Writer's Options, The: Lessons in Style and Arrangement, 8th edition
Writer's Options, The: Lessons in Style and Arrangement
ISBN-13: 9780205533169
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Overview
The Writer's Options encourages readers to investigate their writing “options” through sentence-combining and rearrangement to create more sophisticated, more effective compositions. The text contains ample practice with arranging and rearranging sentences, paragraphs, and essays as a means of strengthening prose and conveying a more effective message.
Table of contents
PART ONE An Introductory Lesson
LESSON 1 Playing with Sentences
PART TWO Lessons in Style: Revising Sentences
LESSON 2 Relative Clauses
LESSON 3 Participles
LESSON 4 Appositives
LESSON 5 Absolutes
LESSON 6 Prepositional Phrases and Infinitive Phrases
LESSON 7 Coordination and Subordination
LESSON 8 Noun Substitutes
PART THREE: Lessons in Rearrangement: Revising Paragraphs and Whole Drafts
LESSON 9 Coherence
LESSON 10 Rearrangement and Repetition for Emphasis
LESSON 11 Tone
LESSON 12 Paragraph Patterns
LESSON 13 Using Details: Connecting with Your Readers
LESSON 14 Finding a Thesis
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