Several Short Sentences About Writing

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Synopsis
Most of what you think you know about writing is useless. It's the harmful debris of your education--a mixture of half-truths, myths, and false assumptions that prevents you from writing well. Drawing on years of experience as a writer and teacher of writing, Verlyn Klinkenborg offers an approach to writing that will change the way you work and think. There is no gospel, no orthodoxy, no dogma in this book. What you'll find here isn't the way to write. Instead, you'll find a way to clear your mind of illusions about writing and discover how you write. Several Short Sentences About Writing is a book of first steps and experiments. They will revolutionize the way you think and perceive, and they will change forever the sense of your own authority as a writer. This is a book full of learning, but it's also a book full of unlearning--a way to recover the vivid, rhythmic, poetic sense of language you once possessed. An indispensable and unique book that will give you a clear understanding of how to think about what you do when you write and how to improve the quality of your writing.
Copyright:
2012

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Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:
9780307958495
Related ISBNs:
9780307266347
Publisher:
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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Copyrighted By:
Verlyn Klinkenborg
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Reference, Language Arts
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Bookshare Staff
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Verlyn Klinkenborg, the man with the perhaps less than gorgeous name, is a writer of gorgeous sentences. This book is not so much a primer as a meditation on the power of language; it's an appeal for clarity and for beauty. It's not a book that will help you figure out where to put the commas, but it will help you -- or at least it helped me -- think about the core values that shape the urge to communicate something well. It's also a helpful book for chasing out the kind of stilted academic writing most of us were forced to adhere to in High School or college. This is a beautiful book about writing with beauty.