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

Bacon, Nora

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1457606739 ISBN 13: 9781457606731

Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2012

Synopsis

Grounded in the art of writing, The Well-Crafted Sentence zeroes in on the building block of great prose: the sentence. With a friendly, approachable, and elegant tone, Nora Bacon shows the benefits of attention to style and offers a range of revision strategies that give students the tools to strengthen and develop their writing.

Giving students the opportunity to see successful rhetorical choices at work in writing they admire, the text includes a brief anthology of readings by ten accomplished stylists, five of them new to this edition. Examples throughout the text are drawn from these model pieces, as are integrated exercises that help students apply concepts to their own writing. Additionally, a new first chapter, Approaches to Style, introduces students to the concept of style.

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

About this title

About the Author:

Nora Bacon is a 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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1457606739
• ISBN 13: 9781457606731
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 320