essential guide to writing part 4

... some manner, to live, and look tolerably well, notwithstanding their despair and the continued absence of their lover; and some have even been known to recover so far as to be inclined to take another ... www.tailieuduhoc.org STOPS following sentence is an example (the Duke of Wellington is commenting with pleasant cynicism upon the capacity of young ladies to endure the absence of lovers gone to war): They ... requires a stronger stop to signal the distinction between one unit in the series and another. Look at this sen- tence about the rise of the Ku in the 1920s: There were other factors too: the deadly

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... to them... election, each party promises to make the city bigger and better Each party, before the election, promises to make the city bigger and better Now the clause is organized into ... optional): CONVENTIONAL We stopped on the way to camp and bought supplies: bread, butter, cheese, hamburger, hot dogs, and beer. POLYSYNDETON We stopped on the way to camp and bought For more ... understand; to understand is to explain oneself; to explain is to relate Brand Blanshard I didn't like the swimming pool, I didn't like swimming, and I didn't like the swimming instructor, and

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... the result of adding a second, unnecessary suffix to a word to restore it to what it was in the first place: He has great (For ambition) The story contains a great deal of satiricalness. (For ... he proceeded to the bulletin board. BETTER: Told yes, he went to the bulletin board. Television shows which demonstrate participation in physical ex- ercise will improve your muscle tone. BETTER: ... conceals a fact considered improper or unpleasant. Euphe- misms for death include to pass away, to depart this life, to go to that big in the equally trite. Poverty, sexual matters, and diseases are

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... it is not too much to ask people to look into a dictionary now and again.) Don't Spell Out What Is Clearly Implied Unless there is a clear chance of confusion, you do not have to state what ... the total context rather than by any single word. Each of these phrases is dead: Writing poetry requires experience as well as sensibility. A prereq- uisite to writing poetry is being able to ... support your topic it is just deadwood: The people had come to the new world for freedom of several different kinds,... or tone of voice (think of how we say generous to twist its sense to "stingy"

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... Barbara Most similes are brief, but they may be by breaking the vehicles into parts and applying each to the tenor. A historian, writing about the Italian patriot Garibaldi, explains that his mind was ... capacity to familiarize the strange, to expand ideas, to express feelings and evaluations, and to give us pleasure, similes have an even greater power. They bring us more intimately in touch with ... Overworked Metaphors and similes ought not to be sprinkled about profusely, especially in expository writing Even when they do not clash, too many are likely to cancel one another Their effectiveness

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... opposite value. Here, for example, a historian de- scribes a party at the court of the English king James I: Later the company flocked to the windows to look into the palace courtyard below. Here ... word: The average autochthonous Irishman is close to patriotism because he is close to the earth c K Chesterton For when the Commodore roused his starboard watch at 5: 14? ?? having given them ... hand bells of pietists, summoning all to pray for the SOLlls of the dead Morris Bishop Images can appeal to other senses: to smell, taste, touch, even to the muscular sense of movement and

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... in his angry overalls, too angry to come down tO luncheon. Harold Nicholson Oxymoron and Rhetorical Paradox When the oddity of a collocation becomes seemingly contra- dictory, it is called an ... adjectives is known as a transferred epithet—a word customarily applied to a partic- ular noun or class of nouns which is used instead to modify something associated with that noun, as in "a ... the contradiction into a headword and modifier: His soul will never starve for exploits or excitement who is wise enough to be made a fool of. c. K. Chesterton Oxymoron and rhetorical paradox must

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... Revisions 34 The Essay 43 Beginning 45 Closing 60 Organizing the Middle 67 Point of View, Persona, and Tone 74 The Expository Paragraph 87 12 Basic Structure 89 13 Paragraph Unity 95 14 Paragraph ... Narration 30 Description 351 31 Narration 366 PART VII Punctuation 377 Introduction 379 32 Stops 383 33 The Other Marks 41 7 Name Index 43 9 Subject Index 44 5 349 For more material and information, please ... Acknowledgments This book is based on The Oxford Guide to Writing: A Rhetoric and Handbook for College Students, and thanks are due once more to those who contributed to that book: my friend and colleague

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... AND NARRATION his story into two parts: the problems of getting ashore (par- agraphs 2 and 3), and the difficulties of returning to the ship (4) . We called at Malta, a curious town where there ... of the narrative: Peter Romano's being carried off to jail In the simple and often partial stories you are likely to tell in expository writing, it is not always necessary (or even desirable) ... down my lunch on my way to the speech clinic and rush back to the school in time to make up for the classes I had lost. One day, one unforgettable dread day, I stopped to catch my breath on

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... structures can be used to cite information Structures for Citing According to + noun According to the passage, A is true B, according to the author, is also true According to the lecture, C is ... that you read and hear The first one is done for you as an example Task 1 Trang 11 6 14 Section 4 Guide to Writing Notes on the passage: O steroids = great danger Aster > dinos, extinct In_ ... clause Study Y, which was conducted by sociologists in 20 04, shows that Study Y, conducted by sociologists in 20 04, shows that Trang 4 4 Reverse negatives Ais not as easy as Ais harder than

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... accustomed to the law and order of the present day to understand the dangers which threatened the Jacobean trav- eller. The seas swarmed with pirates; so that few merchantmen dared to put to sea ... relics, and gave his life into the guidance of his spiritual director. The Protestant tore open the machinery of the miracles, flung the bones and ragged garments into the fire, and treated priests ... subject in its totality. Organ- izing around 1, 2, and 3 emphasizes particular likenesses or differences. It all depends on what you want to do. In the following case the writer elected to organize...

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