Adios, Strunk and White - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0937363154 ISBN 13: 9780937363157

Publisher: Verve Press

Synopsis

This guide for professional writers, college students and professors, K-12 teachers, and self-taught writers appeals to readers' rhythmic, spatial, and playful sensibilities to help them expand writing beyond the five-paragraph, academic word-box. The guide explains concepts with verve and humor, and encourages writers to develop a distinctive voice, showing how to merge style with critical thinking, logic, and research. The authors are professors of English. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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From the Publisher

The sans serif font has been changed from the first edition.
A reader of the first edition of Adios, Strunk & White complained about the sans serif font. The first edition is now out of print and the second edition has corrected this problem.

About the Author

Nothing has affected me as a professor of English more than attending the School of Architecture at the University of California at Berkeley when I was eighteen. Several years later (after switching to English and art at UCLA, and then as a PhD candidate in English at the University of Southern California) just finishing my first year as an instructor at Orange Coast College, I had a nightmare: a career stretching years ahead made miserable not so much by thought-sloppy student essays but by the boredom of reading “A” papers, propped up by grammatical correctness and safe English-teacher formulas such as the five-paragraph essay. I remember asking what those “A” papers had to do with Joan Didion’s incisive voice. Where were Norman-Maileresque fire flashes? This realization started an unimaginable process. I designed new ways of thinking about writing into a book called Writeful. Four years after Writeful, I met Glynis who also believed style was more than just attitude; it shaped content. When she opened Writeful, she told me, she saw a truth she always knew—form followed function. As Glynis finished degrees in English at California State University, Fullerton, and entered the teaching profession at several campuses, she visited my writing courses, dragging me outside during breaks to explain how my designs needed renovations. When she started teaching at Orange Coast College, she revised many of the designs and finally began to Bauhaus some of her own. Thirteen years after I had written Writeful, Glynis and I rewrote Writeful into Adios, Strunk and White. And now, over ten years later, we are still discovering ways to improve Adios.

Edition details

• Publisher: Verve Press
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0937363154
• ISBN 13: 9780937363157
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240