ISBN: 0-446-31504-4
Godina izdanja: 1982
Jezik: Engleski
Vrsta: Eseji i kritike
Autor: Strani

RUDOLF FLESCH
A. H. LASS

A NEW GUIDE TO BETTER WRITING

Izdavač - Werner Communications Company, New York

Godina - 1982

302 strana

18 cm

ISBN - 0-446-31504-4

Povez - Broširan

Stanje - Kao na slici, ima pečat prethodnog vlasnika, tekst bez podvlačenja


SADRŽAJ:
Preface

PART I HOW TO WRITE
1 HOW TO START
There`s Nothing the Matter with You; Don`t Just Start; Make a Plan; Don`t Get Lost-Plan Ahead; Write It Out; How to Tell a Joke; There Are Other Ways, Too; Exercises; Before We Go On

2 HOW TO GET IDEAS
List Your Ideas; Where Do Ideas Come From? Your Own Experience; Other People`s Experiences; You`re Getting Somewhere; Ideas from Books; How to Find a Book; How to Read a Book; Try the Magazines; How to Take Notes; About the Author; Exercises

3 HOW TO PUT YOUR IDEAS IN ORDER
Sorting Out; Putting in Order; A Good Order for Ideas; Fitting Ideas In; Beginning and Ending; Ideas in Order; More Examples; Exercises

4 HOW TO WRITE UP YOUR IDEAS
Plans Are Not for Reading; Describing a House; How to Do Something; Writing Up Other Ideas; The Most Natural Order; Giving Reasons; The Topic Sentence; Adding Details; Comparisons and Contrasts; A Good Mixture; Exercises

5 HOW TO TIE YOUR IDEAS TOGETHER
Connectives; Other Word Bridges; Relationship in Meaning; Paragraphing; Connecting Paragraphs; Exercises

6 HOW TO TALK TO A READER
The Right Tone; Formal and Informal English; Choice of Words; Casual Expressions; Private and Business Letters; Business English: Be Friendly; Don`t Grovel; Don`t Fumble; Starting with Incident or Anecdote; Starting with a Bang; Exercises

7 HOW TO SAY IT ON PAPER
Childish Talk; Relative Clauses; Tool Words; Other Tool Words; Which Clause First? Exercises

8 HOW TO SAVE WORDS
Weeding Out Words; Clauses Into Phrases; Prepositional Phrases; Infinitive Phrases; Word-Saving Syllables; Grammar Saves Words; Using Adverbs; Using Other Parts of Speech; Other Word-Saving Syllables; Exercises

9 HOW NOT TO PUZZLE YOUR READER
Puzzling Participles; Dangerous Prepositions; Tricky Infinitives; What Are You Comparing?; Squinting Modifiers; Puzzling Pronouns; WatchOut for Then, There, That; Don`t Leave Your Reader in Doubt; Exercises

10 HOW TO SAVE YOUR READER EXTRA WORK
SLOW; Introductory Phrases and Clauses; Wedgedin Ideas; Restrictive and Non-restrictive Clauses; STOP; Run-on Sentences; Sentence Fragments; Semicolons; The Colon; Exercises

11 HOW TO GET THE MOST OUT OF WORDS
Why Increase Your Vocabulary? The Best Way; Fun with Words; Word Flavors; A Taste for Words; Exercises

12 HOW TO FIND THE RIGHT WORD
Faraway and Close-up Words; Words to Get Close; Ideas into Pictures; Exercises

13 HOW TO MAKE IT FUN TO READ
Say It with Quotes; Make It Sound Natural; The Conversational Touch; Vary Your Sentences; The Personal Touch; The Humorous Touch; Exercises

14 HOW TO GIVE IT PUNCH
Live Writing; Build Up to the End; Add a Dash; The Exclamation Point: Handle with Care; Word and Sentence Patterns; Exercises

15 HOW WRITERS WRITE
Good and Bad Writing; Building Writing Skill; Writing Is Re-writing; Simplicity; Personality and Style

PART II WHILE YOU WRITE
16 BEST FOOT FORWARD

17 WHY GRAMMAR?

18 THE SENTENCE
What Is a Sentence? Never Write a Sentence Fragment; The Subject and Predicate; Clauses and Phrases; The Clause; The Phrase; The Prepositional Phrase; The Infinitive Phrase; The Participial Phrase; The Run-on Sentence

19 THE VERB
The Simple Verb; Tense-Present, Past, Future; Present Perfect Tense; Forming the Present Perfect Tense; The Trouble Makers; Important; Past Perfect Tense; Tense Sequence

20 VERB AND SUBJECT
Here It Is; How It Works; Special Cases

21 PRONOUNS

22 ADJECTIVES AND ADVERBS
Adjectives and Adverbs, What Are They?; Comparing Adjectives and Adverbs

23 PERSONAL PRONOUNS
What Case Shows; Special Problems

24 THE CORRECT WORD

25 SPELLING
Here`s How; Take the Word Apart; Test Yourself; Silent Partners; Doubling the Final Consonant; Meet the Apostrophe; Words Ending in ceed, cede, sede; Is it le or ei? Dropping the Final e; Finaly; Say What You See; A Basic Spelling List

26 QUOTATION MARKS
Indirect Quotations; Where to Put Quotation Marks; Broken Quotations

27 PLURALS AND POSSESSIVES
Forming the Plural; Forming the Possessive

28 CAPITALIZATION

Index


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