The Well-Crafted Sentence: A Writer's Guide to Style - Softcover

Bacon, Nora

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312471556 ISBN 13: 9780312471552

Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2008

Synopsis

Grounded in the art of writing, The Well-Crafted Sentence zeroes in on the sentence, offering a range of revision strategies that lead students to write fuller, more well-developed prose. In a friendly, conversational style, Nora Bacon makes clear how and why sentences work to focus, balance, develop, and qualify writers’ ideas.

Because students are more likely to try out new sentence structures if they’ve seen them in writing they admire, examples throughout the text are drawn from readings by accomplished stylists whose full pieces are also included in a chapter at the end of the book. Integrated exercises and editing practice help students apply concepts to their own writing.

Affordable and brief, The Well-Crafted Sentence works as a core classroom text or as a supplement.

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About the Author

Nora Bacon is an associate professor of English and writing program administrator at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Her research, begun at UC Berkeley in the 1990s, has examined service-learning pedagogy, the development of "writing agility," and the relationship between texts and the contexts in which they are written and read. Nora’s current research focuses on the stylistic choices preferred in different disciplines, uniting her interest in variation and her abiding fascination with sentences.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0312471556
• ISBN 13: 9780312471552
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 352