| Description |
xii, 273 pages ; 21 cm |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Flexibility: a little light unStrunktion -- E.B. Whitewashed: a starting point -- Freshness: the wallop of the new -- The pleasures of surprise -- Extreme expression -- Writers' words, drop by dottle -- Upgrading your colors -- Joltingly fresh adverbs -- Texture: writing into the mood -- Tense: a sticky choice -- Diction: we are the words -- The punchy trope -- Word: language: aerobatic and incandescent -- How to loot a thesaurus -- Words with music and sploosh -- Coining the bonne locution -- Words with foreign umami -- Force: stimulation by any means -- Dialogue tags with oomph -- Enallage: a fun grammatical get -- Intensifiers for the feeble -- Opening words: the glorious portal -- Closings: the three-point landing -- Form: life between the marks -- The joys of hyper-hyphenation -- A license. To fragment. Sentences. -- The poetry of lists -- The art of the semicolon -- Daringly quoteless dialogue -- Clarity: "a house of great spickness and spanness" -- The Feng shui of writing -- Hunting down danglers -- Magic in the names of things -- The earnestly engaging sentence -- Contemporaneity: a leg up on the competition -- Writing for new generations -- Hot pop and ephemeragy -- Edge: writing at the nervy limits -- Parting words: butterflies in the killing fields -- Exercises for practice and study. |
| Summary |
Today's writer needs more than just a solid knowledge of usage and composition to write successfully. Bestselling author Arthur Plotnik reveals the secrets to attention-grabbing, unforgettable writing. Updated with all-new writing exercises, Spunk & Bite will help writers take books, articles, business reports, memos, and even e-mail messages to the next level. - Publisher. |
| Subject |
Authorship.
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Authorship. |
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English language -- Rhetoric.
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English language -- Rhetoric. |
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English language -- Style.
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English language -- Style. |
| Added Title |
Spunk and bite |
| ISBN |
0375722270 (paperback) |
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9780375722271 (paperback) |
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