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The sense of structure : writing from the reader's perspective / George D. Gopen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gopen, George D., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English language--Rhetoric.
- English language.
- Report writing.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 240 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Pearson Longman, [2004]
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-236) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0205296327
- 9780205296323
- OCLC:
- 52766008
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