Longman Guide to Revising Prose: A Quick and Easy Method for Turning Good Writing into Great Writing
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| Rating | : | 4.69 (943 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0321417666 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 131 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-07-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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A Less Expensive Version of Lanham's "Revising Prose (5th edition)" .Reviewed by C J Singh (Berkeley, California, USA)This less expensive version of Richard Lanham's acclaimed Revising Prose (5th Edition) reprints its 13A Less Expensive Version of Lanham's "Revising Prose (5th edition)" Dr C J Singh .Reviewed by C J Singh (Berkeley, California, USA)This less expensive version of Richard Lanham's acclaimed Revising Prose (5th Edition) reprints its 134-page main text. The excluded 30 pages comprise a brief glossary of grammatical terms and 35 exercises for the reader. Since the 35 exercises in the complete book do not come with the author's solutions anyway, I suggest an easy procedure to make either version self-teaching:Firs. -page main text. The excluded 30 pages comprise a brief glossary of grammatical terms and 35 exercises for the reader. Since the 35 exercises in the complete book do not come with the author's solutions anyway, I suggest an easy procedure to make either version self-teaching:Firs. Inkhorn said Express yourself. If you read this book, you will discover how to recognise passive prose, and how to transform it into active prose.Having read this book, one can recall books read in the past which used tedious stuffy prose, and convert it into better language. Good prose has an operator, an action, and an object.For example, Winston Churchill said: 'We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the shores.'He did not say: 'Hostilities shall . Mary said Funny and practical!. Lanham's guide to revising prose offers any writer practical advice with humor. This can be used by beginner writers, high school level, all the way up to professional writers working on concision. This is the more affordable, and briefer, version of his Revising Prose, which I also highly recommend. If you want to save some money, this shorter version is for you and it still offers the main points and examples from Revising Pros
. He is currently president of Rhetorica, Inc., a consulting and editorial services company. Lanham is professor emeritus from UCLA, where he founded and directed the freshman Writing Program and taught English from 1965 through 1994. About the Author Richard A
Richard A. He is currently president of Rhetorica, Inc., a consulting and editorial services company. . Lanham is professor emeritus from UCLA, where he founded and directed the freshman Writing Program and taught English from 1965 through 1994
It also adds up to a more persuasive and amiable presentation of self, as Revising Prose argues in its final chapter.". Revising Prose teaches you how, using a simple, rule-based, eight-step process called "The Paramedic Method" that concentrates on turning the bureaucratic official style so common today in business and government writing into plain English. But revision belongs to the public domain. It will not teach you how to pray for inspiration, marshall your thoughts, or find the willpower to glue backside to chair. All writers face these dragons in their own idiosyncratic ways. Its focus on the individual sentence enables you to identify the surplus verbiage (what Lanham calls the Lard Factor) in an effort like this: The history of new regulatory provisions is that there is generally an immediate resistance to them.And turn it into this: People usually resist new regulations.A Lard Factor of 69%. "True to its title, Revising Prose is about revising, not about original composition. A saving of 50% in writing time, in reading time, in paper and screen space, in human patience and understanding-it all adds up to real money. Anyone can learn it. Lanham's method aims to eliminate 50% from most writing, to create a sentence half as long and twice as strong