Sin and syntax : how to craft wickedly effective prose
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New York : Three Rivers Press, 2001.
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9780767903097, 0767903099, 0767903080, 9780767903080
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New York : Three Rivers Press, 2001.
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Book
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xix, 289 pages ; 22 cm
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English
ISBN
9780767903097, 0767903099, 0767903080, 9780767903080

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Includes bibliographical references (pages [267]-277) and index.
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Want your writing to sell, shock, or just sing? The acclaimed author of Wired Style presents a hip, real-world guide to the rules of grammar--and when to break them. Today's writers need more spunk than Strunk. Whether crafted for the Great American Novel, Madison Avenue advertising, or Grammy Award-winning rap lyrics, memorable writing must jump off the page. Now, from copy veteran Constance Hale comes a fun, informative, indispensable guide to taking your writing from ordinary to extraordinary. Sin and syntax is more than just a style manual with examinations of sentence structure and parts of speech. In addition to spelling out the basic rules, Constance Hale teaches you when--and how--to effectively break them. Chock full of examples from traditional and nontraditional prose--from advertising jingles to song lyrics to literary classics--Sin and syntax shows you why learning to "sin" will make you a better writer. Discover how to: distinguish between words that are "pearls" and words that are "potatoes", innovate with adjectives to avoid clichés, avoid "couch potato thinking" and "com-mitment phobia" when choosing verbs, and how to use literary devices such as onomatopoeia, alliteration, and metaphor. Plus--you'll learn: how Rich Little boosted his comedy career with the perfected use of one particular interjection, why Muhammad Ali's syntactically surprising speech worked as well as his jabs, and which famous opening line from American literature contains no subject whatsoever. A perfect display of Hale's own literary principles, Sin and syntax, with its clear, crisp, modern approach to style, will be an essential guide for all those who want to improve their command of the English language.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Hale, C. (2001). Sin and syntax: how to craft wickedly effective prose (First trade paperback edition.). Three Rivers Press.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Hale, Constance. 2001. Sin and Syntax: How to Craft Wickedly Effective Prose. Three Rivers Press.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Hale, Constance. Sin and Syntax: How to Craft Wickedly Effective Prose Three Rivers Press, 2001.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Hale, Constance. Sin and Syntax: How to Craft Wickedly Effective Prose First trade paperback edition., Three Rivers Press, 2001.

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