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Stunning Sentences (The Effective Writing Series)
β Scribed by Bruce Ross-Larson
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 40 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0393317951
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Whether you are composing a Web page on the Internet or agonizing over an annual budget report, these books are the key to clarity, accuracy, and economy in any writing task.Offers more than 100 model sentence types in a catalog format, giving writers many interesting and provocative ways to say what they mean. Writers looking for a more striking way to open a sentence will find these options: the announcement, the editorial opening, the opening appositive, the opening absolute, and the conjunction opening, among others. Examples of each sentence type ensure the reader's understanding of the concepts.
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