The Practical Stylist

Аннотация

This is a rhetoric primarily for freshman English, but it has also proved useful to the advanced student, to people in business and government, and to many others who have found themselves facing a blank page and the problems of exposition. From the freshman s first essay through the senior’s last paper (and on through the doctoral dissertation and the corporate annual report), the expository problems are always the same. Indeed, they all come down to two fundamental questions: one of form, one of style. And even form is spatial styling. Since, in general, writing well is writing in style, I have found it practical to teach writing almost as a tactile act, in which the student learns how to shape his material and bring out the grain to best advantage. Hence The Practical Stylist—again revised extensively.