How Not to Write: The Essential Misrules of Grammar
Not since Mark Twain's "Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses" has there been such an entertaining tongue-in-cheek guide to writing badly. Pulitzer Prize winner William Safire's How Not to Write teaches by misdirection. By instructing readers how to construct sentence rife with double negatives,...
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Not since Mark Twain's "Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses" has there been such an entertaining tongue-in-cheek guide to writing badly. Pulitzer Prize winner William Safire's How Not to Write teaches by misdirection. By instructing readers how to construct sentence rife with double negatives, dangling participles, and faulty grammar, he sets them on the path to do better.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780393327236 (039332723X)
Publish date: July 17th 2005
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Pages no: 160
Edition language: English
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