The Lively Art of Writing

by Lucile Vaughan Payne

Paperback, 1969

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Available

Call number

808.042

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Publication

Mentor (1969), Mass Market Paperback, 192 pages

Description

An essential refernce for writers--both new and experienced--that will help improve your writing skills and style and help you say exactly what you want to say. Students, teachers, businessmen, aspiring authors, and complaining consumers all have one thing in common--the need to express successfully ideas, opinions, arguments, problems, explanations, or instructions through the medium of the written word. And The Lively Art of Writing is the perfect guide to the mastery of this essential skill. It will answer all of your questions, provide you with the best techniques, and offer important information about: * Choosing a subject * Working with words * The sound of sentences * The power of paragraphs * Essentials of style * Essays, theses, and term papers * And much, much more...… (more)

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LibraryThing member cestovatela
Stephen King's On Writing is still my favorite book of writing advice, but this one is a pretty close second. While King's focuses a lot on the creative process, this is more about the mechanics of writing - sentence structure, organization, etc. etc. I read it in high school and it's still an
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LibraryThing member noammimi
One of the best book I read, and work with, on writing. Very clear, unsentimental, instructive and full with examples. Best of all: makes you think.

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Physical description

192 p.; 6.7 inches

ISBN

0451627121 / 9780451627124
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