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The golden book / James Thomas Stevens.
Van Pelt Library PS3619.T48 G65 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stevens, James Thomas, 1966- author.
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 92 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chattanooga, TN: SplitLevel Texts, [2021]
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: A Warning
- Section I The Organization of the Whole
- Know Where You are Going
- Set Up Sign Posts
- Section II The Paragraph
- Unity and Transition, Emphasis
- Section III The Sentence
- What It Is
- Completeness in the Sentence
- Unity in the Sentence
- Co-ordination and Subordination of Ideas
- The Frontal Attack
- The Natural Order
- Modifiers and Where to Put Them
- Making Reference Unmistakable
- Keeping Parallelism Parallel
- Playing Up Emphasis
- Section IV Words
- Exact Words for Exact Thoughts
- Strong and Active Words at Work
- Specific Words Rather Than General
- Concrete Words in Place of Abstract
- Simple Words for Big Ideas
- Elegant Variations and Inelegant Results
- Euphony and Rhythm
- Commonly Misused Words and Phrases
- Shall or Will
- Section V Punctuation
- The Period
- The Comma
- The Semicolon
- The Colon
- Quotation Marks
- The Apostrophe
- Section VI A Final Note on the Letter
- Personal Letters
- Business Letters
- Post Script.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780999570159
- 0999570153
- OCLC:
- 1259401152
- Publisher Number:
- 99988705611
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