Writing With Style: A Concise Guide to Giving Your Work Tempo

Writing With Style: A Concise Guide to Giving Your Work Tempo and Pizzazz, One Line at a Time (The Elements of Writing Book 12)

"Proper words in proper places, make the true definition of style," Jonathan Swift said. This guide show you how to put the proper words in the proper places

Once you master all the basics -- building clear, vivid sentences and paragraphs, grammar, editing -- you can think about style.

Style puts your special stamp on your writing. You might be as straightforward as an old-fashioned newspaper reporter or as ornate as Tom Wolfe. But your style makes a statement about your values and skill.

In the concise how-to guide "Writing With Style," author Charles Euchner shows you, step by step, shows you how to.

â€¢ Tap into lifeâ€™s natural rhythms.
â€¢ Help the reader to feel.
â€¢ Help the reader to see.
â€¢ Help the reader to hear.
â€¢ Use metaphors to show underlying similarities.
â€¢ Use similes to show similarities, casually.
â€¢ Riff to discover and express ideas.
â€¢ Remember that "good is great."
â€¢ To get playful, think like a child.

"Writing With Style" shows you how to perfect these skills with case studies of classic and modern writing, including Abraham Lincolnâ€™s Gettysburg Address, Mark Twainâ€™s "Life on the Mississippi," Scott Russell Sandersâ€™s â€œUnder the Influence,â€ John Updikeâ€™s "Rabbit, Run," Rick Reillyâ€™s sports journalism, memoirs and essays of Thomas Lynch, Roy Blountâ€™s "Alphabet Soup," and Tom Wolfeâ€™s "From Bauhaus to Our House."

About the Author

Charles Euchner, a case writer at the Yale School of Management who has also taught writing at Yale, is a longtime college teacher and author.

Euchner has spent most of his career in academe, most recently directing a policy think tank at Harvard.

But he is also the author or editor of ten books. His latest book "Nobody Turn Me Around: A Peopleâ€™s History of the 1963 March on Washington" (Beacon Press, 2010), which critics call "dynamic ... sharp, riveting" (Kirkus Reviews), â€œcompelling and dramaticâ€ (Juan Williams), and â€œa panorama of vivid charactersâ€ (Curtis Wilkie).

Euchnerâ€™s other books include a trilogy on the state of sports in modern America ("Playing the Field," "The Last Nine Innings," and "Little League, Big Dreams"), grassroots politics ("Urban Policy Reconsidered" and "Extraordinary Politics"), presidential politics ("Selecting the President" and "The President and the Public"), and regional politics (the two-part "Governing Greater Boston" project).
Country USA
Manufacturer The New American Press
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2012-09-12
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	The New American Press
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2012-09-12
Format	Kindle eBook

Writing With Style: A Concise Guide to Giving Your Work Tempo and Pizzazz, One Line at a Time (The Elements of Writing Book 12)

"Proper words in proper places, make the true definition of style," Jonathan Swift said. This guide show you how to put the proper words in the proper places

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