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Author Pyne, Stephen J., 1949-

Title Voice & vision : a guide to writing history and other serious nonfiction / Stephen J. Pyne.

Publication Info. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2009.

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Description 1 online resource (x, 314 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-308) and index.
Contents In the beginning, words -- Art and craft -- Rules of engagement -- Nonfiction as writing -- Voice-- -- --and vision -- Designing -- Plotting -- Transitioning -- Dramatizing -- Editing I -- Prose -- Character -- Setting -- Point of view -- Showing and telling -- Editing II -- Figures of speech -- Technical information -- Questions of scale -- Theory and practice -- Writing lives.
Summary Voice and Vision is for those who wish to understand the ways in which literary considerations can enhance nonfiction writing. At issue is not whether writing is scholarly or popular, narrative or analytical, but whether it is good. --from publisher description.
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Subject Authorship.
Authorship.
English language -- Rhetoric.
English language -- Rhetoric.
English language -- Style.
English language -- Style.
Historiography.
Historiography.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Title Voice and vision
Other Form: Print version: Pyne, Stephen J., 1949- Voice & vision. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2009 9780674033306 (DLC) 2008043403 (OCoLC)261175555
ISBN 9780674054455 (electronic book)
0674054458 (electronic book)
9780674033306 (alkaline paper)
0674033302