Understanding Style: Practical Ways to Improve Your Writing

by Joe Glaser

Book Overview

Many writers view style as a dreaded Bermuda Triangle--they have no idea how to improve anything they have written. This book dispels much of that mystery, using the findings of modern linguistics to explore the relationship between written and spoken voices and to uncover little-known ways to control rhythm and emphasis.
With a focus on sound and voice, author Joe Glaser explains and illustrates measurable, non-subjective keys to good writing--an...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195379497
• ISBN13: 9780195379495
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.2" x 5.5"