Full Description
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.
Contents
I. WORDS. 1. Levels of Style. 2. Connotations. 3. Clarity. 4. Specificity. II. SENTENCES. 5. Subjects and Verbs. 6. Conciseness. 7. Coordination. 8. Subordination. 9. Precision. 10. Transitions. 11. The Sound of the Sentence. 12. Parallelism. 13. Sentence Variety. 14. Figures of Speech. 15. Slanting. 16. The Writer's Voice. Suggestions for Further Reading. Index.
