Simple & Direct

By - Barzun, Jacques

Floor - Floor 3

Published - Quill, New York, 2001

ISBN 10 - 0060937238

ISBN 13 - 9780060937232

Book Status - 1 Qnty Available with us.

Subject - Exposition (Rhetoric)

Shelf No - 2

Call Number - 808.042 BAR

Physical Description - xiv, 268 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Book Information

A fter a lifetime of writing and editing prose, Jacques Barzun has set down his view of the best ways to improve one's style. His discussions of diction, syntax, tone, meaning, composition, and revision guide the reader through the technique of making the written word clear and agreeable to read. Exercises, model passages both literary and casual, and hundreds of amusing examples of usage gone wrong show how to choose the right path to self-expression in forceful and distinctive words.

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