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RECORD NUMBER: 261 OF 309| Main Title | The sense of structure : writing from the reader's perspective / | |||||||||||
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| Author | Gopen, George D., | |||||||||||
| Publisher | Pearson Longman, | |||||||||||
| Year Published | 2004 | |||||||||||
| OCLC Number | 52766008 | |||||||||||
| ISBN | 0205296327; 9780205296323 | |||||||||||
| Subjects | English language--Rhetoric ; Report writing ; 1804 English language--(NL-LeOCL)077611969 | |||||||||||
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| Collation | xv, 240 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm | |||||||||||
| Notes | Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-236) and index. |
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| Contents Notes | This composition guide for students teaches writing from the perspective of readers. Rather than laying out grammatical rules, the text focuses on how readers make decisions concerning what a given sentence or paragraph means. This approach is intended to help students realize what they already intu. The Complexity of the English Sentence -- A Structural Anatomy of the English Sentence -- Weights and Balances; Motions and Connections -- "Whose Paragraph Is It, Anyway?": The Shapes of the English Paragraph -- "Write the Way You Speak" and Other Bad Pieces of Advice -- Mark My Words: A Reader's Perspective on the World of Punctuation. |