One Day in the Life of the English Language : A Microcosmic Usage Handbook /

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Generations of student writers have been subjected to usage handbooks that proclaim, "This is the correct form. Learn it"--Books that lay out a grammar, but don't inspire students to use it. By contrast, this antihandbook handbook, presenting some three hundred sentences drawn from th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Cioffi, Frank L., 1951-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2015]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
English language > Usage.
English language > Rhetoric.
English language > Grammar.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Composition & Creative Writing.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > General.
Anglais (Langue) > Rhetorique > Guides, manuels, etc.
English language > Rhetoric > Handbooks, manuals, etc.
English language > Grammar > Handbooks, manuals, etc.
English language > Usage > Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Guides et manuels.
Handbooks and manuals.
Handbook
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Navigation Tips
  • Introduction
  • The Starting Idea: You and Your Audience
  • Preview of the Following Pages
  • December 29, 2008, as History
  • Two Disclaimers
  • On Using Sentences from the Real World
  • Formal Usage-Its Rules and Value
  • "If you don't have grammar, you don't have sense"
  • 1 Actants, Actions, Ongoing States: Nouns, Verbs, and the Sentences They Form
  • Why Learn the Parts of Speech?
  • Fundamentals
  • Fine Tuning
  • Deep Focus
  • 2 Words That Modify and Orient: Adjectives, Adverbs, Conjunctions, Prepositions, Articles, Interjections
  • The Power of Small Words Well Deployed
  • Adjectives
  • Adverbs
  • Conjunctions
  • Prepositions
  • Articles
  • Interjections
  • 3 Who Is He/She? Pronouns
  • A Whole Chapter on Pronouns?
  • Fundamentals
  • Fine Tuning
  • Deep Focus
  • 4 Punctuation, Part I-The Comma: Promiscuous Uses
  • Introduction: Punctuation Substitutes for Oral Emphases, Facial Expressions, and Body Language
  • Fundamentals
  • Fine Tuning
  • Deep Focus
  • 5 Punctuation, Part II-The Colon, Semicolon, and More Mysteries of Punctuation
  • The Colon and Semicolon
  • The Apostrophe
  • The Dash
  • The Quotation Mark
  • End Punctuation and Combining Sentences
  • 6 Diction: Sentences as Clockwork
  • On the Interconnectedness of Words
  • Fundamentals
  • A Microconclusion
  • Appendix I: Fifteen Myths of Digital-Age English
  • Appendix II: Using This Book to Teach College Writing: A Microguide
  • Fifty Key Terms: A Microglossary
  • Works Cited
  • General Sources
  • December 29, 2008, Examples
  • Index.

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