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Style and Statement - Softcover

Corbett; Connors

 
9780195115437: Style and Statement
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0195115430 ISBN 13: 9780195115437
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc, 1998

Synopsis

Style and Statement is a brief text on style for use in courses of advanced composition. It is a reprint of a very popular advanced text on rhetoric -- Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student. Users of this book have consistently praised the chapter on style for its adaptation of classical principles of style to contemporary writing and for its lively exercises that emphasize the practical application of these principles. This brief text will become an essential reference for every writer.

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Review

"Very handy....sure to please students in advanced composition."--Bonnie Devet, College of Charleston "This well written text not only provides excellent reading selections, it also contains some clever approaches to style in the sections on figures of speech and imitation."--Anne Bliss, University of Colorado at Boulder

Synopsis

Style and Statement is a brief text on style for use in courses of advanced composition. It is a reprint of a very popular advanced text on rhetoric --- Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student . Users of this book have consistently praised the chapter on style for its adaptation of classical principles of style to contemporary writing and for its lively exercises that emphasize the practical application of these principles. This brief text will become an essential reference for every writer.

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Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Publication date
1998
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0195115430
ISBN 13 
9780195115437
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
160