Understanding Style Practical Ways to Improve Your Writing
Understanding Style: Practical Ways to Improve Your Writing by Joseph Glaser, published by Oxford University Press in 2015, is a comprehensive guide designed to enhance writing skills through the lens of modern linguistics. This third edition, consisting of 319 pages, delves into the relationship between written and spoken voices, offering insights into rhythm and emphasis that are often overlooked in traditional writing resources.
Readers will find practical writing techniques and advice that focus on sound and voice, as well as more conventional topics such as economy, diction, coherence, and variety. The book includes a variety of open-ended exercises sourced from diverse fields like business, history, and popular science, making it suitable for advanced composition courses. Understanding Style serves as a valuable reference for those looking to refine their writing and deepen their understanding of effective communication.
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Understanding Style: Practical Ways to Improve Your Writing, Third Edition, uses the findings of modern linguistics to explore the relationship between written and spoken voices and to uncover little-known ways to control rhythm and emphasis. With a focus on sound and voice, author Joe Glaser explains and illustrates measurable, non-subjective keys to good writing – an approach that yields practical writing techniques and advice rarely found elsewhere. An excellent choice for courses in advanced composition, this book also covers more standard topics such as economy, diction, coherence, and variety – along with abundant open-ended exercises drawn from business, history, popular science, and other areas.
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