“Guides to writing-some in print, other in software-continue to
Proliferate; the best written this year is The New Oxford Guide to writing.”
William Safire,
The New York Times Sunday Magazine
Many handbooks on writing offer reliableadvice on spesific aspects from punctuation to style. The New Guide Oxford to Writing, however, covers all aspects of writing, so that no matter where you find yourself in the writing process-from the daunting of a blank page, to the rough draft that needs shaping, to the small but importan questions of punctuation-you will find what you need one handy volume.
Highlighted by numerous examples of sucsessfull prose this stimulastiong volume covers the entire subject step-by-step, clearly and authoritatively. It shows:
- How to use common place books and journals to store ideas, brainstorming techniques, how to explore a potential topic systematically
- How to use drafts and revisions (and more revisions) to refine your ideas
- The best way to open and essay clearly and interestingly, how to lead the reader subtly, ways of using qualifications to express complexity without sacrificing impact
- How to organize ideas into a coherent paragraph, how to vary sentence structure and lenght for variety and emphases
In addition, it contains a useful appendix on puncuation, ranging from commas and periods to underlining and kapitalization.
Whether you write for business or for pleasure, wether you are a beginner or an experienced pro, The New Oxford Guide to Writing is an essential addition to your reference library, providing abundant assistance and encouragement to wrie with more clarity, more color, and more force.
Thomas Kane was formerly Profesor of English at the Univercity of Connecticut at Waterbury. He is co-editor of The Short Story and The Raeder and Writing Prose, Sixth Edition, both with Leonard J. Peters.
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