increase their facility in written communication. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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