Prose Style: A Contemporary Guide
For courses in advanced composition. This volume analyzes the various levels of prose style and provides lessons in clarity, precision, parallelism, sentence variety, figures of speech, and voice. This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:013713181X
ISBN13:9780137131815
Release Date:October 1990
Publisher:Pearson
Length:240 Pages
Weight:0.79 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 9.1"
Customer Reviews
2 ratings
But PLEASE reduce the price!!!!
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 15 years ago
I agree with the other reviewer. This book is unparalleled in its approach and effectiveness as far as improving prose style goes. Still, I want to register my outrage at the crazy price of this slender, paperback book, and beg the publisher to rethink things. Prentice, you make it nearly *impossible* for a professor to adopt this excellent title, if there are any other books in the course. $66 for a paperback -- as Starbuck said in Moby Dick, "Captain, this is madness!" That said, let me repeat the praise above -- this is hands down the best text for teaching prose style.... would that it made better economic sense!
The finest book of its kind
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 23 years ago
As an English instructor, I've found this book to be the most help for students whose previous experience in writing focused on larger more content based matters such as thesis statements, topic and support sentences, etc. , rather than on the sentence-level matters of styles. Many of my college students have an adequate knowledge of how to write an argument, but no idea of how to vary their sentences and link one sentence to the next. This book is a great help and the only one I've found that deals with matters like specificity, conciseness, precision, subordination, coordination, tone, and voice in the detail such matters demand. I highly recommend it.
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